CHICAGO, Dec. 5, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- CME Group Inc.
(NASDAQ: CME) today declared its annual variable dividend,
amounting to $1.75 per share.
The dividend is payable January 16,
2019, to shareholders of record on December 28, 2018. When CME Group adopted
its annual variable dividend structure in February 2012, the intention was to determine the
excess cash available at the end of each year, with the level to
increase or decrease from year to year based on operating results,
potential investment activity and other forms of capital
return.
The annual variable dividend of $1.75 per share to be paid in January 2019 totals approximately $625 million. This follows CME Group's
acquisition of NEX Group plc on November
2, bringing together cash, futures and OTC
marketplaces. Including today's announced variable dividend
and the previously announced fourth-quarter 2018 dividend of
$0.70 per share to be paid in
December, the total dividend yield for dividends announced during
2018 is 2.7 percent based on the average closing stock price in
2018 to date. The company will have paid a total of more than
$11 billion in quarterly and variable
dividends since adopting the annual variable dividend structure in
the beginning of 2012.
As the world's leading and most diverse derivatives marketplace,
CME Group (www.cmegroup.com) enables clients to trade futures, 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
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
services through TriOptima, and trade processing and reconciliation
services through Traiana.
CME Group, the Globe logo, CME, Chicago Mercantile Exchange,
Globex, and, E-mini are trademarks of Chicago Mercantile Exchange
Inc. CBOT, Chicago Board of
Trade, NYMEX, New York Mercantile Exchange and ClearPort are
trademarks of New York Mercantile Exchange, Inc. COMEX is a
trademark of Commodity Exchange, Inc. BrokerTec, EBS,
TriOptima, and Traiana are trademarks of BrokerTec Europe LTD, EBS
Group LTD, TriOptima AB, and Traiana, Inc.,
respectively. Dow Jones, Dow Jones Industrial Average,
S&P 500 and S&P are service and/or trademarks of Dow Jones
Trademark Holdings LLC, Standard & Poor's Financial Services
LLC and S&P/Dow Jones Indices LLC, as the case may be, and have
been licensed for use by Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc. All
other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
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