Interactive Brokers Group Reports Brokerage Metrics and Other Financial Information for April 2020, includes Reg.-NMS Execution Statistics
GREENWICH, CT, May 1, 2020 — Interactive Brokers Group, Inc. (Nasdaq: IBKR) an automated global electronic broker, today reported its Electronic Brokerage monthly performance metrics for April.
Brokerage highlights for the month included:
• 1,720 thousand Daily Average Revenue Trades (DARTs)1, 121% higher than prior year and 12% lower than prior month.
• Ending client equity of $179.8 billion, 19% higher than prior year and 12% higher than prior month.
• Ending client margin loan balances of $20.6 billion, 23% lower than prior year and 4% higher than prior month.
• Ending client credit balances of $69.3 billion, including $3.0 billion in insured bank deposit sweeps2, 30%
higher than prior year and 7% higher than prior month.
• 806 thousand client accounts, 28% higher than prior year and 6% higher than prior month.
• 498 annualized average cleared DARTs1 per client account.
• Average commission per cleared Commissionable Order3 of $2.77 including exchange, clearing and regulatory
fees. Key products:
Futures include options on futures. We estimate exchange, clearing and regulatory fees to be 59% of the futures commissions.
Other financial information for Interactive Brokers Group:
• GLOBAL4: The value of the GLOBAL, reported in U.S. dollars, increased by 0.06% in April. Year to date, the value of the GLOBAL decreased 0.91%.
In the interest of transparency, we quantify our IBKR PRO clients’ all-in cost of trade execution below.
• In April, IBKR PRO clients’ total cost of executing and clearing U.S. Reg.-NMS stocks through IB was about 0.2 basis points of trade money5, as measured against a daily VWAP6 benchmark (1.4 basis points net cost for
GREENWICH, CT, May 1, 2020 — Interactive Brokers Group, Inc. (Nasdaq: IBKR) an automated global electronic broker, today reported its Electronic Brokerage monthly performance metrics for April.
Brokerage highlights for the month included:
• 1,720 thousand Daily Average Revenue Trades (DARTs)1, 121% higher than prior year and 12% lower than prior month.
• Ending client equity of $179.8 billion, 19% higher than prior year and 12% higher than prior month.
• Ending client margin loan balances of $20.6 billion, 23% lower than prior year and 4% higher than prior month.
• Ending client credit balances of $69.3 billion, including $3.0 billion in insured bank deposit sweeps2, 30%
higher than prior year and 7% higher than prior month.
• 806 thousand client accounts, 28% higher than prior year and 6% higher than prior month.
• 498 annualized average cleared DARTs1 per client account.
• Average commission per cleared Commissionable Order3 of $2.77 including exchange, clearing and regulatory
fees. Key products:
Futures include options on futures. We estimate exchange, clearing and regulatory fees to be 59% of the futures commissions.
Other financial information for Interactive Brokers Group:
• GLOBAL4: The value of the GLOBAL, reported in U.S. dollars, increased by 0.06% in April. Year to date, the value of the GLOBAL decreased 0.91%.
In the interest of transparency, we quantify our IBKR PRO clients’ all-in cost of trade execution below.
• In April, IBKR PRO clients’ total cost of executing and clearing U.S. Reg.-NMS stocks through IB was about 0.2 basis points of trade money5, as measured against a daily VWAP6 benchmark (1.4 basis points net cost for
