CME Group Inc. Reports Financial Results for the Third-Quarter 2020

CME Group Inc. (NASDAQ: CME), world's leading and most diverse derivatives marketplace, today disclosed its financial results for the third quarter of 2020, which were characterized by stable metrics in areas ranging from operating income to revenues.

The company reported revenue of $1.1 billion and operating income of $525 million for the third quarter of 2020. Net income was $412 million and diluted earnings per share were $1.15.  On an adjusted basis, net income was $495 million and diluted earnings per share were $1.38. Clearing and transaction fees revenue for third-quarter 2020 totaled $835.4 million. The total average rate per contract was $0.716.  Market data revenue totaled $139.4 million for third-quarter 2020.

"Despite the many challenges created by the ongoing pandemic, our metals, equities, agriculture and data services businesses showed strong performance during the third quarter," said CME Group Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Terry Duffy.  "Likewise, we continued to innovate amid the extreme uncertainty, announcing a number of new products and services across asset classes, including Micro E-mini options and Nasdaq Veles California Water Index futures.  In Q4, we remain focused on adding new value through the migration of BrokerTec onto CME Globex later this year, as well as providing risk management tools to help our global clients as they continue to navigate through this difficult economic environment."

As the world's leading and most diverse derivatives marketplace, CME Group enables clients to trade futures, options, cash and OTC markets, optimize portfolios, and analyze data - empowering market participants worldwide to efficiently manage risk and capture opportunities. CME Group exchanges offer the widest range of global benchmark products across all major asset classes based on interest rates, equity indexes, foreign exchange, energy, agricultural products and metals. The company offers futures and options on futures trading through the CME Globex® platform, fixed income trading via BrokerTec and foreign exchange trading on the EBS platform. In addition, it operates one of the world's leading central counterparty clearing providers, CME Clearing. With a range of pre- and post-trade products and services underpinning the entire lifecycle of a trade, CME Group also offers optimization and reconciliation services through TriOptima, and trade processing services through Traiana.