Financial Services
Live Price
Offline$226.38
-2.29% today
1Y Change
-9.76%
Window
Jun 25, 2025 → Jun 18, 2026
Coverage: 247 bars · Jun 25, 2025 → Jun 18, 2026
Research Briefing
A compact read on the setup, peer context, quarterly changes, and recent earnings reaction.
Research Snapshot
CME Group Inc (CME) is a Financial Services stock with a market cap of $103.93B and listed on NASDAQ. The stock last traded around $226.38 and down 9.8% across the available one-year price window (Jun 25, 2025 → Jun 18, 2026). Baseline metrics include revenue growth of +6.4%, EPS growth of +15.4%, a dividend yield of 3.9%. What stands out right now is revenue +6.4%, EPS +15.4%, free cash flow +16.6% with operating margin 65.6% and ROIC 9.4%. The dividend matters to the case here, with a current yield around 3.9%. Valuation already assumes a fairly strong business story at P/E 24.3 and price/sales 15.4. Stock Foundry combines CME price history, valuation, growth, dividend context, earnings, analyst forecasts, news, related Financial Services peers on this page.
Benchmark Edge
Normalized return, excess return, max drawdown, and calendar-year wins against the benchmarks investors actually use.
CME
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Normalized return
SPY
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S&P 500
Excess Return
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Relative to SPY
CME Max Drawdown
-24.53%
Trailing 1Y
SPY Max Drawdown
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Trailing 1Y
Uses the longest available daily history for CME and SPY.
Financial profile
Profitability, balance sheet stamina, and cash efficiency drawn from the latest filings.
FY Revenue
$4.7B
-6.6% YoY
FY Net Income
$2.6B
-2.0% YoY
Free Cash Flow
$2.3B
-23.3% YoY
Revenue Growth
+6.4%
EPS Growth
+15.4%
Gross Margin
86.3%
Net Margin
62.8%
Income statement
USD
| Metric | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | 6.5B | 6.1B | 5.6B | 5.0B | 4.7B |
| Gross Profit | 5.6B | 5.3B | 4.8B | 4.3B | 3.9B |
| Operating Income | 4.2B | 3.9B | 3.4B | 3.0B | 2.6B |
| EBITDA | 5.7B | 5.0B | 4.7B | 4.0B | 3.9B |
| Net Income | 4.0B | 3.5B | 3.2B | 2.7B | 2.6B |
| EPS (Diluted) | — | — | — | — | — |
Balance sheet
USD
| Metric | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cash & Equivalents | 4.4B | 2.9B | 2.9B | 2.7B | 2.8B |
| Total Assets | 198.5B | 137.4B | 129.7B | 174.2B | 196.8B |
| Total Liabilities | 169.8B | 111.0B | 103.0B | 147.3B | 169.4B |
| Shareholder Equity | 28.7B | 26.5B | 26.7B | 26.9B | 27.4B |
| Total Debt | 3.8B | 3.4B | 3.4B | 3.4B | 3.4B |
| Net Debt | -666M | 536M | 513M | 718M | 610M |
Cash flow positioning
Latest Full Year
Operating Cash Flow
2.4B
-21.4% YoY
Capital Expenditures
127M
-41.8% YoY
Free Cash Flow
2.3B
-23.3% YoY
Key ratios
Gross Margin
86.3%
Operating Margin
65.6%
Net Margin
62.8%
ROE
15.3%
Debt / Equity
0.13x
Next Step
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