CME Group is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, Co. provides market participants the ability to manage risk within and across multiple asset classes, by trading futures, options, cash and over-the-counter products. Co. provides price discovery and referential pricing information through its market data in a variety of formats, including real time, historical and derived data for customers in both listed and cash products. Co. also provides research and analytics tools to provide customers with market education resources. Co. exchanges provide a range of global benchmark products across interest rates, equity indexes, foreign exchange, agricultural commodities, energy and metals. We show 57 historical shares outstanding datapoints in our CME shares outstanding history coverage, used to compute CME market cap on those dates.
Understanding the changing numbers of shares outstanding, the changing
share price, and the resulting changing CME market cap history over the course of time is important for investors
interested in comparing CME's market cap history versus its peers.
Many "beginner" or "novice" investors will look at one stock trading at a price of $10 per share and another trading at
a price of $20 per share and think the latter company is worth twice as much. Of course, that is a completely meaningless comparison without also knowing how many shares outstanding there are for each of the two companies,
and then calculating their respective market caps. Comparing the share price of CME versus a peer is one thing; comparing
CME market cap versus a peer is a completely different story.
Furthermore, via fluctuation both in per-share price and in the number of shares outstanding (via issuance of new shares over time, the repurchase of existing shares),
the market cap for a company like CME can fluctuate over the course of history.
With this page we aim to empower investors researching CME by allowing them to research the CME market cap history. |
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