CME Group (CME)

• Market cap: $94.4B
• 1 day: -0.33%
• 5 days: -1.74%
• 1 month: 4.80%
• 3 months: 12.14%
• 6 months: 19.95%
• Year to date: 12.52%
• 1 year: 21.45%
• 5 years: 52.82%
• 10 years: 176.62%
• Sector: Financials
• Industry: Security & Commodity Brokers, Dealers, Exchanges & Services

About: Based in Chicago, CME Group operates exchanges giving investors, suppliers, and businesses the ability to trade futures and derivatives based on interest rates, equity indexes, foreign currencies, energy, metals, and commodities. The Chicago Mercantile Exchange was founded in 1898 and in 2002 completed its IPO. Since then, CME Group has consolidated parts of the industry by merging with crosstown rival CBOT Holdings in 2007 before acquiring Nymex Holdings in 2008 and NEX in 2018. In addition, the company has a 27% stake in S&P Dow Jones Indices, making the Chicago Mercantile Exchange the exclusive venue to trade and clear S&P futures contracts. Through CME's acquisition of NEX, it also expanded into cash foreign exchange, fixed-income trading, and collateral optimization.

Employees: 3,760

Fund manager confidence

Based on 2024 Q4 regulatory filings by fund managers ($100M+ AUM)

159% more first-time investments, than exits

New positions opened: 189 | Existing positions closed: 73

53% more call options, than puts

Call options by funds: $492M | Put options by funds: $322M

41% more funds holding in top 10

Funds holding in top 10: 37 [Q3] → 52 (+15) [Q4]

20% more repeat investments, than reductions

Existing positions increased: 580 | Existing positions reduced: 484

6% more funds holding

Funds holding: 1,370 [Q3] → 1,455 (+85) [Q4]

6% more capital invested

Capital invested by funds: $70.5B [Q3] → $74.6B (+$4.1B) [Q4]

0.48% less ownership

Funds ownership: 88.78% [Q3] → 88.31% (-0.48%) [Q4]

Research analyst outlook

9 Wall Street Analysts provided 1 year price targets over the past 3 months

• Low target: $212 19% downside
• Avg. target: $259 1% downside
• High target: $287 10% upside

9 analyst ratings

• positive: 3 33%
• neutral: 5 56%
• negative: 1 11%

Raymond James Patrick O'Shaughnessy 72% 1-year accuracy 13 / 18 met price target	10% upside $287	Outperform Upgraded	10 Mar 2025
Morgan Stanley Mike Cyprys 57% 1-year accuracy 4 / 7 met price target	0% upside $263	Equal-Weight Maintained	19 Feb 2025
Keefe, Bruyette & Woods Kyle Voigt 77% 1-year accuracy 24 / 31 met price target	2% downside $257	Market Perform Maintained	14 Feb 2025
RBC Capital Ashish Sabadra 75% 1-year accuracy 39 / 52 met price target	3% upside $269	Sector Perform Maintained	13 Feb 2025
Oppenheimer Owen Lau 63% 1-year accuracy 32 / 51 met price target	3% upside $269	Outperform Maintained	13 Feb 2025