Interactive BrokersIBKR
About: Interactive Brokers is a large, automated, retail and institutional brokerage that boasted nearly $570 billion in customer equity at the end of 2024. The company cut its teeth as a market maker, introducing US financial markets to automated and algorithmic training before expanding into brokerage services in 1993. The firm has a wide-ranging client base, with its best-in-class order execution and extremely low margin lending rates catering to a sophisticated audience of hedge funds, proprietary traders, and introducing brokers that account for about 45% of the firm's commissions. With operations spanning more than 160 electronic exchanges, 36 countries, and 28 currencies, Interactive Brokers caters to a global clientele, with more than 80% of active accounts sitting outside the US market.
Employees: 3,027
Fund manager confidence
Based on 2025 Q1 regulatory disclosures by fund managers ($100M+ AUM)
51% more first-time investments, than exits
New positions opened: 134 | Existing positions closed: 89
28% more call options, than puts
Call options by funds: $391M | Put options by funds: $305M
4% more funds holding
Funds holding: 698 [Q4 2024] → 727 (+29) [Q1 2025]
1% more repeat investments, than reductions
Existing positions increased: 259 | Existing positions reduced: 256
0.07% less ownership
Funds ownership: 85.9% [Q4 2024] → 85.83% (-0.07%) [Q1 2025]
9% less capital invested
Capital invested by funds: $16.9B [Q4 2024] → $15.5B (-$1.44B) [Q1 2025]
27% less funds holding in top 10
Funds holding in top 10: 30 [Q4 2024] → 22 (-8) [Q1 2025]
Research analyst outlook
6 Wall Street Analysts provided 1 year price targets over the past 3 months
6 analyst ratings
Barclays Benjamin Budish | 11%upside $65 | Overweight Maintained | 10 Jul 2025 |
Citigroup Christopher Allen | 2%upside $60 | Buy Maintained | 7 Jul 2025 |
Goldman Sachs James Yaro | 2%upside $60 | Buy Maintained | 15 May 2025 |
UBS Brennan Hawken | 15%downside $50 | Buy Maintained | 22 Apr 2025 |
Piper Sandler Patrick Moley | 22%downside $46 | Overweight Maintained | 16 Apr 2025 |
Financial journalist opinion
Based on 22 articles about IBKR published over the past 30 days
