We recently published a list of 12 High Growth Non-Tech Stocks That Are Profitable in 2025. In this article, we are going to take a look at where Interactive Brokers Group, Inc. (NASDAQ:IBKR) stands against other high-growth non-tech stocks that are profitable in 2025.
What to Expect From the Market in Q2 2025?
On March 27, David Sekera, CFA, chief US market strategist at MorningStar released his Q2 2025 market outlook. He highlights that the market was priced to perfection at the start of the year, trading at a rare premium to its fair value. He advised investors at the start of the year to overweight value stocks, which were attractively priced while underweighting growth stocks that were significantly overvalued. This advice proved prescient as the Morningstar US Market Index fell by 1.74% through March 24, with losses concentrated in growth and core stocks. This was particularly true for stocks linked to artificial intelligence, which dropped by 3.79% and 3.52%, respectively. In contrast, value stocks gained 4.59%, showcasing their resilience.
Sekera noted that as of March 24, the US equity market had declined to a price/fair value ratio of 0.95, representing a 5% discount to Morningstar’s fair value estimates. Moreover, growth stocks experienced a sharp correction, reducing their premium from 24% at the start of the year to just 3%. On the other hand, despite their recent gains, value stocks became even more undervalued, trading at a 13% discount to fair value. He emphasizes that this has made value stocks the most attractive investment category for the year. His outlook also addresses market dynamics by capitalization. He recommends overweighting small-cap stocks due to their significant undervaluation at an 18% discount to fair value. However, he cautions that small-cap performance might not materialize until later in the year when economic conditions improve and monetary policy becomes more accommodative. Conversely, large-cap and mid-cap stocks are less appealing as they are trading at similar discounts to the overall market.
Moreover, monetary policy plays a central role in Sekera’s analysis. Morningstar’s economics team forecasts three federal funds rate cuts in 2025 and anticipates a gradual economic rebound starting in early 2026. While long-term interest rates are expected to remain stable initially, they are projected to enter a multiyear downward trend later in 2025. He also addressed misconceptions about market sell-offs being driven by tariffs. Instead, he attributed much of the downturn to a concentrated sell-off in AI-related stocks. According to Morningstar’s analysis, losses from just ten highly AI-correlated stocks outweighed overall market declines, with seven of these being among the top-performing stocks in 2024.
Our Methodology
To curate the list of 12 high-growth non-tech stocks that are profitable in 2025, we used the Finviz stock screener, Seeking Alpha, and Yahoo Finance as our sources. Using the screener we aggregated a list of non-tech stocks that have grown their revenue and net income by more than 15% over the past 5 years. Next, we cross-checked the 5-year sales growth and net income from Seeking Alpha. We also checked for TTM net income from Yahoo Finance and only added companies that had a TTM net income of more than $500 million. Lastly, we ranked the stocks in ascending order of the number of hedge fund holders, sourced from Insider Monkey’s Q4 2024 database. Please note that the data was recorded on March 28, 2025. Also note that for some companies the TTM net income was mentioned in foreign currencies, in such cases it was manually converted to USD. The conversion rates are as of March 28, 2025.
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Interactive Brokers Group, Inc. (NASDAQ:IBKR)
5-Year Sales Growth: 21.09%
5-Year Net Income Growth: 36.21%
TTM Net Income: $755 Million
Number of Hedge Fund Holders: 69
Interactive Brokers Group, Inc. (NASDAQ:IBKR) is a global brokerage firm that facilitates trading and investment activities for individuals, institutions, and financial professionals. It provides a platform for buying and selling a wide range of financial products, including stocks, options, futures, bonds, mutual funds, and more. Moreover, it also specializes in automated trading through advanced platforms like IBKR Desktop, IBKR Mobile, and Trader Workstation.
During fiscal 2024, Interactive Brokers Group, Inc. (NASDAQ:IBKR) added 775,000 new accounts, with 217,000 in the fourth quarter alone. This brought total client equity to $568 billion, a 33% increase from the previous year and the first time exceeding half a trillion dollars. As a result, the company achieved a record quarterly pretax income of over $1 billion and full-year net revenues exceeding $5 billion with a pretax margin of 71%, the highest in the brokerage industry.
The Baron Focused Growth Fund in its Q4 2024 investor letter expressed its bullish sentiment for Interactive Brokers Group, Inc. (NASDAQ:IBKR). The fund noted that the account growth was driven by the company’s strength in international markets, as non-US investors sought access to US equities, which outperformed global peers in 2024. The fund remains confident in the company’s long-term prospects. Interactive Brokers Group, Inc. (NASDAQ:IBKR) is one of the high-growth non-tech stocks that are profitable in 2025.
Baron Focused Growth Fund stated the following regarding Interactive Brokers Group, Inc. (NASDAQ:IBKR) in its Q4 2024 investor letter:
“Interactive Brokers Group, Inc. (NASDAQ:IBKR) is a leading online brokerage house that serves customers in over 200 countries. Positive returns during the quarter reflected strong fundamental performance, including year-over-year growth of 30% in accounts, 33% in client assets, and 45% in margin loans. These increases were driven largely by Interactive Brokers’ strength in international markets, as non-U.S. investors looked to access U.S. markets and equities, which largely outperformed their global peers in 2024. The company also participated in the broader rally of financial stocks following the Republican elections sweep. Expectations of heightened capital markets activity, a more pro-business regulator, and the potential for increasing market volatility all bode well for the company’s volumes, account growth, and earnings. We believe Interactive Brokers has a compelling long-term growth path and remain investors.”
Overall, IBKR ranks 2nd on our list of best aerospace and defense stocks to buy according to analysts. While we acknowledge the potential of IBKR as an investment, our conviction lies in the belief that AI stocks hold greater promise for delivering higher returns and doing so within a shorter time frame. If you are looking for an AI stock that is more promising than IBKR but that trades at less than 5 times its earnings, check out our report about the cheapest AI stock.
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Disclosure: None. This article is originally published at Insider Monkey.
