CME Group Inc
- Industry
- Exchanges
- Exchange
- US
- Country
- USA
- IPO date
- Dec 6, 2002
- Employees
- 3,875
- Website
- www.cmegroup.com
Composite valuation range · conservative $190–$215 / fair $245–$275 / optimistic $330–$370. At $255.36, Within the fair intrinsic-value range.
At publication $291.23 (May 24, 2026)
Data from EODHD, shown in the reporting currency; for reference only, not investment advice.
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 indexes, and foreign exchange; and agricultural, energy, and metals commodities, as well as fixed income and foreign currency trading services. The company provides clearing house services, including clearing, settling, and guaranteeing futures and options contracts, and cleared swaps products traded through its exchanges. In addition, the company offers a range of market data services, including real-time and historical data services. It serves professional traders, financial institutions, institutional and individual investors, corporations, manufacturers, producers, governments, and central banks. The company was formerly known as Chicago Mercantile Exchange Holdings Inc. and changed its name to CME Group Inc. in July 2007. The company was founded in 1898 and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.
History
CME Group Inc. was founded in 1898 and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. The company was formerly known as Chicago Mercantile Exchange Holdings Inc. and changed its name to CME Group Inc. in July 2007. It went public via an IPO on December 6, 2002. CME Group operates four derivatives exchanges—CME, CBOT, NYMEX, and COMEX—together with a central counterparty clearing house, and also provides fixed-income cash and repo trading through BrokerTec and spot and OTC foreign exchange through EBS.
Industry position
CME Group is the world's largest derivatives exchange and clearing house, offering trading, clearing, settlement, and market-data services across interest rates, equity indexes, foreign exchange, agricultural, energy, metals, and cryptocurrency products. In 2025 it generated revenue of USD 6.521 billion, with clearing and transaction fees at USD 5.281 billion (about 81%) and market data and information services at USD 803 million (about 12%); over 93% of total volume traded on its electronic platform CME Globex. It set a 2025 record average daily volume of 28.129 million contracts. Its main exchange-operator peers include ICE, NDAQ, and CBOE, while FMX has entered targeting SOFR and U.S. Treasury futures.