Intercontinental Exchange, Inc. · ICE · FY2025 Q4 · Calendar Q1 2026

ICE posts record 2025 as AI investment and market volumes support growth

ICE's latest analysis supports a constructive but qualified outlook: broad-based growth and recurring revenue are paired with rising AI investment, while mortgage, competition, regulatory, and volume risks remain.

Reported Before market openNYSEFinancial Services $85.44B market cap
100quality score

Earnings scorecard

Reported versus consensus
Reported EPS $1.71 Consensus $1.68
EPS surprise +1.8% Reported versus consensus
Reported revenue $2.50B Consensus $2.47B
Revenue surprise +1.3% Reported versus consensus

Market reaction

prior-close to event-session close
Stock move +2.1% Event window
SPY move -1.2% Same window
Abnormal move +3.3% Stock minus SPY
Volume 1.5× Versus trailing sessions
Subsequent drift -1.2% Up to 20 sessions
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What changed

The latest analysis emphasizes 2026 AI infrastructure and data-center spending, additional ICE Aurora agents, and tokenized-securities initiatives. Guidance remained maintained; compared with the prior analysis, concerns are more specific around Fixed Income Data Services defensibility, mortgage minimums, pricing, and regulation.

Guidance delta

Maintained; the analysis describes 2026 mid-single-digit recurring revenue growth.

Key takeaways

  • The analysis describes record 2025 adjusted EPS and net revenue, with growth across exchange, fixed-income data services, and mortgage technology.
  • Energy and interest-rate futures volumes benefited from market volatility and geopolitical risk.
  • Management is increasing AI infrastructure and data-center investment and expanding ICE Aurora capabilities.
  • Tokenization and AI create potential growth avenues, but mortgage, competitive, and regulatory risks remain.

Management priorities

  • Expand AI infrastructure and data-center capacity.
  • Deploy additional ICE Aurora agents across mortgage origination, servicing, and compliance.
  • Continue expanding exchange data services and connectivity.
  • Advance tokenized-securities and tokenized-collateral initiatives subject to regulatory requirements.

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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 $1.90 Q4 '26 estimate $1.94 Q1 '27 estimate $2.23
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Analyst Consensus ?

ConsensusBuy36 ratings
Bullish3391.7%
Neutral38.3%
Bearish00.0%

Analyst 52W Price Targets

$152.03Current
$84Low
$166.17Average
$218High

Latest persisted target per named analyst; persisted current price from FN2's market snapshot as of Sep 30, 2026. Not an FN2 forecast.

Firm-level rating actions

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

FirmRatingPrior ratingActionDate
UBS Buy BuyMaintainJul 31, 2026
TD Cowen Buy BuyMaintainJul 31, 2026
Barclays Overweight OverweightMaintainJul 31, 2026
Piper Sandler Overweight OverweightMaintainJul 15, 2026
Morgan Stanley Equal Weight Equal WeightMaintainJul 10, 2026
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Named analyst price targets

Upside is calculated against the persisted current price $152.03. FMP does not supply a rating on these named-analyst rows.

FirmAnalyst52W targetPrice when postedUpsideDate
Raymond JamesPatrick O\'Shaughnessy$218$160.7 +43.4%Sep 1, 2026
Deutsche BankBrian Bedell$178$154.55 +17.1%Jul 31, 2026
Piper SandlerPatrick Moley$190$137.61 +25.0%Jul 15, 2026
Morgan StanleyAnalyst unavailable$163$135.76 +7.2%Jul 10, 2026
BarclaysAnalyst unavailable$180$133.08 +18.4%Jul 9, 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 · 2026-07-26T00:36:15.940040+00:00
  3. Polygon adjusted daily market bars · 2026-09-30T21:36:07.038525+00:00
  4. Financial Modeling Prep analyst price-target consensus and quote snapshot · 2026-09-30T21:36:07.035324+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.

Transcript intelligence is a structured synthesis of the current and prior earnings-call analyses. Missing values stay missing and are never estimated.

By FN2 Research · Updated · As of 2026-09-30. For educational purposes only; not investment advice.