CME Group Inc. - CME

CME Group, Inc. stock ticker CME is a very reliable stock to hold within your Roth IRA stock portfolio. I state this claim for this simple fact: CME sold for $710.75 on December 21st, 2007 and is currently trading at $239.88 as of January 22nd, 2012. That is a difference of $470.87 and I believe CME was a great buy back at $710.75. Also, you will be paid a healthy quarterly dividend to wait for the share price to fly back up to $400.00-$500.00+. Check out these stats below:


Dividend yield of 2.33%
$1.40 dividend payout per quarter
52 Week range of $224.69 - $317.37
Market Cap of $15.93 Billion
70% Institutionally owned shares
P/E 12.71
EPS 18.87
Beta 1.09

Who is CME? Well, CME operates as a diverse financial exchange. The company brings together buyers and sellers on the CME Globex electronic trading platform and on its trading floors. It offers futures and options on futures in various product areas, including interest rates, equity indexes, foreign exchange, agricultural commodities, and energy, as well as alternative investment products, such as weather, real estate, and economic derivatives. The company was founded in 1898 and is based in Chicago, Illinois.

They are a national investment brokerage company. CME operates the CME, CBOT, NYMEX, and COMEX regulatory exchanges worldwide. CME Group also offers clearing services for cleared over-the-counter derivatives, including credit default swaps and interest rate swaps. Trades are executed through CME Group’s electronic trading platform, open outcry and privately negotiated transactions. Through its clearing house, CME Group offers clearing, settlement and guarantees for all products cleared through the exchange. Index Services creates, maintains and licenses Dow Jones indexes. It offers a range of products across all major asset classes based on interest rates, equity indexes, foreign exchange, energy, agricultural commodities, metals, weather and real estate. Finally, it offers a range of market data services, including live quotes, delayed quotes, market reports and a historical data service and index services.

CME has excellent management and collects it's income whether the market is up or down! CME will not lose value or become a victim if any one individual stock falters, but rather, become the beneficiary of increased market volumes as more investors come back into the market. There is absolutely no reason for this stock to have taken the beating it did. Put your money into this stock and hold for life. If you have 20 to 30 years to invest into this stock I suggest you dollar cost average and just keep pumping money into this winner. If you only have a few years to invest before retirement then I suggest you do the same, this puppy could double in value rather quickly.

Feel free to visit CME's home page, here, and their Investor Relations website, here. Also, enjoy these hand picked CME videos below. Have a great investing week!