Interactive Brokers (IBKR) Witnesses Y/Y Rise in June DARTs
Interactive Brokers Group, Inc.’s IBKR Electronic Brokerage segment reported a year-over-year increase in Daily Average Revenue Trades (DARTs) for June 2018. The segment deals with clearance and settlement of trades for individual and institutional clients, globally.
Total client DARTs were 799,000, increasing 17% from June 2017 and 2% from the previous month. Total customer accounts grew 27% year over year and 2% from the prior month to 542,200 in June 2018.
Net new accounts totaled 9,400, rising 22% from the last month but declining 4% from the prior-year period. On an annualized basis, the company recorded 343,000 Cleared Average DARTs per customer account. This remained unchanged from the previous month, however, it declined 8% on a year-over-year basis.
Interactive Brokers’ total option contracts were 27.6 million, up 6% from May 2018. It witnessed rise of 5% from June 2017. Future contracts declined 10% from the last month but increased 2% from the prior-year period to 11 million.
At the end of June 2018, client equity was $134.7 billion, remaining stable from the previous month and increasing 29% year over year. Also, Interactive Brokers recorded client credit balance of $47.6 billion, up 2% from the prior month and rising 4% year over year. The company’s customer margin loan balance of $28.8 billion declined 7% from the preceding month but rose 27% from the prior-year period.
The company’s share price movement reflects investors’ optimism as the stock has increased 9% over the past six months, significantly outperforming 6.4% decline registered by the industry.
The company currently carries a Zacks Rank #3 (Hold).
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