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 $276.44 on Oct 8, 2026. The price is +1.8% from its 50-day average and -0.1% 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 +15.1%, beating SPY by 12.5%. It remains 14.4% below its 52-week high.
Sources, methodology & freshnessSplit-adjusted OHLCV, end-of-day options chains, SEC 13F filings and EDGAR XBRL company facts · Price/options daily; 13F quarterly; Financials each earnings seasonData as of 2026-10-08 · Open ↓Close ↑
The close is +1.8% from its 50-day average and -0.1% from its 200-day average. Over three months, CME returned +15.1% versus +2.5% for SPY.
- vs 50-day
- +1.8%
- vs 200-day
- -0.1%
- From 52W high
- -14.4%
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 2 of 94 archived scanner sessions: 1 call-side, 1 put-side and 0 on both lists. The latest session did not place it in either top 30. Its larger composite score was 0.02, below the 1.5 “strong” threshold. That is repeated options attention, not proof of bullish trade initiation.
| Recent flag | Call rank | Put rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-09-02 | #21 | — |
| 2026-07-10 | — | #16 |
Latest chain snapshot
2026-10-07Strong-signature cutoff: 1.5. Current OTM volume/OI: 0.098 calls, 0.077 puts.
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 2026-04-01–2026-10-08 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 | 2026-10-08 | JSON ↓ |
| Price & trend | Split-adjusted daily OHLCV + SPY comparison | 2026-10-08 | CSV ↓ |
| Options | End-of-day chain anomaly ranks | 2026-10-07 | Premium → |
| Ownership | Latest filings from 20 curated 13F managers | 2026-10-08 | Tool → |
| Financials | SEC EDGAR XBRL company facts | 2026-08-27 | JSON ↓ |
| Joined profile | The exact contract rendered by this page | 2026-10-08 | JSON ↓ |
CME stock questions
Is CME stock in an uptrend?+
CME is classified in the “split trend” regime as of 2026-10-08: the close is +1.8% from its 50-day average and -0.1% 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.