CME Group's Quarterly Earnings Preview: What You Need to Know

CME Group Inc. (CME), headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, operates contract markets for the trading of futures and options on futures contracts. Valued at $78.7 billion by market cap, it offers futures and options products based on interest rates, equity indexes, foreign exchange, agricultural commodities, energy, and metals, and more. It facilitates trading on its trading floors, electronic platform, and through privately negotiated transactions that it clears. The leading derivatives marketplace is expected to announce its fiscal second-quarter earnings for 2025 before the market opens on Wednesday, Jul. 23.  

Ahead of the event, analysts expect CME to report a profit of $2.98 per share on a diluted basis, up 16.4% from $2.56 per share in the year-ago quarter. The company has consistently surpassed Wall Street’s EPS estimates in its last four quarterly reports.