CHICAGO, Dec. 8, 2022
/PRNewswire/ -- CME Group Inc., the world's leading derivatives
marketplace, today declared its annual variable dividend, amounting
to $4.50 per share. The dividend is
payable January 18, 2023, to
shareholders of record on December 28,
2022.
The annual variable dividend of $4.50 per share to be paid in January 2023 totals approximately $1.6 billion. Including today's announced
variable dividend and the previously announced fourth-quarter 2022
dividend of $1.00 per share to be
paid in December, the total dividend yield for dividends announced
during 2022 is 4.1% based on the average closing stock price in
2022 to date. The company will have paid a total of more than
$20.5 billion in quarterly and
variable dividends since adopting the annual variable dividend
structure in the beginning of 2012.
When CME Group adopted its annual variable dividend structure in
February 2012, the intention was to
determine the excess cash available at the end of each year, with
the level to increase or decrease from year to year based on
operating results, potential investment activity and other forms of
capital return.
About CME Group
As the world's leading derivatives marketplace, CME Group
(www.cmegroup.com) enables clients to trade futures, options, cash
and OTC markets, optimize portfolios, and analyze data – empowering
market participants worldwide to efficiently manage risk and
capture opportunities. CME Group exchanges offer the widest range
of global benchmark products across all major asset classes based
on interest rates, equity indexes, foreign
exchange, energy, agricultural
products and metals. The company offers futures and
options on futures trading through the CME Globex platform, fixed
income trading via BrokerTec and foreign exchange trading on the
EBS platform. In addition, it operates one of the world's leading
central counterparty clearing providers, CME Clearing.
CME Group, the Globe logo, CME, Chicago Mercantile Exchange,
Globex, and, E-mini are trademarks of Chicago Mercantile
Exchange Inc. CBOT and Chicago Board of Trade are trademarks of Board
of Trade of the City of Chicago,
Inc. NYMEX, New York Mercantile Exchange and ClearPort are
trademarks of New York Mercantile Exchange, Inc. COMEX is a
trademark of Commodity Exchange, Inc. BrokerTec and EBS are
trademarks of BrokerTec Europe LTD and EBS Group LTD, respectively.
Dow Jones, Dow Jones Industrial Average, S&P 500 and S&P
are service and/or trademarks of Dow Jones Trademark Holdings LLC,
Standard & Poor's Financial Services LLC and S&P/Dow Jones
Indices LLC, as the case may be, and have been licensed for use by
Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc. All other trademarks are the
property of their respective owners.
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SOURCE CME Group