CHICAGO, Dec. 6, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- CME Group Inc.
(NASDAQ: CME) today declared its annual variable dividend,
amounting to $3.50 per share.
The dividend is payable January 15,
2018, to shareholders of record on December 28, 2017. 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.
The annual variable dividend of $3.50 per share to be paid in January 2018 totals approximately $1.2 billion. Including today's announced
variable dividend and the previously announced fourth-quarter 2017
dividend of $0.66 per share to be
paid in December, the total dividend yield for dividends announced
during 2017 is 4.9 percent based on the average closing stock price
in 2017 to date. The company will have paid a total of nearly
$10 billion in quarterly and variable
dividends since adopting the annual variable dividend structure in
the beginning of 2012.
As the world's leading and most diverse derivatives marketplace,
CME Group (www.cmegroup.com) is where the world comes to manage
risk. Through its exchanges, CME Group offers the widest range of
global benchmark products across all major asset classes, including
futures and options based on interest rates, equity indexes,
foreign exchange, energy, agricultural products and metals.
CME Group provides electronic trading globally on its CME Globex
platform. The company also offers clearing and settlement
services across asset classes for exchange-traded and
over-the-counter derivatives through CME Clearing. CME Group's
products and services ensure that businesses around the world can
effectively manage risk and achieve growth.
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. 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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