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Company snapshot — Cboe Global Markets Inc

CBOE in five paragraphs: what it makes and sells, where it sits in the Closelook stack, who it is priced against, why we track it, what we watch. Research diary, not advice.

What it does
Cboe Global Markets runs a network of derivatives and securities exchanges, listing and trading options, equities, futures and foreign-exchange products across the United States, Europe and Asia-Pacific. Its options business covers index, single-stock and exchange-traded product contracts, while separate units handle equities transactions, futures such as VIX contracts, and institutional FX trades. It also licenses market data and provides listing services, including for exchange-traded products and its own shares. The company is headquartered in Chicago.
Where it sits in the stack
Cboe carries no seat in Rubin or Halo, our AI-related indices, so it sits outside the build-out stack the diary tracks there; within our broader universe it belongs to the exchange-and-market-infrastructure sleeve of financial services, where it acts as a marketplace and data licensor rather than a supplier to any hardware or software layer.
Who it is priced against
Closelook has not assigned Cboe a peer group; the exchange operators the market compares it with include CME Group, Intercontinental Exchange and Nasdaq.
Why Closelook tracks it
Cboe holds a seat in the S&P 500 and appears in the diary's macro reporting and glossary, where its VIX index and public volatility data are cited as reference sources rather than as an equity call. It carries no Closelook score.
What the diary watches
The diary watches whether shifts in VIX term structure, which Cboe publishes, change how the diary reads broader risk appetite across the index.

Cboe Global Markets Inc (CBOE) trades on US exchanges.

Written from the company’s public profile and Closelook’s own readings, 2026-09-17. Descriptive, refreshed with the registry; corrections welcome via the imprint. closelook.net is an investment research diary — market structure, index membership and scores are our own readings, not investment advice. Related: index compare · sector dispersion · scanner.

Signals for this name

Every Closelook reading that exists for CBOE, from the same nightly bakes the boards use. Research diary readings, not advice.

Who it is priced against Financial Data & Stock Exchanges · United States · 8 names with week and year-to-date

Peer group

Financial Data & Stock Exchanges · United States

This name carries no Closelook score, so its cohort ranks on trend state — distance to the 50- and 200-day averages — never on a score it does not have.

Compared against CBOE on the nightly bakes; the Peers tab ranks the cohort on the Closelook scores where it exists.

Dividends and capital return trailing yield 1.11%, quarterly · last 0.86 USD on 2026-08-31

Dividends and capital return

What CBOE pays out and buys back — distributions read from the price series, money terms from the filings.

  • Trailing 12 months 3.02 USD per share · a 1.11% yield on the 2026-09-18 close 4 distributions, paid quarterly 2026-09-18
  • Change on the year +15.7% against the prior twelve months prior twelve months 2.61 USD per share
  • Last distribution 0.86 USD per share as the price series records it, within days of the ex-date 2026-08-31
  • By calendar year 2023: 0.55 USD (partial) · 2024: 2.36 USD · 2025: 2.70 USD · 2026: 2.30 USD to date first distribution recorded in the three-year window: 2023-11-29

Per-share amounts are derived from the adjusted price series in the listing currency, so dates sit within days of the ex-date; filing figures come from the fundamentals feed for the last reported fiscal year. An investment diary, not a recommendation.

Weather around the name 3 macro readings: Money Temperature, Factor regime, Sovereign pressure

The weather around this name

Macro readings that apply by membership — the regime, the factor tape, the sector cell, the funding backdrop.

  • Money Temperature Composite 50/100 · S&P 500 fund at 49, above its 50- and 200-day averagesEight instruments scored on position, momentum, volume, volatility and fragility — the regime every name trades inside. Temperature lab → 2026-09-18
  • Factor regime Momentum leading — risk appetite buildingMomentum against low volatility (SPMO / SPLV): above its 50-day trend, 97th percentile of the window, +4.9% over 20 sessions. Factor regime → 2026-09-18
  • Sovereign pressure Index 0.07 · down 0.41 over 21 sessionsG7 long-end yields, 10s30s and the slope — the funding weather for every balance sheet on this site. Sovereign pressure → 2026-09-18

FAQ · from the current data · as of 2026-09-19

Quick answers

What is Cboe Global Markets Inc (CBOE)?

Cboe Global Markets Inc trades as CBOE on the US exchange (United States) in the Closelook research universe, as of the registry build of 2026-09-19.

Is CBOE in a Closelook index?

Not currently — Cboe Global Markets Inc is tracked in the Closelook research universe but is not a constituent of a Closelook functional index as of 2026-09-19.

Where does CBOE trade against its moving averages?

Mixed moving-average stack: Trades -5.8% vs the 50-day and -4.5% vs the 200-day average, 26.3% below the 52-week high and +20.1% off the 52-week low; a golden cross printed 9 sessions ago. Computed from daily closes. As of 2026-09-18 — a technical state from the nightly Closelook bake, not advice. The Technical tab carries the full row.

What does Cboe Global Markets Inc do?

Cboe Global Markets runs a network of derivatives and securities exchanges, listing and trading options, equities, futures and foreign-exchange products across the United States, Europe and Asia-Pacific. Its options business covers index, single-stock and exchange-traded product contracts, while separate units handle equities transactions, futures such as VIX contracts, and institutional FX trades. It also licenses market data and provides listing services, including for exchange-traded products and its own shares. Closelook has not assigned Cboe a peer group; the exchange operators the market compares it with include CME Group, Intercontinental Exchange and Nasdaq.

Where does Cboe Global Markets Inc sit in the AI build-out?

Cboe carries no seat in Rubin or Halo, our AI-related indices, so it sits outside the build-out stack the diary tracks there; within our broader universe it belongs to the exchange-and-market-infrastructure sleeve of financial services, where it acts as a marketplace and data licensor rather than a supplier to any hardware or software layer. Cboe holds a seat in the S&P 500 and appears in the diary's macro reporting and glossary, where its VIX index and public volatility data are cited as reference sources rather than as an equity call. It carries no Closelook score.

Does Cboe Global Markets Inc pay a dividend?

Cboe Global Markets Inc has paid 3.02 USD per share over the last twelve months, paid quarterly, a trailing yield of 1.11% on the 2026-09-18 close; the last distribution recorded in the price series was 0.86 USD on 2026-08-31. The "Dividends and capital return" block on this page carries the lines.

Where has Closelook written about Cboe Global Markets Inc?

Cboe Global Markets Inc appears in 2 Closelook pieces, most recently Report: Macro Regime — Money Temperature (2026-04-06); Glossary: VIX (Volatility Index). What Closelook said most recently: Tier 3 adds free public sources: CFTC COT from cftc.gov, VIX term structure from CBOE, macro context from FRED. (Report, 2026-04-06). The "Mentioned on Closelook" block on this page lists the long reads, the reference entries and the dailies that name it.

What does this page show?

A live price chart with SMA overlays and drawing tools for CBOE, performance metrics, index-membership context and the Closelook structure read — an investment research diary view, not investment advice.

Mentioned on Closelook 2 pieces · newest: Report, “Macro Regime — Money Temperature” (2026-04-06)

Mentioned on Closelook

Where CBOE appears in the diary — 2 pieces, newest first. Every link is our own writing.

Long reads

101 and glossary

  • VIX (Volatility Index)GlossaryThe CBOE Volatility Index, measuring expected 30-day volatility of the S&P 500.

Related in the Closelook universe

then Financial Data & Stock Exchanges, then Financial Services. Scored names rank on their Closelook score; names without one rank on trend state — above or below their 50- and 200-day averages — never on a score they do not carry.