Intercontinental Exchangevs.Moody’s
ICE vs MCO · both in Exchanges & market data, part of the Banks, payments & capital markets value chain: The exchanges, index owners and ratings agencies that run, and price, the markets.
Intercontinental Exchange and Moody’s are similar in size by market cap; Intercontinental Exchange trades at the lower P/E (21.2 vs 29.8).
Side by side
| ICE | MCO | |
|---|---|---|
| Market cap | $85.4B | $83.2B |
| Price | $161.92 | $514.55 |
| Today | +0.1% | +0.3% |
| Return YTD | −0.1% | +0.4% |
| Return 1Y | −9.7% | +0.6% |
| P/E | 21.2 | 29.8 |
| P/S | 6.4 | 10.2 |
| P/B | 2.9 | 27.5 |
Data as of 2026-08-27 · updates daily after U.S. close
The two companies
Intercontinental ExchangeICE
The New York Stock Exchange belongs to ICE, and so do global derivatives markets, a large mortgage-technology arm and a fixed-income data business. Each one collects a small amount every time somebody trades or looks something up.
Full ICE profile →Moody’sMCO
When a company borrows, Moody's rates the debt; it and S&P split that market between them. A faster-growing analytics arm sells risk and modelling tools to the same customers.
Full MCO profile →More ICE & MCO comparisons
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