CME Group Inc.

CME · Financial Services

$280.58
+1.49% today

What a holder would want to know before buying CME: where the price sits in its own history, how far it has fallen before and whether it recovered, and what the business behind it earns. All of it is arithmetic over free market data — no opinions, no recommendations.

Where the price sits
Low $218.58 · Jun 2026High $326.46 · Mar 2026

Today’s price is 28% above the lowest point of the past year and 14% below the highest.

Over the past year it was cheaper than today on 61% of days and more expensive on 39%. Over the last 10 years: cheaper on 95% of days.

1% above its average price of the last 200 trading days.

How bad does it get

Fell 20% or more twice in 10 years. The deepest fall was 38%; the longest took 2.9 years to get back to its peak. Every one recovered.

Now 14% below the Mar 2026 peak.

Mar 2022
−33%back in 2.9 years
Mar 2020
−38%back in 20 months
What you own

CME Group Inc. · Financial Services · Financial Data & Stock Exchanges · a large company worth $100.88B

CME Group Inc., together with its subsidiaries, operates contract markets for the trading of futures and options on futures contracts worldwide. It offers futures and options products based on interest rates, equity…

Is it making money?
2022
2023
2024
2025

revenue profit

Sales of $6.52B in 2025, with $4.07B of profit. Sales grew in 3 of the last 3 years.

Keeps about 63 cents of every dollar of sales as profit.

Is it healthy?
Cash
$2.28B
Debt
$3.87B
Free cash flow / yr
$2.91B

Would need about 1.3 years of free cash flow to repay all its debt.

Is it expensive?

You pay $24 for every $1 of last year’s profit, and $22 for every $1 of profit expected next year.

A high number means buyers expect growth; a low one means they expect little, or fear trouble. Large US companies have averaged roughly 15–20 over the decades.

Pays 1.88% a year in dividends at today’s price · next ex-dividend Sep 9.

What others are doing

17 analysts: 9 say buy, 5 hold, 3 sell. Their average 12-month target is $289.06 (range $217.00–$337.00).

Insiders made 2 purchases and 4 sales in the last 6 months.

Free data from Yahoo Finance, refreshed daily. This is evidence about the business and its price history, not a recommendation.

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