October 2026
Largest Stock Exchanges Public Companies in the US
Benchmark revenue and EBITDA valuation multiples for public comps like
CME Group, Intercontinental Exchange, Nasdaq, Cboe Global Markets and MIAX.
 | Based in Chicago, CME Group operates exchanges giving investors, suppliers, and businesses the ability to trade futures and derivatives based on interest rates, equity indexes, foreign currencies, energy, metals, and commodities. The Chicago Mercantile Exchange was founded in 1898 and in 2002 completed its IPO. Since then, CME Group has consolidated parts of the industry by merging with crosstown rival CBOT Holdings in 2007 before acquiring Nymex Holdings in 2008 and NEX in 2018. In addition, the company has a 27% stake in S&P Dow Jones Indices, making the Chicago Mercantile Exchange the exclusive venue to trade and clear S&P futures contracts. Through CME's acquisition of NEX, it also expanded into cash foreign exchange, fixed-income trading, and collateral optimization. | $294 | +11% | $106B | $107B | 16.4x | 18.3x | ||
| Intercontinental Exchange is a vertically integrated operator of financial exchanges and provides ancillary data products. Though the company is probably best known for its ownership of the New York Stock Exchange, which it acquired in 2013, ICE operates a large derivatives exchange, too. The company's largest commodity futures product is the ICE Brent crude futures contract. In addition to the exchanges business, which is about 54% of net revenue, Intercontinental Exchange has used a series of acquisitions to create its mortgage technology business (22% of net revenue) and fixed-income and data-services segment (24% of net revenue). | $162 | +10% | $91B | $109B | 8.6x | 16.5x | ||
| Nasdaq is an American financial technology and exchange operator headquartered at One Liberty Plaza in New York City and listed on its own Nasdaq Stock Market (NDAQ) as an S&P 500 member. It was founded on February 8, 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers as the world's first electronic stock market and became a public company in 2000. It runs the Nasdaq Stock Market, the Philadelphia and Boston stock exchanges and seven Nordic and Baltic exchanges in Copenhagen, Helsinki, Iceland, Riga, Stockholm, Tallinn and Vilnius, which came from its 2008 combination with OMX. The company earns listing and trading fees, sells market data, indexes and analytics, and licenses capital-markets, risk, regulatory and anti-financial-crime software to banks, brokers, asset managers, corporates and other exchanges. Its financial technology business was built largely through acquisitions of fraud-detection provider Verafin in 2020 and risk and regulatory software maker Adenza in 2023. In 2025 Nasdaq reported revenue of $8.26 billion and net income of $1.79 billion, and it had 9,162 employees in 2024. Adena Friedman is chair and chief executive. | $94 | +10% | $53B | $59B | 7.1x | 19.1x | ||
| Founded in 1973, Cboe controls the largest option exchange in the US, which provides around 60% of the firm's revenue. The company is best known for its proprietary S&P 500 and VIX index options, which it offers through an exclusive contract with S&P Global. The firm moved into US and European equities through the $3.4 billion acquisition of BATS in 2017. Cboe has continued to look to expand internationally, using acquisitions to build a presence in both Canada and Australia. | $315 | +28% | $33B | $32B | 6.8x | 19.0x | ||
| Miami International Holdings Inc is a technology-driven leader in building and operating regulated financial marketplaces across multiple asset classes and geographies. Its MIAX Exchange marketplaces are enabled by its in-house built, proprietary technology. It maintains a broad portfolio of U.S. exchange and clearing licenses, in both securities and futures. The company operates markets across a diverse number of asset classes including options and cash equities as well as futures and options on futures. | $31 | -29% | $3.1B | $2.4B | 1.8x | (67.7x) | ||
| OTC Markets Group Inc operates financial markets for securities in the U.S. and globally. The firm mainly operates OTCQX best market, OTCQB venture market and Pink open market. It has OTC link ATS, market data licensing and corporate services business lines. The activities of these business lines encompass quotation and trade messaging services, network-based platform, access to market data, a suite of market data licenses and disclosure and information services. It derives a majority of its revenue from the U.S. | $53 | -3% | $635M | $595M | 4.7x | 14.6x | ||
| Median | $128 | +10% | $43B | $46B | 7.0x | 17.4x |
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