profit from every $100 of sales.
$0$100
CME Group
$303.14+2.27% today
+15.3% in 1 year
1-year low $218.581-year high $326.46
Trading in the middle of its range for the past year.
The essentials
Four questions every investor asks, answered in one line each.
more sales each year, on average, 2022 to 2025.
0%20% a year
You pay $26.65 for every $1 of profit it makes in a year.
CheapExpensive
of earnings would pay off all its debt.
No debt5 years
Money in, money out
What CME Group sold, what it kept, and what it did with the cash.
Sales went from $5.02 billion in 2022 to $6.52 billion in 2025, with $4.07 billion of profit last year.
SalesProfit
CME Group handed back more cash to shareholders than it generated last year.
$3.9B
Free cash flow 2025$4.2B
Bought back its own shares$266M
Paid as dividends$3.9B
Cash vs. debt$4.4B vs. $3.4B
CME Group vs. similar companies
CME Group grows the slowest of these 5 and is the cheapest for its profits.
| Company | Profit from $100 of sales | Sales growth a year | Price per $1 of profit |
|---|---|---|---|
| CME Group | 26.6× · Fair price | ||
 Intercontinental Exchange | 28.5× · Fair price | ||
 Moody's | 34.6× · Expensive | ||
 Nasdaq | 33.2× · Expensive | ||
 MSCI | 37.7× · Expensive |
AI analysis
An AI analyst reads CME Group's last five years, its segments, earnings, insiders and peers, and writes the bull case, the bear case and what the price expects.
Run the AI analysisFull statementsIncome, balance sheet and cash flow, year by year
Income statement
| In millions of USD | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5,019 | 5,579 | 6,130 | 6,521 | |
| 4,266 | 4,750 | 5,280 | 5,614 | |
| 3,016 | 3,436 | 3,932 | 4,230 | |
| 4,016 | 4,666 | 5,039 | 5,835 | |
| 2,691 | 3,226 | 3,526 | 4,072 | |
| 7.40 | 8.86 | 9.67 | 11.16 | |
| 85.0% | 85.1% | 86.1% | 86.1% | |
| 60.1% | 61.6% | 64.1% | 64.9% | |
| 53.6% | 57.8% | 57.5% | 62.5% |
Balance sheet
| In millions of USD | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total assets | 174,176 | 129,706 | 137,447 | 198,424 |
| Cash | 2,720 | 2,912 | 2,892 | 4,417 |
| Total debt | 3,438 | 3,425 | 3,428 | 3,422 |
| Total liabilities | 147,297 | 102,968 | 110,960 | 169,696 |
| 26,879 | 26,738 | 26,487 | 28,728 | |
| 359 | 360 | 360 | 360 | |
| 9.5% | 11.3% | 12.4% | 13.5% | |
| 10.0% | 12.1% | 13.3% | 14.2% |
Cash flow
| In millions of USD | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3,056 | 3,454 | 3,691 | 4,277 | |
| 90 | 76 | 94 | 84 | |
| 2,966 | 3,377 | 3,597 | 4,194 | |
| Dividends paid | 2,634 | 3,236 | 3,584 | 3,933 |
| – | 0 | 0 | 266 | |
| 84 | 83 | 90 | 95 |
Valuation
- 26.6×
- 24.8×
- 1.82
- 3.8×
- 16.6×
- 25.9×
- 18.4×
- 3.9%
- 3.8%
- 4.0%
Profitability
- 86.1%
- 64.9%
- 62.5%
- 84.2%
- 9.4%
- 10.5%
- 15.3%
- 2.1%
- 12.3%
- –
Growth
- +9.1%
- +14.7%
- +16.6%
- −3.3%
- +0.1%
Financial health
- 0.2×
- 0.13
- 1.7%
- 33.7×
- 1.02
- 1.02
- 0.03
How it ranks in Financial Services
Each dot is where the company stands among every company over $300M in the sector. Further right is better.
Top 33%of 548
Top 9%of 423
Bottom 19%of 897
Top 48%of 911
Top 50%of 930
What analysts expect
- Average price target
- $320.25
- Range
- $302.00 – $353.00
- 7 analysts
These targets were collected on May 20, 2026 and our analyst feed has not updated since, so we no longer compare them with today's price.
Recent earnings
Our results feed has not updated since May 21, 2026. Results reported after that are not in this table yet.
| Date | EPS | Expected | Surprise |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 22, 2026 | 3.36 | 3.34 | +0.6% |
| Feb 4, 2026 | 2.77 | 2.75 | +0.7% |
| Oct 22, 2025 | 2.68 | 2.63 | +1.9% |
| Jul 23, 2025 | 2.96 | 2.91 | +1.7% |
| Apr 23, 2025 | 2.80 | 2.80 | +0.0% |
| Feb 12, 2025 | 2.52 | 2.46 | +2.4% |
| Oct 23, 2024 | 2.68 | 2.66 | +0.8% |
| Jul 24, 2024 | 2.56 | 2.53 | +1.2% |
4.0%of the share price, paid each year
On $1,000 invested$40a year at today's yield, before tax
−3.3%2020 to 2025
Raised–not every year
Paid per share, each year
$4.90 in 2015 → $5.00 in 2025
How safe it looks
96.6% of its profit
Room to growStretchedMore than it earns: 93.8%
News
What WEC Energy Group (WEC) Said on Its Q3 Earnings CallYahoo Finance · Oct 31, 2026CME vs. Morningstar: Scale vs. Consistent Trajectories in RevenueYahoo Finance · Oct 30, 2026Why Frontier Group Holdings Stock Gained Altitude This WeekYahoo Finance · Oct 30, 2026KION GROUP AG reports nine months resultsSeeking Alpha · Oct 29, 2026LiveWire Group GAAP EPS of -$0.09, revenue of $7.9MSeeking Alpha · Oct 29, 2026Insider trades
Our insider feed has not updated since May 26, 2026. Trades filed after that are not listed yet.
No insider trades on file.
The seven classic investing rulebooks
3/7Passes 3 of 7. Each bar is how well the company fits that investor's published rules, from 0 to 100; 60 or more counts as a pass. Context about the kind of company it is, not a recommendation.
Warren Buffett
64Pass
Benjamin Graham
64Pass
Philip Fisher
65Pass
Peter Lynch
53No pass
Joel Greenblatt
36No pass
Charlie Munger
51No pass
Terry Smith
52No pass
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