Share count
50Mpeak FY2025
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SNEX, StoneX Group
Capital Markets & Asset Management financial
We operate a global financial services network that connects companies, organizations, traders and investors to the global market ecosystem through a unique blend of digital platforms, end-to-end clearing and execution services, high touch service and deep expertise.
Our businesses are supported by our global infrastructure of regulated operating subsidiaries, advanced technology platforms and team of more than 5,400 employees as of September 30, 2025.
We offer a vertically integrated product suite, beginning with high-touch and electronic access to nearly all major financial markets worldwide, as well as numerous liquidity venues.
The business
What it sells, where the money comes from, the kind of company it is.
Revenue · FY2025
$132.4B
+32.5% YoY · 20% 5-yr CAGR
Vital signs · TTM, with 5-yr average
Revenue $133.5B 5-yr avg $80.3B
Net margin 0.3% 5-yr avg 0.3%
Revenue $45.8B +24.0% vs yr-ago qtr
Net income $174M yr-ago $72M
Net margin 0.4% yr-ago 0.2%
The business in brief
read the 10-K →What this business is and what moves its needle, from its own SEC filings.
- What moves the needle
- Trading volume and the data franchise. What decides it: volumes across its markets, which spike when volatility does; the network economics of a deep liquidity pool rivals cannot easily replicate; and the recurring, high-margin market-data and listing fees layered on top. On its own account, the filing leans hardest on pricing power & competition, set against the numbers in what the filing emphasizes, below.
- Is it a good business?
- Operating margin has been modest for a fee business (median 0%). It earns this on little capital, so return on equity has run near 14%, the leverage of a model that needs almost no plant to grow. A high return that does not fade can mark a moat, but whether the volumes and the data franchise hold their pricing is what the 10-K settles, not the multiple.
Every line is arithmetic on the company's filings, shown in full in the sections below.
The record
Ten years of arithmetic, read across the cycle.
The record, 2016–2025
realized figures from each filing · older years to the left| 2016’16 | 2017’17 | 2018’18 | 2019’19 | 2020’20 | 2021’21 | 2022’22 | 2023’23 | 2024’24 | 2025’25 | TTMTTMMar 2026 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Income statement | |||||||||||
| $14.8B | $29.4B | $27.6B | $32.9B | $54.1B | $42.5B | $66.0B | $60.9B | $99.9B | $132.4B | $133.5B | RevenueRevenue |
| 0.7% | 0.2% | 0.6% | 0.8% | 0.5% | 0.5% | −0.1% | −0.1% | −0.1% | 0.3% | −0.0% | Operating marginOp. mgn |
| 0.4% | 0.0% | 0.2% | 0.3% | 0.3% | 0.3% | 0.3% | 0.4% | 0.3% | 0.2% | 0.3% | Net marginNet mgn |
| $55M | $6M | $56M | $85M | $170M | $116M | $207M | $239M | $261M | $306M | $462M | Net incomeNet inc. |
| 25% | 58% | 45% | 23% | 18% | 25% | 25% | 26% | 26% | 25% | 24% | Effective tax rateTax rate |
| Cash flow & returns | |||||||||||
| ($36M) | $1.0B | ($486M) | $184M | $1.9B | $2.1B | ($279M) | ($71M) | $442M | $4.3B | $6.5B | Owner earningsOwner earn. |
| 13% | 1% | 11% | 14% | 22% | 13% | 19% | 17% | 15% | 13% | 17% | Return on equityROE |
| 13% | 1% | 11% | 14% | 22% | 13% | 19% | 17% | 15% | 13% | 17% | Retained to equityRetained/eq |
| Balance sheet | |||||||||||
| $6.0B | $6.2B | $7.8B | $9.9B | $13.5B | $18.8B | $19.9B | $21.9B | $27.5B | $45.3B | $53.6B | Total assetsAssets |
| $316M | $315M | $342M | $471M | $953M | $1.1B | $1.1B | $1.1B | $1.3B | $1.6B | $2.1B | Cash & investmentsCash+inv |
| $434M | $450M | $505M | $594M | $768M | $904M | $1.1B | $1.4B | $1.7B | $2.4B | $2.7B | Shareholders’ equityEquity |
| Per share | |||||||||||
| 27.9M | 28.0M | 28.4M | 28.5M | 28.8M | 29.5M | 30.1M | 46.4M | 47.4M | 50.1M | 81.0M | Shares out (diluted)Shares |
| $528.13 | $1049.68 | $972.55 | $1153.41 | $1881.76 | $1440.99 | $2193.79 | $1311.74 | $2105.67 | $2640.99 | $1648.75 | Revenue / shareRev/sh |
| $1.96 | $0.23 | $1.95 | $2.98 | $5.89 | $3.94 | $6.88 | $5.14 | $5.50 | $6.10 | $5.71 | EPS (diluted)EPS |
| $-1.29 | $36.66 | $-17.11 | $6.44 | $67.22 | $70.68 | $-9.27 | $-1.52 | $9.31 | $86.24 | $80.10 | Owner earnings / shareOE/sh |
| $15.53 | $16.05 | $17.79 | $20.83 | $26.68 | $30.63 | $35.55 | $29.73 | $36.03 | $47.43 | $33.34 | Book value / shareBVPS |
Share counts before 2022 are restated ×1.5 for a stock split, so per-share figures sit on one basis.
The diluted share count moved ×1.54 into 2023 — shares issued, not a split the totals corroborate — and the per-share figures carry the counts as filed.
The diluted share count moved ×1.62 into TTM — shares issued, not a split the totals corroborate — and the per-share figures carry the counts as filed.
Per-share growththe realized rate an owner's share compounded
| 9-yr | 5-yr | |
|---|---|---|
| Revenue / share | +19.6%/yr | +7.0%/yr |
| Owner earnings / share | — | +5.1%/yr |
| EPS | +13.5%/yr | +0.7%/yr |
| Capital spending / share | +10.0%/yr | +17.7%/yr |
| Book value / share | +13.2%/yr | +12.2%/yr |
The record, charted
FY2016–2025Each measure over its full record; the current point and the worst year marked. Share counts on the current split basis.
Revenue
$132.4Blow FY2016
Quality & stewardship
Returns, the balance sheet, capital allocation, and pay.
Owner’s Scorecard
FY2025 10-K · source on SEC EDGAR →
Is it a good business?
- Operating margin −0.0%Thin for a fee businessOperating income ($65M) ÷ revenue $132.4BIndustry peers: median 24%
What this means
The heart of a exchange: how much of each fee dollar survives the cost of running the business. Revenue is a toll on trading volume plus the recurring market-data and listing fees the venue generates, protected by the network economics of a deep liquidity pool that rivals cannot easily replicate. A high margin held for years, through a market it does not control, is the operational mark of a real franchise.
- Net margin 0.2%SlimNet income $306M ÷ revenue $132.4B
What this means
What reaches the owner after tax and interest. For a capital-light fee business this should be a wide share of revenue; when it is thin despite a high operating margin, debt taken on for acquisitions is usually the reason, so read it next to the balance sheet.
- Return on equity 13%SolidNet income $306M ÷ equity $2.4BIndustry peers: median 13%
What this means
Because the business ties up little capital, a healthy fee stream throws off a high return on the equity behind it. Read it with the buyback record: returning capital lifts this ratio honestly, but heavy debt taken to do so can flatter it.
Does AI threaten the moat?
Moderate contestabilityAI is likely to reshape costs and some products here without clearly contesting or sparing the core moat; how the company itself frames it is the tell.
The question is whether a moat the record shows as durable outlasts a technology that lowers the cost of part of what the firm sells. The durability is read in the record above, the filing's own framing of AI beside it; the industry label decides nothing on its own.
Read from the filing's own risk factors, paired with the industry's structure under its SIC code; the durability is read above, the price below.
All figures as filed; the source filing is linked above.
Management, ownership & pay
read the proxy →From the proxy: how much of the business the people running it own, and how they are paid, beside what the business earned for its owners in the same years.
| Fiscal year | Chief executive | Pay, as filed | “Actually paid” | Owner earnings |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | Sean O'Connor | $4.7M | $7.5M | $2.1B |
| 2022 | Sean O'Connor | $6.0M | $8.2M | ($279M) |
| 2023 | Sean O'Connor | $6.5M | $8.7M | ($71M) |
| 2024 | Sean O'Connor | $18.5M | $26.5M | $442M |
| 2025 | Philip Smith | $5.0M | $24.8M | $4.3B |
Both pay figures are the company’s own, from the pay-versus-performance table its proxy statement files. “As filed” is the Summary Compensation Table total: salary, bonus, and equity awards at their value on the day of grant. “Actually paid” is the SEC’s prescribed recalculation, which re-marks those equity awards to what they became as they vested; it can swing far above or below the filed figure in either direction, and negative years occur. Owner earnings are the whole business's, from the record above, for the same fiscal years.
- Insider ownership11.8%
The stake all directors and executive officers hold together, per the 2026 proxy: skin in the game, the first thing Munger reads.
- CEO pay ratio53:1
What the chief earns for every dollar the median employee makes, per the 2026 proxy. A high ratio alone settles nothing; some businesses are genuinely top-heavy in scarce skill. A runaway figure is where Buffett starts asking whether the board is doing its job.
- Stock-based compensation$49M
The slice of the business handed to employees in shares this year, 0% of revenue. Buffett's oldest accounting fight: this is compensation, compensation is an expense, real whether or not the headline earnings admit it. One trap: the cash-flow statement adds SBC back, so the operating cash, and the owner earnings drawn from it, are flattered by exactly this amount; counted as the cost it is, what an owner keeps is lower.
What an owner would ask, FY2025
read the 10-K →- Which reported numbers are a judgment call?Management names Revenue recognition, Income taxes, Acquisitions, Stock compensation as critical estimates
each rests partly on management's judgment; the filing's note sets out the assumptionsverify →
The questions the record and the charts do not answer on their own; each carries the figure and the place to look.
Peers, Capital Markets & Asset Management
The same industry, side by side on fee margins. Each figure is a through-cycle median, so a peak or trough year can’t distort it; the group median at the foot is the line to read each against.
| Company | Revenue | Op. margin | Net margin | ROE |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SNEXStoneX Group | $132.4B | 0.4% | 0.3% | 14% |
| GLXYGalaxy Digital Inc. | $60.4B | 0.5% | 0.4% | 13% |
| APOApollo Global Management | $32.0B | 13.8% | 13.2% | 21% |
| BLKBlackRock Inc. | $24.2B | 35.4% | 29.9% | 14% |
| LPLALPL Financial Holdings Inc. | $17.0B | 11.0% | 8.3% | 36% |
| ICEIntercontinental Exchange Inc. | $12.6B | 37.7% | 25.8% | 11% |
| NDAQNasdaq Inc. | $8.3B | 24.4% | 17.8% | 13% |
| CMECME Group Inc. | $6.5B | 60.9% | 54.9% | 10% |
| Group median | — | 19.1% | 15.5% | 13% |
The price
What a price has to assume.
What the price implies
reverse-DCFType today's close and see the owner-earnings growth you'd have to believe to justify it, beside what StoneX Group has delivered.
StoneX Group’s latest year runs above its own through-cycle margin — the reported figure may flatter a peak. So the tool opens on the through-cycle base, Graham’s averaging cutting both ways; clear the toggle below to read the latest year exactly as reported.
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Through the cycle, StoneX Group earns about $662M on its 0.5% median owner-earnings margin. This year’s 3.3% margin runs above that; the reported figure may flatter a peak you'd be paying on. Normalize, below, values the price on that through-cycle figure rather than the latest year. It comes pre-checked here for that reason, the same rule that already normalizes a trough; clear it to price the year as filed.
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The assumptions
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Owner-earnings growth · ’21→’25+27%/yr
Owner-earnings growth · ’16→’25+19%/yr
Owner-earnings growth · ’16→’25+19%/yr
Owner-earnings yield—
What a growth belief costs, in multiples
The growth each return requires, at your price
P/E (3-yr earnings ’23–’25)—
P/B—
Graham’s price gate—
Graham capped the multiple at 15×; Buffett and Munger let that rule go: a wonderful business can deserve 50× if the thesis holds. The gate marks the bargain-hunter's floor.
Against a high-grade bond: Graham’s yardstick bond yield%
Prefilled with the 10-year Treasury (4.55%, as of Jul 15, 2026). Edit it for today’s exact figure, or a AAA corporate yield.
Graham measured a stock against the bond you could own instead, the heart of his margin of safety. Enter a price above to weigh the owner-earnings yield against this bond.
Owner-earnings yield—
High-grade bond yield—
Margin over the bond—
Free cash flow $6.5B on 79M shares outstanding, per the 10-Q cover, as of 2026-05-04; net cash $398M. The base opens on the through-cycle figure (the latest year sits above the record’s own median, and Graham’s averaging cuts both ways); clear Normalize to use the year as filed. Net of stock comp treats option pay as the expense it is. Capex ($73M) runs well above depreciation ($88M), so this is a build-out; Steady-state swaps total capex for maintenance (≈ depreciation), lifting the base to about $6.5B, the cash it would throw off if it stopped expanding. The dials set the multiple a growth belief justifies; the price, and every dollar on this page, is yours.
Cite: Owner Scorecard, "StoneX Group (SNEX), the owner's record," https://ownerscorecard.com/c/SNEX, data as of 2026-07-09.
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