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CME Group Profile & Fundamentals

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Company and Market Context

Company Profile & Ownership

CME Group Inc., together with its subsidiaries, operates contract markets for the trading of futures and options on futures contracts worldwide. It offers futures and options products based on interest rates, equity indexes, and foreign exchange; and agricultural, energy, and metals commodities, as well as fixed income and foreign currency trading services. The company provides clearing house services, including clearing, settling, and guaranteeing futures and options contracts, and cleared swaps products traded through its exchanges. In addition, the company offers a range of market data services, including real-time and historical data services. It serves professional traders, financial institutions, institutional and individual investors, corporations, manufacturers, producers, governments, and central banks. CME Group Inc. partners with FutureSports to futures on sports indexes. The company was formerly known as Chicago Mercantile Exchange Holdings Inc. and changed its name to CME Group Inc. in July 2007. The company was founded in 1898 and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.

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CME Group Inc

Common Stock · Financials · Financial Exchanges & Data

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Company

Company / asset: CME Group Inc
Security type: Common Stock
Sector: Financials
Industry: Financial Exchanges & Data
HQ: 🇺🇸 United States
Head office: 20 South Wacker Drive, Chicago, IL, United States, 60606

Leadership & scale

Chief executive: Mr. Terrence A. Duffy
CEO year born: 1958
Full-time employees: 3.9K
Fiscal year end: December
IPO date: 2002-12-06

Fundamentals snapshot

Updated 2026-09-15

Market Cap: USD 100.0B
P/E: 23.4x
Revenue (Q2 26): USD 1.7B
Profit (Q2 26): USD 1.0B
Dividend Yield: 2.9%
Revenue (FY 25): USD 6.5B
Shares in public float: 354.7M
Insider ownership: 0.43%

Reporting & identifiers

Symbol: CME.NASDAQ
Listing: 🇺🇸 United States | Dividend Tax: 30%
Ticker Currency: USD
Income Statement Currency: USD
Balance Sheet Currency: USD
Cash Flow Currency: USD
EPS Currency: USD
Contract Type: SPOT
ISIN: US12572Q1058
Asset ID: equity_b5a5aa00-131e-545a-a75f-b3b4c341ef4d

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Shares Outstanding

Shares outstanding

Annual reported shares outstanding. Values in shares.

Top holders

BlackRock Inc31,448,257 shares · 8.75% · Reported 2026-03-31
Vanguard Capital Management, LLC23,367,282 shares · 6.50% · Reported 2026-03-31
State Street Corp16,055,287 shares · 4.46% · Reported 2026-03-31
JPMorgan Chase & Co12,209,761 shares · 3.40% · Reported 2026-03-31
Vanguard MStar Total Stk Mkt Idx Invest11,537,485 shares · 3.21% · Reported 2026-07-31
Vanguard 500 Index Investor9,512,564 shares · 2.65% · Reported 2026-07-31
Morgan Stanley - Brokerage Accounts9,406,843 shares · 2.62% · Reported 2026-03-31

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Geode Capital Management, LLC9,146,888 shares · 2.54% · Reported 2026-03-31
Vanguard Portfolio Management, LLC9,029,289 shares · 2.51% · Reported 2026-03-31
Capital World Investors6,822,315 shares · 1.90% · Reported 2026-06-30
Sanders Capital, LLC5,067,740 shares · 1.41% · Reported 2026-06-30
Bank of New York Mellon Corp4,832,596 shares · 1.34% · Reported 2026-03-31
iShares Core S&P 500 ETF4,825,522 shares · 1.34% · Reported 2026-08-31
NORGES BANK4,820,646 shares · 1.34% · Reported 2026-06-30
T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc.4,812,056 shares · 1.34% · Reported 2026-03-31

Earnings, Profitability & Valuation

Earnings & Revenue

AI Review

The company is showing exceptional financial strength, highlighted by double-digit revenue and net income growth in recent quarters. This impressive performance is driven by a massive surge in trading volumes as global investors rush to protect themselves from unpredictable interest rates and energy prices. Additionally, the company earns significant interest income on the massive cash collateral held in its clearinghouse, which acts as a highly profitable cushion. Most assessments agree that this cash-printing ability is highly durable, though some warn that future growth might slow down as recent trading spikes normalize. There is minor disagreement on whether new competitors will force the company to lower its trading fees, which could slightly dent future earnings. Overall, the company's ability to convert almost all of its revenue directly into free cash flow makes it an incredibly safe and reliable financial powerhouse.

Revenue, Net Income, and Free Cash Flow

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Valuation

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Published P/E

Published valuation snapshots. Trailing four-quarter earnings where available; annual earnings otherwise. Non-positive earnings are omitted. Values in times earnings.

Profitability & Margins

AI Review

The company boasts world-class profitability, with operating margins consistently hovering around an astounding sixty-five percent. This means that for every dollar of revenue brought in, a massive portion is kept as pure profit, reflecting the company's absolute dominance as a financial toll road. Because it costs virtually nothing to process additional electronic trades, the business enjoys incredible profit efficiency. There is high consensus that these margins are structurally protected by the company's massive size and the cost savings it offers to customers. However, opinions clash slightly regarding the future direction of these margins. Some warn that rising competition from new trading platforms will force the company to offer discounts, dragging margins down slightly. Others believe that technological efficiencies from cloud computing and automated trading will keep margins firmly anchored at their current elite levels, making the company a superb hedge against inflation.

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Annual earnings and profitability
Period end	Revenue	Free cash flow	Net income	Gross margin	Operating margin	Net margin	Free cash flow margin
2016-12-31	3,595,200,000	1,624,200,000	1,534,100,000	84.89	61.21	42.67	45.18
2017-12-31	3,644,700,000	1,758,500,000	4,063,400,000	84.53	63.4	111.49	48.25
2018-12-31	4,309,400,000	2,324,100,000	1,962,200,000	84.4	60.51	45.53	53.93
2019-12-31	4,868,000,000	2,427,200,000	2,116,500,000	81.54	53.16	43.48	49.86
2020-12-31	4,883,600,000	2,518,100,000	2,105,200,000	82.46	54.01	43.11	51.56
2021-12-31	4,689,700,000	2,275,200,000	2,636,400,000	82.15	56.4	56.22	48.51
2022-12-31	5,019,400,000	2,966,300,000	2,691,000,000	85	60.08	53.61	59.1
2023-12-31	5,578,900,000	3,377,400,000	3,226,200,000	85.15	61.58	57.83	60.54
2024-12-31	6,130,100,000	3,596,500,000	3,525,800,000	86.13	64.13	57.52	58.67
2025-12-31	6,520,600,000	4,193,600,000	4,044,400,000	86.09	64.86	62.02	64.31

Published valuation snapshots
Period end	P/E (times earnings)	Earnings basis
2025-12-31	24.32	Trailing four quarters
2024-12-31	23.72	Trailing four quarters
2023-12-31	23.48	Trailing four quarters
2022-12-31	22.45	Annual net income
2021-12-31	31.11	Annual net income

Shares outstanding — chart values
Reporting date	Shares outstanding
2017-01-01	340,490,000
2018-01-01	352,132,000
2019-01-01	358,354,000
2020-01-01	358,612,000
2021-01-01	359,019,000
2022-01-01	359,190,000
2023-01-01	359,693,000
2024-01-01	360,050,000
2025-01-01	360,233,000
2026-01-01	362,233,000

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