Intercontinental Exchange, Inc. · ICE · FY2024 Q3 · Calendar Q4 2024

ICE posts record Q3 revenue as energy and mortgage technology lead growth

ICE’s Q3 analysis supports a constructive but conditional view: diversified growth in energy, interest rates, environmental markets and mortgage technology is offset by near-term fee, expense and mortgage-originations risks.

Reported Before market openNYSEFinancial Services $90.70B market cap
100quality score

Earnings scorecard

Reported versus consensus
Reported EPS $1.55 Consensus $1.55
EPS surprise 0.0% Reported versus consensus
Reported revenue $3.03B Consensus $2.35B
Revenue surprise +28.9% Reported versus consensus

Market reaction

prior-close to event-session close
Stock move -6.4% Event window
SPY move -2.0% Same window
Abnormal move -4.4% Stock minus SPY
Volume 3.1× Versus trailing sessions
Subsequent drift +3.3% Up to 20 sessions
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What changed

The quarter added evidence of continued energy and environmental-market momentum, deeper Black Knight integration with generative-AI functionality, and ongoing data-center investment. Compared with the prior-quarter analysis, the main new watch items are the Q4 fee holiday and higher operating expenses.

Guidance delta

Management maintained its guidance while planning continued technology and data-center investment.

Key takeaways

  • Energy and interest-rate markets were highlighted as major growth drivers.
  • Black Knight integration is expanding ICE’s mortgage-technology platform, including AI-enabled compliance tools.
  • Environmental and natural-gas markets showed strong volume and open-interest growth.
  • Data-center investment remains central to the company’s efficiency and product plans.

Management priorities

  • Expand global energy, natural-gas and environmental markets.
  • Integrate Black Knight technology and add mortgage-platform APIs and partnerships.
  • Complete data-center projects and add AI capabilities to Encompass and DDA.

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Earnings History

Estimate Beat Miss Match
ICE EPS earnings history estimate and actual scatter chart 9 reported fiscal quarters and 3 future estimate-only quarters. Q1 '24 estimate $1.48 Q1 '24 actual $1.48, match Q2 '24 estimate $1.49 Q2 '24 actual $1.52, beat Q3 '24 estimate $1.55 Q3 '24 actual $1.55, match Q2 '25 estimate $1.77 Q2 '25 actual $1.81, beat Q3 '25 estimate $1.60 Q3 '25 actual $1.71, beat Q4 '25 estimate $1.68 Q4 '25 actual $1.71, beat Q1 '26 estimate $2.23 Q1 '26 actual $2.35, beat Q2 '26 estimate $1.84 Q2 '26 actual $1.90, beat Q3 '26 estimate $1.96 Q4 '26 estimate $1.94 Q1 '27 estimate $2.21
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Analyst Consensus ?

ConsensusBuy36 ratings
Bullish3186.1%
Neutral411.1%
Bearish12.8%

Analyst 52W Price Targets

$161.56Current
$84Low
$166.58Average
$218High

Latest persisted target per named analyst; persisted current price from FN2's market snapshot as of Oct 19, 2026. Not an FN2 forecast.

Firm-level rating actions

FMP grade actions identify the grading firm, not a named analyst.

FirmRatingPrior ratingActionDate
Wells Fargo Underweight UnderweightMaintainOct 14, 2026
TD Cowen Hold HoldMaintainOct 12, 2026
Morgan Stanley Equal Weight Equal WeightMaintainOct 9, 2026
Barclays Overweight OverweightMaintainOct 7, 2026
Piper Sandler Overweight OverweightMaintainOct 2, 2026
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Named analyst price targets

Upside is calculated against the persisted current price $161.56. FMP does not supply a rating on these named-analyst rows.

FirmAnalyst52W targetPrice when postedUpsideDate
Wells FargoAnalyst unavailable$160$156.42 -1.0%Oct 14, 2026
Morgan StanleyAnalyst unavailable$173$155.35 +7.1%Oct 9, 2026
BarclaysAnalyst unavailable$189$153.49 +17.0%Oct 7, 2026
Wells FargoAnalyst unavailable$159$151.47 -1.6%Oct 1, 2026
Raymond JamesPatrick O\'Shaughnessy$218$160.7 +34.9%Sep 1, 2026
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Company context

Snapshot as of publication

Intercontinental Exchange, Inc. (ICE) manages a global network of regulated financial venues, encompassing exchanges, clearing houses, and listing platforms. These operations serve diverse markets, including commodities, financial instruments, fixed income products, and equities, with a geographical footprint spanning key financial centers such as the United States, United Kingdom, European Union, Singapore, Israel, and Canada. The company's business is segmented into three core areas: Exchanges, Fixed Income and Data Services, and Mortgage Technology. Within its Exchanges segment, ICE oversees a robust network comprising 13 regulated exchanges and 6 clearing houses. These extensive marketplaces enable the listing, trading, and clearing of a wide spectrum of derivatives contracts and financial securities.…

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Sources

  1. Earnings call transcript and parsed analysis · 2026-05-11T10:29:34.698584+00:00
  2. FN2 earnings calendar · 2024-11-10T18:38:36.707185+00:00
  3. Polygon adjusted daily market bars · 2026-10-19T00:00:43.242411+00:00
  4. Financial Modeling Prep analyst price-target consensus and quote snapshot · 2026-10-19T00:00:43.239490+00:00

Methodology

Reported and consensus figures come from FN2's earnings event records. Market reaction and volume are calculated from daily adjusted bars around the event; abnormal move subtracts the SPY move over the same window.

Analyst target low, average, and high values are derived at request time from each named analyst's latest persisted FMP target. The current-price marker comes from FN2's persisted market snapshot. They are sell-side estimates, not an FN2 valuation or recommendation.

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By FN2 Research · Updated · As of 2026-10-19. For educational purposes only; not investment advice.