Cboe Global Markets, Inc. (CBOE) earnings on July 31, 2026

Before the market opens Q2 2026

More Cboe Global Markets, Inc. earnings

Prior outlook: Optimistic Outcome: Accurate

Cboe Global Markets beat analyst expectations for quarterly profit and sales, and the stock rose as much as 4% before closing up nearly 4%.

CBOE price around the earnings

310.23

Change: +4.6%

2026-07-31, 20:00 UTC

Start of the measured window End of the measured window
289.19 296.20 303.22 310.23 296.52
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July 31, 2026
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Prior thesis

Prior outlook: Optimistic Outcome: Accurate

Thesis published
Results released

Strong 30d trend strength +22.97% vs SPY -0.67% with strong recent earnings history, but trajectory collapse on 7/30 and limited analyst upside (+5.4%) create caution.

Context analyzed before publication

Trend
Peaked 7/29 at 58.2, collapsed to 2.9 on 7/30, recovered to 33.1 on event day — volatile trajectory contexts sell-the-new

Analysts

Evidence

Analyst consensus
Hold
Consensus average (1-5)
3.06
Analysts covering the stock
14
Average price target
312.43
Lowest price target
258
Highest price target
375
Upside to price target
5.4%
Quarterly earnings growth
53.9%
Revenue growth
6.5%
Forward EPS
15.02
Trailing EPS
11.7
Analyst moves in the last 60 days
4
  • Strong buy: 2
  • Buy: 1
  • Hold: 11
  • Sell: 2
  • Strong sell: 1
Strong buy
2
Buy
1
Hold
11
Sell
2
Strong sell
1
  • July 28, 2026 · JP Morgan: Maintains rating (Underweight → Underweight)
  • July 20, 2026 · TD Cowen: Maintains rating (Hold → Hold)
  • July 15, 2026 · Piper Sandler: Maintains rating (Overweight → Overweight)
  • July 9, 2026 · Barclays: Maintains rating (Overweight → Overweight)

News and sentiment

Evidence

Sentiment
Sentiment
Constructive
Mention volume
Low
Normalized volume
33%

Technicals

Evidence

Price when the context was analyzed
297.75
Average true range (ATR)
3.5%
Distance to 52-week high
-19.0%
14-day change (14d)
+7.4%
30-day change (30d)
+23.0%
30-day relative strength
+23.6%
SPY change (30d)
-0.7%
Nearest support
297.13
Distance to nearest support
0.2%
Nearest resistance
299.63
Distance to nearest resistance
0.6%
Volume accumulation ratio (14d / 46d)
0.51
  • Mid: 297.13 (0.2% away, 0.06 ATR, 12 touches)
  • Mid: 293.72 (1.4% away, 0.39 ATR, 17 touches)
  • Mid: 290.47 (2.4% away, 0.7 ATR, 18 touches)
  • Mid: 299.63 (0.6% away, 0.18 ATR, 16 touches)
  • Mid: 302.38 (1.6% away, 0.45 ATR, 12 touches)
  • Mid: 304.53 (2.3% away, 0.65 ATR, 13 touches)

Trends

Evidence

Average earnings surprise
+5.0%
  • May 1, 2026: actual EPS 3.7 vs estimate 3.38 (surprise +9.5%)
  • February 6, 2026: actual EPS 3.06 vs estimate 2.95 (surprise +3.8%)
  • October 31, 2025: actual EPS 2.67 vs estimate 2.53 (surprise +5.6%)
  • August 1, 2025: actual EPS 2.46 vs estimate 2.43 (surprise +1.1%)

Expected move

Implied move
+0.1%
Source
Options chain

Reactions over its last 20 earnings

Median move
2.7%
75th percentile move
3.2%
90th percentile move
4.2%
Up / down moves
14 / 6
Average up move
+3.3%
Average down move
-1.5%

Monitoring and close

What Cboe Global Markets, Inc. reported

Status
Finished
Actual EPS3.56
EPS estimate3.48
EPS surprise+2.3%
Revenue$732 million
Revenue estimate$712 million
Revenue surprise+2.7%

Cboe beat Q2 expectations with earnings of $3.56 per share and sales of $731.6 million. Meanwhile, memory stocks like SanDisk fell 45% recently, and markets prepare for potential August volatility.

Sources (8)

Pre-market second reading after the results

Verdict
Beat expectations

Heading into the open, results beat expectations on both earnings and revenue, and the price is indicating +0.6% pre-market, a move below the stock's usual reaction (about 3%). The figures don't confirm the prior scenario: that move is too small to draw conclusions from.

How the stock reacted

Outcome
Accurate
Consolidated
+4.6%
Max favorable move (MFE)
4.8%
Max adverse move (MAE)
3%