Stock · CME · Financial Services
United States · Large Cap · listed since 2002 · Revenue 12 mo. $7B
Price as of 11/06/2026
CME Group Inc., together with its subsidiaries, operates contract markets for the trading of futures and options on futures contracts worldwide.
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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Summary
53.4 of 100
Mean of the six area values. Each area value is the mean of the stock's ranks among the companies in its sector. 50 is the middle of the sector, not a share of companies beaten.
Analysis
What the price requires
If free cash flow stays at €3.8B (2025), it supports €41.8B. The remaining €56.8B of the market value assume it grows 12.0% a year for 10 years and not at all afterwards.
Required FCF growth per year
12.0%
no growth afterwards
Price to operating cash flow 24.8×, above its usual range.
Middle half of 20 quarters: 21.2× to 23.8×, median 22.6×.
Measures only against its own past, not against what the company is worth. Price as of 11/06/2026.
with respect to the priced-in expectation
with respect to the priced-in expectation
No anomaly in the stored figures.
Since the last quarter
Q2 → Q3 2026
7 more unchanged: Revenue, 12 mo., FCF, 12 mo., EBIT margin, FCF margin, Net debt, Shares outstanding, Return on equity
Derivation
Each area value is the average of its metrics' ranks within the sector (0 to 100, 50 is the middle). For metrics where lower is better, the rank is mirrored. The overall value is the average of the area values.
Price as of 11/06/2026.
| Metric | Stock | Sector median | Position in sector |
|---|---|---|---|
| Return on equity | 14.08% | 12.46% | Rank 60 |
| Return on capital (Greenblatt) | 738.13% | 59.04% | Rank 96 |
| EBIT margin | 64.86% | 23.06% | Rank 94 |
| FCF margin | 64.31% | 19.82% | Rank 87 |
| Gross margin | 86.09% | 65.53% | Rank 74 |
| Metric | Stock | Sector median | Position in sector |
|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue growth, 1 year | 6.37% | 7.39% | Rank 47 |
| Earnings growth, 3 years per year | 14.43% | 15.20% | Rank 47 |
| Earnings growth, 5 years per year | 13.84% | 15.17% | Rank 45 |
| Sustainable growth (ROE × retained earnings) | 1.28% | 1.25% | Rank 51 |
| Metric | Stock | Sector median | Position in sector |
|---|---|---|---|
| Earnings yield | 3.67% | 6.47% | Rank 17 |
| FCF yield | 3.82% | 7.16% | Rank 29 |
| EV/saleslower is better | 16.73 | 2.82 | Rank 7 |
| EV/EBITlower is better | 25.79 | 14.24 | Rank 22 |
| Metric | Stock | Sector median | Position in sector |
|---|---|---|---|
| Share price, 1 year | 3.09% | 7.80% | Rank 43 |
| Share price, 6 months | 9.24% | 8.71% | Rank 54 |
| Share price, 3 months | 21.15% | 0.45% | Rank 97 |
| Distance from 52-week high | −6.30% | −10.68% | Rank 68 |
| Metric | Stock | Sector median | Position in sector |
|---|---|---|---|
| Accruals (Sloan)lower is better | −1.03% | 1.23% | Rank 84 |
| Change in share countlower is better | 0.08% | −0.60% | Rank 26 |
| Dividend streak in years | 0 | 5 | Rank 6 |
| Price reaction to results, market-adjusted | −0.36% | 0.00% | Rank 43 |
| Metric | Stock | Sector median | Position in sector |
|---|---|---|---|
| Equity ratio | 14.47% | 9.21% | Rank 66 |
| Net debt/EBITDAlower is better | −0.14 | 0.12 | Rank 55 |
| Debt to equitylower is better | 0.13 | 0.90 | Rank 89 |
| Volatility, 1 yearlower is better | 25.09% | 25.95% | Rank 58 |
Ten years in figures
| Year | Revenue, $B | EBIT margin | FCF, $B | Shares | Net debt |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 3.6 | 61.2% | 1.6 | 339M | $279.3M |
| 2017 | 3.6 | 63.4% | 1.8 | 340M | $239.4M |
| 2018 | 4.3 | 60.5% | 2.3 | 344M | $3.0B |
| 2019 | 4.9 | 53.2% | 2.4 | 358M | $2.2B |
| 2020 | 4.9 | 54.0% | 2.5 | 359M | $1.9B |
| 2021 | 4.7 | 56.4% | 2.3 | 359M | $610.2M |
| 2022 | 5.0 | 60.1% | 3.0 | 359M | $718.3M |
| 2023 | 5.6 | 61.6% | 3.4 | 360M | $513.4M |
| 2024 | 6.1 | 64.1% | 3.6 | 360M | $535.6M |
| 2025 | 6.5 | 64.9% | 4.2 | 360M | −$666.2M |
4 of 7 StockScorer Score rules met · How the score is built
CME Group Inc mainly meets criteria in the Profitability category. Result from 18 strategies checked.
This is how the StockScorer Score strategy, the flagship rule set, calculates the points for CME Group Inc. It compares return and cash-flow metrics with the median of the company's own sector and checks growth and price trend.
4 of 7 rules met
6 of 11 points
The rule “Exclusion: financial and real estate stocks” applies. The stock is therefore not rated regardless of the points scored.
Detail data
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Selected fundamental metrics for CME Group Inc.
| Metric | Stock | Sector |
|---|---|---|
| P/E ratio | 27.2 | 15.2 |
| P/B ratio | 3.8 | 1.8 |
| Return on equity (ROE) | 14.1% | 12.5% |
| Equity ratio | 14.5% | 9.2% |
| Debt-to-equity (D/E) | 0.13 | 0.90 |
| Dividend yield | 3.7% | 3.3% |
How comparable stocks in the same sector score in the StockScorer model.
| Symbol | Company | Rating |
|---|---|---|
| CME | CME Group Incthis page | |
| ICE | Intercontinental Exchange Inc | Low4.5 |
| SPGI | S&P Global Inc | Low5.5 |
| MCO | Moodys Corporation | Low5.5 |
| NDAQ | Nasdaq Inc | locked |
| MSCI | MSCI Inc | locked |
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