Intercontinental Exchange, Inc. ICE
What this company does
Written from the business description in Intercontinental Exchange, Inc.'s annual report to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, filed 5 February 2026. Every sentence was checked against that document before publication.
Revenue compounded at +8.9% a year over five years — but profit grew faster: net income at +9.7%, earnings per share at +8.9%.
The share count rose from 0.56B to 0.57B over the period.
Compound annual rates per period — left blank where that exact year isn't on file, the series crosses a loss, or (per-share rows) a split falls inside the window.
Each USD of equity produced 12 cents of profit this year.
EPS, diluted, dividend per share and shares outstanding are shown without shading, and a vertical line marks the year the share count changed — the series crosses a large, unexplained change in share count, so the years on either side are not on a comparable scale.
| Metric | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue $B | 12.6 | 11.8 | 9.9 | 9.6 | 9.2 | 8.2 | 6.5 | 6.3 | 5.8 | 6.0 | 3.3 | 4.4 | 1.7 | 1.4 | 1.3 |
| Operating income $B | 4.9 | 4.3 | 3.7 | 3.6 | 3.4 | 3.0 | 2.7 | 2.6 | 2.4 | 2.2 | 1.8 | 1.4 | 0.8 | 0.8 | 0.8 |
| EBITDA $B | 5.1 | 4.5 | 3.9 | 3.8 | 3.6 | 3.2 | 2.8 | 2.7 | 2.5 | 2.3 | 1.9 | 1.5 | 0.8 | 0.9 | 0.8 |
| Income tax $B | 1.0 | 0.8 | 0.5 | 0.3 | 1.6 | 0.7 | 0.5 | 0.5 | −0.0 | 0.6 | 0.4 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 |
| Net income $B | 3.3 | 2.8 | 2.4 | 1.4 | 4.1 | 2.1 | 1.9 | 2.0 | 2.5 | 1.4 | 1.3 | 1.0 | 0.3 | 0.6 | 0.5 |
| Free cash flow $B | 4.3 | 4.2 | 3.4 | 3.3 | 2.9 | 2.7 | 2.5 | 2.4 | 1.9 | 1.9 | 1.1 | 1.3 | 0.6 | 0.7 | 0.7 |
| EPS, diluted $ | 5.77 | 4.78 | 4.19 | 2.58 | 7.18 | 3.77 | 3.42 | 3.43 | 4.25 | 2.39 | 2.28 | 1.71 | 3.21 | 7.52 | 6.90 |
| Dividend / sh $ | 1.92 | 1.80 | 1.68 | 1.52 | 1.32 | 1.20 | 1.10 | 0.96 | 0.80 | 0.68 | 0.58 | 0.52 | 0.65 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Payout % | 33 | 38 | 40 | 59 | 18 | 32 | 32 | 28 | 19 | 29 | 26 | 30 | 30 | 0 | 0 |
| ROE % | 11.7 | 10.3 | 9.8 | 6.4 | 19.2 | 11.4 | 11.2 | 11.6 | 15.5 | 9.4 | 9.4 | 7.9 | 3.2 | 15.1 | · |
| Shares out B | 0.57 | 0.57 | 0.57 | 0.56 | 0.56 | 0.56 | 0.55 | 0.57 | 0.58 | 0.59 | 0.59 | 0.11 | 0.12 | 0.07 | · |
Slide the table for earlier years · "·" marks a figure not available in our data for that year.
Reconciled in 15 of 19 fiscal years. 18 checks could not be computed.