CME

CME Group Inc. ·Nasdaq Global Select·Financial Services
262.18 live · 2026-08-12 15:59

Structural scoring is not meaningful for this business

Structural scoring uses gross margin, free cash flow and Altman Z — measures built for operating companies. For banks, insurers and asset managers they produce artifacts, because the cash-flow statement is dominated by lending and deposit flows rather than operations. Treat the structural and composite figures below as not comparable with other sectors, in either direction.

  • Cost of goods sold is not reported, so gross margin reads as 100%
47.0% not comparable
Brown Bear Score
59.4% not comparable
Business Conviction Score
51.9%
Position Health Score
0.0%
Chase Risk
Daily closes

Daily closes · 1Y (252 sessions) · -5.0% · range 218.58–326.46

The Businesswhat the company reports

Business & cash flow

FCF / assets 2.1%
OCF / assets 2.2%
FCF / revenue 65.6%
Gross margin 100.0%
ROIC 14.4%
Forward P/E 20.3

FCF/assets and OCF/assets are the cash-flow measures Brown Bear's own testing found to survive; FCF/revenue is shown alongside for context. Assets are from the latest annual filing (FY2025).

Price vs Earnings growth

Forward EPS growth has outpaced trailing price return by +13.4pp

Confidence 95.0/100

Takeaway Earnings growth is outpacing price — consistent with the stock not yet fully reflecting its improving forward estimates.

Reported earnings

Next report 2026-10-20 before the open · consensus EPS 2.97

Q3 23 revenue: 1.34bnQ4 23 revenue: 1.44bnQ4 23Q1 24 revenue: 1.49bnQ2 24 revenue: 1.53bnQ2 24Q3 24 revenue: 1.58bnQ4 24 revenue: 1.53bnQ4 24Q1 25 revenue: 1.64bnQ2 25 revenue: 1.69bnQ2 25 net income: 1.03bnQ2 25 EPS: 2.84Q2 25Q3 25 revenue: 1.54bnQ4 25 revenue: 1.65bnQ4 25Q1 26 revenue: 1.88bnQ2 26 revenue: 1.71bnQ2 26 net income: 1.04bnQ2 26 EPS: 2.88Q2 26

Revenue Net incomeEPS (GAAP) (2.84–2.88, own scale) Derived Q4

12 quarters to Q2 26. Revenue and net income share one scale, so the gap between them is the margin. The line is GAAP EPS — it spans every quarter shown, where the reported figure only goes back as far as the consensus feed does.

Quarter endingRevenueYoY Net incomeEPS (GAAP) EPS reportedvs consensus Filed
2026-06-30 1.71bn +0.8% 1.04bn 2.88 2.99 +1.8% 2026-07-24
2026-03-31 1.88bn +14.5% 3.36 -1.2% 2026-04-24
2025-12-31 (derived) 1.65bn +8.1% 2.77 -0.0% 2026-02-26
2025-09-30 1.54bn -3.0% 2.68 +0.8% 2025-10-24

Earnings response

Typical move around a filing ±1.2%
On an ordinary two days ±1.1% — filings move it 1.1× as much
Direction 6 up, 6 down over 12 filings
Revenue change and price reaction, by quarter
Q3 22 revenue +10.6% year on yearQ3 22 filed 2022-11-02: price -1.5%Q1 23 revenue +7.1% year on yearQ1 23 filed 2023-05-03: price -0.9%Q1 23Q2 23 revenue +9.9% year on yearQ2 23 filed 2023-08-02: price +1.5%Q3 23 revenue +9.0% year on yearQ3 23 filed 2023-11-01: price -0.4%Q3 23Q1 24 revenue +3.2% year on yearQ1 24 filed 2024-05-01: price -1.0%Q2 24 revenue +12.7% year on yearQ2 24 filed 2024-08-05: price +1.3%Q2 24Q3 24 revenue +18.4% year on yearQ3 24 filed 2024-11-08: price +1.8%Q1 25 revenue +10.4% year on yearQ1 25 filed 2025-04-30: price +1.7%Q1 25Q2 25 revenue +10.4% year on yearQ2 25 filed 2025-07-25: price -1.1%Q3 25 revenue -3.0% year on yearQ3 25 filed 2025-10-24: price +0.8%Q3 25Q1 26 revenue +14.5% year on yearQ1 26 filed 2026-04-24: price -1.2%Q2 26 revenue +0.8% year on yearQ2 26 filed 2026-07-24: price +0.4%Q2 26

Revenue up year on year Revenue down Price move around the filing separate scales — a crossing means nothing

Quarter endingFiledRevenue YoY Move around filingNext 20 sessions vs SPY
2026-06-30 2026-07-24 +0.8% +0.4%
2026-03-31 2026-04-24 +14.5% -1.2% -4.7%
2025-09-30 2025-10-24 -3.0% +0.8% +4.1%
2025-06-30 2025-07-25 +10.4% -1.1% -1.9%

Share count

Diluted shares over time

Diluted shares Return since the previous filing

Direction Flat — little net change
Diluted shares 361.3M as at 2026-06-30
Change over 1 year +0.3%
Change over 3 years +0.5%
Public float $98.90bn as at 2025-06-30 (10-K)

History before 2012-06-30 is not shown. The share count jumps at that date by a ratio no ordinary issuance produces — a split whose factor is not in Brown Bear's split store — so earlier figures are on a different basis and cannot be compared with today's.

The Pricewhat the chart is doingTop ↑

Price Levels

StrategyCurrent Price Reasonable
Reference band 258.24 — 264.79
Protective stop 247.33 (Atr, 5.4% risk)
Support 260.71 (2 touches, 0.6% away)
Resistance 269.67 (2.9% away)

Takeaway The shares are nearer the floor than the ceiling: about 0.6% above 260.71, a price buyers have stepped in at before, and 2.9% below 269.67, where sellers have turned up before. That floor has held 2 times, which is how it was spotted. If someone bought at today's price and sold if it dropped through the level below, they would be about 5.4% out of pocket. That is all this figure means — an illustration of the risk, not a price to sell at.

Levels are computed from price structure. They describe where the engine locates support and extension — they are not targets, and not advice.

Ichimoku Cloud (Adaptive)

Daily cloudPrice ABOVE the cloud | periods 7/21/42 (81% of classic 9/26/52)
LinesTenkan/Kijun BULL | cloud twist BULL
Cloud eventFresh up breakout 0d ago
Cloud thickness81% percentile (thick — substantial structure)
Chikou spanAbove price from 26 periods ago
Weekly cloudPrice BELOW the weekly cloud (context only, not scored)

Takeaway The stock is trading above its cloud — a shaded band drawn from several of its own moving averages, currently 244.16 to 260.92. Being above it means the medium-term picture is pointing upwards, and that band is the first place the stock has recent support if it slips back. Its shorter-term averages agree with that. The band is unusually wide at the moment, so it marks a broad zone rather than a single level.

Trailing returns

21 days +7.6%
63 days -8.3%
126 days -14.5%
252 days -8.3%
Below 252d high19.7%

Trend context

PositionAt trend
ExtensionNormal
Trend slopeFlat
Direction of travelHolding its deviation

Takeaway The share price is close to the level its own longer-run trend suggests is fair, and that fair level is going sideways. The gap between the two has been fairly steady. Neither is stretched far enough to stand out.

Volatility

State No recent compression
Current band width13.8% of price
Recent tightest13.8% (0 sessions ago, narrower than 42.0% of its history)
Expansion since1.00×
Band 240.00 — 275.51

Takeaway Lately this share price has been swinging around inside a range roughly 14% wide. That is normal for this stock, so there is nothing unusual to read into it either way.

Historical trends

0255075100Share price 234.76–267.792026-07-032026-08-12
Position Health Business Conviction Share price

History begins when the site started recording, not when the company listed, so a short line means a short record and nothing more.

Who's Tradingthe flow behind the priceTop ↑

Insider activity

ActivityNo filings in the window
Buy filings0
Sell filings0

Open-market Form 4 purchases and sales over the last 75 days, read from SEC EDGAR Form 4. Grants, option exercises, gifts and shares withheld for tax are excluded — they are compensation mechanics, not a decision to buy or sell. Reported Form 4 activity. Brown Bear tested insider cluster-buying as a return signal and rejected it as era-unstable; shown as fact, not signal.

Volume confirmation

Volume-price trend Above its signal line
Confirmation Marginal

No absorption or distribution event in the recent window.

Takeaway Slightly more shares change hands on rising days than on falling ones, but the gap is too small to read anything into.

Options Positioning

No binary-event flag

CME: no binary-event flag. Near IV 23%, far IV 25% (ratio 0.94), implied move 2.9%.

Implied volatility 23% near (9d) · 25% far (65d)
Term structure 0.94× near/far
Historical volatility 26%
Implied vs historical 0.88×
Implied move ±2.9% by 2026-08-21
Implied move vs ATR 0.45×
Skew Put Skew (1.48×)
Call wall 280.00 (+6.8% away)
Put wall 250.00 (-4.6% away)
Gamma pin 250.00

Takeaway Insuring against a move in this stock costs less for the next few weeks than for the next few months, which is the normal state of affairs and suggests no particular date is worrying anyone. Options traders are positioned for a move of around 2.9% in either direction by 2026-08-21.

Chain as at 2026-08-12. This is a risk read on whether a specific event is being priced — not a directional view.

Context & Methodthe record, and how it was builtTop ↑

Relative Rotation

ImprovingLeadingLaggingWeakeningvs sectorvs SPYsector vs SPYRS-Ratio →RS-Momentum →

Repair Attempt

Rotation health 43.2/100; Negative Rotation.

Rotation health 43.2
Rotation strength 62.3
LegQuadrantRS-RatioRS-Mom
Stock vs sector Weakening 109.6 88.4
Stock vs SPY Weakening 105.7 89.5
Sector vs SPY Lagging 76.4 91.0

Direction of travel: North-West / early recovery

Position only. Brown Bear's RRG redesign programme is closed — five constructions, none beat an appropriate null — so this section describes where the name sits, and is not a signal.

News Headlines

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Detailed Scoring

Positive signals

  • Piotroski F-score 5/9 (+10.0)
  • Insider conviction score (+7.0)
  • Gross margin quality: 100.0% (+22.0)
  • ROIC quality: 14.4% (+8.1)
  • FCF margin quality: 65.6% (+20.0)
  • Gross margin improving by 13.9 pts (+5.0)
  • FCF margin improving by 5.4 pts (+4.0)
  • High earnings quality (accrual ratio -0.001) (+2.0)
  • Track 1: MACD histogram state (0.10) (+4.0)
  • Track 1: relative strength trend improving (+5.0)
  • Track 1: 20-day momentum acceleration 0.15 (+9.0)
  • Track 1: bullish DI spread 12.9 (+3.0)
  • Track 1: ADX 51.2 and flat (+8.0)
  • Track 1: EMA20 reclaim distance 1.4% (+6.8)
  • Track 1: EMA20 slope improving 1.0% (+2.6)
  • Track 1: positive MACD regime (+3.0)
  • Track 1: VPT strength 0.05 (+1.0)
  • Track 1: price above EMA50 by 1.5% (+1.0)
  • Track 1: EMA50 slope improving 1.1% (+2.2)
  • Track 1: EMA50 support proximity 1.5% (+3.7)
  • Track 1: EMA200 support proximity 3.3% (+4.7)
  • Track 1: Bollinger position 0.62 (+3.0)
  • Regime convergence: ICHIMOKU_CLOUD_REVERSAL confidence 60.0/100 (EMERGING) (+12.0)

Negative signals

  • Track 1: weak volume confirmation (0.58x average)
  • Weak relative momentum rank (0.24)
  • Track 1: MACD histogram deteriorating (-2.04)
  • Track 1: RSI deterioration/extension 63.5, 5-day change -6.3
  • Below-average Altman Z-score (1.75)

Chase risk is not elevated for this name, so extension penalties are omitted from the negative signals above.