MKTX
MarketAxess Holdings Inc.
Financial Services · Capital Markets · NMS
$116.93
Data: 2026-05-28
✗ ETHICAL FAIL

Unknown MOAT
HIGH
Data Confidence: 100.0%
Key Metrics

How this company measures up on the fundamentals that matter

Market Cap
$4.7B
Total market value of the company
Trailing P/E
15.50
Reasonably valued
Forward P/E
14.60
Based on estimated future earnings — lower means cheaper
Rev Growth
+11.9%
Year-over-year revenue change
Profit Margin
35.5%
How much profit the company keeps from each dollar of revenue
ROE
24.3%
Return on equity — how efficiently it uses shareholder money
Analyst Target
$175.00
+50% from current price — median analyst estimate
Recommendation
BUY
Consensus view from 11 analysts covering this stock
About MarketAxess Holdings Inc.

MarketAxess Holdings Inc., together with its subsidiaries, operates an electronic trading platform for institutional investor and broker-dealer firms in the United States, the United Kingdom, and internationally. The company offers trading technology to access liquidity on its platforms 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 automated and algorithmic trading solutions, such as X-Pro, a trading platform to combine trading protocols with its proprietary data and pre-trade analytics; and integrated and actionable data offerings, including CP+ and Axess All, a real-time pricing engine, including Auto-X and portfolio trading. In addition, the company offers various pre-and post-trade services, such as processing, trade matching, trade publication, regulatory transaction reporting, and market and reference data across a range of fixed-income and other products. The company was incorporated in 2000 and is headquartered in New York, New York.

https://www.marketaxess.com

Country: United States Employees: 859 Industry: Capital Markets
Ethical Screening

Five compliance checks based on AAOIFI standards — all must pass for ethical clearance

Business Activity
FAIL
Core business does not involve prohibited activities
Debt Ratio
0.0% N/A
Debt must be below 33% of total assets
Cash Ratio
0.0% N/A
Interest-bearing cash below 33% of assets
Receivables
0.0% N/A
Receivables below 49% of assets
Revenue Purity
0.0% N/A
Non-compliant revenue below 5% — any excess requires purification
Quantitative Intelligence

Statistical analysis of price behaviour, risk, and market regime — independent of fundamental data

Regime
DISTRIBUTION
Smart money appears to be selling into strength — caution
Sharpe Ratio
-0.562
Returns do not compensate for the risk — negative edge
Kelly Fraction
-0.0545
No positive edge detected — the data suggests staying out
Calmar Ratio
-0.329
Drawdown risk outweighs the returns — higher risk profile
Annual Return
-17.8%
Historical annualised return based on price data
Max Drawdown
-54.1%
Largest peak-to-trough decline — the worst it has been
HMM State
CRISIS
Elevated risk detected — extreme caution warranted
Days in State
2
How long the current regime has persisted — longer means more stable
Market Data

Trading characteristics and market positioning

Beta
0.92
Less volatile than the market — more defensive
52W High
$228.16
49% below the year high
52W Low
$130.14
-10% above the year low
Avg Volume
508,486
Average daily shares traded — higher means easier to buy and sell
Short Ratio
4.6
Days it would take all short sellers to cover — higher means more crowded
Short % Float
8.7%
Moderate short interest
Div Yield
238.0%
Annual dividend as a percentage of the share price
EPS (TTM)
$8.45
Earnings per share over the last 12 months
Financial Health

Balance sheet strength and cash generation — the foundation of long-term value

Debt/Equity
24.25
Heavy leverage — higher financial risk if revenues decline
Current Ratio
4.94
Strong balance sheet — comfortably covers short-term obligations
Quick Ratio
4.28
Like current ratio but excludes inventory — stricter test
Gross Margin
62.1%
Revenue left after cost of goods — higher means pricing power
Operating Margin
43.9%
Profit from core operations before interest and tax
Free Cash Flow
$-253,787,120
Negative — the business is spending more than it generates
Revenue (TTM)
$871M
Total revenue over the last 12 months
Net Income
$309M
Profitable — the bottom line is positive
Analyst Coverage
Analysts
11
Target High
$250.00
Target Median
$175.00
Target Low
$148.00
Political Trading Activity

Congressional trading disclosures involving this instrument

Date Politician Party Type Amount
9 Apr2026 Josh Gottheimer Democrat sell 1K–15K
2026-04-09 Josh Gottheimer Democrat Sale 1K–15K
Source: Congressional disclosure filings. View all political trades at
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Data sourced from public filings and market feeds. Not financial advice. Updated: 2026-05-28

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