LPL Financial vs StoneX
LPLA and SNEX side by side, both in security & commodity brokers, dealers, exchanges & services. Figures are trailing twelve months unless noted, from SEC filings and end-of-day prices.
How LPLA and SNEX compare
LPL Financial is the larger company, worth 3.5 times as much as StoneX ($22.3B against $6.4B).
On earnings, StoneX is cheaper: it trades at 12.5× trailing earnings, against 16.3× for LPL Financial.
LPL Financial grew revenue faster over the last twelve months (31.0% versus 20.6% for StoneX).
LPL Financial keeps more of each dollar of sales as profit, with a net margin of 6.8% compared with 0.33% at StoneX.
LPL Financial pays a dividend yielding 0.42%; StoneX does not pay one.
Key numbers
A dot marks the better figure where higher or lower is clearly better.
| Metric | LPLA | SNEX |
|---|---|---|
| Size and price | ||
| Market cap | $22.3B | $6.4B |
| Share price | $283.74 | $52.83 |
| Change, 1 year | −17.4% | 27.5% |
| Change, 5 years | 68.7% | 273% |
| Beta (5Y) | 0.90 | 0.73 |
| Employees | 10K | 5,400 |
| StockData Score | ||
| Total score | 17 | 17 |
| Valuation score | 6 (better) | 4 |
| Growth score | 3 | 4 (better) |
| Performance score | 4 | 4 |
| Health score | 0 | 5 (better) |
| Dividend score | 4 (better) | 0 |
| Valuation | ||
| P/E | 16.3× | 12.5× (better) |
| P/S | 1.1× | 0.0× (better) |
| P/B | 3.8× | 2.2× (better) |
| EV/EBITDA | 7.7× | 5.3× (better) |
| P/FCF | 22.2× | 1.7× (better) |
| PEG | 9.93 | 1.28 (better) |
| FCF yield | 4.5% | 59.4% (better) |
| Fair value | $474.17 | $87.44 |
| Margin of safety | 40.2% (better) | 39.6% |
| Growth | ||
| Revenue growth (TTM) | 31.0% (better) | 20.6% |
| Revenue growth, 5Y average | 23.7% (better) | 19.6% |
| Net income growth (TTM) | 67.2% | 77.5% (better) |
| EPS growth (TTM) | 60.5% (better) | 60.3% |
| EPS growth, 5Y average | 13.3% (better) | 9.0% |
| Profitability | ||
| Gross margin | – | 3.6% |
| Net margin | 6.8% (better) | 0.33% |
| FCF margin | 4.9% (better) | 2.4% |
| Return on equity | 25.7% (better) | 21.9% |
| Financial health | ||
| Debt / equity | – | 0.00 |
| Altman Z-score | 2.46 | 3.05 (better) |
| Piotroski F-score | 3 | 5 (better) |
| Dividends and buybacks | ||
| Dividend yield | 0.42% | – |
| Payout ratio | 6.9% | – |
| Years of dividend growth | 0 | – |
| Dividend growth, 5Y average | 3.7% | – |
| Buyback yield | 2.7% | – |
| Shareholder yield | 3.2% (better) | 0.00% |
| Ownership | ||
| Held by institutions | 106% | 83.5% |
| Held by insiders | 0.54% | 9.1% |
| Insider net buying, 12 months | −$7.7M (better) | −$173M |
| Superinvestors holding | 2 | – |
| Short interest, % of float | 2.5% | 4.4% |
Go deeper
- LPLA stock overview
- LPLA income statement
- LPLA valuation and score
- SNEX stock overview
- SNEX income statement
- SNEX valuation and score
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