CFRA Maintains Buy Opinion On Shares Of Intercontinental Exchange, Inc.
CFRA, an independent research provider, has provided MT Newswires with the following research alert. Analysts at CFRA have summarized their opinion as follows: We decrease our 12-month target price by $5 to $130, reflecting a P/E of 21.4x our 2024 EPS estimate, in line with ICE’s 10-year average of 21.3x. We lower our 2023 EPS estimate by $0.06 to $5.66 and reduce 2024’s by $0.10 to $6.09. ICE posted Q3 adjusted EPS of $1.46 vs. $1.31, beating consensus by $0.07. It was an exciting quarter as ICE finally closed Black Knight (originally announced May 2022), a deal which we believe will pay substantial dividends once mortgage rates begin to fall. Unfortunately, this may take some time and we note adjusted revenues in Mortgage Technology fell 7% Y/Y given the highest mortgage rates in decades. Still, ICE is far from a one trick pony and its countercyclical Exchange segment saw revenues […]
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