Financial derivatives exchange CME Group (NASDAQ: CME) will be reporting earnings this Wednesday before market hours. Here’s what to expect.
CME Group missed analysts’ revenue expectations last quarter, reporting revenues of $1.88 billion, up 14.5% year on year. It was a slower quarter for the company, with a miss of analysts’ EBITDA estimates and EPS in line with analysts’ estimates.
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This quarter, the market is expecting CME Group’s revenue to be flat year on year, slowing from the 10.5% increase it recorded in the same quarter last year.
Analysts covering the company have generally reconfirmed their estimates over the last 30 days, suggesting they anticipate the business will stay the course heading into earnings. CME Group has missed Wall Street’s revenue estimates multiple times over the last two years.
Looking at CME Group’s peers in the capital markets segment, some have already reported their Q2 results, giving us a hint as to what we can expect. FactSet delivered year-on-year revenue growth of 6.4%, beating analysts’ expectations by 1.1%, and Goldman Sachs reported revenues up 39.5%, topping estimates by 23.7%. FactSet traded up 8.7% following the results while Goldman Sachs was also up 10.2%.
Read our full analysis of FactSet’s results here and Goldman Sachs’s results here.
There has been positive sentiment among investors in the capital markets segment, with share prices up 6.2% on average over the last month. CME Group’s stock price was unchanged during the same time and is heading into earnings with an average analyst price target of $280.13 (compared to the current share price of $244.91).
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