CME Group (CME) Stock: Price, Trend, Options & Financials
CME Group's price regime, relative strength, unusual-options and unusual-volume history, curated-manager ownership and filed fundamentals — joined into one dated stock intelligence page.
What the evidence says now
CME closed at $274.98 on Aug 21, 2026. The price is +9.1% from its 50-day average and -0.3% from its 200-day average, which places it in the rules-based “split trend” regime. The relative-strength check: over three months the stock returned -5.0%, trailing SPY by 8.0%. It remains 14.9% below its 52-week high.
Sources, methodology & freshnessLast updated 2026-08-21 · Open ↓Close ↑
The close is +9.1% from its 50-day average and -0.3% from its 200-day average. Over three months, CME returned -5.0% versus +3.1% for SPY.
- vs 50-day
- +9.1%
- vs 200-day
- -0.3%
- From 52W high
- -14.9%
Descriptive, not predictive. “Uptrend” is a rules-based reading of the close and moving averages; it is not a rating, price target or recommendation.
Price & regime
One year of daily price and volume
252 split-adjusted sessions · candles above, share volume below
Unusual options — attention, not intent
CME appeared in a UOA top-30 list on 1 of 62 archived scanner sessions: 0 call-side, 1 put-side and 0 on both lists. The latest session did not place it in either top 30. No eligible current chain row was available, so the page does not manufacture a latest composite score.
| Recent flag | Call rank | Put rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-07-10 | — | #16 |
Latest chain snapshot
2026-08-21Strong-signature cutoff: 1.5. The current scanner did not supply an eligible row for this issuer.
Curated-manager ownership
2 of the 20 managers in the project's curated 13F set reported a long CME Group position in their latest filing, worth $148M in aggregate at each filing's reported value. This is a focused manager panel, not the complete institutional holder list.
| Fund / manager | Position value | Portfolio | Shares | Quarter change | Report date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Baupost Group Seth Klarman · CME | $137M | 2.52% | 619,000 | — new | 2026-06-30 |
Baron Capital Group Ron Baron · CME | $11M | 0.02% | 50,234 | -2.8% reduced | 2026-06-30 |
Filed fundamentals — latest snapshot
Go deeper into the filings
The dedicated Financials dashboard carries the complete quarterly and annual income statement, balance sheet and cash-flow history, with derived figures flagged and every XBRL concept disclosed.
Open CME Financials →How CME trades — the working manual
CME Group operates futures and options markets and a central clearing house across rates, equity indexes, energy, agriculture, metals and currencies. For the stock, structural demand for risk transfer meets a volume-sensitive model in which volatility, open interest, product mix and fee realization determine operating leverage.
What can move the tape
- 01Average daily volume and open interest across interest-rate and non-rate product complexes.
- 02Revenue per contract, product mix and the growth of options and international participation.
- 03Clearing, market-data and index economics alongside new-product adoption.
- 04Operating margin, cash generation, regular dividends and the annual variable dividend.
What can fool the read
- 01Extended periods of low volatility can reduce trading and hedging activity across major contracts.
- 02Fee competition or migration toward alternative venues can pressure revenue per contract.
- 03Clearing, cyber or operational failures would carry unusually high financial and reputational costs.
- 04Regulatory changes can alter market structure, capital requirements or permitted product economics.
CME Group triggered 1 issuer-level flag in the committed 2026-04-01–2026-08-21 archive. The latest was CME on 2026-04-22: 1.5× its 30-day average volume while the stock moved +3.9% that session.
Not published yet. The local archive has 1 reported CME events—too few for a defensible gap-and-drift study. This missing block is an explicit indexing blocker.
Source map & freshness
| Block | What it uses | Vintage | Raw data |
|---|---|---|---|
| Identity | SEC issuer + primary security mapping | 2026-08-23 | JSON ↓ |
| Price & trend | Split-adjusted daily OHLCV + SPY comparison | 2026-08-21 | CSV ↓ |
| Options | End-of-day chain anomaly ranks | 2026-08-21 | Premium → |
| Ownership | Latest filings from 20 curated 13F managers | 2026-08-21 | Tool → |
| Financials | SEC EDGAR XBRL company facts | 2026-08-16 | JSON ↓ |
| Joined profile | The exact contract rendered by this page | 2026-08-23 | JSON ↓ |
CME stock questions
Is CME stock in an uptrend?+
CME is classified in the “split trend” regime as of 2026-08-21: the close is +9.1% from its 50-day average and -0.3% from its 200-day average. This describes the current tape. It is not a forecast.
What does unusual options activity in CME mean?+
CME Group's OTM option chain produced an outlier relative to the scanner universe on at least one archived session. Call-side and put-side labels identify which book produced the signature; end-of-day chain data does not identify buyers, sellers, institutions or spread legs.
Are the CME 13F holdings current?+
No. 13F filings are delayed quarter-end snapshots and cover only the curated managers in this project. They are useful for documented ownership changes, not real-time positioning or complete institutional ownership.
Where are CME's income statement and cash flow?+
The dedicated CME Financials page contains the full quarterly and annual income statement, balance sheet and cash-flow history parsed from SEC EDGAR XBRL. This stock page carries only the latest filed snapshot.
Why is there no CME earnings-move base rate yet?+
The committed earnings archive does not yet contain enough reported events for a defensible company-level reaction study. The page leaves that block unpublished instead of presenting a tiny sample as a reliable base rate.