MarketAxess Is a Decade Standout With a 2,600% Gain

  • Electronic trading platform leads financial stocks in 2010s
  • Tradeweb’s IPO helped this year, Bloomberg Intelligence says
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After a stunning rally that brought shareholders an almost 2,600% return, MarketAxess Holdings Inc. is exiting the 2010s as the decade’s undisputed champion in the S&P 500 financials index.

The electronic trading company’s 10-year rally was more than triple that of the next-best performing stocks in the index -- Moody’s Corp., MSCI Inc. and S&P Global Inc., which each gained more than 700%. Overall, the 66-member gauge increased 163%.