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Cboe Global Markets (CBOE) Risk Analysis
Risk Overview Q2, 2026
Risk Change Over Time
- Employment / Personnel - Risk 1If we fail to attract or retain highly skilled management and other employees our business may be harmed.
Our success largely depends on the skills, experience and continued efforts of management and other key personnel. As a result, to be successful, we must retain and motivate executives and other key employees. However, we have no assurances that these employees will remain with us. The roles and responsibilities of departing executive officers and employees will need to be filled either by existing or new officers and employees, which may require us to devote time and resources to identifying, hiring, and integrating replacements for the departed executives and employees that could otherwise be used to pursue business opportunities, which could have a material adverse effect on our overall business, financial condition, and operating results. There is substantial competition for qualified and capable personnel which may make it difficult for us to retain and recruit qualified employees in sufficient numbers. In addition, subsequent to March 31, 2026, we announced additional actions related to our strategic realignment, that combined with our earlier actions to sell, wind down, and optimize certain businesses, is expected to reduce our workforce by approximately 20%. We have previously faced and may in the future face increased challenges in retaining and attracting qualified employees, including as we implement a return to office plan, our business review actions, and additional actions related to our strategic realignment. Further, potential negative perceptions of our human capital management related programs, including whether due to perceived over- or under-pursuit of such programs, may result in increased challenges in retaining or attracting qualified employees, as well as potential litigation or other adverse impacts. If we fail to retain our current employees, it would be difficult and costly to identify, recruit, and train replacements needed to continue to conduct and expand our business. In particular, failure to retain and attract qualified technology personnel could result in systems failures. Consequently, our reputation may be harmed, we may incur additional costs and our profitability could decline. There can be no assurance that we will be able to retain and motivate our employees in the same manner as we have historically done. Additionally, effective succession planning is important to our long-term success. Failure to ensure effective transfer of knowledge and smooth transitions involving our management team and key employees, including the recent transitions of our Chief Executive Officer, our Chief Operating Officer, and our other leaders, could hinder our strategic planning and execution.
Risk Highlights Q2, 2026
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Risk Factors Full Breakdown - Total Risks 36
- Share Price & Shareholder Rights - Risk 1Certain provisions in our organizational documents and governing law could prevent or delay a change of control.
Our organizational documents contain provisions that could block actions that stockholders might find favorable, including discouraging, delaying, or preventing a change of control or any unsolicited acquisition proposals for us. These include provisions: - prohibiting stockholders from acting by written consent;- requiring advance notice of director nominations and of business to be brought before a meeting of stockholders; and - requiring that stockholders collectively hold at least 25% of the outstanding shares of our capital stock before they may request a special meeting. In addition, our organizational documents include provisions that: - restrict any person from voting or causing the voting of shares of stock representing more than 20% of our outstanding voting capital stock; and - restrict any person from beneficially owning shares of stock representing more than 20% of the outstanding shares of our capital stock. Furthermore, our Board of Directors has the authority to issue shares of preferred stock in one or more series and to fix the rights and preferences of these shares without stockholder approval. Any series of our preferred stock is likely to be senior to our common stock with respect to dividends, liquidation rights and, possibly, voting rights. The ability of the Board of Directors to issue preferred stock also could have the effect of discouraging unsolicited acquisition proposals, thus materially adversely affecting the market price of our common stock. Delaware law makes it difficult for stockholders that have recently acquired a large interest in a corporation to cause the merger or acquisition of the corporation against the board's wishes. Under Section 203 of the Delaware General Corporation Law, a Delaware corporation may not engage in any merger or other business combination with an interested stockholder for a period of three years following the date that the stockholder became an interested stockholder except in limited circumstances, including by approval of the corporation's Board of Directors. Furthermore, the European countries where we operate regulated entities, such as the UK and the Netherlands, may require prior governmental approval before an investor acquires 10% or more of the outstanding shares of our common stock.
- Share Price & Shareholder Rights - Risk 2We may be required to assume ownership of a position in securities in connection with our order routing service, which could subject us to trading losses when our broker-dealer disposes of that position.
We offer a smart-order routing service through our broker-dealer subsidiary, Cboe Trading, which provides its customers with access to other market centers when we route their orders to those market centers for execution. In connection with this service, we may assume ownership of a position in securities. This may occur, for example, when a market center to which we have routed a customer's order experiences systemic issues and is unable to determine the status of that order. When this happens, we may make a business decision to provide a cancellation notice to our customer, relieving our customer of any liability with respect to the order. We may be informed later, however, that the order was executed at the market center to which we routed it, in which case Cboe Trading would be required to take ownership of that securities position. Our third-party clearing brokers maintain error accounts on behalf of Cboe Trading into which such positions settle, and we require the respective clearing broker to trade out of those positions as expeditiously as possible, which could result in our incurring trading losses.
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