CHICAGO, Dec. 11, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- CME Group Inc.
(NASDAQ: CME), the world's leading and most diverse derivatives
marketplace, today declared its annual variable dividend, amounting
to $2.50 per share. The dividend is
payable January 15, 2020, to
shareholders of record on December 27,
2019.
The annual variable dividend of $2.50 per share to be paid in January 2020 totals approximately $900 million. Including today's announced
variable dividend and the previously announced fourth-quarter 2019
dividend of $0.75 per share to be
paid in December, the total dividend yield for dividends announced
during 2019 is 2.8% based on the average closing stock price in
2019 to date. The company will have paid a total of more than
$13 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.
As the world's leading and most diverse 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. With a range of pre- and post-trade products and
services underpinning the entire lifecycle of a trade, CME Group
also offers optimization and reconciliation services through
TriOptima, and trade processing services through Traiana.
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, EBS, TriOptima,
and Traiana are trademarks of BrokerTec Europe LTD, EBS Group LTD,
TriOptima AB, and Traiana, Inc., 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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