Intercontinental Exchange, Inc. (ICE) Stock

About Intercontinental Exchange, Inc.

Intercontinental Exchange, Inc. (ICE) manages a global network of regulated financial venues, encompassing exchanges, clearing houses, and listing platforms. These operations serve diverse markets, including commodities, financial instruments, fixed income products, and equities, with a geographical footprint spanning key financial centers such as the United States, United Kingdom, European Union, Singapore, Israel, and Canada. The company's business is segmented into three core areas: Exchanges, Fixed Income and Data Services, and Mortgage Technology. Within its Exchanges segment, ICE oversees a robust network comprising 13 regulated exchanges and 6 clearing houses. These extensive marketplaces enable the listing, trading, and clearing of a wide spectrum of derivatives contracts and financial securities. This includes futures and options across diverse sectors such as energy, agriculture, metals, financials, and equities, in addition to providing critical listing, market data, and connectivity solutions. The Fixed Income and Data Services division provides comprehensive analytics and execution services for fixed income products, manages Credit Default Swap (CDS) clearing, and offers multi-asset class data and network solutions. Furthermore, its Mortgage Technology segment delivers an advanced, proprietary platform designed for residential mortgage origination. This division also provides closing solutions that streamline connections across the mortgage supply chain and facilitate secure information exchange, alongside data analytics and "Data as a Service" offerings for lenders to access vital origination insights. Intercontinental Exchange, Inc. was established in 2000 and maintains its headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia.

Intercontinental Exchange, Inc. is led by CEO Jeffrey C. Sprecher, employs 12,842 people, headquartered in Atlanta, US, publicly traded since 2005.

Intercontinental Exchange, Inc. (ICE) stock trades at $154.28 with a market capitalization of $87.25B. The stock is valued at a price-to-earnings (P/E) ratio of 17.89, price-to-book of 2.36, price-to-sales of 5.32. Over the past 52 weeks the stock has ranged between $121.79 and $189.35, and currently trades 18.5% below its 52-week high. It pays a dividend yielding 1.63%.

On profitability, Intercontinental Exchange, Inc. generates a return on equity (ROE) of 13.85%, above the typical market average, return on capital employed of 16.89%, an operating margin of 38.74%, a net profit margin of 29.98%.

In its most recent fiscal year, Intercontinental Exchange, Inc. reported annual revenue of $12.6B, net profit of $3.3B, revenue has compounded at 8.9% a year over the last five years, profit at 9.6% a year. Profit growing faster than revenue points to expanding margins.

The balance sheet shows a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.71, a current ratio of 1.01, total assets of $136.9B, $837.0M in cash and equivalents.

ICE has an average daily trading volume of 4,412,960 shares, a beta of 0.92.

Official website: www.ice.com