MarketAxess Holdings, Inc. (MKTX): Price and Financial Metrics

MKTX POWR Grades

• Quality is the dimension where MKTX ranks best; there it ranks ahead of 88.49% of US stocks.
• The strongest trend for MKTX is in Quality, which has been heading up over the past 179 days.
• MKTX's current lowest rank is in the Sentiment metric (where it is better than 10.24% of US stocks).

MKTX Stock Summary

• With a price/earnings ratio of 52.42, Marketaxess Holdings Inc P/E ratio is greater than that of about 86.14% of stocks in our set with positive earnings.
• The price/operating cash flow metric for Marketaxess Holdings Inc is higher than 89.08% of stocks in our set with a positive cash flow.
• MKTX's price/sales ratio is 19.34; that's higher than the P/S ratio of 92.8% of US stocks.
• If you're looking for stocks that are quantitatively similar to Marketaxess Holdings Inc, a group of peers worth examining would be CHE, MEI, PINC, TBK, and LSTR.
• Visit MKTX's SEC page to see the company's official filings. To visit the company's web site, go to www.marketaxess.com.

MKTX Valuation Summary

• In comparison to the median Financial Services stock, MKTX's price/sales ratio is 700% higher, now standing at 25.6.
• Over the past 204 months, MKTX's price/earnings ratio has gone up 54.4.
• MKTX's price/sales ratio has moved up 19.3 over the prior 204 months.

Below are key valuation metrics over time for MKTX.

MKTX Growth Metrics

The 4 year cash and equivalents growth rate now stands at 163.64%.
• The 4 year price growth rate now stands at 263.47%.
• Its 5 year revenue growth rate is now at 76.51%.

MKTX's revenue has moved up $384,051,000 over the prior 70 months.

The table below shows MKTX's growth in key financial areas (numbers in millions of US dollars).

Date	Revenue	Operating Cash Flow	Net Income to Common Stock
2021-12-31	698.951	282.091	257.888
2021-09-30	705.237	364	278.634
2021-06-30	707.15	252.834	288.452
2021-03-31	715.611	260.961	305.018
2020-12-31	689.125	404.489	299.377
2020-09-30	647.553	266.01	276.719

MKTX's Quality Factors

The “Quality” component of the POWR Ratings focuses on 31 different factors of a companies fundamentals and operational strength. Here are some key insights as we drill into the specifics of these quality attributes.

• MKTX has a Quality Grade of B, ranking ahead of 82.86% of graded US stocks.
• MKTX's asset turnover comes in at 0.468 -- ranking 48th of 444 Trading stocks.
• PIPR, ARE, and BSIG are the stocks whose asset turnover ratios are most correlated with MKTX.

The table below shows MKTX's key quality metrics over time.