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 given a dividend of $0.75 per share on Wednesday, September 25th. This represents a $3.00 annualized dividend and a yield of 1.48%. The ex-dividend date is Monday, September 9th. View CME Group's Dividend History.

CME Group Inc (NASDAQ:CME) released its quarterly earnings results on Wednesday, July, 31st. The financial services provider reported $1.76 EPS for the quarter, beating the Thomson Reuters' consensus estimate of $1.75 by $0.01. The financial services provider earned $1.27 billion during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $1.27 billion. CME Group had a return on equity of 9.14% and a net margin of 39.36%. The business's revenue was up 20.1% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter in the prior year, the firm earned $1.74 EPS. 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 brokers have issued 12 month price objectives for CME Group's stock. Their forecasts range from $150.00 to $240.00. On average, they expect CME Group's share price to reach $206.62 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 2.2% from the stock's current price. 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 headlines about CME stock have trended somewhat positive recently, InfoTrie reports. The research firm identifies positive and negative news coverage by analyzing more than six thousand news and blog sources in real time. The firm ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of negative five to positive five, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. CME Group earned a news impact score of 0.9 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned press coverage 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 stock's share price in the next several days. View News Stories for CME Group.

CME Group saw a increase in short interest in 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 trading volume of 1,260,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 3.9 days. Currently, 1.4% of the shares of the stock are sold short. 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 shareholders include CIBC Private Wealth Group LLC (0.19%), Rhumbline Advisers (0.19%), KAMES CAPITAL plc (0.12%), Manning & Napier Group LLC (0.11%), State of New Jersey Common Pension Fund D (0.08%) and Envestnet Asset Management Inc. (0.06%). 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 Assenagon Asset Management S.A., Robeco Institutional Asset Management B.V., CIBC Private Wealth Group LLC, Manning & Napier Group LLC, KAMES CAPITAL plc, Cullinan Associates Inc., Peregrine Capital Management LLC and Gateway Investment Advisers 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 purchased by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including State of New Jersey Common Pension Fund D, State of Alaska Department of Revenue, Virginia Retirement Systems ET AL, Northpointe Capital LLC, Rhumbline Advisers, Hennessy Advisors Inc., AdvisorNet Financial Inc and Commerzbank Aktiengesellschaft FI. 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 $202.23.

CME Group has a market capitalization of $72.42 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]