Quick Briefing on MarketAxess

Shares of Finance sector company MarketAxess moved -0.8% today, and are now trading at a price of $260.0. The large-cap stock's daily volume was 156,179 compared to its average volume of 450,726. The S&P 500 index returned a 1.0% performance.

MarketAxess Holdings Inc., together with its subsidiaries, operates an electronic trading platform for institutional investor and broker-dealer companies worldwide. The company is based in New York and has 744 full time employees. Its market capitalization is $9,855,214,592. MarketAxess currently offers its equity investors a dividend that yields 1.1% per year.

11 analysts are following MarketAxess and have set target prices ranging from $203.0 to $300.0 per share. On average, they have given the company a rating of hold. At today's prices, MKTX is trading 5.61% away from its average analyst target price of $246.18 per share.

Over the last year, MKTX shares have gone down by -8.0%, which represents a difference of -25.0% when compared to the S&P 500. The stock's 52 week high is $399.78 per share and its 52 week low is $200.01. With average free cash flows of $280.73 Million that have been growing at an average rate of 8.8% over the last 6 years, MarketAxess declining stock performance may not be reflective of the quality of its underlying business.

Date Reported Cash Flow from Operations ($ k) Capital expenditures ($ k) Free Cash Flow ($ k) YoY Growth (%)
2023 326,308 13,755 312,553 13.21
2022 289,231 13,142 276,089 4.34
2021 282,091 17,493 264,598 -32.06
2020 404,489 15,010 389,479 53.55
2019 265,935 12,292 253,643 34.9
2018 223,917 35,888 188,029
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