MarketAxess Holdings Inc. ($MKTX) Possible Buy to $213 Confident Investor Rating: Good

Company name MarketAxess Holdings Inc.
Stock ticker MKTX
Live stock price [stckqut]MKTX[/stckqut]
P/E compared to competitors Fair

MANAGEMENT EXECUTION

Employee productivity Good
Sales growth Fair
EPS growth Good
P/E growth Poor
EBIT growth Good

ANALYSIS

Confident Investor Rating Good
Target stock price (TWCA growth scenario) $213.48
Target stock price (averages with growth) $266.3
Target stock price (averages with no growth) $213.03
Target stock price (manual assumptions) $218.96

The following company description is from Reuters: https://www.reuters.com/finance/stocks/company-profile/mktx

MarketAxess Holdings Inc., incorporated on April 11, 2000, operates an electronic trading platform that enables fixed-income market participants to trade corporate bonds and other types of fixed-income instruments using its trading technology. Institutional investor and broker-dealer firms are the users of its trading platform, accessing global liquidity in the United States corporate bonds, emerging markets and high-yield bonds, European bonds, the United States agency bonds, municipal bonds, credit default swaps and other fixed-income securities. Through its Open Trading protocols, the Company executes trades in certain bonds between and among institutional investor and broker-dealer clients in an all-to-all trading environment on a matched-principal basis. The Company also offers trading-related products and services, including market data to assist clients with trading decisions; connectivity solutions that facilitate straight-through processing; technology services to optimize trading environments, and execution services for exchange-traded fund managers and other clients. Through its Trax division, the Company also offers a range of pre- and post-trade services, including trade matching, regulatory transaction reporting, and market and reference data across a range of fixed-income and other products.

 

Confident Investor comments: At this price and at this time, I think that a Confident Investor can confidently invest in MarketAxess Holdings Inc. as long as the indicators that I describe in my book The Confident Investor are favorable.

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How was this analysis of MarketAxess Holdings Inc. calculated?

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In order to assist you in using the techniques of this book, the values that I used when calculating the Manual pricing above were:

  • Stock price at the time of the calculation: $200.72
  • Growth: 0.12
  • Current EPS (TTM): $4.35
  • P/E: 46
  • Future EPS Calc: $7.66
  • Future Stock Price Calc: $352.64
  • Target stock price: $218.96

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