Intercontinental Exchange Inc. (ICE)

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Intercontinental Exchange Inc.'s filings since 2017 show no warning events in the scan: no bankruptcy or receivership notice, no debt default notice, no exchange listing notice, no restatement warning, no auditor change, no material cyber incident and no late-report notice (its current reports).

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Intercontinental Exchange Inc.'s 10 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $6.0 billion in fiscal 2016 to $13 billion in fiscal 2025, up 8.7% a year; it rose in 8 of 9 years; the deepest fall was 2% from fiscal 2016 to fiscal 2017; net income was positive in 10 of 10 of those years (its annual reports).

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Over the 3 fiscal years to 2025-12-31, Intercontinental Exchange Inc.'s diluted share count grew about 0.8% a year, and dividends and buybacks returned about 34% of its operating cash flow over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 72 sales (70 under scheduled 10b5-1 plans) and 0 purchases of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-11-12 (their Form 4 filings).

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Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2025-12-31, Intercontinental Exchange Inc. earned about 11 cents of profit for every dollar of shareholders' money. Leverage: it owed about 79 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count shrank 0.2% over the year (the filed statements).

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Intercontinental Exchange Inc.'s standing among 13 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $13 billion in fiscal 2025 ranks in the top 19% by size; a net margin of 26.2% ranks in the top 19%; revenue growth of 9.5% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the bottom 35% (its annual reports).

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Intercontinental Exchange Inc.'s leadership, from its insiders' filings and its current reports: the chief executive on the record is Sprecher, Jeffrey C (Chief Executive Officer, as filed), filing under that title since 2013-11-13, 13 years (top 7% of its family); the 22 officers and directors filing in the last fifteen months have been on the record a median of 6.1 years (bottom 21%); 1 officer or director change was reported on Form 8-K since 2023-11-13, against the 22 people in charge now (top 6%; fewer changes for each person reads higher) (the Form 4 record, its Form 8-K reports). Years count from a person's first filing in the SEC's data sets, which begin in 2006, so each is a floor.

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Intercontinental Exchange Inc.'s room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2025): cash of $837 million against debt of $19 billion leaves -13% of its assets as net cash, bottom 27% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is 33.9% of revenue (top 27%) (its annual report).

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Intercontinental Exchange Inc.'s growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2025: revenue grew 9.5% a year over the last three filed years against 8.7% over all 10, speeding up (top 42% of its family); the newest year grew 7.5% (bottom 19%); capital spending grew 18.3% a year (bottom 35%) (its annual reports). Intercontinental Exchange Inc. reported 3 lines of business in fiscal 2025: Exchanges at $8.1 billion (64%), Fixed Income and Data Services at $2.4 billion (19%), Mortgage Technology at $2.1 billion (17%); 3 of 3 grew against the year before (its annual report).

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Intercontinental Exchange Inc.'s newest year against its own record: revenue of $13 billion in fiscal 2025 came in 2.7% below the $13 billion its prior three years' pace pointed to (bottom 27% of its family); net income of $3.3 billion against a prior three-year average of $2.2 billion (top 42%); a net margin of 26.2% against 20.8% before (top 35%) (its annual reports).