CME Group Inc.

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CME Group Inc.’s revenue for fiscal 2025 (year ended December 2025) was $6.5 billion, up 6.37% from fiscal 2024.

Revenue
+13.0%
EPS
+16.5%
Free cash flow
+12.7%
Total debt
+0.11%

Quarter to September 2026, against a year earlier

305.92 1.32 −0.43%
Market cap
$110.0B
P/E
24.9×
Fwd P/E
25.4×
Dividend yield
1.26%
F-score
4/9
Altman Z
n/a
Beneish M
n/a
Dividend safety
n/a

CME Group Inc. (CME) Return on invested capital

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CME Group Inc.'s return on invested capital over the twelve months to 30 September 2026 was 10.4%, up 0.8 percentage points from fiscal 2025 (9.57%). Over the past ten years it has ranged from 5.72% (fiscal 2019) to 9.57% (fiscal 2025) — the current reading is the highest in ten years. That is in line with the Financial Data & Stock Exchanges industry median of 10.6% and above the Financial sector median of 4.70%.

Return on invested capital, annual

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Annual newest first

Period Return on invested capital Change (points)
FY2025 9.57% 0.18
FY2024 9.39% 1.48
FY2023 7.91% 1.05
FY2022 6.86% 0.77
FY2021 6.09% 0.22
FY2020 5.87% 0.15
FY2019 5.72% (0.03)
FY2018 5.75% (0.63)
FY2017 6.38% (0.29)
FY2016 6.67% 0.76

Against its own ten years

Low 5.72% High 9.57%
Ten-year median 6.38%
Current reading's percentile 100

Return on invested capital against peers

Company Return on invested capital
MSCI MSCI Inc compare 34.7%
MCO Moody's Corporation compare 26.2%
CBOE Cboe Global Markets, Inc. compare 25.7%
SPGI S&P Global Inc. compare 15.5%
CME CME Group Inc. 10.4%
NDAQ Nasdaq, Inc. compare 8.56%
ICE Intercontinental Exchange Inc. compare 8.08%
TRU TransUnion compare 6.43%
COIN Coinbase Global, Inc. compare 0.77%
Financial Data & Stock Exchanges industry median 10.6%
Financial sector median 4.70%
Market median 0.00%

What Return on invested capital is

Return on Invested Capital shows how much after-tax operating profit a company earns on the money its lenders and shareholders have put in.

TTM: (Operating Income × 0.625) ÷ (Shareholders Equity (Total) (latest quarter) + Long Term Debt (Total) (latest quarter) + Current Part of Debt (latest quarter) − Cash & Short Term Investments (latest quarter)); Annual: (Operating Income × 0.625) ÷ (Shareholders Equity (Total) + Long Term Debt (Total) + Current Part of Debt − Cash & Short Term Investments)

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