NDAQ vs. SNEX, CME, ICE, TW, TROW, LPLA, DB, NWG, ACGL, and EXR
Should you be buying Nasdaq stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Nasdaq include StoneX Group (SNEX), CME Group (CME), Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), Tradeweb Markets (TW), T. Rowe Price Group (TROW), LPL Financial (LPLA), Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft (DB), NatWest Group (NWG), Arch Capital Group (ACGL), and Extra Space Storage (EXR). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Nasdaq (NASDAQ:NDAQ) and StoneX Group (NASDAQ:SNEX) are both finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, dividends, institutional ownership, profitability, risk, community ranking, earnings, analyst recommendations and valuation.
Nasdaq presently has a consensus price target of $65.92, suggesting a potential upside of 5.04%. Given Nasdaq's higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe Nasdaq is more favorable than StoneX Group.
72.5% of Nasdaq shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 75.9% of StoneX Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.8% of Nasdaq shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 16.2% of StoneX Group shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
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.
In the previous week, Nasdaq had 14 more articles in the media than StoneX Group. MarketBeat recorded 22 mentions for Nasdaq and 8 mentions for StoneX Group. StoneX Group's average media sentiment score of 0.80 beat Nasdaq's score of 0.68 indicating that StoneX Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
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 a beta of 0.94, indicating that its stock price is 6% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, StoneX Group has a beta of 0.86, indicating that its stock price is 14% less volatile than the S&P 500.
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.
Summary
Nasdaq beats StoneX Group on 11 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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