CHICAGO, Feb. 12, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- CME Group Inc., the world's leading derivatives marketplace, today declared its annual variable dividend and first-quarter regular dividend, both of which are payable March 26, 2026, to shareholders of record as of March 10, 2026:

   -- Annual variable dividend based on 2025 financial results of $6.15 per 
      share totals approximately $2.2 billion. 
 
   -- First-quarter regular dividend of $1.30 per share, a 5 cent increase from 
      the prior level of $1.25 per share. 

Today's announced annual variable dividend based on 2025 financial results, when combined with quarterly dividends paid during 2025, will total approximately $4.0 billion, reflecting a total dividend yield of 4.2% based on the average closing stock price during 2025.

As the world's leading derivatives marketplace, CME Group (www.cmegroup.com) enables clients to trade futures, options, cash and OTC markets, optimize portfolios, and analyze data -- empowering market participants worldwide to efficiently manage risk and capture opportunities. CME Group exchanges offer the widest range of global benchmark products across all major asset classes based on interest rates, equity indexes, foreign exchange, cryptocurrencies, energy, agricultural products and metals. The company offers futures and options on futures trading through the CME Globex platform, fixed income trading via BrokerTec and foreign exchange trading on the EBS platform. In addition, it operates one of the world's leading central counterparty clearing providers, CME Clearing.

CME Group, the Globe logo, CME, Chicago Mercantile Exchange, Globex, and E-mini are trademarks of Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc. CBOT and Chicago Board of Trade are trademarks of Board of Trade of the City of Chicago, Inc. NYMEX, New York Mercantile Exchange and ClearPort are trademarks of New York Mercantile Exchange, Inc. COMEX is a trademark of Commodity Exchange, Inc. BrokerTec is a trademark of BrokerTec Americas LLC and EBS is a trademark of EBS Group LTD. The S&P 500 Index is a product of S&P Dow Jones Indices LLC ("S&P DJI"). "S&P$(R)$", "S&P 500(R)", "SPY(R)", "SPX(R)", US 500 and The 500 are trademarks of Standard & Poor's Financial Services LLC; Dow Jones(R), DJIA(R) and Dow Jones Industrial Average are service and/or trademarks of Dow Jones Trademark Holdings LLC. These trademarks have been licensed for use by Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc. Futures contracts based on the S&P 500 Index are not sponsored, endorsed, marketed, or promoted by S&P DJI, and S&P DJI makes no representation regarding the advisability of investing in such products. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

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SOURCE CME Group

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February 12, 2026 07:30 ET (12:30 GMT)