ICE vs. MCO, CME, IBKR, MSCI, NDAQ, MKTX, AROW, TROW, TW, and LPLA
Should you be buying Intercontinental Exchange stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Intercontinental Exchange include Moody's (MCO), CME Group (CME), Interactive Brokers Group (IBKR), MSCI (MSCI), Nasdaq (NDAQ), MarketAxess (MKTX), Arrow Financial (AROW), T. Rowe Price Group (TROW), Tradeweb Markets (TW), and LPL Financial (LPLA).
Intercontinental Exchange (NYSE:ICE) and Moody's (NYSE:MCO) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, media sentiment, valuation, earnings, analyst recommendations, dividends, institutional ownership, community ranking and risk.
89.3% of Intercontinental Exchange shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 92.1% of Moody's shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.1% of Intercontinental Exchange shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.1% of Moody's shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Moody's has a net margin of 27.01% compared to Intercontinental Exchange's net margin of 24.24%. Moody's' return on equity of 54.50% beat Intercontinental Exchange's return on equity.
Intercontinental Exchange received 294 more outperform votes than Moody's when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 72.63% of users gave Intercontinental Exchange an outperform vote while only 59.57% of users gave Moody's an outperform vote.
Intercontinental Exchange has a beta of 1.06, indicating that its share price is 6% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Moody's has a beta of 1.27, indicating that its share price is 27% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Intercontinental Exchange pays an annual dividend of $1.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.3%. Moody's pays an annual dividend of $3.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.8%. Intercontinental Exchange pays out 41.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Moody's pays out 37.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years.
Intercontinental Exchange presently has a consensus price target of $148.29, indicating a potential upside of 10.83%. Moody's has a consensus price target of $400.50, indicating a potential downside of 0.79%. Given Intercontinental Exchange's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Intercontinental Exchange is more favorable than Moody's.
Intercontinental Exchange has higher revenue and earnings than Moody's. Intercontinental Exchange is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Moody's, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Moody's had 1 more articles in the media than Intercontinental Exchange. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for Moody's and 9 mentions for Intercontinental Exchange. Moody's' average media sentiment score of 1.33 beat Intercontinental Exchange's score of 1.26 indicating that Moody's is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Moody's beats Intercontinental Exchange on 11 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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