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CME CME GROUP INC

2026Q2 · CUSIP 12572Q105 · Sector: Financials

Exiting + falling

Funds leaving and price falling — historically weak for the next six months

Funds that own it
1,654
Institutions that reported holding it to the SEC
Net decrease in holders
127
Last quarter 1,781 → now 1,654
How unusual is that
Bottom 20%
Stronger than only 0.5% of US stocks
What the filings say, in one paragraph

1,654 funds held CME at the end of 2026Q2, down 127 from the quarter before. Buying is stronger than only 0.5% of US stocks, and the price fell over the same quarter — funds leaving and price weakness at the same time. On the business itself, revenue over the last 12 months was $6.8B(YoY +5.1%), the P/E is 24.2x, return on equity is 16.2%. CME has had 29 buying rushes in its history, and the price moved +5.8% on average over the six months after (that is the raw price move, not how much it beat the market by). It sits in the Financials sector.

How many funds owned it, quarter by quarter

Bars = net change in institutional holders, positive (green) or negative (red). Line = total institutional holders.

2013Q3: holders=510 2013Q4: holders=547 2014Q1: holders=534 2014Q2: holders=514 2014Q3: holders=515 2014Q4: holders=559 2015Q1: holders=568 2015Q2: holders=586 2015Q3: holders=604 2015Q4: holders=618 2016Q1: holders=608 2016Q2: holders=638 2016Q3: holders=670 2016Q4: holders=731 2017Q1: holders=740 2017Q2: holders=747 2017Q3: holders=735 2017Q4: holders=829 2018Q1: holders=876 2018Q2: holders=903 2018Q3: holders=920 2018Q4: holders=978 2019Q1: holders=977 2019Q2: holders=950 2019Q3: holders=970 2019Q4: holders=1031 2020Q1: holders=1007 2020Q2: holders=1021 2020Q3: holders=981 2020Q4: holders=1010 2021Q1: holders=1044 2021Q2: holders=1065 2021Q3: holders=1036 2021Q4: holders=1136 2022Q1: holders=1170 2022Q2: holders=1143 2022Q3: holders=1128 2022Q4: holders=1137 2023Q1: holders=1162 2023Q2: holders=1181 2023Q3: holders=1217 2023Q4: holders=1354 2024Q1: holders=1360 2024Q2: holders=1371 2024Q3: holders=1379 2024Q4: holders=1489 2025Q1: holders=1583 2025Q2: holders=1642 2025Q3: holders=1627 2025Q4: holders=1716 2026Q1: holders=1781 2026Q2: holders=1654 -137 -68.5 +0 +68.5 +137 45911651871 13Q315Q116Q318Q119Q321Q122Q324Q125Q326Q2 Net change in holders (bars) Total funds holding (line)

What happened after each past buying rush 29 times in its history

Quarter of the rush How unusual then Price, next 3 months Price, next 6 months
2026Q1 Top 5%
2025Q4 Top 5% -2.3%
2025Q2 Top 5% +5.9% +12.9%
2025Q1 Top 1% in the market -1.9% +1.4%
2024Q4 Top 5% +13.1% +11.2%
2023Q4 Top 5% +0.9% -0.5%
2023Q3 Top 5% +2.5% +3.1%
2023Q2 Top 20% +3.4% +6.1%

These are the raw price moves, not how much it beat the market by. Compare them against the market over the same months — in a strong bull market almost everything is up.

Show all the numbers (large funds, value held, options…) ▾
Of them, large funds
372
Change in large funds
+27
Total value they hold
$74.4B
Funds buying for the first time
162
Funds that sold out entirely
289
Price change that quarter
-5.8%
Funds holding puts (bearish)
26
Funds holding calls (bullish)
29

These are for people who want to dig. Skip them if they do not mean anything to you — the three numbers above are enough.

8,697 institutions have filed for this quarter. 13F permits late filing and a small number arrive in the weeks after the deadline, so the holder counts and changes below may tick up.

Fundamentals

PE (TTM)
24.2
EPS (TTM)
$11.79
EPS YoY
+14.1%
Revenue (TTM)
$6.8B
Revenue YoY
+5.1%
Net margin
63.3%
ROE
16.2%
Debt ratio
86.4%
FCF (TTM)
$4.2B
Dividend (TTM)
$11.25
Quarterly Revenue & EPS
2022-09-30: EPS 1.87 2022-12-31: EPS 1.76 2023-03-31: EPS 2.43 2023-06-30: EPS 2.14 2023-09-30: EPS 2.06 2023-12-31: EPS 2.23 2024-03-31: EPS 2.35 2024-06-30: EPS 2.42 2024-09-30: EPS 2.50 2024-12-31: EPS 2.40 2025-03-31: EPS 2.62 2025-06-30: EPS 2.81 2025-09-30: EPS 2.49 2025-12-31: EPS 3.24 2026-03-31: EPS 3.18 2026-06-30: EPS 2.88 0B 0.9B 1.9B $B 0.00 1.78 3.56 2016201720182019202020212022202320242025202606/26 Revenue EPS

Quarterly figures, revenue up to 10 years back; EPS split-adjusted, early quarters hidden when not calibrable

P/E (TTM) over time
4Y median 23 19 24 28 2023202420252026

P/E = close around day 47 after quarter-end ÷ TTM EPS then; this is a consistent valuation date, not the company’s actual filing date; loss quarters hidden

Quarterly free cash flow
0K619M1.2B 20162017201820192020202120222023202420252026
Latest quarter $1.2B (2026-03-31)

FCF = operating cash flow − capex, computed from SEC XBRL; banks/insurers have no standard cash-flow structure and are hidden

As of 2026-06-30 · SEC filings (XBRL)

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