NASDAQ:CME - CME Group Stock Price, Forecast & News

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

CME Group announced a quarterly dividend on Wednesday, February 5th. Investors of record on Tuesday, March 10th will be paid a dividend of $0.85 per share on Wednesday, March 25th. This represents a $3.40 annualized dividend and a yield of 1.60%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Monday, March 9th. This is an increase from CME Group's previous quarterly dividend of $0.75. View CME Group's Dividend History.

CME Group Inc (NASDAQ:CME) released its quarterly earnings results on Wednesday, February, 12th. The financial services provider reported $1.52 EPS for the quarter, missing the Thomson Reuters' consensus estimate of $1.54 by $0.02. The financial services provider had revenue of $1.14 billion for the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $1.16 billion. CME Group had a net margin of 43.48% and a return on equity of 9.22%. The company's quarterly revenue was down 7.9% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period last year, the firm earned $1.77 EPS. View CME Group's Earnings History.

CME Group is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, May 6th 2020. View Earnings Estimates for CME Group.

13 analysts have issued 1-year price objectives for CME Group's stock. Their forecasts range from $173.00 to $252.00. On average, they anticipate CME Group's share price to reach $214.20 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 0.5% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for CME Group.

13 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for CME Group in the last year. There are currently 2 sell ratings, 7 hold ratings and 4 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold." View Analyst Ratings for CME Group.

Headlines about CME stock have trended somewhat positive recently, InfoTrie Sentiment reports. The research group rates the sentiment of news coverage by reviewing more than six thousand news and blog sources. The firm ranks coverage of publicly-traded companies on a scale of negative five to five, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. CME Group earned a news sentiment score of 1.8 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned media headlines about the financial services provider a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, meaning that recent news coverage is extremely unlikely to have an effect on the company's share price in the near future. View News Stories for CME Group.

CME Group saw a increase in short interest in the month of January. As of January 31st, there was short interest totalling 6,420,000 shares, an increase of 23.5% from the January 15th total of 5,200,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 1,300,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 4.9 days. Currently, 1.8% of the company's stock are short sold. View CME Group's Current Options Chain.

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CME Group's stock is owned by a number of of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include State Street Corp (4.59%), FMR LLC (2.17%), Edgewood Management LLC (2.12%), Parnassus Investments CA (0.99%), Bank of New York Mellon Corp (0.94%) and Fiera Capital Corp (0.92%). 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, 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 DekaBank Deutsche Girozentrale, Victory Capital Management Inc., Massachusetts Financial Services Co. MA, AustralianSuper Pty Ltd, Oakbrook Investments LLC, USS Investment Management Ltd, FIL Ltd and UBS Group AG. 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, 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 FMR LLC, Parnassus Investments CA, Renaissance Technologies LLC, Fiera Capital Corp, GUARDCAP ASSET MANAGEMENT Ltd, Jackson Square Partners LLC, Prana Capital Management LP and Caisse DE Depot ET Placement DU Quebec. 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 $213.13.

CME Group has a market capitalization of $76.38 billion and generates $4.87 billion in revenue each year. The financial services provider earns $2.12 billion in net income (profit) each year or $6.80 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]