Harris Associates LP recently announced the acquisition of new stake in Intercontinental Exchange Inc (NYSE:ICE). The institutional investor has increased its shareholding in the Financial company by 6.68% to 15.52 million shares with purchase of 0.97 million shares. This fresh investment now brings its stake to 2.71% valued currently at $1.67 billion. In addition, Wellington Management Co. LLP raised its holdings by 5.83 million to 12.15 million shares.
With over 4.17 million Intercontinental Exchange Inc (ICE) shares trading Tuesday and a closing price of $117.93 on the day, the dollar volume was approximately $491.56 million. The shares have shown a positive half year performance of 8.20% and its price on 12/12/23 gained nearly 1.54%. Currently, there are 572.36M common shares owned by the public and among those 566.71M shares have been available to trade.
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An analysis of what Wall Street brokers have to say about the expected price targets for this stock gives us this picture: 20 analysts who have offered their price forecasts for ICE have a consensus price objective of $130.99. The analysts have set the share’s price value over the next 12 months at a high of $154.00 and a low of $114.00. The average price target is 9.97% above its recent price level and a downside to the estimated low will see the stock lose -3.45% over that period. But an upside of 23.42% will see the stock hit the forecast high price target while median target price for the stock is $131.00.
Insiders at the company have transacted a total of 116 times over the past 12 months, according to data filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). 35 of these insider trades were purchases, accounting for 378,471 shares. Insider sales of the common stock occurred on 81 occasions, with total insider shares sold totaling 452,264 shares.
The top 3 mutual fund holders in Intercontinental Exchange Inc are Vanguard Total Stock Market ETF, Vanguard 500 Index Fund, and Morgan Stanley Invt. Fds. – Globa. Vanguard Total Stock Market ETF owns 17.85 million shares of the company’s stock, all valued at over $1.92 billion. The company bought an additional 82176.0 shares recently to bring their total holdings to about 3.12% of the shares outstanding. Vanguard 500 Index Fund bought 65766.0 shares to see its total holdings expand to 13.82 million shares valued at over $1.48 billion and representing 2.42% of the shares outstanding. Morgan Stanley Invt. Fds. – Globa sold 73592.0 shares to bring its total holdings to over 7.64 million shares at a value of $821.01 million. Morgan Stanley Invt. Fds. – Globa now owns shares totaling to 1.34% of the shares outstanding.
Shares of Intercontinental Exchange Inc (NYSE: ICE) opened at $116.46, up $0.32 from a prior closing price of $116.14. However, the script later moved the day high at 118.06, up 1.54%. The company’s stock has a 5-day price change of 3.37% and 0.99% over the past three months. ICE shares are trading 14.95% year to date (YTD), with the 12-month market performance up to 14.13% higher. It has a 12-month low price of $94.16 and touched a high of $118.79 over the same period. ICE has an average intraday trading volume of 2.55 million shares. The stock is trading above its simple moving averages at the SMA20, SMA50, and SMA200, as the current price level is off by 4.41%, 6.71%, and 7.42% respectively.
Institutional ownership of Intercontinental Exchange Inc (NYSE: ICE) shares accounts for 90.89% of the company’s 572.36M shares outstanding. Mutual fund holders own 39.14%, while other institutional holders and individual stakeholders account for 52.52% and 1.61% respectively.
It has a market capitalization of $67.50B and a beta (3y monthly) value of 0.98. The stock’s trailing 12-month PE ratio is 27.37, while the earnings-per-share (ttm) stands at $4.31. The company has a PEG of 4.62 and the debt-to-equity ratio at 0.93. Price movements for the stock have been influenced by the stock’s volatility, which stands at 1.74% over the week and 1.35% over the month.
Analysts forecast that Intercontinental Exchange Inc (ICE) will achieve an EPS of $1.28 for the current quarter, $1.41 for the next quarter and $5.79 for 2024. The lowest estimate earnings-per-share for the quarter is $1.22 while analysts give the company a high EPS estimate of $1.36. Comparatively, EPS for the current quarter was $1.25 a year ago. Earnings per share for the fiscal year are expected to increase by 5.04%, and 3.61% over the next financial year. EPS should grow at an annualized rate of 5.93% over the next five years, compared to -9.52% over the past 5-year period.
If you are looking to buy this stock, then you may note that the average analyst recommendation by 20 brokerage firm advisors rate Intercontinental Exchange Inc (ICE) as a “Strong Buy” at a consensus score of 1.60. Specifically, 13 Wall Street analysts polled rate the stock as a buy, while 5 of the 20 advise that investors “hold,” and 0 rated it as a “Sell.”
Looking at the support for the ICE, a number of firms have released research notes about the stock. Goldman stated their Neutral rating for the stock in a research note on September 22, 2023, with the firm’s price target at $125.
