Interactive Brokers Group, Inc. (NASDAQ GS:IBKR) an automated global
electronic broker and market maker, today reported its Electronic
Brokerage monthly performance metrics for September.
Highlights for the month included:
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475 thousand Daily Average Revenue Trades (DARTs), 16% higher than
prior year and 1% higher than prior month.
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Ending customer equity of $41.4 billion, 31% higher than prior year
and 4% higher than prior month.
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Ending customer margin loan balances of $12.7 billion, 38% higher than
prior year and 7% higher than prior month.
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Ending customer credit balances of $24.6 billion, 21% higher than
prior year and 3% higher than prior month.
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231 thousand customer accounts, 13% higher than prior year and 1%
higher than prior month.
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471 annualized average cleared DARTs per customer account.
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Average commission per cleared customer order of $4.46 including
exchange and regulatory fees.
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Average commission per cleared futures* customer order of $6.77
including exchange and regulatory fees, which we estimate to be
approximately 58% of this total.
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.
* Includes options on futures.
About Interactive Brokers Group, Inc.:
Interactive Brokers Group, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, is an
automated global electronic broker that specializes in catering to
financial professionals by offering state-of-the-art trading technology,
superior execution capabilities, worldwide electronic access, and
sophisticated risk management tools at exceptionally low costs. The
brokerage trading platform utilizes the same innovative technology as
the Company’s market making business, which executes and processes
trades in securities, futures and foreign exchange instruments on more
than 100 electronic exchanges and trading venues around the world. As a
market maker, we provide liquidity at these marketplaces and, as a
broker, we provide professional traders and investors with electronic
access to stocks, options, futures, forex, bonds and mutual funds from a
single IB Universal AccountSM. Employing proprietary software
on a global communications network, Interactive Brokers Group
continuously integrates its software with a growing number of exchanges
and trading venues into one automatically functioning, computerized
platform that requires minimal human intervention.
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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