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Valued at $83.9 billion by market cap, CME Group Inc. (CME) operates as the world’s leading derivatives marketplace. The Chicago-based derivatives exchange offers the widest range of global benchmark products across all major asset classes, including futures and options based on interest rates, equity indexes, foreign exchange, energy, agricultural commodities, metals, weather and real estate.
The financial sector giant is set to announce its fourth-quarter results before the markets open on Wednesday, Feb. 12. Ahead of the event, analysts expect CME to report a non-GAAP profit of $2.45 per share, up 3.4% from $2.37 per share reported in the year-ago quarter. Furthermore, the company has surpassed Wall Street’s bottom-line projections in each of the past four quarters. Its adjusted EPS for the last reported quarter surged 19.1% year-over-year to $2.68, exceeding analysts' estimates by 1.1%.
