Stock · ICE · Financial Services
United States · Large Cap · listed since 2005 · Revenue 12 mo. $12.5B
Price as of 11/06/2026
Intercontinental Exchange, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, provides technology and data to financial institutions, corporations, and government entities in the United States, the United Kingdom, the European Union, Canada, Asia Pacific, and the Middle East.
Intercontinental Exchange, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, provides technology and data to financial institutions, corporations, and government entities in the United States, the United Kingdom, the European Union, Canada, Asia Pacific, and the Middle East. It operates through three segments: Exchanges, Fixed Income and Data Services, and Mortgage Technology. The Exchanges segment operates regulated marketplace technology for the listing, trading, and clearing of an array of derivatives contracts and financial securities, such as commodities, interest rates, foreign exchange and equities, and corporate and exchange-traded funds, as well as data and connectivity services related to its exchanges and clearing houses. The Fixed Income and Data Services segment provides fixed income pricing, reference data, indices, analytics, and execution services, as well as global CDS clearing and multi-asset class data delivery technology. The Mortgage Technology segment offers a technology platform that provides customers comprehensive and digital workflow tools to address inefficiencies and mitigate risks that exist in the U.S. residential mortgage market life cycle from application through closing, servicing, and the secondary market. The company was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia.
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Summary
55.7 of 100
Mean of the six area values. Each area value is the mean of the stock's ranks among the companies in its sector. 50 is the middle of the sector, not a share of companies beaten.
Analysis
What the price requires
If free cash flow stays at €3.8B (2025), it supports €42.8B. The remaining €41.9B of the market value assume it grows 9.6% a year for 10 years and not at all afterwards.
Required FCF growth per year
9.6%
no growth afterwards
Price to operating cash flow 17.7×, within its usual range.
Middle half of 20 quarters: 17.0× to 20.8×, median 19.8×.
Measures only against its own past, not against what the company is worth. Price as of 11/06/2026.
with respect to the priced-in expectation
with respect to the priced-in expectation
No anomaly in the stored figures.
Since the last quarter
Q1 → Q2 2026
4 more unchanged: Revenue, 12 mo., Net debt, Shares outstanding, Return on equity
Derivation
Each area value is the average of its metrics' ranks within the sector (0 to 100, 50 is the middle). For metrics where lower is better, the rank is mirrored. The overall value is the average of the area values.
Price as of 11/06/2026.
| Metric | Stock | Sector median | Position in sector |
|---|---|---|---|
| Return on equity | 11.43% | 12.46% | Rank 42 |
| Return on capital (Greenblatt) | 112.47% | 59.04% | Rank 62 |
| EBIT margin | 38.74% | 23.06% | Rank 81 |
| FCF margin | 33.94% | 19.82% | Rank 70 |
| Gross margin | 61.88% | 65.53% | Rank 44 |
| Metric | Stock | Sector median | Position in sector |
|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue growth, 1 year | 7.46% | 7.39% | Rank 51 |
| Earnings growth, 3 years per year | 30.93% | 15.20% | Rank 76 |
| Earnings growth, 5 years per year | 8.98% | 15.17% | Rank 29 |
| Sustainable growth (ROE × retained earnings) | 2.95% | 1.25% | Rank 75 |
| Metric | Stock | Sector median | Position in sector |
|---|---|---|---|
| Earnings yield | 3.36% | 6.47% | Rank 14 |
| FCF yield | 4.55% | 7.16% | Rank 33 |
| EV/saleslower is better | 8.78 | 2.82 | Rank 17 |
| EV/EBITlower is better | 22.68 | 14.24 | Rank 29 |
| Metric | Stock | Sector median | Position in sector |
|---|---|---|---|
| Share price, 1 year | 7.17% | 7.80% | Rank 49 |
| Share price, 6 months | 11.04% | 8.71% | Rank 60 |
| Share price, 3 months | 19.75% | 0.45% | Rank 95 |
| Distance from 52-week high | −1.62% | −10.68% | Rank 92 |
| Metric | Stock | Sector median | Position in sector |
|---|---|---|---|
| Accruals (Sloan)lower is better | 2.09% | 1.23% | Rank 40 |
| Change in share countlower is better | −0.84% | −0.60% | Rank 53 |
| Dividend streak in years | 12 | 5 | Rank 77 |
| Price reaction to results, market-adjusted | 4.59% | 0.00% | Rank 94 |
| Metric | Stock | Sector median | Position in sector |
|---|---|---|---|
| Equity ratio | 21.12% | 9.21% | Rank 72 |
| Net debt/EBITDAlower is better | 2.51 | 0.12 | Rank 30 |
| Debt to equitylower is better | 0.70 | 0.90 | Rank 59 |
| Volatility, 1 yearlower is better | 25.73% | 25.95% | Rank 53 |
Ten years in figures
| Year | Revenue, $B | EBIT margin | FCF, $B | Shares | Net debt, $B |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 6.0 | 36.4% | 1.8 | 599M | 6.0 |
| 2017 | 5.8 | 40.7% | 1.7 | 594M | 5.6 |
| 2018 | 6.3 | 41.2% | 2.3 | 579M | 6.7 |
| 2019 | 6.5 | 40.8% | 2.4 | 565M | 7.3 |
| 2020 | 8.2 | 36.8% | 2.5 | 555M | 16.3 |
| 2021 | 9.2 | 37.6% | 2.7 | 565M | 13.6 |
| 2022 | 9.6 | 37.8% | 3.1 | 561M | 16.6 |
| 2023 | 9.9 | 37.3% | 3.4 | 565M | 22.0 |
| 2024 | 11.8 | 36.6% | 4.2 | 576M | 19.9 |
| 2025 | 12.6 | 38.7% | 4.3 | 571M | 19.4 |
3 of 7 StockScorer Score rules met · How the score is built
Intercontinental Exchange Inc mainly meets criteria in the Profitability category. Result from 18 strategies checked.
This is how the StockScorer Score strategy, the flagship rule set, calculates the points for Intercontinental Exchange Inc. It compares return and cash-flow metrics with the median of the company's own sector and checks growth and price trend.
3 of 7 rules met
5 of 11 points
The rule “Exclusion: financial and real estate stocks” applies. The stock is therefore not rated regardless of the points scored.
Detail data
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Selected fundamental metrics for Intercontinental Exchange Inc.
| Metric | Stock | Sector |
|---|---|---|
| P/E ratio | 29.8 | 15.2 |
| P/B ratio | 3.4 | 1.8 |
| Return on equity (ROE) | 11.4% | 12.5% |
| Equity ratio | 21.1% | 9.2% |
| Debt-to-equity (D/E) | 0.70 | 0.90 |
| Dividend yield | 1.2% | 3.3% |
How comparable stocks in the same sector score in the StockScorer model.
| Symbol | Company | Rating |
|---|---|---|
| ICE | Intercontinental Exchange Incthis page | |
| MCO | Moodys Corporation | Low5.5 |
| CME | CME Group Inc | Low5.5 |
| NDAQ | Nasdaq Inc | Low4.5 |
| SPGI | S&P Global Inc | locked |
| MSCI | MSCI Inc | locked |
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