How Intercontinental Exchange, Inc. stacks up

ICE · against 19 other Financial Services companies of similar size

Profitability

58/ 100

Below the middle of the pack.

Ranked #14 of 20 · scores higher than 26% of peers

Bars: peers in each 10-point band of the profitability score

3 peers with a profitability score of 50–59, including ICE · Click a bar to see the companies

Why profitability scores 58?

Weighted metrics compared with all Financial Services companies.

Its metrics sit close to the Financial Services norm.

Return on assets is close to the peer norm. Return on assets: 2.3% vs peer median 2.6%
a higher return on invested capital: stronger than 62% of peers. Return on invested capital: 8.7% vs peer median 6.3%
a wider operating margin: stronger than 78% of peers. Operating margin: 40.7% vs peer median 23.5%

Metric by metric

Position: dot = ICE, ranked from the worst peer (left) to the best (right); tick = middle, shaded = middle half of peers.

Metric	ICE	Peer median	Better than	Weight
Return on invested capitalHigher is better · 19 reported	8.7%	13.5%	22%	33%
Operating marginHigher is better · 17 reported	40.7%	29.6%	69%	33%
Return on assetsHigher is better · 20 reported	2.3%	3.3%	42%	33%
Return on equityHigher is better · 19 reported	14.1%	16.5%	33%	Context only
Gross marginHigher is better · 20 reported	100.0%	72.6%	84%	Context only

Ranking by profitability score

Top 5 and the companies ranked around ICE

Rank	Company	Market cap	Profitability	Overall
1	Blackstone Inc.BX · US-listed	141.3B USD	95	52
2	Brookfield Asset Management Ltd.BAM · US-listed	81.4B USD	93	54
3	Moody's CorporationMCO · US-listed	87.2B USD	92	49
4	Apollo Global Management, Inc.APO · US-listed	67.1B USD	82	51
5	S&P Global Inc.SPGI · US-listed	137.4B USD	79	50
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11	Nasdaq, Inc.NDAQ · US-listed	59.8B USD	71	46
12	BlackRock, Inc.BLK · US-listed	188.7B USD	64	45
13	Deutsche Börse AGDB1.DE · Europe	56.1B EUR (≈$61.7B)	60	53
14	Capital One Financial CorporationCOF · US-listed	128.0B USD	58	61
14	Intercontinental Exchange, Inc.ICE · US-listed	96.0B USD	58	48
16	Bajaj Finance LimitedBAJFINANCE.NS · India	6.04T INR (≈$72.4B)	51	60
17	Arthur J. Gallagher & Co.AJG · US-listed	70.1B USD	41	45
18	London Stock Exchange Group plcLSEG.L · United Kingdom	43.6B GBP (≈$56.7B)	40	48
19	Brookfield CorporationBN · US-listed	90.7B USD	32	33

Scores are sector-relative percentiles from the latest snapshot, always calculated against the whole sector: narrowing the comparison group changes who you compare with, not the scores. Missing metrics are left out and the remaining weights rescaled. How we score

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