IBKR Interactive Brokers Group Inc

Interactive Brokers Group, Inc. (Nasdaq: IBKR) an automated global electronic broker, today reported its Electronic Brokerage monthly performance metrics for December.

Brokerage highlights for the month included:

• 3.267 million Daily Average Revenue Trades (DARTs)1, 66% higher than prior year and 1% lower than prior month.
• Ending client equity of $568.2 billion, 33% higher than prior year and 1% lower than prior month.
• Ending client margin loan balances of $64.2 billion, 45% higher than prior year and 7% higher than prior month.
• Ending client credit balances of $119.7 billion, including $4.9 billion in insured bank deposit sweeps2, 15% higher than prior year and 1% higher than prior month.
• 3.34 million client accounts, 30% higher than prior year and 3% higher than prior month.
• 219 annualized average cleared DARTs1 per client account.
• Average commission per cleared Commissionable Order4 of $2.58 including exchange, clearing and regulatory fees. Key products:

December 2024 Average

Average Commission per

Order Size

Cleared Commissionable Order

Stocks 862 shares

$1.84

Equity Options 6.6 contracts

$3.82

Futures 3.1 contracts

$4.56

 

Futures include options on futures. We estimate exchange, clearing and regulatory fees to be 57% of the futures commissions.

Other financial information for Interactive Brokers Group:

• Mark to market on U.S. government securities portfolio4 was a gain of $0.3 million for the quarter, and a gain of $1.8 million for the year ended December 31st.
• GLOBAL5: The value of the GLOBAL, reported in U.S. dollars, decreased by 0.58% in December and decreased by 1.45% for the year ended December 31st.

In the interest of transparency, we quantify our IBKR PRO clients’ all-in cost of trade execution below.

For the full multimedia release with graph see link:

https://www.interactivebrokers.com/MonthlyMetrics

• Average U.S. Reg-NMS stock trade was $18,726 in December (dividing 2c by 1a in table below).
• In December, IBKR PRO clients’ total cost of executing and clearing U.S. Reg.-NMS stocks through IB was about 5.7 basis points of trade money6, as, measured against a daily VWAP7 benchmark (4.1 basis points net cost for the rolling twelve months).

IBKR PRO Clients' Reg.-NMS Stock Trading Expense Detail All amounts are in millions, except %

Previous

 

Jan '24

Feb '24

Mar '24

Apr '24

May '24

Jun '24

Jul '24

Aug '24

Sep '24

Oct '24

Nov '24

Dec '24

12 Months

#1a - Number of orders Buys

6.79

7.24

8.51

8.36

8.80

8.07

10.09

9.84

8.38

10.93

11.40

13.32

111.73

Sells

4.92

5.38

6.23

6.21

6.67

5.83

7.55

7.53

6.54

8.33

8.62

9.66

83.47

Total

11.71

12.62

14.74

14.57

15.47

13.90

17.64

17.37

14.92

19.26

20.02

22.98

195.20

  #1b - Number of shares purchased or sold Shares bought

2,639

2,636

3,432

3,387

4,712

3,305

3,855

4,154

3,614

4,645

4,744

5,517

46,640

Shares sold

2,551

2,499

3,189

3,190

4,374

3,100

3,767

3,960

3,436

4,390

4,497

5,232

44,184

Total

5,189

5,135

6,621

6,577

9,087

6,405

7,622

8,114

7,050

9,035

9,241

10,749

90,824

  #2 - Trade money including price, commissions and fees 2a Buy money

$133,951

$148,224

$165,938

$161,619

$170,762

$151,903

$189,920

$182,908

$155,758

$190,627

$204,300

$214,806

$2,070,716

2b Sell money

$131,649

$143,433

$163,285

$165,541

$169,343

$147,514

$191,745

$186,274

$154,825

$188,444

$201,932

$215,520

$2,059,505

2c Total

$265,601

$291,657

$329,223

$327,160

$340,105

$299,417

$381,664

$369,182

$310,583

$379,071

$406,232

$430,326

$4,130,220

  #3 - Trade value at Daily VWAP 3a Buy value

$133,917

$148,162

$165,825

$161,534

$170,686

$151,684

$189,851

$182,849

$155,692

$190,537

$204,249

$214,660

$2,069,645

3b Sell value

$131,705

$143,451

$163,313

$165,602

$169,379

$147,417

$191,812

$186,440

$154,890

$188,493

$201,995

$215,621

$2,060,117

3c Total

$265,622

$291,612

$329,138

$327,135

$340,066

$299,101

$381,663

$369,289

$310,582

$379,030

$406,243

$430,281

$4,129,762

  #4 - Total trade expense, including commissions and fees, relative to Daily VWAP 4a Buys (2a-3a)

$34.2

$62.5

$113.3

$85.1

$75.4

$219.1

$68.8

$58.6

$66.6

$90.7

$51.4

$145.7

$1,071.2

4b Sells (3b-2b)

$55.2

$18.0

$28.0

$60.7

$36.0

($97.1)

$67.5

$166.0

$65.7

$49.6

$62.3

$100.9

$612.9

4c Total trade expense

$89.4

$80.5

$141.3

$145.8

$111.4

$122.0

$136.3

$224.6

$132.3

$140.3

$113.8

$246.6

$1,684.1

  Trade expense as percentage of trade money 4c/2c

0.034%

0.028%

0.043%

0.045%

0.033%

0.041%

0.036%

0.061%

0.043%

0.037%

0.028%

0.057%

0.041%

  #5 - Trade expense categories 5a Total commissions & fees

$23.4

$23.7

$29.2

$28.8

$36.1

$30.4

$37.1

$38.1

$33.2

$41.9

$43.5

$47.4

$412.8

5b Execution cost (4c-5a)

$66.0

$56.7

$112.1

$117.0

$75.4

$91.6

$99.2

$186.5

$99.1

$98.4

$70.3

$199.2

$1,271.5

  #6 - Trade expense categories as percentage of trade money Total commissions & fees (5a/2c)

0.009%

0.009%

0.009%

0.009%

0.011%

0.010%

0.010%

0.010%

0.011%

0.011%

0.011%

0.011%

0.010%

Execution cost (5b/2c)

0.025%

0.019%

0.034%

0.036%

0.022%

0.031%

0.026%

0.051%

0.032%

0.026%

0.017%

0.046%

0.031%

Net Expense to IB Clients

0.034%

0.028%

0.043%

0.045%

0.033%

0.041%

0.036%

0.061%

0.043%

0.037%

0.028%

0.057%

0.041%

 

The above illustrates that the rolling twelve months’ average all-in cost of an IBKR PRO client U.S. Reg.-NMS stock trade was 4.1 basis points.

________________ Note 1: Daily Average Revenue Trades (DARTs) – customer orders divided by the number of trading days in the period.

Note 2: FDIC insured client bank deposit sweep program balances with participating banks. These deposits are not reported in the Company’s statement of financial condition.

Note 3: Commissionable Order – a customer order that generates commissions.

Note 4: Mark to market gains and losses on investments in U.S. government securities and associated hedges are included in Other Income. In the general course of business, we hold these investments to maturity. As a result, accumulated mark to market gains or losses should converge to zero at maturity. Accounting conventions require broker-dealers, unlike banks, to mark all investments to market.

Note 5: In connection with our currency diversification strategy, we have determined to base our net worth in GLOBALs, a basket of 10 major currencies in which we hold our equity. The total effect of the currency diversification strategy is reported in Comprehensive Income and the components are reported in (1) Other Income and (2) Other Comprehensive Income (“OCI”) on the balance sheet. The effect of the GLOBAL on our comprehensive income can be estimated by multiplying the total equity for the period by the change in the U.S. dollar value of the GLOBAL during the same period.

Note 6: Trade money is the total amount of money clients spent or received, including all commissions and fees.

Note 7: Consistent with the clients’ trading activity, the computed VWAP benchmark includes extended trading hours.

_________________ More information, including historical results for each of the above metrics, can be found on the investor relations page of the Company’s corporate web site, www.interactivebrokers.com/ir.

About Interactive Brokers Group, Inc.: Interactive Brokers Group affiliates provide automated trade execution and custody of securities, commodities, foreign exchange, and forecast contracts around the clock on over 150 markets in numerous countries and currencies, from a single unified platform to clients worldwide. We serve individual investors, hedge funds, proprietary trading groups, financial advisors and introducing brokers. Our four decades of focus on technology and automation has enabled us to equip our clients with a uniquely sophisticated platform to manage their investment portfolios. We strive to provide our clients with advantageous execution prices and trading, risk and portfolio management tools, research facilities and investment products, all at low or no cost, positioning them to achieve superior returns on investments. Interactive Brokers has consistently earned recognition as a top broker, garnering multiple awards and accolades from respected industry sources such as Barron’s, Investopedia, Stockbrokers.com, and many others.

Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements: The foregoing information contains certain forward-looking statements that reflect the company's current views with respect to certain current and future events and financial performance. These forward-looking statements are and will be, as the case may be, subject to many risks, uncertainties and factors relating to the company's operations and business environment which may cause the company's actual results to be materially different from any future results, expressed or implied, in these forward-looking statements. Any forward-looking statements in this release are based upon information available to the company on the date of this release. The company does not undertake to publicly update or revise its forward-looking statements even if experience or future changes make it clear that any statements expressed or implied therein will not be realized. Additional information on risk factors that could potentially affect the company's financial results may be found in the company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

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Contacts for Interactive Brokers Group, Inc.: media@ibkr.com.