CME

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CME Group Inc. Class A Common Stock
Financial Services · Financial Data & Stock Exchanges · NASDAQ · United States
$276.01+1.79%
Market cap $99.2BNext earnings 2026-10-21Updated Sep 18, 2026
FAIR VALUE · CONSENSUS
$276.01+0.0%
confidence-weighted across 3 of 6 models
Now $276.01
$276.01
$102.82$173.08
Avoid
Price vs fair value
75.8% above
-43.1% to fair value
ACCE score
53
out of 100
Analysts
38% buy
16 covering
P/E
23.4x
forward 22.0x
1-year return
+5.9%
Dividend yield
1.88%
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Overview

ACCE thesis

CME Group runs the world's largest derivatives exchange, clearing futures and options across interest rates, equity indexes, energy, agriculture, and metals - over 3 billion contracts annually. The structural moat here is network liquidity: CME's open interest concentration in rate products like Eurodollars and SOFR futures makes it nearly impossible for a competitor to fragment volume without fragmenting price discovery itself. The Federal Reserve's prolonged higher-rate environment has been a direct revenue accelerant - rate volatility drives hedging demand, and CME's interest rate complex generates roughly 30% of total revenue. At 23.7x forward earnings with a 69.8% operating margin and essentially no cost of goods sold, this is a toll-road business that prints cash at scale; the question is whether rate vol sustains or collapses back to 2020-era suppression. The 14.4% revenue growth suggests the macro backdrop is still working in CME's favor, and the stock hasn't been given a premium multiple despite operating metrics that would embarrass most software companies.

Written May 19, 2026
Investor warnings · 2 flags
  • moderate
    Heavy insider net selling
    Last 10 transactions show $14.33M sales vs $0.44M buys, a 33:1 sell/buy ratio despite 42% insider ownership.
  • moderate
    Low momentum score
    ACCE Momentum score is 25/100, the weakest component, suggesting near-term price trend is poor relative to peers.
Reports in 30 days, last quarter beat by 0.0%.

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Price

+5.7% · 1Y

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Wall Street consensus

Bearish38% buy · 16 covering analysts
Strong buy 3 Buy 3 Hold 7 Sell 2 Strong sell 1
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Where it sits vs peers

This stock Peer Peer median weaker → stronger
P/Ebetter than 83% of peers
low 21.7x23.4xhigh 29.7x
ROEbetter than 50% of peers
low 8%16%high 77%
Div yieldbetter than 67% of peers
low 0.9%1.9%high 3.6%

Algorithmic peers (6)

TickerCompanyMcapP/EROED/EYieldQuality
ICEIntercontinental Exchange Inc. Common Stock$87.3B21.714.1%0.681.3%-Compare
SPGIS&P Global Inc. Common Stock$119.5B24.714.3%0.421.0%-Compare
MCOMoody's Corporation Common Stock$81.2B29.376.9%1.750.9%-Compare
0388.HKHong Kong Exchanges and Clearing$62.5B24.833.6%0.013.6%-Compare
DB1.DEDeutsche Boerse$57.4B24.020.4%0.671.5%-Compare
LSEG.LLondon Stock Exchange Group$53.1B29.77.7%0.561.9%-Compare

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News and Record

Reports in 30 days, last quarter beat by 0.0%.

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Recent performance

1 week
+0.2%
1 month
+3.4%
3 months
+12.0%
6 months
-10.2%
YTD
+1.1%
1 year
+5.9%

SEC filings

40 filings
September 2026
Sep 17
Form 4Insider transactionPeriod 2026-09-15
Sep 17
Form 4Insider transactionPeriod 2026-09-15
Sep 17
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