Q2 Earnings Estimate for MarketAxess Issued By William Blair

MarketAxess Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ:MKTX) – Investment analysts at William Blair dropped their Q2 2025 earnings per share (EPS) estimates for shares of MarketAxess in a research report issued to clients and investors on Wednesday, May 7th. William Blair analyst J. Schmitt now expects that the financial services provider will post earnings per share of $1.89 for the quarter, down from their previous estimate of $1.96. William Blair currently has a “Outperform” rating on the stock. The consensus estimate for MarketAxess’ current full-year earnings is $7.79 per share. William Blair also issued estimates for MarketAxess’ Q1 2026 earnings at $2.02 EPS, Q2 2026 earnings at $2.05 EPS, Q3 2026 earnings at $2.08 EPS and Q4 2026 earnings at $1.96 EPS.

MarketAxess (NASDAQ:MKTX) last released its quarterly earnings data on Wednesday, May 7th. The financial services provider reported $1.87 earnings per share for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $1.82 by $0.05. MarketAxess had a return on equity of 20.23% and a net margin of 33.56%. The company had revenue of $208.58 million for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $211.81 million. During the same quarter last year, the business posted $1.92 EPS. MarketAxess’s revenue for the quarter was down .8% on a year-over-year basis.

Several other equities research analysts also recently weighed in on the company. Keefe, Bruyette & Woods raised their price objective on MarketAxess from $223.00 to $226.00 and gave the company a “market perform” rating in a report on Thursday, May 8th. Bank of America raised their price objective on MarketAxess from $189.00 to $191.00 and gave the company an “underperform” rating in a report on Wednesday, April 2nd. The Goldman Sachs Group cut their price objective on MarketAxess from $235.00 to $210.00 and set a “neutral” rating on the stock in a report on Monday, February 10th. Piper Sandler cut their price objective on MarketAxess from $213.00 to $202.00 and set a “neutral” rating on the stock in a report on Thursday, May 8th. Finally, UBS Group cut their target price on MarketAxess from $305.00 to $295.00 and set a “buy” rating on the stock in a report on Monday, April 7th. One equities research analyst has rated the stock with a sell rating, six have given a hold rating and four have issued a buy rating to the company’s stock. According to data from MarketBeat, the stock has a consensus rating of “Hold” and an average price target of $241.78.

MarketAxess Stock Down 2.3%

NASDAQ MKTX opened at $213.13 on Monday. MarketAxess has a twelve month low of $186.84 and a twelve month high of $296.68. The company has a market cap of $7.93 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 29.32, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 3.89 and a beta of 0.89. The business’s fifty day moving average is $217.17 and its 200 day moving average is $227.04.

MarketAxess Announces Dividend

The firm also recently disclosed a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Wednesday, June 4th. Stockholders of record on Wednesday, May 21st will be given a $0.76 dividend. This represents a $3.04 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 1.43%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Wednesday, May 21st. MarketAxess’s dividend payout ratio (DPR) is presently 52.87%.

Institutional Trading of MarketAxess

A number of hedge funds and other institutional investors have recently added to or reduced their stakes in the company. Vanguard Group Inc. increased its position in MarketAxess by 2.1% in the 4th quarter. Vanguard Group Inc. now owns 4,434,946 shares of the financial services provider’s stock valued at $1,002,475,000 after buying an additional 90,805 shares in the last quarter. FMR LLC increased its position in MarketAxess by 17.4% in the 4th quarter. FMR LLC now owns 2,300,536 shares of the financial services provider’s stock valued at $520,013,000 after buying an additional 341,493 shares in the last quarter. T. Rowe Price Investment Management Inc. increased its position in MarketAxess by 11.4% in the 4th quarter. T. Rowe Price Investment Management Inc. now owns 2,298,409 shares of the financial services provider’s stock valued at $519,533,000 after buying an additional 236,118 shares in the last quarter. Van ECK Associates Corp increased its position in MarketAxess by 13.4% in the 4th quarter. Van ECK Associates Corp now owns 2,000,736 shares of the financial services provider’s stock valued at $452,246,000 after buying an additional 236,497 shares in the last quarter. Finally, Primecap Management Co. CA increased its position in MarketAxess by 2.3% in the 4th quarter. Primecap Management Co. CA now owns 1,369,102 shares of the financial services provider’s stock valued at $309,472,000 after buying an additional 30,180 shares in the last quarter. 99.01% of the stock is owned by institutional investors.

MarketAxess Company Profile

MarketAxess Holdings Inc, together with its subsidiaries, operates an electronic trading platform for institutional investor and broker-dealer companies worldwide. The company offers trading technology that provides liquidity access in U.S. high-grade bonds, U.S. high-yield bonds, emerging market debt, eurobonds, municipal bonds, U.S.