CME Group Inc.

CME Financial Financial Data & Stock Exchanges

CME Group Inc.’s revenue for fiscal 2025 (year ended December 2025) was $6.5 billion, up 6.37% from fiscal 2024. In the quarter to June 2026, revenue was flat, EPS grew 2.85%, free cash flow fell 11.2% and total debt was flat, each against the same quarter a year earlier. Member of the S&P 500; revenue growth for three consecutive years, operating cash flow growth for three; insiders bought in the last twelve months.

293.87 4.41 +1.52%
Market cap
$104.1B
P/E
24.7×
Fwd P/E
21.7×
Dividend yield
1.31%
F-score
4/9
Altman Z
n/a
Beneish M
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Dividend safety
n/a

CME Group Inc. (CME) Price to free cash flow

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As of 16 October 2026, CME Group Inc. (CME) trades at a price to free cash flow of 25.2×. Over the past ten years it has ranged from 18.1× (June 2026) to 40.7× (July 2021); the current reading is higher than 52% of that period. That is above the Financial Data & Stock Exchanges industry median of 19.6× and above the Financial sector median of 9.9×.

Price to free cash flow, daily

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Annual newest first

Period Price to free cash flow Change
FY2025 23.4× 0.92%
FY2024 23.2× 4.34%
FY2023 22.2× 8.86%
FY2022 20.4× (42.24%)
FY2021 35.4× 36.75%
FY2020 25.9× (12.43%)
FY2019 29.5× 6.59%
FY2018 27.7× (5.68%)
FY2017 29.4× 24.81%
FY2016 23.5× 9.60%

Quarterly newest first

Period Price to free cash flow Change
Jun 2026 18.9× (22.87%)
Mar 2026 24.5× 4.67%
Dec 2025 23.4× (1.58%)
Sep 2025 23.8× (1.40%)
42 more quarters

Against its own ten years

Low 18.1× High 40.7×
Ten-year median 24.9×
Current reading's percentile 52

Price to free cash flow against peers

Company Price to free cash flow
CBOE Cboe Global Markets, Inc. compare 17.6×
TRU TransUnion compare 18.1×
ICE Intercontinental Exchange Inc. compare 19.6×
SPGI S&P Global Inc. compare 22.8×
CME CME Group Inc. 25.2×
NDAQ Nasdaq, Inc. compare 27.1×
MSCI MSCI Inc compare 27.8×
MCO Moody's Corporation compare 28.4×
COIN Coinbase Global, Inc. compare 41.8×
Financial Data & Stock Exchanges industry median 19.6×
Financial sector median 9.9×
Market median 14.2×

What Price to free cash flow is

Price to Free Cash Flow Ratio shows how much investors pay for each dollar of cash a company generates after its capital spending.

Stock Price ÷ ((Operating Cash Flow (TTM) + Property, Plant, Equipment Change (Net) (TTM) + Intangible Assets Change (Net) (TTM)) ÷ (Shares (Basic, Weighted) (latest quarter)))

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