Guidance raised to mid-to-high teens organic net revenue growth for 2026
Guidance · revenue to 16%
Cboe reported a record quarter with 25% revenue growth and 45% EPS growth, driven by exceptional demand for index options and SPX zero-DTE contracts. Management raised full-year guidance and outlined an ambitious growth strategy focused on event contracts, KPI-linked derivatives, and expanding into 24/7 trading hours. Record Q2 2026 net revenue of $732M (up 25%) and adjusted EPS of $3.56 (up 45%).
Cboe reported a record quarter with 25% revenue growth and 45% EPS growth, driven by exceptional demand for index options and SPX zero-DTE contracts. Management raised full-year guidance and outlined an ambitious growth strategy focused on event contracts, KPI-linked derivatives, and expanding into 24/7 trading hours. Record Q2 2026 net revenue of $732M (up 25%) and adjusted EPS of $3.56 (up 45%).
Guidance · revenue to 16%
Record Q2 2026 net revenue of $732M (up 25%) and adjusted EPS of $3.56 (up 45%).
SPX options volume grew 40% YoY; zero-DTE ADV hit 3.1M contracts with retail share over half.
Raised FY2026 total organic revenue growth guidance to mid-to-high teens from low-double-digit-to-mid-teens.
Management raised full-year 2026 revenue guidance due to broad-based strength across all business segments, driven by sustained options volume growth, retail engagement, and new product initiatives.
Capital expenditure guidance was raised to $98-108 million from $73-83 million, reflecting incremental investment in clearing infrastructure and opportunistic pull-forward of hardware purchases to lock in lower costs ahead of inflationary pressure.
Management emphasized record results, strengthened guidance, and multiple growth initiatives, projecting conviction in the company's strategic direction.
“Its removal has eliminated a friction point, making it easier for smaller retail accounts to trade products like Zero DTE more frequently. The impact of the repeal was immediate with SPX zero DTE ADV increasing 11% month over month in June…”
“...our CapEx guidance increases to 98 to 108 million from 73 to 83 million as we made incremental investment in our clearing infrastructure and opportunistically pulled forward hardware purchases for future service to lock in lower costs a…”
“We are mindful of upcoming capital needs, including the $650 million debt tranche maturing in the first quarter of 2027, which we currently expect to repay with cash on hand.”
| 지표 | 기간 | 범위 | 중간값 | 상태 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Capex | FY2026 | $98M–$108M | $103M | RAISED |
| EPS | FY2026 Q2 | $3.56 | $3.56 | GUIDED |
| Op margin | FY2026 | 72% | 72% | GUIDED |
| Revenue | FY2026 | 15%–17% | 16% | RAISED |
| RevenueDATA_VANTAGE | FY2026 | 13%–16% | 14.5% | RAISED |
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Schwab's launch of Cboe Predicts contracts is a key distribution win for Cboe's new event-contract products, likely to drive early volume.
“...we've also been working very closely with Schwab as an anchor tenant and are extremely excited that they just reported they'll begin offering these contracts on their platform to clients very soon.”
Robinhood is a significant driver of the recent surge in retail options volume, a trend benefiting Cboe's core business.
“So using their publicly available data, Robinhood's June options ADV increased over 30% from May and almost 80% year over year, while Webull's increased 36% month over month and 100% year over year.”
Yes, hey, good morning, everyone. I want to come back to a couple of those things, but actually a bigger picture on the proprietary products. Can you just give us an update on where we are with expansion of the customer base? And what I'm trying to ask is, a couple of years ago, people were very excited when Robinhood finally came on. Where do we stand now? with kind of like the global expansion with other brokers around the world that want to trade particular SPX and CODTE. And then maybe related to that, how have those conversations maybe changed over the last few quarters? Because we spent all this call talking about new innovation and new products. So as the menu of kind of…
… start with international demand. You know, we still see very strong demand coming from the APAC and EMEA region. And the biggest reason being is the liquidity of our core products. When you think of SPX, when you think of VIX, and they want access to that liquidity and want to be able to trade and transact in that liquidity and we've been slowly adding more and more brokers. Korea has been a great success story that we've talked about in the past where, you know, as of Q1 of 2024, we had really zero brokers online and now we continue to expand and have, you know, I would call the vast majority of retail brokers in Korea online. So we're going to continue to, I would say, expand in those channels because the demand's coming in for our core product set. On a different front and going in a slightly different direction, I just want to use kind of the pattern day trader rule removal as an example of just how we're seeing, you know, things like that affect the demand in our products. So across the top nine retail brokers, average daily volume increased following that rule change with SPX up almost 3.5%, XSP ADV was up over 36%, and multi-list options ADV and many more. and Multilist was just under 20%, signaling that kind of higher churn rate in retail participation and the demand to trade more frequently. And so at the same time, average order sizes generally declined. So that suggested growth is really being driven by a large number of smaller customer orders rather than this narrow set of just large trades. And so the largest changes were concentrated at zero to low cost retail broker platforms, especially platforms like you had mentioned, you know, Robinhood, Webull's another one. So using their publicly available data, Robinhood's June options ADV increased over 30% from May and almost 80% year over year, while Webull's increased 36% month over month and 100% year over year. So this is encouraging data. We're seeing people that want to interact with the products, want to interact with the platform much more frequently. And, you know, we've talked about it before. Liquidity grows liquidity. Demand grows demand. You see that as people rush into the products and want to transact. It only gets stronger. The spreads only tighten. And we're very, very encouraged by how the market is evolving. All of these data points and kind of a continued growth on the horizons.
Cboe's planned KPI contracts on specific metrics for companies like Nvidia and Microsoft could create new linked derivatives on their fundamental performance.
“So, for example, think in, you know, Nvidia's data center revenue, think Microsoft's cloud-based revenue.”
Yes, good morning. Thanks for taking the question. So I wanted to ask on the company KPI event contracts that were filed with the SEC in July, 23 names, September launch, could you update us on how your conversations with market participants have gone so around those products. What does demand look like? Who are the end users? And then is there any revenue from those new products that you're baking into your second half guidance? Thanks.
… but encouraged with the level of engagement by the market. We currently have three different market makers providing liquidity in the product and spreads continue to narrow as really the liquidity grows. We've also been working very closely with Schwab as an anchor tenant and are extremely excited that they just reported they'll begin offering these contracts on their platform to clients very soon. And so looking forward, you heard in Craig's prepared remarks, you know, we filed for both the company-specific KPI event contracts as well as the ability to clear those on CBOE Clear US. Thus far, you know, CBOE's product franchise has really been good at providing tools to manage risk and trade at the index level, the sector level, and even the individual company stock level. What the company-specific KPI contracts provide is really the ability to go even more granular to trade and manage the individual components that drive the company's stock value. So, for example, think in, you know, Nvidia's data center revenue, think Microsoft's cloud-based revenue. You know, today's markets consistently reference predictions, and we think having liquid markets around investors' expectations for these metrics will further drive better insights into, call it, company performance, better ability to manage risk at that component level. We anticipate adoption of these contracts to follow a similar path to how Zero DTE developed, with the market starting heavily weighted towards retail investors. As the historical data sets grow and more analysis becomes available, we believe institutions will get more involved. Given the correlation between these metrics and their impact on stock valuation, we believe that will help institutions better manage risk. We need to work really closely with the whole industry both retail and institutional and of course the SEC to ensure if approved these products are brought to market really with the same rigor investor protections afforded to investors today which we think is very very important. So on the company specific side we're targeting a second half of September early October launch pending regulatory approval of course. but really big picture, the demand is there, the idea of getting more granular and how you can trade the individual components that drive valuation is there and we're kind of excited about both the practical application …