How CME Group Inc. stacks up

CME · against 19 other Financial Services companies of similar size

Profitability

77/ 100

Above the middle of the pack.

Ranked #8 of 20 · scores higher than 63% of peers

Bars: peers in each 10-point band of the profitability score

7 peers with a profitability score of 70–79, including CME · Click a bar to see the companies

Why profitability scores 77?

Weighted metrics compared with all Financial Services companies.

Mainly thanks to its operating margin and return on invested capital, which are stronger than most Financial Services peers.

Return on assets is close to the peer norm. Return on assets: 2.2% vs peer median 2.6%
a higher return on invested capital: stronger than 75% of peers. Return on invested capital: 14.3% vs peer median 6.3%
a wider operating margin: stronger than 93% of peers. Operating margin: 65.1% vs peer median 23.5%

Metric by metric

Position: dot = CME, ranked from the worst peer (left) to the best (right); tick = middle, shaded = middle half of peers.

Metric	CME	Peer median	Better than	Weight
Return on invested capitalHigher is better · 19 reported	14.3%	13.5%	61%	33%
Operating marginHigher is better · 16 reported	65.1%	31.1%	87%	33%
Return on assetsHigher is better · 20 reported	2.2%	3.3%	37%	33%
Return on equityHigher is better · 19 reported	15.8%	16.5%	44%	Context only
Gross marginHigher is better · 20 reported	100.0%	72.6%	84%	Context only

Ranking by profitability score

Top 5 and the companies ranked around CME

Rank	Company	Market cap	Profitability	Overall
1	Blackstone Inc.BX · US-listed	141.3B USD	95	52
2	Brookfield Asset Management Ltd.BAM · US-listed	81.4B USD	93	54
3	Moody's CorporationMCO · US-listed	87.2B USD	92	49
4	Apollo Global Management, Inc.APO · US-listed	67.1B USD	82	51
5	S&P Global Inc.SPGI · US-listed	137.4B USD	79	50
6	Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited0388.HK · Hong Kong	477.0B HKD (≈$61.1B)	78	60
6	American Express CompanyAXP · US-listed	218.3B USD	78	50
8	CME Group Inc.CME · US-listed	109.3B USD	77	53
9	Aon plcAON · US-listed	70.0B USD	76	53
10	Marsh & McLennan Companies, Inc.MRSH · US-listed	97.2B USD	72	44
11	Nasdaq, Inc.NDAQ · US-listed	59.8B USD	71	46
12	BlackRock, Inc.BLK · US-listed	188.7B USD	64	45

Scores are sector-relative percentiles from the latest snapshot, always calculated against the whole sector: narrowing the comparison group changes who you compare with, not the scores. Missing metrics are left out and the remaining weights rescaled. How we score

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