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CHICAGO, Feb. 13, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Cboe Global Markets, Inc. (Cboe: CBOE), the world's leading derivatives and securities exchange network, today announced its Board of Directors has declared a quarterly cash dividend of $0.72 per share of common stock for the first quarter of 2026. The first-quarter 2026 dividend is payable on March 13, 2026, to stockholders of record as of February 27, 2026.

Cash-settled Russell 2000® Index (RUT) options now available during Cboe's Global Trading Hours Cboe now offers nearly 24x5 trading for RUT, S&P 500 Index and Cboe Volatility Index options RUT options and Cboe's Global Trading Hours both reached record volumes in 2025 CHICAGO, Feb. 12, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Cboe Global Markets, Inc. (Cboe: CBOE), the world's leading derivatives and securities exchange network, today announced Russell 2000 Index (RUT) and Russell 2000 Index Weeklys (RUTW) options are now available to trade on the Cboe Options Exchange nearly 24 hours a day, five days a week. The addition of RUT options to Cboe's Global Trading Hours (GTH) session offers European and Asia Pacific investors the ability to better manage U.S. small-cap exposure and trade during their local daytime hours.

CBOE (CBOE) might move higher on growing optimism about its earnings prospects, which is reflected by its upgrade to a Zacks Rank #1 (Strong Buy).

Cboe Global Markets, Inc. (CBOE) Q4 2025 Earnings Call Transcript

Zacks Securities and Exchanges industry players like SPGI, ICE, CME, NDAQ and CBOE gain from rising crypto adoption, trading volumes, a higher non-trading revenue base and tech investments.

CBOE's fourth-quarter results reflect higher volumes across the company???s derivatives platform, solid cash and spot markets performance, offset by higher expenses.

While the top- and bottom-line numbers for CBOE (CBOE) give a sense of how the business performed in the quarter ended December 2025, it could be worth looking at how some of its key metrics compare to Wall Street estimates and year-ago values.

CBOE Global (CBOE) came out with quarterly earnings of $3.06 per share, beating the Zacks Consensus Estimate of $2.93 per share. This compares to earnings of $2.1 per share a year ago.