Interactive Brokers Group Announces 2Q2024 Results

Business Wire 16-Jul-2024 4:01 PM

GAAP DILUTED EPS OF $1.65, ADJUSTED¹ EPS OF $1.76 GAAP NET REVENUES OF $1,230 MILLION, ADJUSTED NET REVENUES OF $1,290 MILLION

Interactive Brokers Group, Inc. (NASDAQ:IBKR), an automated global electronic broker, announced results for the quarter ended June 30, 2024.

Reported diluted earnings per share were $1.65 for the current quarter and $1.76 as adjusted. For the year-ago quarter, reported diluted earnings per share were $1.20 and $1.32 as adjusted.

Reported net revenues were $1,230 million for the current quarter and $1,290 million as adjusted. For the year-ago quarter, reported net revenues were $1,000 million and $1,064 million as adjusted.

Reported income before income taxes was $880 million for the current quarter and $940 million as adjusted. For the year-ago quarter, reported income before income taxes was $652 million and $716 million as adjusted.

Financial Highlights (All comparisons are to the year-ago quarter.)

• Commission revenue increased 26% to $406 million on higher customer trading volumes. Customer trading volume in options, stocks and futures increased 35%, 26% and 10%, respectively.

• Net interest income increased 14% to $792 million on higher benchmark interest rates, customer margin loans and customer credit balances.

• Other fees and services increased $21 million, or 45%, to $68 million, driven primarily by increases of $14 million in risk exposure fees and $3 million each in payments for order flow from exchange-mandated programs and FDIC sweep program fees.

• Execution, clearing and distribution fees expenses increased 24% to $115 million, driven by higher customer trading volumes and an increase in the SEC fee rate during the current quarter.

• Pretax profit margin for the current quarter was 72% as reported and 73% as adjusted. For the year-ago quarter, reported pretax margin was 65% and 67% as adjusted.

• Total equity of $15.2 billion.

The Interactive Brokers Group, Inc. Board of Directors declared a quarterly cash dividend of $0.25 per share. This dividend is payable on September 13, 2024, to shareholders of record as of August 30, 2024.

Business Highlights (All comparisons are to the year-ago quarter.)

• Customer accounts increased 28% to 2.92 million.
• Customer equity increased 36% to $497.2 billion.
• Total DARTs² increased 28% to 2.39 million.
• Customer credits increased 8% to $107.1 billion.
• Customer margin loans increased 32% to $55.1 billion.

Other Items

As previously disclosed, during the current quarter, we recognized a loss of approximately $48 million on positions taken over as customer accommodation due to a technical issue at the New York Stock Exchange that occurred on the morning of June 3, 2024.

In connection with our currency diversification strategy, we base our net worth in GLOBALs, a basket of 10 major currencies in which we hold our equity. In this quarter, our currency diversification strategy decreased our comprehensive earnings by $30 million, as the U.S. dollar value of the GLOBAL decreased by approximately 0.22%. The effects of the currency diversification strategy are reported as components of (1) Other Income (loss of $20 million) and (2) Other Comprehensive Income (loss of $10 million).

Conference Call Information:

Interactive Brokers Group, Inc. will hold a conference call with investors today, July 16, 2024, at 4:30 p.m. ET to discuss its quarterly results. Members of the public who would like to listen to the conference call should register at https://register.vevent.com/register/BI9f2adf478d354c83b495036e581df05b to obtain the dial-in details. The number should be dialed approximately ten minutes prior to the start of the conference call. The conference call will also be accessible simultaneously, and through replays, as an audio webcast through the Investor Relations section of the Interactive Brokers web site, www.interactivebrokers.com/ir.

About Interactive Brokers Group, Inc.:

Interactive Brokers Group affiliates provide automated trade execution and custody of securities, commodities, and foreign exchange around the clock on over 150 markets in numerous countries and currencies, from a single unified platform to clients worldwide. We serve individual investors, hedge funds, proprietary trading groups, financial advisors and introducing brokers. Our four decades of focus on technology and automation has enabled us to equip our clients with a uniquely sophisticated platform to manage their investment portfolios. We strive to provide our clients with advantageous execution prices and trading, risk and portfolio management tools, research facilities and investment products, all at low or no cost, positioning them to achieve superior returns on investments. Interactive Brokers has consistently earned recognition as a top broker, garnering multiple awards and accolades from respected industry sources such as Barron's, Investopedia, Stockbrokers.com, and many others.

Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements:

The foregoing information contains certain forward-looking statements that reflect the Company's current views with respect to certain current and future events and financial performance. These forward-looking statements are and will be, as the case may be, subject to many risks, uncertainties and factors relating to the Company's operations and business environment which may cause the Company's actual results to be materially different from any future results, expressed or implied, in these forward-looking statements. Any forward-looking statements in this release are based upon information available to the Company on the date of this release. The Company does not undertake to publicly update or revise its forward-looking statements even if experience or future changes make it clear that any statements expressed or implied therein will not be realized. Additional information on risk factors that could potentially affect the Company's financial results may be found in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

^{___________________ 1} See the reconciliation of non-GAAP financial measures starting on page 9. ² Daily average revenue trades (DARTs) are based on customer orders.

Note: The term "GAAP" in the following explanation refers to generally accepted accounting principles in the United States.

¹ Adjusted net revenues, adjusted income before income taxes, adjusted net income available for common stockholders and adjusted diluted earnings per share ("EPS") are non-GAAP financial measures.

• We define adjusted net revenues as net revenues adjusted to remove the effect of our currency diversification strategy and our net mark-to-market gains (losses) on investments².
• We define adjusted income before income taxes as income before income taxes adjusted to remove the effect of our currency diversification strategy and our net mark-to-market gains (losses) on investments.
• We define adjusted net income available to common stockholders as net income available for common stockholders adjusted to remove the after-tax effects attributable to IBG, Inc. of our currency diversification strategy and our net mark-to-market gains (losses) on investments.
• We define adjusted diluted EPS as adjusted net income available for common stockholders divided by the diluted weighted average number of shares outstanding for the period.

Management believes these non-GAAP items are important measures of our financial performance because they exclude certain items that may not be indicative of our core operating results and business outlook and may be useful to investors and analysts in evaluating the operating performance of the business and facilitating a meaningful comparison of our results in the current period to those in prior and future periods. Our currency diversification strategy and our mark-to-market on investments are excluded because management does not believe they are indicative of our underlying core business performance. Adjusted net revenues, adjusted income before income taxes, adjusted net income available to common stockholders and adjusted diluted EPS should be considered in addition to, rather than as a substitute for, GAAP net revenues, income before income taxes, net income attributable to common stockholders and diluted EPS.

² Mark-to-market on investments represents the net mark-to-market gains (losses) on investments in equity securities that do not qualify for equity method accounting, which are measured at fair value; on our U.S. government and municipal securities portfolios, which are typically held to maturity; and on certain other investments, including equity securities taken over by the Company as a customer accommodation due to a technical issue at the New York Stock Exchange that occurred on the morning of June 3, 2024.

³ The income tax effect is estimated using the statutory income tax rates applicable to the Company.

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