Here Are Some Essential Facts About MarketAxess

By Ken Smith • Thursday, June 06 16:29 • Permanent Link

With gains of 4.9%, MarketAxess was one of the winners on Wall Street today. Its shares are now trading at $205.97 and have logged a -0.0% daily outperformance of the S&P 500. Don't join the feeding frenzy before checking some basic facts about this stock:

MarketAxess has moved -28.9% over the last year, and the S&P 500 logged a change of 24.7%
MKTX has an average analyst rating of hold and is -12.6% away from its mean target price of $235.67 per share
Its trailing earnings per share (EPS) is $6.82
MarketAxess has a trailing 12 month Price to Earnings (P/E) ratio of 30.2 while the S&P 500 average is 27.65
Its forward earnings per share (EPS) is $7.94 and its forward P/E ratio is 25.9
The company has a Price to Book (P/B) ratio of 5.93 in contrast to the S&P 500's average ratio of 4.59
MarketAxess is part of the Finance sector, which has an average P/E ratio of 15.89 and an average P/B of 1.76
MKTX has reported YOY quarterly earnings growth of -2.0% and gross profit margins of 0.6%
The company has a free cash flow of $87.68 Million, which refers to the total sum of all its inflows and outflows of cash over the last quarter
MarketAxess Holdings Inc., together with its subsidiaries, operates an electronic trading platform for institutional investor and broker-dealer companies worldwide. The company offers trading technology that provides liquidity access in U.S. high-grade bonds, U.S. high-yield bonds, emerging market debt, eurobonds, municipal bonds, U.S. government bonds, and other fixed-income securities; and executes bond trades between and among institutional investor and broker-dealer clients in an all-to-all anonymous trading environment for corporate bonds through its Open Trading protocols. It also provides trading-related products and services, including composite+ pricing and other market data products to assist clients with trading decisions; auto-execution and other execution services for clients requiring specialized workflow solutions; connectivity solutions that facilitate straight-through processing; and technology services to optimize trading environments. In addition, the company offers various pre-and post-trade services, such as trade matching, trade publication, regulatory transaction reporting, and market and reference data across a range of fixed-income and other products. MarketAxess Holdings Inc. was incorporated in 2000 and is headquartered in New York, New York.

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