NDAQ vs. SNEX, YIN, ICE, MCO, CME, IBKR, MSCI, MKTX, AROW, and TROW
Should you be buying Nasdaq stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Nasdaq include StoneX Group (SNEX), Yintech Investment (YIN), Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), Moody's (MCO), CME Group (CME), Interactive Brokers Group (IBKR), MSCI (MSCI), MarketAxess (MKTX), Arrow Financial (AROW), and T. Rowe Price Group (TROW).
Nasdaq (NASDAQ:NDAQ) and StoneX Group (NASDAQ:SNEX) are both finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, profitability, institutional ownership, media sentiment, earnings, risk, community ranking, dividends and analyst recommendations.
72.5% of Nasdaq shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 75.9% of StoneX Group shares are held by institutional investors. 0.7% of Nasdaq shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 16.2% of StoneX Group shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Nasdaq presently has a consensus target price of $65.92, suggesting a potential upside of 12.15%. Given Nasdaq's higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Nasdaq is more favorable than StoneX Group.
Nasdaq has a net margin of 15.98% compared to StoneX Group's net margin of 0.33%. StoneX Group's return on equity of 17.29% beat Nasdaq's return on equity.
Nasdaq received 828 more outperform votes than StoneX Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 69.54% of users gave Nasdaq an outperform vote while only 41.67% of users gave StoneX Group an outperform vote.
Nasdaq has higher earnings, but lower revenue than StoneX Group. StoneX Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Nasdaq, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Nasdaq had 2 more articles in the media than StoneX Group. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Nasdaq and 7 mentions for StoneX Group. Nasdaq's average media sentiment score of 1.37 beat StoneX Group's score of 0.96 indicating that Nasdaq is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Nasdaq has a beta of 0.94, meaning that its share price is 6% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, StoneX Group has a beta of 0.8, meaning that its share price is 20% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Nasdaq beats StoneX Group on 12 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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