CME Group Q4 Profit Climbs - Quick Facts

(RTTNews) - Exchange operator CME Group, Inc. (CME) posted higher fourth-quarter net income attributable to the company of $193.1 million, or $0.58 per share, versus $166.8 million, or $0.50 per share, last year. Excluding items, adjusted earnings would have been $214.3 milliom, or $0.64 per share for the 2013 fourth quarter, the company said. On average, 18 analysts polled by Thomson Reuters expected earnings per share of $0.68 for the quarter. Analysts' estimates typically exclude one-time items.

The firm clocked quarterly total revenues of $687.0 million, an increase from the prior-year figure of $660.9 million, while it missed consensus estimates of $691.29 million for the period.

Fourth-quarter 2013 average daily volume totaled 11.3 million contracts, up 11 percent from fourth-quarter 2012, and included 29 percent growth in interest rate volume.