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Tradeweb Markets, Inc. Class ATWCompetitor analysis, valuation and peers

United States · USD·Financials›Investment Banks/Brokers

Electronic trading platform for bonds, rates and ETFs, connecting institutional and retail market participants.

Momentum leader 89
Mkt cap
$29.7B
US dollars, full cap
Free float
100%
of shares outstanding
$/day
$204M
20-day average traded
Fwd P/E
27.9×
forward earnings
ROIC−WACC
n/a
WACC 7.6%
Hurdle
n/a
no reverse DCF
Next earnings
90 days
4 Feb 2027
Close · USD$127.73
1D+0.1%
1W+4.2%
1M+16.5%
3M+23.2%
6M+17.4%
YTD+18.8%
1Y+22.3%
ATR %2.5%
Beta-0.17
52w lowhigh1.0% off high

What Tradeweb Markets does

Electronic trading platform for bonds, rates and ETFs, connecting institutional and retail market participants.

Charges a fee on each trade completed on its platform, plus fixed subscription fees from dealers and investors, so income rises with trading volume and market volatility, especially in government bonds and interest-rate swaps. Rates and credit are bigger lines than ETFs, which are growing from a smaller base.

Products and services

  • Rates trading (government bonds/swaps)
  • Credit trading (corporate bonds)
  • ETF trading
  • Market data

Customers

  • Banks/dealers
  • Asset managers
  • Retail brokerages (wealth channel)

Where it sits in the supply chain

  • Financial services
  • Electronic fixed-income/rates trading
  • Market data & analytics

What could go right

  • Electronic trading adoption in bonds/rates
  • Retail-channel ETF/bond trading growth

What could go wrong

  • Competition from Bloomberg/MarketAxess
  • Trading volume sensitivity to rate volatility

Moat: narrow (network effects, switching costs, data). Deep liquidity network of dealers and buy-side users on its platform is difficult for new entrants to match.

Headquarters: New York, New York, US · Founded: 1996 · Employees: 1,569

Named competitors

Tradeweb Markets at a glance

Size Tradeweb Markets (TW) is a United States Financials company (Investment Banks/Brokers) with a market value of $29.7B, the 367th largest of 3,117 United States companies the cockpit tracks. Shares closed at $127.73 on 6 Nov 2026.

Performance Over six months the shares gained 17.4%, against -2.4% for the median peer and -1.1% for the United States market (cap-weighted) — 6th highest of 21 in its peer set.

Growth Revenue grew 14.4% over the last twelve months (peer median +14.0%); the operating margin is 44.1% (peer median 36.4%).

Valuation It trades at 27.9× forward earnings against a peer median of 12.6× (3rd most expensive of 21).

Short interest Short interest is 2.8% of the free float (15 Oct 2026).

Next results Next results expected around 4 Feb 2027 (exchange calendar; dates can move).

Relative performance

9010011011 May 202611 Aug 20266 Nov 2026TW 116Peer median 99
Six months, rebased to 100: Tradeweb Markets against the median of its 20 peers (local-currency closes).

Tradeweb Markets financials

Reported figures in USD; fiscal year ends 2025-12-31. TTM = trailing twelve months.
TTMFY2025FY2024FY2023FY2022
Revenue$2.28B$2.05B$1.73B$1.34B$1.19B
Revenue growth—+19%+29%+13%—
Gross profit$2.04B$1.80B$1.51B$1.15B$1.01B
EBITDA$1.25B$1.08B$948M$699M$588M
Net income$909M$812M$501M$364M$309M
Free cash flow$1.15B$1.13B$857M$725M$610M
Capital expenditure$118M$103M$88.9M$61.8M$60.1M
Total debt$149M$139M$35.7M$49.1M$27.9M

Quarterly statements and history in the cockpit →

Tradeweb Markets competitor charts

The default views of Competitor Analysis ▸ Charts, drawn from the same data. Open them in the cockpit to change the axes, pin companies and read every value.

Performance: 6-month against 1-month return

-20%0%+20%-10%0%+10%2885COINCBOELPLA601688601995000776STTENXS68BSE6018811380406030NDAQ8601MQGDB1TW6-month return →1-month return →
Up and to the right = strong over both horizons. Tradeweb Markets is the large dot.

Fundamentals: revenue growth against valuation

-25%0%+25%+50%+75%20×40×2885COINCBOELPLA601688601995000776STTENXS68BSE601881138040603003888601MQGDB1TWRevenue growth (TTM) →Forward P/E →
Further right = faster growth; higher = more expensive. The dashed lines are the peer medians. Tradeweb Markets is the large dot.

Tradeweb Markets competitors and peer comparison

Head to head with its named competitors (TW vs MKTX vs ICE vs CME)
CompanyMarket cap6M returnRevenue growthOp. marginForward P/EReq g
Tradeweb Markets TW$29.7B+17%+14%44%27.9×n/a
MarketAxess MKTX$5.83B+12%+3%39%19.5×n/a
Intercontinental Exchange ICE$96.3B+11%+14%47%20.1×n/a
CME CME$109B+9%+9%66%23.6×n/a
Virtu Financial VIRT$8.37B+5%+28%38%7.8×n/a
Broadridge Financial Solutions BR$21.5B+28%+7%17%17.9×8.5%

How Tradeweb Markets compares with its peers

Peer set: Industry: the same industry and sector in any market, nearest in size. This is the same default set the interactive Competitor Analysis opens with.

Tradeweb Markets against its 20 peers (data as of 6 Nov 2026)
MeasureTWPeer medianRank in peer set
1-month return+16.5%+0.9%2nd highest of 21
6-month return+17.4%-2.4%6th highest of 21
Distance from 52-week high-1.0%-15.0%highest of 21
Revenue growth (TTM)+14.4%+14.0%9th highest of 21
Operating margin44.1%36.4%7th highest of 21
Forward P/E27.9×12.6×3rd most expensive of 21

Peer table

Peer set: Industry: the same industry and sector in any market, nearest in size
CompanyMarketMarket cap6M returnRevenue growthOp. marginForward P/EReq gDelivered g
Tradeweb Markets TWUnited States$29.7B+17%+14%44%27.9×n/an/a
Yuanta Financial Holding Co. Lt 2885.TWTaiwan$28.1B+28%+78%28%14.2×n/an/a
Coinbase COINUnited States$35.7B-33%-48%-33%99.3×n/an/a
Cboe Global Markets CBOEUnited States$36.9B+2%+14%36%23.4×n/an/a
LPL Financial LPLAUnited States$23.0B-3%+31%13%10.5×n/an/a
Huatai Securities 601688.SSChina$22.7B-7%-6%38%8.3×n/an/a
China International Capital 601995.SSChina$21.6B-18%-20%55%10.0×n/an/a
GF Securities 000776.SZChina$20.9B-10%+37%42%7.8×n/an/a
State Street STTUnited States$45.0B+11%+2%33%11.1×n/an/a
Euronext ENX.PAFrance$18.8B+21%+14%52%19.7×n/an/a
Singapore Exchange S68.SISingapore$17.2B-2%+14%57%27.0×n/an/a
BSE BSE.NSIndia$16.4B-4%+58%65%47.0×n/an/a
China Galaxy Securities 601881.SSChina$16.1B-8%-20%37%9.5×n/an/a
Meritz Financial 138040.KSSouth Korea$15.7B+18%+31%49%8.6×n/an/a
CITIC Securities 6030.HKHong Kong$56.2B-23%+102%22%7.1×n/an/a
Shenwan Hongyuan 000166.SZChina$15.5B-8%-26%31%10.9×n/an/a
Nasdaq NDAQUnited States$59.4B+21%+12%31%23.4×n/an/a
HKEX 0388.HKHong Kong$62.2B-10%+23%75%24.6×n/an/a
Daiwa Securities 8601.TJapan$14.0B+11%+18%17%10.8×n/an/a
Macquarie MQG.AXAustralia$63.5B+5%+5%20%18.1×n/an/a
Deutsche Boerse DB1.DEGermany$63.8B+32%+7%41%24.7×n/an/a

Questions

Who are Tradeweb Markets's main competitors?
Named competitors: MarketAxess (MKTX), Bloomberg (trading) (private or unlisted), ICE (fixed income) (ICE), Trumid (private or unlisted), CME Group (CME), Virtu Financial (VIRT). The cockpit's measured peer set (industry) also includes Yuanta Financial Holding Co. Lt (2885.TW), Coinbase (COIN), Cboe Global Markets (CBOE), LPL Financial (LPLA), Huatai Securities (601688.SS), China International Capital (601995.SS).
Is Tradeweb Markets expensive compared with its peers?
On forward p/e it trades at 27.9× against a peer median of 12.6×, 3rd most expensive of 21 in its peer set.
How has Tradeweb Markets stock performed?
Over six months to 6 Nov 2026 the shares returned +17.4% against -2.4% for the median peer; over one year +22.3%.

How these numbers are made. Returns are close-to-close in local currency. Revenue growth and margins are trailing twelve months. Req g is the revenue growth that today's enterprise value requires for seven years at the company's own cost of capital; Delivered g is what it actually grew; the gap is the hurdle (honest precision about ±8 points, so read the ranking more than the decimal). No fair values, price targets or analyst ratings are shown, by design. Method and validation.