BGC vs CCOI Comparison

BGC Group Inc is a brokerage and financial technology company that serves the global financial markets, energy and commodities markets. Its service and product offerings include brokerage for a wide range of financial products including fixed income, equities, commodities, derivatives, and real estate, software solutions for trading platforms, clearing, trade execution, and other back-office services. Its clients mostly include banks, financial institutions and corporate clients. BGC operates in one reportable segment, which is providing brokerage services. Geographically the company generates revenue from Asia, Other Europe/MEA, France, Other Americas with the majority of its revenue coming from United Kingdom followed by the United States.

Cogent carries over one fifth of the world's internet traffic over its network and is a broadband provider for businesses. Cogent's corporate customers are in high-rise office buildings; the firm provides them with two types of connections: dedicated internet access, which connects them to the internet, and virtual private networking, which offers an internal network for employees in different locations. Cogent's corporate customers are exclusively in North America and account for over half of the firm's revenue. Cogent's netcentric customers include internet service providers and content providers, to which Cogent provides internet transit. They hand traffic to Cogent in data centers and rely on Cogent to deliver it. About half of netcentric revenue is from outside the US.