CME Group Stock Price, News & Analysis (NASDAQ:CME)

CME Group trades on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbol "CME."

CME Group announced a quarterly dividend on Wednesday, August 7th. Investors of record on Tuesday, September 10th will be paid a dividend of $0.75 per share on Wednesday, September 25th. This represents a $3.00 annualized dividend and a yield of 1.41%. The ex-dividend date is Monday, September 9th. View CME Group's Dividend History.

CME Group Inc (NASDAQ:CME) announced its quarterly earnings results on Wednesday, July, 31st. The financial services provider reported $1.76 earnings per share for the quarter, beating the Zacks' consensus estimate of $1.75 by $0.01. The financial services provider earned $1.27 billion during the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $1.27 billion. CME Group had a return on equity of 9.14% and a net margin of 39.36%. The company's revenue was up 20.1% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period in the prior year, the firm earned $1.74 earnings per share. View CME Group's Earnings History.

CME Group is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, October 30th 2019. View Earnings Estimates for CME Group.

CME Group will be holding an earnings conference call on Wednesday, October 30th at 12:00 AM Eastern. Interested parties can register for or listen to the call using this link or dial in at Not Available.

14 analysts have issued 1-year price objectives for CME Group's shares. Their forecasts range from $150.00 to $240.00. On average, they anticipate CME Group's stock price to reach $203.69 in the next twelve months. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 4.4%. View Analyst Price Targets for CME Group.

14 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for CME Group in the last year. There are currently 2 sell ratings, 6 hold ratings and 6 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold." View Analyst Ratings for CME Group.

News articles about CME stock have trended negative this week, InfoTrie reports. The research group ranks the sentiment of news coverage by reviewing more than six thousand blog and news sources. The firm ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of negative five to five, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. CME Group earned a daily sentiment score of -2.8 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned news stories about the financial services provider a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, indicating that recent news coverage is extremely unlikely to have an impact on the company's share price in the near term. View News Stories for CME Group.

CME Group saw a increase in short interest during the month of September. As of September 30th, there was short interest totalling 4,960,000 shares, an increase of 8.5% from the August 30th total of 4,570,000 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 1,260,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 3.9 days. Currently, 1.4% of the shares of the stock are short sold. View CME Group's Current Options Chain.

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CME Group's stock is owned by a variety of of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include Manning & Napier Group LLC (0.11%), State of Alaska Department of Revenue (0.04%), Cypress Capital Group (0.02%), Gradient Investments LLC (0.01%), Cullinan Associates Inc. (0.01%) and Pacer Advisors Inc. (0.01%). Company insiders that own CME Group stock include Bryan T Durkin, Charles P Carey, Daniel R Glickman, Dennis Suskind, Derek Sammann, Elizabeth A Cook, Hilda Harris Piell, Howard J Siegel, Jack J Tobin, Jeffrey M Bernacchi, John W Pietrowicz, Julie Holzrichter, Julie Winkler, Kathleen M Cronin, Kevin Kometer, Kimberly S Taylor, Leo Melamed, Martin J Gepsman, Ronald A Pankau, Sean Tully, Sunil Cutinho, Terrence A Duffy and Timothy S Bitsberger. View Institutional Ownership Trends for CME Group.

CME stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Manning & Napier Group LLC, Cullinan Associates Inc., Gradient Investments LLC, Crossmark Global Holdings Inc., Pennsylvania Trust Co, Cypress Capital Group, First United Bank Trust and Chesley Taft & Associates LLC. Company insiders that have sold CME Group company stock in the last year include Charles P Carey, Daniel R Glickman, Dennis Suskind, Derek Sammann, Elizabeth A Cook, Hilda Harris Piell, Howard J Siegel, Jeffrey M Bernacchi, John W Pietrowicz, Julie Holzrichter, Julie Winkler, Kathleen M Cronin, Kevin Kometer, Martin J Gepsman, Ronald A Pankau, Sean Tully, Sunil Cutinho, Terrence A Duffy and Timothy S Bitsberger. View Insider Buying and Selling for CME Group.

CME stock was bought by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including State of Alaska Department of Revenue, Hennessy Advisors Inc., Pacer Advisors Inc., Forte Capital LLC ADV, Rockland Trust Co., Grassi Investment Management, Fruth Investment Management and Stonebridge Capital Management Inc.. View Insider Buying and Selling for CME Group.

Shares of CME can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Robinhood, Fidelity and Charles Schwab.

One share of CME stock can currently be purchased for approximately $212.96.

CME Group has a market capitalization of $76.26 billion and generates $4.31 billion in revenue each year. The financial services provider earns $1.96 billion in net income (profit) each year or $6.82 on an earnings per share basis. CME Group employs 4,590 workers across the globe.View Additional Information About CME Group.

The official website for CME Group is http://www.cmegroup.com/.

CME Group's mailing address is 20 SOUTH WACKER DRIVE, CHICAGO IL, 60606. The financial services provider can be reached via phone at 312-930-1000 or via email at [email protected]