CME vs. ICE, NDAQ, TROW, TW, LPLA, SAN, SMFG, EQIX, KKR, and MCO
Should you be buying CME Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of CME Group include Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), Nasdaq (NDAQ), T. Rowe Price Group (TROW), Tradeweb Markets (TW), LPL Financial (LPLA), Banco Santander (SAN), Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group (SMFG), Equinix (EQIX), KKR & Co. Inc. (KKR), and Moody's (MCO). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Intercontinental Exchange (NYSE:ICE) and CME Group (NASDAQ:CME) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, risk, analyst recommendations, earnings, media sentiment, dividends, profitability, institutional ownership and valuation.
89.3% of Intercontinental Exchange shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 87.8% of CME Group shares are held by institutional investors. 1.1% of Intercontinental Exchange shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.3% of CME Group shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Intercontinental Exchange received 161 more outperform votes than CME Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 72.70% of users gave Intercontinental Exchange an outperform vote while only 59.84% of users gave CME Group an outperform vote.
Intercontinental Exchange currently has a consensus price target of $148.08, suggesting a potential upside of 12.44%. CME Group has a consensus price target of $217.80, suggesting a potential upside of 3.25%. Given CME Group's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Intercontinental Exchange is more favorable than CME Group.
Intercontinental Exchange has a beta of 1.02, suggesting that its stock price is 2% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, CME Group has a beta of 0.49, suggesting that its stock price is 51% less volatile than the S&P 500.
CME Group has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Intercontinental Exchange. CME Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Intercontinental Exchange, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
CME Group has a net margin of 56.84% compared to CME Group's net margin of 23.91%. CME Group's return on equity of 12.91% beat Intercontinental Exchange's return on equity.
Intercontinental Exchange pays an annual dividend of $1.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.4%. CME Group pays an annual dividend of $4.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.2%. Intercontinental Exchange pays out 42.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. CME Group pays out 52.3% 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 has increased its dividend for 10 consecutive years and CME Group has increased its dividend for 14 consecutive years. CME Group is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
In the previous week, CME Group had 19 more articles in the media than Intercontinental Exchange. MarketBeat recorded 33 mentions for CME Group and 14 mentions for Intercontinental Exchange. Intercontinental Exchange's average media sentiment score of 0.81 beat CME Group's score of 0.49 indicating that CME Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Intercontinental Exchange beats CME Group on 13 of the 22 factors compared between the two stocks.
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