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CHICAGO, October 21, 2026 - CME Group Inc. (NASDAQ: CME) today reported financial results for the third quarter of 2026.
The company reported revenue of $1.7 billion and operating income of $1.1 billion for the third quarter of 2026. Net income was $1.0 billion and diluted earnings per common share were $2.89. On an adjusted basis, operating income was $1.2 billion, net income was $1.1 billion and diluted earnings per common share were $3.02. Financial results presented on an adjusted basis for the third quarter of 2026 and 2025 exclude certain items, which are detailed in the reconciliation of non-GAAP results. 1
"As uncertainty intensified in Q3, clients turned to CME Group in record numbers to manage risk and capitalize on opportunities," said CME Group Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Terry Duffy. "Our average daily volume reached 29.4 million contracts, the highest Q3 ADV on record. With double-digit volume growth across all six asset classes, Q3 was our second highest quarter ever for revenue and adjusted net income. We launched several innovative new products and generated a new high of $100 billion in average daily capital efficiencies. We also made strong progress in our cloud migration, making CME Group the only exchange to offer clients the choice of both co-location and cloud-managed services to expand access to our markets for years to come."
Q3 2026 average daily volume (ADV) climbed to a third-quarter record of 29.4 million contracts, and non-U.S. ADV reached a third-quarter high of 9 million contracts.
Clearing and tr ansaction fees revenue for third-quarter 2026 totaled $1.4 billion. The total average rate per contract was $0.679. Market data revenue totaled a record $243 million for third-quarter 2026, an increase of 20%.
1. A reconciliation of the non-GAAP financial results mentioned to the respective GAAP figures can be found within the Reconciliation of Adjusted Operating Income and Adjusted Net Income and Adjusted Earnings per Common Share charts at the end of the financial statements.
As of September 30, 2026, th e company had $2.4 billion in cash (including $225 million deposited with Fixed Income Clearing Corporation, which is included in other current assets) and $3.4 billion of debt. The company returned nearly $1 billion to shareholders during the quarter, with $465 million in regular quarterly dividends and $524 million in share repurchases .
CME Group will hold a Q&A conference call to discuss third-quarter 2026 results at 8:30 a.m. Eastern Time today. A live audio webcast of the Q&A call will be available on the Investor Relations section of CME Group's website at investor.cmegroup.com under Events & Presentations. An archived recording will be available for up to two months after the call.
As the world's leading derivatives marketplace, CME Group ( www.cmegroup.com ) enables clients to trade futures, options, cash and OTC markets, optimize portfolios, and analyze data – empowering market participants worldwide to efficiently manage risk and capture opportunities. CME Group exchanges offer the widest range of global benchmark products across all major asset classes based on interest rates , equity indexes , foreign exchange , cryptocurrencies , energy , agricultural products and metals . The company offers futures and options on futures trading through the CME Globex platform, fixed income trading via BrokerTec and foreign exchange trading on the EBS platform. In addition, it operates one of the world's leading central counterparty clearing providers, CME Clearing.
CME Group, the Globe logo, CME, Chicago Mercantile Exchange, Globex, and E-mini are trademarks of Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc. CBOT and Chicago Board of Trade are trademarks of Board of Trade of the City of Chicago, Inc. NYMEX, New York Mercantile Exchange and ClearPort are trademarks of New York Mercantile Exchange, Inc. COMEX is a trademark of Commodity Exchange, Inc. BrokerTec is a trademark of BrokerTec Americas LLC and EBS is a trademark of EBS Group LTD. The S&P 500 Index is a product of S&P Dow Jones Indices LLC (“S&P DJI”). “S&P®”, “S&P 500®”, “SPY®”, “SPX®”, US 500 and The 500 are trademarks of Standard & Poor’s Financial Services LLC; Dow Jones®, DJIA® and Dow Jones Industrial Average are service and/or trademarks of Dow Jones Trademark Holdings LLC. These trademarks have been licensed for use by Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc. Futures contracts based on the S&P 500 Index are not sponsored, endorsed, marketed, or promoted by S&P DJI, and S&P DJI makes no representation regarding the advisability of investing in such products. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
Statements in this press release that are not historical facts are forward- looking statements. These statements are not guarantees of future performance and involve risks, uncertainties and assumptions that are difficult to predict. Therefore, actual outcomes and results may differ materially from what is expressed or implied in any forward-looking statements. We want to caution you not to place undue reliance on any forward-looking statements. We undertake no obligation to publicly update any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise. Among the factors that might affect our performance are increasing competition by foreign and domestic entities, including increased competition from new entrants into our markets and consolidation of existing entities; our ability to keep pace with rapid technological developments, including our ability to complete the development, implementation and maintenance of the enhanced functionality required by our customers while maintaining reliability and ensuring that such technology is not vulnerable to security risks; our ability to continue introducing innovative and competitive new products and services on a timely, cost-effective basis, including through our electronic trading capabilities, and derive revenues that are commensurate with our efforts and expectations, and our ability to maintain the competitiveness of our existing products and services; our ability to adjust our fixed costs and expenses if our revenues decline; our ability to manage variable costs associated with CME Group’s transition to the Google Cloud, and minimize duplicative costs of maintaining both on-premise and Google Cloud environments during the transition; the resilience of our electronic platforms and the soundness of our business continuity and disaster recovery plans, including in the event of cyberattacks and cyberterrorism or as impacted by a failure of or disruption at one of our suppliers; our ability to maintain existing customers at substantially similar trading levels, develop strategic relationships and attract new customers; our ability to expand and globally offer our products and services; changes in regulations, including the impact of any changes in laws or government policies with respect to our products or services or our industry, such as any changes to regulations and policies that require increased financial and operational resources from us or our customers, as well as the impact of tariffs and tax policy changes, restrictions on our ability to offer CME Group products and services in specific geographies or to specific customers or limitations or changes in underlying/physical product flows across geographies; the costs associated with protecting our intellectual property rights and our ability to operate our business without violating the intellectual property rights of others; decreases in revenue from our market data as a result of decreased demand or changes to regulations in various jurisdictions; changes in our rate per contract due to shifts in the mix of the products traded, the trading venue and the mix of customers (whether the customer receives member or non-member fees or participates in one of our various incentive programs) and the impact of our tiered pricing structure; the ability of our credit and liquidity risk management practices to adequately protect us from the credit risks of clearing firms and other counterparties, and to satisfy the margin and liquidity requirements associated with the BrokerTec matched principal business; the ability of our compliance and risk management programs to effectively monitor and manage our risks, including our ability to prevent errors and misconduct and protect our infrastructure against security breaches and misappropriation of our intellectual property assets; our dependence on third-party providers and exposure to risk from third parties, including risks related to the performance, reliability and security of technology used by, or facilities provided by, our third-party providers and third-party providers that our clients and third-parties rely on; our reliance on third-party distribution partners, including independent software vendors, futures commission merchants, introducing brokers, broker-dealers, regulatory reporting and data distributors and platform operators, and other partners, for facilitating trading and for market data information, and potential impacts from changes in their business models and priorities; volatility in commodity, equity and fixed income prices, and price volatility of financial benchmarks and instruments such as interest rates, equity indices, fixed income instruments and foreign exchange rates; economic, social, political and market conditions, including new and existing geopolitical tensions or conflicts, the volatility of the capital and credit markets and the impact of economic conditions on the trading activity of our current and potential customers; our ability to accommodate increases in contract volume and market data and order transaction traffic across the entire trade cycle and the ability to implement enhancements meeting our regulatory obligations and customer needs without failure or degradation of the performance of our trading and clearing systems; our ability to execute our growth strategy and maintain our growth effectively; our ability to manage the risks, control the costs and achieve the synergies associated with our strategy for acquisitions, investments, alliances, strategic partnerships and joint ventures; variances in earnings on cash accounts and collateral that our clearing house holds; impact of CME Group pricing/fee level and structure and incentive changes; impact of aggregation services and internalization on trade flow and volumes; any negative financial impacts from changes to the terms of intellectual property and index rights; our ability to continue to generate funds and/or manage our indebtedness to allow us to continue to invest in our business; industry, channel partner and customer consolidation and/or concentration; decreases in trading and clearing activity; the imposition of a transaction tax or user fee on
futures and options transactions and/or repeal of the 60/40 tax treatment of such transactions; increases in effective tax rates, borrowing costs, or changes in tax policy; our ability to maintain our brand and reputation; and the unfavorable resolution of material legal proceedings. For a detailed discussion and additional information concerning these and other factors that might affect our performance, see our other recent periodic filings, including our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2025, as filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") on February 26, 2026, under the caption "Risk Factors". # # #
September 30, 2026 December 31, 2025 ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── ASSETS Current Assets: Cash and cash equivalents $ 2,198.5 $ 4,416.9 Marketable securities 131.0 125.0 Accounts receivable, net of 788.1 639.2 allowance Other current assets (includes $3.5 and 840.9 522.1 $6.5 in restricted cash) Performance bonds and guaranty fund 155,179.7 159,656.1 contributions Total current assets 159,138.2 165,359.3 Property, net of accumulated 338.7 362.7 depreciation and amortization Intangible assets—trading 17,175.3 17,175.3 products Intangible assets—other, 2,440.1 2,610.7 net Goodwill 10,505.9 10,514.7 Other assets 2,494.3 2,401.5 Total Assets $ 192,092.5 $ 198,424.2 LIABILITIES AND EQUITY Current Liabilities: Accounts payable $ 67.7 $ 71.8 Other current liabilities 865.5 568.8 Performance bonds and guaranty fund 155,179.7 159,656.1 contributions Total current liabilities 156,112.9 160,296.7 Long-term debt 3,425.1 3,422.3 Deferred income tax 5,208.6 5,242.2 liabilities, net Other liabilities 785.6 734.8 Total Liabilities 165,532.2 169,696.0 Total CME Group 26,560.3 28,728.2 Shareholders’ Equity Total Liabilities and $ 192,092.5 $ 198,424.2 Equity
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CME Group Inc. Reports Highest Q3 Revenue on Record for Q3 2026
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Double-digit revenue and net income growth
CHICAGO, October 21, 2026 - CME Group Inc. (NASDAQ: CME) today reported
financial results for the third quarter of 2026.
The company reported revenue of $1.7 billion and operating income of $1.1
billion for the third quarter of 2026. Net income was $1.0 billion and diluted
earnings per common share were $2.89. On an adjusted basis, operating income was
$1.2 billion, net income was $1.1 billion and diluted earnings per common share
were $3.02. Financial results presented on an adjusted basis for the third
quarter of 2026 and 2025 exclude certain items, which are detailed in the
reconciliation of non-GAAP results. 1
"As uncertainty intensified in Q3, clients turned to CME Group in record numbers
to manage risk and capitalize on opportunities," said CME Group Chairman and
Chief Executive Officer Terry Duffy. "Our average daily volume reached 29.4
million contracts, the highest Q3 ADV on record. With double-digit volume growth
across all six asset classes, Q3 was our second highest quarter ever for revenue
and adjusted net income. We launched several innovative new products and
generated a new high of $100 billion in average daily capital efficiencies. We
also made strong progress in our cloud migration, making CME Group the only
exchange to offer clients the choice of both co-location and cloud-managed
services to expand access to our markets for years to come."
Q3 2026 average daily volume (ADV) climbed to a third-quarter record of 29.4
million contracts, and non-U.S. ADV reached a third-quarter high of 9 million
contracts.
Clearing and tr ansaction fees revenue for third-quarter 2026 totaled $1.4
billion. The total average rate per contract was $0.679. Market data revenue
totaled a record $243 million for third-quarter 2026, an increase of 20%.
1. A reconciliation of the non-GAAP financial results mentioned to the
respective GAAP figures can be found within the Reconciliation of Adjusted
Operating Income and Adjusted Net Income and Adjusted Earnings per Common Share
charts at the end of the financial statements.
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As of September 30, 2026, th e company had $2.4 billion in cash (including $225
million deposited with Fixed Income Clearing Corporation, which is included in
other current assets) and $3.4 billion of debt. The company returned nearly $1
billion to shareholders during the quarter, with $465 million in regular
quarterly dividends and $524 million in share repurchases .
CME Group will hold a Q&A conference call to discuss third-quarter 2026 results
at 8:30 a.m. Eastern Time today. A live audio webcast of the Q&A call will be
available on the Investor Relations section of CME Group's website at
investor.cmegroup.com under Events & Presentations. An archived recording will
be available for up to two months after the call.
As the world's leading derivatives marketplace, CME Group ( www.cmegroup.com )
enables clients to trade futures, options, cash and OTC markets, optimize
portfolios, and analyze data – empowering market participants worldwide to
efficiently manage risk and capture opportunities. CME Group exchanges offer the
widest range of global benchmark products across all major asset classes based
on interest rates , equity indexes , foreign exchange , cryptocurrencies ,
energy , agricultural products and metals . The company offers futures and
options on futures trading through the CME Globex platform, fixed income trading
via BrokerTec and foreign exchange trading on the EBS platform. In addition, it
operates one of the world's leading central counterparty clearing providers, CME
Clearing.
CME Group, the Globe logo, CME, Chicago Mercantile Exchange, Globex, and E-mini
are trademarks of Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc. CBOT and Chicago Board of
Trade are trademarks of Board of Trade of the City of Chicago, Inc. NYMEX, New
York Mercantile Exchange and ClearPort are trademarks of New York Mercantile
Exchange, Inc. COMEX is a trademark of Commodity Exchange, Inc. BrokerTec is a
trademark of BrokerTec Americas LLC and EBS is a trademark of EBS Group LTD. The
S&P 500 Index is a product of S&P Dow Jones Indices LLC (“S&P DJI”). “S&P®”,
“S&P 500®”, “SPY®”, “SPX®”, US 500 and The 500 are trademarks of Standard &
Poor’s Financial Services LLC; Dow Jones®, DJIA® and Dow Jones Industrial
Average are service and/or trademarks of Dow Jones Trademark Holdings LLC. These
trademarks have been licensed for use by Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc.
Futures contracts based on the S&P 500 Index are not sponsored, endorsed,
marketed, or promoted by S&P DJI, and S&P DJI makes no representation regarding
the advisability of investing in such products. All other trademarks are the
property of their respective owners.
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Statements in this press release that are not historical facts are forward-
looking statements. These statements are not guarantees of future performance
and involve risks, uncertainties and assumptions that are difficult to predict.
Therefore, actual outcomes and results may differ materially from what is
expressed or implied in any forward-looking statements. We want to caution you
not to place undue reliance on any forward-looking statements. We undertake no
obligation to publicly update any forward-looking statements, whether as a
result of new information, future events or otherwise. Among the factors that
might affect our performance are increasing competition by foreign and domestic
entities, including increased competition from new entrants into our markets and
consolidation of existing entities; our ability to keep pace with rapid
technological developments, including our ability to complete the development,
implementation and maintenance of the enhanced functionality required by our
customers while maintaining reliability and ensuring that such technology is not
vulnerable to security risks; our ability to continue introducing innovative and
competitive new products and services on a timely, cost-effective basis,
including through our electronic trading capabilities, and derive revenues that
are commensurate with our efforts and expectations, and our ability to maintain
the competitiveness of our existing products and services; our ability to adjust
our fixed costs and expenses if our revenues decline; our ability to manage
variable costs associated with CME Group’s transition to the Google Cloud, and
minimize duplicative costs of maintaining both on-premise and Google Cloud
environments during the transition; the resilience of our electronic platforms
and the soundness of our business continuity and disaster recovery plans,
including in the event of cyberattacks and cyberterrorism or as impacted by a
failure of or disruption at one of our suppliers; our ability to maintain
existing customers at substantially similar trading levels, develop strategic
relationships and attract new customers; our ability to expand and globally
offer our products and services; changes in regulations, including the impact of
any changes in laws or government policies with respect to our products or
services or our industry, such as any changes to regulations and policies that
require increased financial and operational resources from us or our customers,
as well as the impact of tariffs and tax policy changes, restrictions on our
ability to offer CME Group products and services in specific geographies or to
specific customers or limitations or changes in underlying/physical product
flows across geographies; the costs associated with protecting our intellectual
property rights and our ability to operate our business without violating the
intellectual property rights of others; decreases in revenue from our market
data as a result of decreased demand or changes to regulations in various
jurisdictions; changes in our rate per contract due to shifts in the mix of the
products traded, the trading venue and the mix of customers (whether the
customer receives member or non-member fees or participates in one of our
various incentive programs) and the impact of our tiered pricing structure; the
ability of our credit and liquidity risk management practices to adequately
protect us from the credit risks of clearing firms and other counterparties, and
to satisfy the margin and liquidity requirements associated with the BrokerTec
matched principal business; the ability of our compliance and risk management
programs to effectively monitor and manage our risks, including our ability to
prevent errors and misconduct and protect our infrastructure against security
breaches and misappropriation of our intellectual property assets; our
dependence on third-party providers and exposure to risk from third parties,
including risks related to the performance, reliability and security of
technology used by, or facilities provided by, our third-party providers and
third-party providers that our clients and third-parties rely on; our reliance
on third-party distribution partners, including independent software vendors,
futures commission merchants, introducing brokers, broker-dealers, regulatory
reporting and data distributors and platform operators, and other partners, for
facilitating trading and for market data information, and potential impacts from
changes in their business models and priorities; volatility in commodity, equity
and fixed income prices, and price volatility of financial benchmarks and
instruments such as interest rates, equity indices, fixed income instruments and
foreign exchange rates; economic, social, political and market conditions,
including new and existing geopolitical tensions or conflicts, the volatility of
the capital and credit markets and the impact of economic conditions on the
trading activity of our current and potential customers; our ability to
accommodate increases in contract volume and market data and order transaction
traffic across the entire trade cycle and the ability to implement enhancements
meeting our regulatory obligations and customer needs without failure or
degradation of the performance of our trading and clearing systems; our ability
to execute our growth strategy and maintain our growth effectively; our ability
to manage the risks, control the costs and achieve the synergies associated with
our strategy for acquisitions, investments, alliances, strategic partnerships
and joint ventures; variances in earnings on cash accounts and collateral that
our clearing house holds; impact of CME Group pricing/fee level and structure
and incentive changes; impact of aggregation services and internalization on
trade flow and volumes; any negative financial impacts from changes to the terms
of intellectual property and index rights; our ability to continue to generate
funds and/or manage our indebtedness to allow us to continue to invest in our
business; industry, channel partner and customer consolidation and/or
concentration; decreases in trading and clearing activity; the imposition of a
transaction tax or user fee on
futures and options transactions and/or repeal of the 60/40 tax treatment of
such transactions; increases in effective tax rates, borrowing costs, or changes
in tax policy; our ability to maintain our brand and reputation; and the
unfavorable resolution of material legal proceedings. For a detailed discussion
and additional information concerning these and other factors that might affect
our performance, see our other recent periodic filings, including our Annual
Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2025, as filed with the
Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") on February 26, 2026, under the
caption "Risk Factors".
# # #
CME Group Inc. and Subsidiaries
Consolidated Balance Sheets
(in millions)
September 30, 2026 December 31, 2025
──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
ASSETS
Current Assets:
Cash and cash equivalents $ 2,198.5 $ 4,416.9
Marketable securities 131.0 125.0
Accounts receivable, net of 788.1 639.2
allowance
Other current assets
(includes $3.5 and 840.9 522.1
$6.5 in restricted cash)
Performance bonds and
guaranty fund 155,179.7 159,656.1
contributions
Total current assets 159,138.2 165,359.3
Property, net of
accumulated 338.7 362.7
depreciation and
amortization
Intangible assets—trading 17,175.3 17,175.3
products
Intangible assets—other, 2,440.1 2,610.7
net
Goodwill 10,505.9 10,514.7
Other assets 2,494.3 2,401.5
Total Assets $ 192,092.5 $ 198,424.2
LIABILITIES AND EQUITY
Current Liabilities:
Accounts payable $ 67.7 $ 71.8
Other current liabilities 865.5 568.8
Performance bonds and
guaranty fund 155,179.7 159,656.1
contributions
Total current liabilities 156,112.9 160,296.7
Long-term debt 3,425.1 3,422.3
Deferred income tax 5,208.6 5,242.2
liabilities, net
Other liabilities 785.6 734.8
Total Liabilities 165,532.2 169,696.0
Total CME Group 26,560.3 28,728.2
Shareholders’ Equity
Total Liabilities and $ 192,092.5 $ 198,424.2
Equity
CME Group Inc. and Subsidiaries
Consolidated Statements of Income
(dollars in millions, except per share amounts; shares in thousands)
Nine
Quarter Months
Ended Ended
Septemb… Septemb…
2026 30, 2025 2026 30, 2025
──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
Reven…
Clear…
and $ 1,378.1 $ 1,227.9 $ 4,273.2 $ 3,953.2
trans…
fees
Market
data
and 243.1 202.5 705.3 595.1
infor…
servi…
Other 116.1 107.2 345.1 323.6
Total 1,737.3 1,537.6 5,323.6 4,871.9
Reven…
Expen…
Compe…
and 234.3 237.6 690.8 665.9
benef…
Techn… 80.9 71.4 240.8 208.0
Profe…
fees
and 31.1 36.7 88.4 102.6
outsi…
servi…
Amort…
of 56.0 56.2 168.1 167.5
purch…
intan…
Depre…
and 27.4 26.4 82.8 81.0
amort…
Licen…
and
other 104.2 81.6 320.1 274.4
fee
agree…
Other 62.0 55.1 174.4 162.6
Total 595.9 565.0 1,765.4 1,662.0
Expen…
Opera… 1,141.4 972.6 3,558.2 3,209.9
Income
Non-O…
Income
(Expe…
Inves… 1,418.1 1,548.7 4,237.1 3,959.8
income
Inter…
and
other -43.5 -44.0 -130.7 -129.7
borro…
costs
Equity
in net
earni… 102.8 96.3 302.9 283.5
of
uncon…
subsi…
Other
non-o… -1,264.0 -1,396… -3,774.1 -3,571…
income
(expe…
Total
Non-O… 213.4 204.4 635.2 542.2
Income
(Expe…
Income
before 1,354.8 1,177.0 4,193.4 3,752.1
Income
Taxes
Income
tax 317.9 269.0 960.4 862.8
provi…
Net $ 1,036.9 $ 908.0 $ 3,233.0 $ 2,889.3
Income
Net
Income
Attri…
to
Common $ 1,036.9 $ 896.6 $ 3,234.2 $ 2,853.0
Share…
of CME
Group
-
Basic…
Net
Income
Attri…
to
Common $ 1,036.9 $ 896.6 $ 3,233.0 $ 2,853.0
Share…
of CME
Group
-
Dilut…
Earni…
per
Share
Attri…
to
Common
Share…
of CME
Group:
Basic $ 2.90 $ 2.49 $ 9.00 $ 7.93
Dilut… 2.89 2.49 8.96 7.92
Weigh…
Avera…
Number
of
Common
Share…
Basic 358,019 359,686 359,336 359,653
Dilut… 358,641 360,422 361,018 360,330
1. The
diffe…
betwe…
Net
Income
and
Net
Income
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to
Common
Share…
of CME
Group
-
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and
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earni…
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5,
2026
with
their
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start…
in the
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of
2026.
CME
Group
Inc.
and
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Adju…
Oper…
Inco…
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in
mill…
Quarter Nine
Ended Months
Septem… Ended
30, Septe…
30,
2026 2025 2026 2025
Total $ 1,737… $ 1,537.6 $ 5,323.6 $ 4,871…
Reve…
Adju…
Total $ 1,737… $ 1,537.6 $ 5,323.6 $ 4,871…
Reve…
Total $ 595.9 $ 565.0 $ 1,765.4 $ 1,662…
Expe…
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and -5.4 -6.5 -15.4 -9.0
seve…
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comp…
Amor…
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purc…
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Expe…
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Adju…
Oper… $ 1,205… $ 1,051.0 $ 3,758.9 $ 3,419…
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Adju…
Net
Inco…
Adju…
Net
Inco…
Attr…
to
Comm…
Shar…
of
CME
Group
-
Basi…
Adju…
Net
Inco…
Attr…
to
Comm…
Shar…
of
CME 1,036… 908.0 3,233.0 2,889…
Group 5.4 6.5 15.4 9.0
- 60.0 69.6 180.1 207.2
Dilu… — 3.7 0.4 6.5
Earn… 0.7 0.7 0.7 (7.4)
per 1.4 (0.8) 0.8 5.1
Share 0.1 (0.4) 19.1 6.1
Attr… — — — 0.4
to — 8.5 Nine 1.9 19.4
Comm… Quarter (16.3) (18.2) Months (52.6) (49.8)
Shar… Ended (4.3) 0.8 Ended (13.1) (8.1)
of Septem… 1,083… 978.4 Septe… 3,385.7 3,077…
CME 30, 1,083… 966.1 30, 3,386.4 3,039…
Grou… 2026 1,083… 2025 966.1 2026 3,385.7 2025 3,039…
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Basic $ 2.90 $ 2.49 $ 9.00 $ 7.93
Dilu… 2.89 2.49 8.96 7.92
Adju…
Earn…
per
Share
Attr…
to
Comm…
Shar…
of
CME
Grou…
Basic $ 3.03 $ 2.69 $ 9.42 $ 8.45
Dilu… 3.02 2.68 9.38 8.43
Weig…
Aver…
Numb…
of
Comm…
Shar…
Basic 358,0… 359,686 359,336 359,6…
Dilu… 358,6… 360,422 361,018 360,3…
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the
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nine
mont…
of
2026.
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is
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on
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2.
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above
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Comm…
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-
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and
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all
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on
March
5,
2026
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the
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in
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of
2026.
CME Group Inc. and Subsidiaries
Quarterly Operating Statistics
3Q 4Q 1Q 2Q 2026 3Q
2025 2025 2026 2026
Trad… 64 64 61 62 64
Days
Quarterly Average Daily Volume (ADV)
(1)
CME Group ADV (in thousands)
Pr… 3Q 4Q 1Q 2Q 3Q
Li… 2025 2025 2026 2026 2026
In… 13,… 13,… 18,6… 14,5… 15,1…
ra…
Eq… 6,2… 7,7… 8,655 8,633 7,714
in…
Fo… 834 853 1,193 989 988
ex…
En… 2,2… 2,5… 3,985 2,667 2,665
Ag… 1,7… 1,7… 2,042 2,080 2,022
co…
Me… 825 1,4… 1,682 941 935
To… 25,… 27,… 36,2… 29,8… 29,4…
Ve…
CME 23,… 25,… 33,6… 27,9… 27,4…
Gl…
Op… 989 816 1,241 830 872
ou…
Pr… 915 995 1,357 1,078 1,100
ne…
To… 25,… 27,… 36,2… 29,8… 29,4…
Quarterly Average Rate Per Contract (RPC)
(1)
CME Group RPC
Pr… 3Q 4Q 1Q 2Q 3Q
Li… 2025 2025 2026 2026 2026
──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
In… $ 0.4… $ 0.4… $ 0.4… $ 0.4… $ 0.4…
ra…
Eq… 0.6… 0.6… 0.5… 0.6… 0.6…
in…
Fo… 0.8… 0.8… 0.7… 0.8… 0.8…
ex…
En… 1.2… 1.2… 1.0… 1.1… 1.1…
Ag… 1.4… 1.4… 1.3… 1.4… 1.3…
co…
Me… 1.5… 1.2… 1.1… 1.3… 1.3…
Av… $ 0.7… $ 0.7… $ 0.6… $ 0.6… $ 0.6…
RPC
1.
ADV
and
RPC
in…
fu…
and
op…
on
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on…