With 0.86 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained heavier than its average volume of 0.39 million shares. During the session, the Capital Markets company that operates in wider Financial sector, reached to the highest price of $248.0 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $238.12. The 52-week range on MKTX shows that it touched its highest point at $297.97 and its lowest point at $192.42 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $284.42. With its current market cap of 9.20 billion, MKTX has annualized dividend of $2.96 while the current yield stands at 1.21%. Beta for the stock currently stands at 1.01.
Price Performance and Earnings:
Stock performance is one of the indicators that investors use to determine whether they will profit from a stock. The price performance of MKTX was down-trending over the past week, with a drop of -6.78%, but this was down by -12.61% over a month. Three-month performance dropped to -5.02% while six-month performance rose 18.44%. The stock lost -2.91% in the past year, while it has lost -16.69% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for MKTX yields 7.39 with Next year EPS estimates of 8.28. For the next quarter, that number is 1.84. This implies an EPS growth rate of 7.68% for this year and 12.22% for next year. EPS is expected to grow by 3.02% annually over the next five years; however, over the past five years, the company experienced an annual growth rate of 8.46%.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 37.72 million MKTX shares are outstanding with a float of 36.88 million shares on hand for trading. On 2024-11-15, short shares totaled 0.66 million, which was 173.99999999999997 higher than short shares on 1728950400. In addition to Mr. Richard Mitchell McVey as the firm’s Founder & Executive Chairman, Mr. Christopher Robert Concannon J.D. serves as its CEO & Director.
Institutional Ownership:
Through their ownership of 0.99402 of MKTX’s outstanding shares, institutional investors have minority control over the company.
An Overview of Recent Financials:
Understanding a company as a customer does not mean you will understand it as an investor. The wise investor uses quantitative research to analyze metrics such as revenue, net income, and earnings. In its fiscal quarter reported on 2024-09-30, MKTX reported revenue of $206715000.0 and operating income of $87055000.0. The EBITDA in the recently reported quarter was $113758000.0 and diluted EPS was $1.9.
Analysts Ratings:
Reading analyst opinions is an effective way to decide where to invest, and there are several opinions available for MKTX since 7 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 2 analysts who recommend BUY ratings, while 0 suggest SELL ratings. Of the remaining analysts, 5 believe that the stock is worth HOLDING, 0 give it an OVERWEIGHT rating, and 0 thinks that it’s UNDERWEIGHT. In the same way, a target price assigned to a stock can also reveal much about its potential. With MKTX analysts setting a high price target of 330.0 and a low target of 187.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 286.08334. Based on these targets, MKTX could surge 35.27% to reach the target high and fall by -23.35% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 17.27% from current levels.
Analysts have provided yearly estimates in a range of $7.58983 being high and $7.28944 being low. For MKTX, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $7.37956. The surprise factor in the prior quarter was $1.68. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is $2.2 and the low estimate is $1.82. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus $2.03.
