If a company's dividend payout ratio is too high, its dividend may not be sustainable. The dividend payout ratio of CME Group Inc is 1.49, which seems too high.
During the past 13 years, the highest Dividend Payout Ratio of CME Group was 3.17. The lowest was 0.56. And the median was 1.14.
During the past 12 months, CME Group's average Dividends Per Share Growth Rate was 13.50% per year.
During the past 3 years, the average Dividends Per Share Growth Rate was 17.80% per year.
During the past 5 years, the average Dividends Per Share Growth Rate was 16.10% per year.
During the past 10 years, the average Dividends Per Share Growth Rate was 7.60% per year.
During the past 13 years, the highest 3-Year average Dividends Per Share Growth Rate of CME Group was 68.50% per year. The lowest was -2.40% per year. And the median was 17.15% per year.
The growth rate is calculated with least square regression.
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CME Group Dividend Yield % Historical Data
The historical data trend for CME Group's Dividend Yield % can be seen below:
* For Operating Data section: All numbers are indicated by the unit behind each term and all currency related amount are in USD. * For other sections: All numbers are in millions except for per share data, ratio, and percentage. All currency related amount are indicated in the company's associated stock exchange currency.
Competitive Comparison of CME Group's Dividend Yield %
For the Financial Data & Stock Exchanges subindustry, CME Group's Dividend Yield %, along with its competitors' market caps and Dividend Yield % data, can be viewed below:
* Competitive companies are chosen from companies within the same industry, with headquarter located in same country, with closest market capitalization; x-axis shows the market cap, and y-axis shows the term value; the bigger the dot, the larger the market cap. Note that "N/A" values will not show up in the chart.
CME Group's Dividend Yield % Distribution in the Capital Markets Industry
For the Capital Markets industry and Financial Services sector, CME Group's Dividend Yield % distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where CME Group's Dividend Yield % falls into.
CME Group Dividend Yield % Calculation
Dividend Yield measures how much a company pays out in dividends each year relative to its share price.
CME Group Recent Full-Year* Dividend History
Amount
Ex-date
Record Date
Pay Date
Type
Frequency
Forex Rate
USD 1.150
2024-03-07
2024-03-08
2024-03-26
Cash Dividend
quarterly
USD:USD 1.000000
USD 5.250
2023-12-27
2023-12-28
2024-01-18
Cash Dividend
quarterly
USD:USD 1.000000
USD 1.100
2023-12-07
2023-12-08
2023-12-28
Cash Dividend
quarterly
USD:USD 1.000000
USD 1.100
2023-09-07
2023-09-08
2023-09-27
Cash Dividend
quarterly
USD:USD 1.000000
USD 1.100
2023-06-08
2023-06-09
2023-06-27
Cash Dividend
quarterly
USD:USD 1.000000
* GuruFocus has an internal rule that if the most recent dividend payment frequency is at least 4 times a year, then the full year will be calculated according to the frequency of payment or the one-year time frame, whichever is stricter.
* GuruFocus converts dividend currency to local traded share price currency in order to calculate dividend yield. Please refer to the last column "Forex Rate" in the above table.
CME Group's Trailing Annual Dividend Yield (%) for Today is calculated as
Trailing Annual Dividend Yield
=
Most Recent Full Year Dividend
/
Current Share Price
=
9.7
/
210.59
=
4.61 %
Current Share Price is $210.59. CME Group's Dividends per Share for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Today is $9.7.
CME Group's Forward Annual Dividend Yield (%) for Today is calculated as
Forward Annual Dividend Yield
=
Forward Full Year Dividend
/
Current Share Price
=
4.6
/
210.59
=
2.18 %
Current Share Price is $210.59. CME Group's Dividends per Share for the forward twelve months is calculated as $1.15 * 4 = $4.6.
* For Operating Data section: All numbers are indicated by the unit behind each term and all currency related amount are in USD. * For other sections: All numbers are in millions except for per share data, ratio, and percentage. All currency related amount are indicated in the company's associated stock exchange currency.
CME Group (NAS:CME) Dividend Yield % Explanation
Over the long term, the return from dividends has been a significant contributor to the total returns produced by equity securities. Studies by Elroy Dimson, Paul Marsh, and Mike Staunton of Princeton University (2002) found that a market-oriented portfolio, which included reinvested dividends, would have generated nearly 85 times the wealth generated by the same portfolio relying solely on capital gains.
Dividends may also qualify a lower tax rate for investors.
In dividends investing, Payout Ratio and Dividend Growth Rate are the two most important variables for consideration. A lower payout ratio may indicate that the company has more room to increase its dividends.
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Based in Chicago, CME Group operates exchanges giving investors, suppliers, and businesses the ability to trade futures and derivatives based on interest rates, equity indexes, foreign currencies, energy, metals, and commodities. The CME was founded in 1898 and in 2002 completed its initial public offering. Since then, CME Group has consolidated parts of the industry by merging with crosstown rival, CBOT Holdings in 2007 before acquiring Nymex Holdings in 2008 and NEX in 2018. In addition, the company has a 27% stake in S&P Dow Jones Indices, making the Chicago Mercantile Exchange the exclusive venue to trade and clear S&P futures contracts. Through CME's acquisition of NEX in 2018 it has also expanded into cash foreign exchange, fixed income trading, and collateral optimization.
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