What the Smart Investors Know About MarketAxess

By Blake Campbell • Tuesday, April 25 09:46 • Permanent Link

Shares of MarketAxess have moved -1.7% today, and are now trading at a price of $314.79. In contrast, the S&P 500 index saw a -0.0% change. Today's trading volume is 16,581 compared to the stock's average volume of 365,157.

MarketAxess Holdings Inc., together with its subsidiaries, operates an electronic trading platform for institutional investor and broker-dealer companies worldwide. Based in New York, United States the company has 744 full time employees and a market cap of $11,838,623,744. MarketAxess currently offers its equity investors a dividend that yields 0.9% per year.

The company is now trading -10.85% away from its average analyst target price of $353.1 per share. The 10 analysts following the stock have set target prices ranging from $288.0 to $415.0, and on average give MarketAxess a rating of hold.

Over the last year, MKTX shares have gone up 22.8%, which represents a difference of 24.0% when compared to the S&P 500. The stock's 52 week high is $399.78 per share whereas its 52 week low is $217.44. With its operating margins declining an average -1.9% over the last 4 years, MarketAxess may not have a strong enough business to keep this trend.

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