CoverageForm 410-K10-Q8-K13D13G13F

CME · Cme Group Inc. - Financials

Annual line items from SEC XBRL filings, sourced from EDGAR's Company Facts API with fallback to the quarterly Financial Statement Data Sets. See issuer overview for Form 4 activity and 10-K signals.

Price · CME

Income Statement

Line itemFY 2025FY 2024FY 2023FY 2022FY 2021FY 2020
Revenue$6.52B$6.13B$5.58B$5.02B$4.69B$4.88B
Cost of Revenue------
Gross Profit------
R&D------
SG&A------
Total Operating Expenses$2.29B$2.20B$2.14B$2.00B$2.04B$2.25B
D&A$107.50M$115.10M$126.00M$134.90M$147.80M$153.20M
Operating Income$4.23B$3.93B$3.44B$3.02B$2.65B$2.64B
Interest Expense------
Income Tax$1.26B$1.02B$927.40M$799.30M$736.70M$615.70M
Net Income$4.07B$3.53B$3.23B$2.69B$2.64B$2.11B
EPS - Basic$11.18$9.69$8.87$7.41$7.30$5.88
EPS - Diluted$11.16$9.67$8.86$7.40$7.29$5.87

Balance Sheet

Line itemFY 2025FY 2024FY 2023FY 2022FY 2021FY 2020
Cash & Equivalents$4.42B$2.89B$2.91B$2.72B$2.83B$1.63B
Accounts Receivable$639.20M$573.10M$535.60M$483.20M$434.50M$461.30M
Inventory------
Accounts Payable$71.80M$79.90M$90.60M$121.40M$48.80M$69.30M
Current Assets$165.36B$103.03B$94.89B$139.08B$161.76B$89.28B
Total Assets$198.42B$137.45B$129.71B$174.18B$196.78B$124.66B
Current Liabilities$160.30B$102.31B$93.42B$137.69B$160.40B$88.20B
Long-term Debt------
Total Liabilities$169.70B$110.96B$102.97B$147.30B$169.38B$98.31B
Stockholders' Equity$28.73B$26.49B$26.74B$26.88B$27.40B$26.32B
Retained Earnings$6.43B$4.19B$4.46B$4.75B$5.15B$5.00B

Cash Flow

Line itemFY 2025FY 2024FY 2023FY 2022FY 2021FY 2020
Operating Cash Flow$4.28B$3.69B$3.45B$3.06B$2.40B$2.72B
Investing Cash Flow$1.50B($82.60M)$20.90M($489.80M)$58.40M($175.50M)
Financing Cash Flow$56.51B$5.08B($48.34B)($25.38B)$69.91B($2.46B)
CapEx$83.50M$94.00M$76.40M$89.70M$127.20M$197.50M
Free Cash Flow$4.19B$3.60B$3.38B$2.97B$2.28B$2.52B

Ratios

MetricFY 2025FY 2024FY 2023FY 2022FY 2021FY 2020
Profitability
Gross margin------
Operating margin64.9%64.1%61.6%60.1%56.4%54.0%
EBITDA margin66.5%66.0%63.8%62.8%59.6%57.1%
Net margin62.5%57.5%57.8%53.6%56.2%43.1%
Free cash flow margin64.3%58.7%60.5%59.1%48.5%51.6%
FCF / Net income1.031.021.051.100.861.20
R&D / Revenue------
SG&A / Revenue------
Effective tax rate23.6%22.4%22.3%22.9%21.8%22.6%
Return on assets2.1%2.6%2.5%1.5%1.3%1.7%
Return on equity14.2%13.3%12.1%10.0%9.6%8.0%
Return on invested capital------
Liquidity
Current ratio1.031.011.021.011.011.01
Quick ratio1.031.011.021.011.011.01
Cash ratio0.030.030.030.020.020.02
Leverage
Debt / Equity------
Debt / Assets------
Debt / EBITDA------
Interest coverage------
Equity multiplier6.915.194.856.487.184.74
Liabilities / Assets0.860.810.790.850.860.79
Efficiency
Asset turnover0.030.040.040.030.020.04
Inventory turnover------
Days sales outstanding36d34d35d35d34d34d
Days inventory outstanding------
Days payable outstanding------
Cash conversion cycle------
Valuation
P / E24.5x24.0x23.8x22.7x31.3x31.0x
P / B3.4x3.2x2.8x2.2x3.0x2.5x
P / S15.1x13.6x13.6x12.0x17.5x13.4x
EV / EBITDA21.7x19.9x20.4x18.3x28.3x22.8x
Growth
Revenue growth (YoY)6.4%9.9%11.1%7.0%-4.0%0.3%
Revenue CAGR (3y)9.1%9.3%4.5%1.0%2.9%10.2%
Revenue CAGR (5y)6.0%4.7%5.3%6.6%5.5%8.0%
Gross profit growth (YoY)------
Operating income growth (YoY)7.6%14.4%13.9%14.0%0.3%1.9%
Net income growth (YoY)15.5%9.3%19.9%2.1%25.2%-0.5%
EPS growth (YoY)15.4%9.1%19.7%1.5%24.2%-0.7%
EPS CAGR (3y)14.7%9.9%14.7%7.8%8.5%-21.1%
EPS CAGR (5y)13.7%10.3%9.2%-9.1%10.0%9.7%
FCF growth (YoY)16.6%6.5%13.9%30.4%-9.6%3.7%
FCF CAGR (5y)10.7%8.2%7.8%11.0%7.0%12.4%
Book value growth (YoY)8.5%-0.9%-0.5%-1.9%4.1%0.7%

Sales by segment

From XBRL dimensional facts in the 10-K period ending 2025-12-31.

Product / service

$6.52B total
Clearingandtransactionfees$5.28B · 81.0%
Market Data$803.10M · 12.3%
Other Revenue$436.40M · 6.7%

Stability scores

Altman Z′

FY 2025 · bankruptcy risk

0.22
Distress

Private-firm variant - uses book equity instead of market cap. > 2.90 safe · 1.23-2.90 grey · < 1.23 distress.

Piotroski F-score

FY 2025 · 9-point quality

5/9
Neutral
  • Net income positive
  • Operating cash flow positive
  • ROA improved YoY
  • Cash flow > net income
  • -Long-term debt decreased
  • Current ratio improved
  • No share dilution
  • -Gross margin improved
  • Asset turnover improved

Peer comparison

Same SIC group: Security & Commodity Brokers, Dealers, Exchanges & Services

CompanyRevenue (last FY)Net marginROE
ICE$12.64B26.2%11.5%
LPLA$16.99B5.1%16.1%
TW$2.05B39.6%12.5%
SNEX$132.38B0.2%12.9%
NDAQ$8.26B21.6%14.6%

Comparing CME GROUP INC. against the 5 most active filers in the same SIC group.

Dividends

$11.20/share trailing 12 months · +6.7% YoY

Ex-datePer share
Mar 10, 2026$7.4500
Dec 12, 2025$1.2500
Sep 9, 2025$1.2500
Jun 9, 2025$1.2500
Mar 7, 2025$1.2500
Dec 27, 2024$5.8000
Dec 9, 2024$1.1500
Sep 9, 2024$1.1500
Jun 7, 2024$1.1500
Mar 7, 2024$1.1500
Dec 27, 2023$5.2500
Dec 7, 2023$1.1000
Sep 7, 2023$1.1000
Jun 8, 2023$1.1000
Mar 9, 2023$1.1000
Dec 27, 2022$4.5000
Dec 8, 2022$1.0000
Sep 8, 2022$1.0000
Jun 9, 2022$1.0000
Mar 9, 2022$1.0000
Dec 27, 2021$3.2500
Dec 9, 2021$0.9000
Sep 9, 2021$0.9000
Jun 9, 2021$0.9000