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NASDAQ NMS - GLOBAL MARKET · Financial Services · CIK 0001278021
$164.26
-0.14% · delayed ~15 min
Last price from Oct 21, 2026
$5.88B market value
From MARKETAXESS HOLDINGS INC's FY2025 10-K, filed Feb 24, 2026 · read the filing
MARKETAXESS trades securities and runs financial markets. It took in $846.3M last year, which makes it a smaller company. Of every dollar it sells, about 29 cents is left as profit.
The financial picture is led by profitability, with growth and debt worth watching.
A conclusion from the filings, not a recommendation. Detailed figures and supporting evidence appear in their dedicated sections below.
Recent open-market selling by Cruger William Frank Jr., not under a pre-arranged plan.
$1.0M sold in the last 120 days · Read the filing
These are things the company filed or that a published model flagged — not predictions, and not a reason on their own to buy or sell anything.
Financial health
Generally healthy, with a few things to watch.
From MARKETAXESS HOLDINGS INC's FY2025 annual filing · share price scored separately
Largest year-over-year changes in FY2025
Profit margin
33.6% → 29.1%
Capital spending
$9.9M → $8.2M
Profit
$274.2M → $246.6M
Operating margin
41.7% → 40.4%
Measured against FY2024, from the 10-K filed Feb 24, 2026
Deteriorated: −4.4 pts
33.6% to 29.1%Significant
Why it matters: What survives to the very end of each sale. Worth reading beside revenue: growing sales on a shrinking margin means the company is buying its growth.
How the latest move compares (quote delayed ~15 min), and what was published around it
MKTX fell 0.14% on the latest quote. The average Financials company tracked here moved +1.12%, and the S&P 500 −1.04%. That is 1.3 points below its sector and 0.9 points above the market.
Expectations
Not from the filings — what other people are betting on, and what the price already assumes.
Opinions from 18 analysts covering this company, as of . Their views, not this site's.
Of 18 analysts publishing on this company, 4 say strong buy, 3 say buy and 11 say hold. Analysts are paid to publish a view and are wrong often; the split above says how much they agree with each other, which is the part a single headline rating hides.
Published by Finnhub. Analyst coverage skews towards larger companies and towards optimism — sell ratings are rare across the whole market, so a company with none is ordinary rather than endorsed.
The essentials
Each answered from the filings, with the numbers behind it.
Yes. It keeps about 29 cents of every dollar of sales as profit, earning $246.6M last year.
Slowly. Sales grew 3.6% last year.
For every $1 it owes, it owns $2.49 in assets. Banks and insurers always carry high debt — that is how lending works — so this is normal for the industry and not comparable with other sectors.
Core operating and valuation reference metrics
Income
This company pays no dividend. It keeps its profits and reinvests them in the business instead, so any return would have to come from the share price.
Figures from the FY2025 annual filing
Last year it earned $246.6M and generated $382.1M of cash from operations.
As reported to the SEC, in USD. Hover or show sources to see where each figure came from.
| Income statement | FY202510-K · Feb 24, 2026Filing for FY2025 | FY202410-K · Feb 24, 2026Filing for FY2024 | FY202310-K · Feb 22, 2024Filing for FY2023 | FY202210-K · Feb 22, 2023Filing for FY2022 | FY202110-K · Feb 22, 2023Filing for FY2021 | ChangeFY2025 vs FY2024 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RevenueWhat is this? | $846.3M | $817.1M | $752.5M | $718.3M | $699.0M | +3.6% |
| Selling, general and administrative | $26.6M | $22.7M | $23.0M | $19.2M | $14.5M | +17.1% |
| Operating income | $341.8M | $340.9M | $315.0M | $326.9M | $337.2M | +0.3% |
| Operating marginOperating income ÷ revenueWhat is this? | 40.4% | 41.7% | 41.9% | 45.5% | 48.2% | −1.3 pts |
| Interest expense | $1.5M | $1.6M | $2.0M | $700.0K | $842.0K | −7.1% |
| Income before tax | $367.0M | $360.5M | $332.7M | $338.3M | $333.9M | +1.8% |
| Net income | $246.6M | $274.2M | $258.1M | $250.2M | $257.9M | −10.0% |
| Net marginNet income ÷ revenueWhat is this? | 29.1% | 33.6% | 34.3% | 34.8% | 36.9% | −4.4 pts |
| Earnings per shareNet income ÷ shares outstanding at the period end — close to, but not the same as, the reported EPSWhat is this? | $6.89 | $7.28 | $6.81 | $6.65 | $6.80 | −5.3% |
† calculated from other reported figures, such as total liabilities as assets minus equity.
This company's latest filing beside its peers' stored scores
| Company | Health | F-Score | Revenue growth | Profit margin | P/E | Debt to equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MKTXMARKETAXESS HOLDINGS INC · this page | 7.3/10 | 4/6 |
Insider activity, ownership stakes and what's coming — straight from EDGAR, before any article is written about it
Officers, directors and major shareholders must report within two business days of a trade.
Sold on the open market — 100 shares at $164.65 ($16.5K)
Holds 11,386 shares after this filing.
Sold on the open market — 6,164 shares at $163.20 ($1.0M)
Holds 4,033 shares after this filing.
20 recent filings, newest first. Each is labelled from its form and item numbers, not from its wording.
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Every figure above traces back to a filing in the timeline, each linked to the document itself.
The 23 subsidiaries named in its 10-K, incorporated across 10 places. A filer lists the significant ones and may leave the rest out, so this is the floor rather than the full count.
Every company's figures are checked for internal consistency: the balance sheet adding up, figures sharing one currency, cash flow and share counts within plausible ranges, and how recent the latest annual report is. Nothing here changes a figure.
Financial figures are from MKTX's 10-K for fiscal year 2025 (period ending 2025-12-31, filed Feb 24, 2026), reported under the US GAAP taxonomy. View the source filing.
3 of 4 scored areas had enough reported figures to judge
The score averages profitability, growth, debt and accounting. Accounting had too few reported figures and is left out of the average rather than counted as a weakness, so a company is never marked down for a figure it did not publish. Cash generation is shown for context and already feeds profitability. Valuation is scored separately, because a share price says nothing about whether the business is sound. 6 of the 9 Piotroski checks could be evaluated. How the score works
Each year scored only from its annual report as it was first filed
| Fiscal year | Health | F-Score | Scored from |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | 7.3 | 4/6 | 10-K, filed Feb 24, 2026 |
| FY2024 | 7.3 | 6/6 | 10-K, filed Feb 24, 2025 |
| FY2023 | 7.3 | 5/6 | 10-K, filed Feb 22, 2024 |
| FY2022 | 7.3 | 4/6 | 10-K, filed Feb 22, 2023 |
| FY2021 | 7.3 | 4/6 | 10-K, filed Feb 23, 2022 |
| FY2020 | 8.7 | 5/6 | 10-K, filed Feb 19, 2021 |
A later restatement never reaches back into an earlier year, and every year is scored without a share price, so the latest point can differ a little from the headline score, which uses today's price.
Every check behind the three models, and what each one tests
4 of 6 checks passed
Nine yes-or-no tests of whether this year's finances improved on last year's. 3 could not be evaluated and are excluded from the total rather than counted as failures.
not reported — Not meaningful for banks, insurers and other financial companies. Their balance sheets have no working capital and are leveraged by design, which this model misreads as distress.
Not meaningful for banks, insurers and other financial companies. Their balance sheets have no working capital and are leveraged by design, which this model misreads as distress.
Distance from bankruptcy, from a model fitted on companies that did and did not go bust. It describes a balance sheet's shape today; it does not forecast a failure.
not reported — Not meaningful for banks, insurers and other financial companies. Their balance sheets have no working capital and are leveraged by design, which this model misreads as distress.
Not meaningful for banks, insurers and other financial companies. Their balance sheets have no working capital and are leveraged by design, which this model misreads as distress.
Screens eight accounting ratios for the pattern earnings manipulators tend to leave. A flag is a reason to read the filing closely, never evidence of wrongdoing.
Every figure above comes from the FY2025 filing as filed with the SEC.
Changed: -17.5%
$9.9M to $8.2MSignificant
Why it matters: Neither good nor bad on its own. Heavy spending is a company building capacity or a company struggling to stand still, and the two look identical in this figure.
Deteriorated: -10.0%
$274.2M to $246.6MNotable
Why it matters: Profit swings far more than sales do, and one-off items — a legal settlement, a tax charge, an asset sale — move it without the underlying business changing.
Deteriorated: −1.3 pts
41.7% to 40.4%Notable
Why it matters: What survives each sale after running the business. A falling operating margin beside a steady gross margin points at overheads — wages, marketing, research — rather than pricing.
Deteriorated: -5.3%
$7.28 to $6.89Notable
Why it matters: Profit divided by the shares in issue at the period end, so it sits close to but not on the company's own reported figure. It can rise with no growth in profit when the company buys back stock — read it beside the share count.
Improved: -5.0%
37.6M to 35.8MNotable
Why it matters: The company bought back stock, so each remaining holding owns slightly more of it. Worth checking it was not funded by borrowing.
Q2 FY2026 against Q2 FY2025, from the 10-Q filed Aug 7, 2026 — read it.
Deteriorated: -46.9%
$462.8M to $245.8MCritical
Why it matters: A falling cash pile is only a warning if the company is consuming it. Paying down debt, buying back stock and paying a dividend all reduce cash by choice.
Improved: -5.9%
37.4M to 35.2MSignificant
Why it matters: The company bought back stock, so each remaining holding owns slightly more of it. Worth checking it was not funded by borrowing.
Deteriorated: −1.2 pts
32.4% to 31.2%Notable
Why it matters: What survives to the very end of each sale. Worth reading beside revenue: growing sales on a shrinking margin means the company is buying its growth.
Q2 FY2026 against Q1 FY2026, from the 10-Q filed Aug 7, 2026 — read it. Quarter-to-quarter moves include seasonal swings — a retailer's holiday quarter — which the year-earlier comparison removes.
Deteriorated: -34.9%
$377.3M to $245.8MSignificant
Why it matters: A falling cash pile is only a warning if the company is consuming it. Paying down debt, buying back stock and paying a dividend all reduce cash by choice.
Deteriorated: -6.4%
$233.4M to $218.4MNotable
Why it matters: Sales are what everything else is built on. A fall can be lost customers, lower prices, or a business the company sold — the filing itself says which.
Deteriorated: -10.9%
$100.9M to $89.9MNotable
Why it matters: Profit from running the business, before interest and tax. Less exposed than profit to one-off financing and tax items, so a clearer read on the business itself.
Deteriorated: -12.6%
$77.9M to $68.1MNotable
Why it matters: Profit swings far more than sales do, and one-off items — a legal settlement, a tax charge, an asset sale — move it without the underlying business changing.
Deteriorated: −2.1 pts
43.2% to 41.1%Notable
Why it matters: What survives each sale after running the business. A falling operating margin beside a steady gross margin points at overheads — wages, marketing, research — rather than pricing.
Deteriorated: −2.2 pts
33.4% to 31.2%Notable
Why it matters: What survives to the very end of each sale. Worth reading beside revenue: growing sales on a shrinking margin means the company is buying its growth.
Deteriorated: -11.7%
$2.19 to $1.94Notable
Why it matters: Profit divided by the shares in issue at the period end, so it sits close to but not on the company's own reported figure. It can rise with no growth in profit when the company buys back stock — read it beside the share count.
4 other measures barely moved. Figures compare the two most recent annual filings — read the latest one. Moves are graded on fixed lines — 5%, 15% and 40% for amounts, and 1, 3 and 8 points for margins — as notable, significant or critical. Nothing here reads the management commentary, which is where a company explains its own numbers.
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About 9.0% of this company's shares have been borrowed and sold by people expecting to buy them back cheaper. That is a bet the price falls. Those people can be wrong, and when a heavily shorted share rises they have to buy it back, which pushes it up further.
Collected by FINRA from broker-dealers twice a month. It counts positions, not intentions, and some of it is hedging rather than a directional bet against the company.
Nothing in this section is a figure this company reported about itself. These are expectations and positions — what the price implies, what analysts have published, what short sellers are betting, and what large funds held at the last count. WylthIQ reports them; it does not endorse them, does not forecast prices, and takes no view on whether any of them will turn out to be right.
The trailing P/E is 20.6x — investors pay $20.6 for each $1 of trailing profit.
Not meaningful for banks, insurers and other financial companies. Their balance sheets have no working capital and are leveraged by design, which this model misreads as distress.
Reported annual figures
| 3.6% |
| 29.1% |
| 23.83x |
| 0.68x |
| MSCIMSCI Inc. | 7.3/10 | 8/9 | 9.7% | 38.4% | 37.95x | -3.15x |
|---|
| CBOECboe Global Markets, Inc. | 8.7/10 | 8/9 | 15.1% | 23.3% | 31.18x | 0.81x |
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| FDSFACTSET RESEARCH SYSTEMS INC | 8.7/10 | 6/9 | 5.4% | 25.7% | 21.15x | 0.97x |
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| Median of peers | 8.7/10 | — | 9.7% | 25.7% | 31.18x | 0.81x |
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Peers come from the company's industry classification. A difference describes the companies; it does not rank them.
Sold on the open market — 100 shares at $163.32 ($16.3K)
Holds 11,486 shares after this filing.
Gifted shares — 2,085 shares
Holds 4,259 shares after this filing.
Gifted shares — 2,085 shares
Holds 1,571 shares after this filing.
Sold on the open market — 100 shares at $162.60 ($16.3K)
Holds 11,586 shares after this filing.
Gifted shares — 606 shares
Holds 9,223 shares after this filing.
Sold on the open market — 100 shares at $115.12 ($11.5K)
Holds 11,686 shares after this filing.
Notice filed ahead of a planned sale — the sale itself has not necessarily happened yet.
Filed notice to sell 6,164 shares ($1.0M) on or after .
Shares originally obtained via Compensation.
Filed notice to sell 300 shares ($48.8K) on or after .
Shares originally obtained via RSU / PSU - See Remarks.
Estimated from how often this has happened before, not a confirmed date.
Not investment advice, and not a signal to act on by itself — a filing says what happened, not why, and insiders trade for ordinary reasons having nothing to do with where they think the company is headed.
Quarterly report for Q2 FY2026
Profit margin −1.2 pts · Cash -46.9% · Shares in issue -5.9% — against Q2 FY2025
Published results · Reported another event
Read the filingSigned a material agreement · Had a director or senior officer leave or join · Made a Regulation FD disclosure
Read the filingHeld a shareholder vote
Read the filingQuarterly report for Q1 FY2026
Revenue +11.9% · Profit margin +26.2 pts · Profit +417.0% — against Q1 FY2025
Read the filingPublished results · Reported another event
Read the filingProxy statement for a shareholder meeting
Read the filingHad a director or senior officer leave or join
Read the filingAnnual report for FY2025
Operating margin −1.3 pts · Profit margin −4.4 pts · Capital spending -17.5% — against FY2024
Read the filingHad a director or senior officer leave or join
Read the filingSigned a material agreement · Took on a direct financial obligation · Published results · Reported another event
Read the filingHad a director or senior officer leave or join · Made a Regulation FD disclosure
Read the filingMade a Regulation FD disclosure
Read the filingQuarterly report for Q3 FY2025
Operating margin −1.1 pts · Profit margin −1.9 pts · Cash +6.0% — against Q3 FY2024
Read the filingPublished results · Reported another event
Read the filingQuarterly report for Q2 FY2025
Revenue +11.0% · Operating income +12.9% · Profit +9.6% — against Q2 FY2024
Read the filingPublished results · Reported another event
Read the filingHad a director or senior officer leave or join · Held a shareholder vote
Read the filingSource: Exhibit 21 of the 10-K filed 2026-02-24. These are legal entities, not brands or acquisitions — a company that bought a business may hold it inside an entity named here, or inside one small enough that the rule does not require naming it at all.
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