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CME GROUP INC.

At today's price, CME GROUP INC. (CME) is priced for +5.4% growth. boothcheck doesn't publish a fair value or a price target; it shows what the price assumes, so you can judge whether that bar is too high. Built from SEC EDGAR filings.

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Key Takeaways

• CME Group runs the dominant marketplace for interest-rate, equity, energy, agricultural, metals, and currency futures, and the distinctive fact is the economics: a trailing operating margin around 65% on revenue of about $6.8 billion, the signature of a toll booth on global hedging. • The defining risk is competition for its crown jewel: a new entrant is taking share in cash Treasury trading and pushing into the futures CME has long owned, the first real challenge to its rate-products near-mon

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Institutional ownership

1,741 institutional managers reported holding CME in 13F filings for the quarter ended 2026-03-31. Together they hold about 85% of the company; the top 10 hold 35%. 157 opened new positions that quarter. Held by Vanguard Group, BlackRock, State Street, among others. On the short side, 5.2M shares were sold short as of the 2026-06-15 count, about 1% of shares outstanding (1.3 days of typical volume to cover).

Quarterly 13F filings arrive up to 45 days after quarter end, so the picture is never current (filed through 2026-05-29). Nothing here is investment advice.

Capital returns

CME's share count is about flat over the past five years. It pays a dividend, and has paid one every year in our records (18 and counting), raised 6 years straight; the current rate is $5.00 a share annually. Cash returned over the past three years: $11.01B in dividends.

Share counts are split-adjusted; repurchase totals are gross of share issuance. Nothing here is investment advice.

Insider activity

Open-market insider buys at CME over the trailing three years: 2023: 4 buys totaling $117k; 2024: 10 buys totaling $536k; 2025: 10 buys totaling $616k; 2026: 3 buys totaling $515k. 32 officers and directors are on file.

Code P open-market purchases from SEC Form 4 filings, non-derivative, excluding scheduled 10b5-1 plans. Nothing here is investment advice.

Earnings reactions

CME's recent reports: the day-one move, then what the following quarter actually did.

reportday onenext quarter
2023-08-03+3.9%+2.3%
2023-11-02+0.6%-4.6%
2024-02-29+1.7%-5.8%
2024-05-02-0.8%-5.5%

Day-one is the close-to-close move around the filing. Nothing here is investment advice.

Recent filings

CME's latest 8-K filings: 2026-06-17 (items 5.02, 7.01, 9.01); 2026-06-10 (items 5.07); 2026-05-19 (items 5.07); 2026-04-27 (items 1.01, 9.01); 2026-04-22 (items 2.02, 9.01).

Item codes are the SEC's own classification of what each report discloses. Nothing here is investment advice.

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Last analyzed: June 27, 2026

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