CME Group Inc. (CME) Stock

About CME Group Inc.

CME Group Inc., through its various subsidiaries, manages international marketplaces for the exchange of futures and options on futures contracts worldwide. Its extensive array of product offerings includes futures and options linked to a broad spectrum of underlying assets, such as interest rates, equity indices, foreign exchange, agricultural commodities, energy, and metals, alongside fixed-income products. The company additionally furnishes essential clearinghouse services, which entail the verification, settlement, and guarantee of futures, options, and cleared swap agreements traded across its venues. It also offers services for transaction processing and risk mitigation. Furthermore, the organization provides diverse market data services, encompassing both real-time and historical data feeds. Its wide-ranging client base consists of professional traders, financial institutions, both institutional and individual investors, corporations, manufacturers, producers, governments, and central banks. Founded in Chicago, Illinois, in 1898, the enterprise was formerly known as Chicago Mercantile Exchange Holdings Inc. before rebranding as CME Group Inc. in July 2007.

CME Group Inc. is led by CEO Terrence A. Duffy, employs 3,760 people, headquartered in Chicago, US, publicly traded since 2002.

CME Group Inc. (CME) stock trades at $265.44 with a market capitalization of $95.45B. The stock is valued at a price-to-earnings (P/E) ratio of 24.38, price-to-book of 3.88, price-to-sales of 16.26. Over the past 52 weeks the stock has ranged between $218.53 and $329.16, and currently trades 19.4% below its 52-week high. It pays a dividend yielding 3.92%.

On profitability, CME Group Inc. generates a return on equity (ROE) of 15.92%, above the typical market average, return on capital employed of 14.72%, an operating margin of 65.57%, a net profit margin of 62.77%.

In its most recent fiscal year, CME Group Inc. reported annual revenue of $6.5B, net profit of $4.0B, revenue has compounded at 6.0% a year over the last five years, profit at 13.9% a year. Profit growing faster than revenue points to expanding margins.

The balance sheet shows a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.13 — a conservative balance sheet with little leverage risk, a current ratio of 92.64, total assets of $198.5B, $4.4B in cash and equivalents.

CME has an average daily trading volume of 3,340,850 shares, a beta of 0.24 (less volatile than the overall market).

Official website: www.cmegroup.com