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 given a dividend of $0.85 per share on Wednesday, March 25th. This represents a $3.40 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 1.63%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Monday, March 9th. This is a boost 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 data on Wednesday, February, 12th. The financial services provider reported $1.52 earnings per share for the quarter, missing the Zacks' consensus estimate of $1.54 by $0.02. The financial services provider earned $1.14 billion during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $1.16 billion. CME Group had a net margin of 43.48% and a return on equity of 9.22%. CME Group's revenue was down 7.9% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter in the prior year, the business posted $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 Wall Street analysts have issued 1-year target prices for CME Group's shares. 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 year. This suggests a possible upside of 2.6% 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.

News coverage about CME stock has been trending positive recently, InfoTrie Sentiment reports. The research group scores the sentiment of media coverage by analyzing more than six thousand blog and news sources in real time. The firm ranks coverage of companies on a scale of negative five to positive five, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. CME Group earned a coverage optimism score of 2.6 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave news articles about the financial services provider a news buzz of 10.0 out of 10, meaning that recent media coverage is extremely likely to have an effect on the company's share price in the next few days. View News Stories for CME Group.

CME Group saw a increase in short interest during 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 currently 4.9 days. Currently, 1.8% of the shares of the stock are short sold. View CME Group's Current Options Chain.

Some companies that are related to CME Group include Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), Moody's (MCO), Msci (MSCI), Interactive Brokers Group (IBKR), Nasdaq (NDAQ), Cboe Global Markets (CBOE), MarketAxess (MKTX), Arrow Financial (AROW), Marlin Business Services (MRLN), California First National Bancorp (CFNB) and Gain Capital (GCAP).

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CME Group's stock is owned by a number of of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include Capital World Investors (9.99%), State Street Corp (4.59%), Capital Research Global Investors (3.79%), Capital International Investors (3.38%), FMR LLC (2.17%) and Edgewood Management LLC (2.12%). 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 Capital International Investors, Janus Henderson Group PLC, DekaBank Deutsche Girozentrale, Victory Capital Management Inc., Massachusetts Financial Services Co. MA, Standard Life Aberdeen plc, AustralianSuper Pty Ltd and Oakbrook Investments 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, 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 acquired by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including FMR LLC, Parnassus Investments CA, Renaissance Technologies LLC, Capital Research Global Investors, Fiera Capital Corp, GUARDCAP ASSET MANAGEMENT Ltd, Geode Capital Management LLC and Capital World Investors. 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 $208.83.

CME Group has a market capitalization of $74.84 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]