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CME vs ET: Dividend Comparison 2026

CME yields 1.75% · ET yields 6.76%● Live data

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After 10 years · $10,000 invested · DRIP enabled
🏆 CME wins by $3.95M in total portfolio value· pulled ahead in Year 5
10 years
CME
CME
● Live price
1.75%
Share price
$297.58
Annual div
$5.20
5Y div CAGR
85.4%
Payout ratio
50%
After 10 yrs · $10,000 · DRIP
Portfolio value
$4.05M
Annual income
$3,278,693.93
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ET
ET
● Live price
6.76%
Share price
$19.59
Annual div
$1.33
5Y div CAGR
24.5%
Payout ratio
50%
After 10 yrs · $10,000 · DRIP
Portfolio value
$93.4K
Annual income
$21,965.29
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Portfolio growth — CME vs ET

📍 CME pulled ahead of the other in Year 5

Annual dividend income

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Recession Test — Did They Cut Dividends?

How each stock treated shareholders during the 3 biggest crises of the last 20 years

Crisis PeriodCMEET
2008–2009
GFC
— No data— No data
2020 Q1–Q2
COVID
— No data— No data
2022 Q4
Rate Hike
— No data— No data
Based on dividend payment history. "Increased" = dividend grew during crisis. "Maintained" = held within 3%. "Cut" = reduced by more than 3%.
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Dividend Calendar Overlap

Combined, CME + ET cover 0 of 12 monthsgood coverage

Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec
CME pays
ET pays
Both pay
Neither
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Tax Bracket Optimizer

Which stock is actually better after tax? Adjust your rate to find out.

CME
Annual income on $10K today (after 15% tax)
$148.53/yr
After 10yr DRIP, annual income (after tax)
$2,786,889.84/yr
ET
Annual income on $10K today (after 15% tax)
$574.91/yr
After 10yr DRIP, annual income (after tax)
$18,670.50/yr
At 15% tax rate, CME beats the other by $2,768,219.34/year in after-tax income after 10 years on $10,000
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Lazy Portfolio Split Optimizer

What's the optimal mix of CME + ET for your $10,000?

CME: 50%ET: 50%
100% ET50/50100% CME
Portfolio after 10yr
$2.07M
Annual income
$1,650,329.61/yr
Blended yield
79.70%
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Analyst Conviction Gap

Where Wall Street is most bullish on ET right now

CME
Analyst Ratings
13
Buy
17
Hold
5
Sell
Consensus: Hold
Price Target
$311.83
+4.8% upside vs current
Range: $300.00 — $340.00
Altman Z
0.6
Piotroski
5/9
ET
Analyst Ratings
1
Strong
27
Buy
4
Hold
Consensus: Buy
Price Target
$18.00
-8.1% upside vs current
Range: $17.00 — $19.00
Altman Z
1.3
Piotroski
6/9
Analyst ratings via FMP. Altman Z-Score: >3.0 safe, 1.81–3.0 grey zone, <1.81 distress. Piotroski: 7–9 strong, 0–3 weak.
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Copy Congress — What Are Politicians Buying?

Senate & House STOCK Act disclosures (last 90 days)

CME buys
0
ET buys
0
No recent congressional trades found for CME or ET in the last 90 days.
STOCK Act mandates disclosure within 45 days of transaction. Data via FMP.Full tracker →
MetricCMEET
Forward yield1.75%6.76%
Annual dividend / share$5.20$1.33
Payout ratio50%50%
1-year div growth0%0%
5-year div CAGR85.4%24.5%
Portfolio after 10y$4.05M$93.4K
Annual income after 10y$3,278,693.93$21,965.29
Total dividends collected$3.96M$64.0K
Payment frequencyquarterlyquarterly
SectorFinancialsEnergy
Analyst consensusHoldBuy
Analyst price target$311.83$18.00

Year-by-year: CME vs ET ($10,000, DRIP)

YearCME PortfolioCME Income/yrET PortfolioET Income/yrGap
1$11,024$323.97$11,542$842.08$518.00ET
2$12,414$618.83$13,481$1,130.89$1.1KET
3$14,491$1,207.51$15,961$1,536.88$1.5KET
4$17,948$2,442.23$19,196$2,117.29$1.2KET
5← crossover$24,445$5,241.07$23,503$2,962.82+$942.00CME
6$38,525$12,368.84$29,369$4,220.80+$9.2KCME
7$74,998$33,775.95$37,561$6,136.87+$37.4KCME
8$194,178$113,930.22$49,323$9,132.50+$144.9KCME
9$718,883$511,112.41$66,729$13,953.56+$652.2KCME
10$4,047,898$3,278,693.93$93,366$21,965.29+$3.95MCME

CME vs ET: Complete Analysis 2026

CMEFinancials

CME Group Inc., together with its subsidiaries, operates contract markets for the trading of futures and options on futures contracts worldwide. It offers futures and options products based on interest rates, equity indexes, foreign exchange, agricultural commodities, energy, and metals, as well as fixed income products. The company also provides clearing house services, including clearing, settling, and guaranteeing futures and options contracts, and cleared swaps products traded through its exchanges; and trade processing and risk mitigation services. In addition, the company offers a range of market data services, including real-time and historical data services. It serves professional traders, financial institutions, institutional and individual investors, corporations, manufacturers, producers, governments, and central banks. The company was formerly known as Chicago Mercantile Exchange Holdings Inc. and changed its name to CME Group Inc. in July 2007. CME Group Inc. was founded in 1898 and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.

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ETEnergy

Energy Transfer LP provides energy-related services. The company owns and operates approximately 11,600 miles of natural gas transportation pipeline, and three natural gas storage facilities in Texas and two natural gas storage facilities located in the state of Texas and Oklahoma; and 19,830 miles of interstate natural gas pipeline. It also sells natural gas to electric utilities, independent power plants, local distribution and other marketing companies, and industrial end-users. The company owns and operates natural gas gathering and natural gas liquid (NGL) pipeline, processing plant, and treating and conditioning facilities in Texas, New Mexico, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Kansas, and Louisiana; natural gas gathering, oil pipeline, and oil stabilization facilities in South Texas; and a natural gas gathering system in Ohio, as well as transport and supplies water to natural gas producer in Pennsylvania. It owns approximately 5,215 miles of NGL pipeline; NGL and propane fractionation facilities; NGL storage facilities with working storage capacity of approximately 50 million barrels (MMBbls); and other NGL storage assets and terminal with an aggregate storage capacity of approximately 17 MMBbls. The company provides crude oil transportation, terminalling, acquisition, and marketing activities; and sells and distributes gasoline, middle distillate, and motor fuels and other petroleum product. It offers natural gas compression service; carbon dioxide and hydrogen sulfide removal, natural gas cooling, dehydration, and British thermal unit management service; and manages coal and natural resources properties, as well as sells standing timber, leases coal-related infrastructure facilities, collects oil and gas royalty, and generate electrical power. The company was formerly known as Energy Transfer Equity, L.P. and changed its name to Energy Transfer LP in October 2018. The company was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in Dallas, Texas.

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