Interactive Brokers

About Interactive Brokers

Interactive Brokers is a large, automated, retail and institutional brokerage that boasted nearly $780 billion in customer equity at the end of 2025. The company cut its teeth as a market maker, introducing US financial markets to automated and algorithmic training before expanding into brokerage services in 1993. The firm has a wide-ranging client base, with its best-in-class order execution and extremely low margin lending rates catering to a sophisticated audience of hedge funds, proprietary traders, and introducing brokers that account for about 45% of the firm's commissions. With operations spanning more than 170 electronic exchanges, 40 countries, and 29 currencies, Interactive Brokers caters to a global clientele, with more than 80% of active accounts sitting outside the US.

Ticker

$IBKR

Sector

Finance

Primary listing

NASDAQ

Employees

3,232

Headquarters

Greenwich, United States

Website

www.interactivebrokers.com

IBKR Metrics

BasicAdvanced

$42bn

40.91

$2.33

1.32

$0.33

0.37%

What the Analysts think about IBKR

Analyst ratings (Buy, Hold, Sell) for Interactive Brokers stock.

Bulls say / Bears say

Commission revenue increased 19% year-over-year to $613 million, while net interest income rose 17% to $904 million in Q1 2026, driving record net revenues for the quarter (InteractiveBrokers)

Daily average revenue trades (DARTs) climbed 24% year-over-year to 4.37 million in Q1 2026, reflecting robust client engagement and trading activity (Reuters)

Ending client margin loan balances reached a record $100.9 billion in May 2026, up 65% year-over-year and underpinning growth in interest income from customer leverage (BusinessWire)

Quarterly revenue rose 17% year-over-year to $1.68 billion in Q1 2026, below analysts’ $1.69 billion estimate, and the stock fell about 1.3% in after-hours trading (MarketBeat ; ChartMill)

A 25 basis-point U.S. rate cut is estimated to reduce annual net interest income by approximately $82 million, creating downside risk to earnings if benchmark rates fall (MarketBeat)

Average commission per cleared Commissionable Order declined from $2.70 in April 2026 to $2.60 in May 2026, reflecting ongoing fee compression in its core brokerage services (MarketChameleon ; InteractiveBrokers)

Data summarised monthly by Lightyear AI. Last updated on 28 Jun 2026.

IBKR Financial Performance

Revenues and expenses

Income statement
QuarterlyAnnual	Q3 24	QoQ growth
Revenue	$37bn	-39.75%
Net income	$45bn	107.52%
Profit margin	37.65%	6.78%

IBKR Earnings Performance

Company profitability

Earnings per share
QuarterlyAnnual	Q4 23	Q1 24	Q2 24	Q3 24	Q4 24
Actual	$3.69	$2.85	$2.45	$2.42	-
Expected	$3.55	$2.61	$2.05	$2.31	$3.94
Surprise	3.94%	9.20%	19.51%	4.63%	-

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