Business mix
- The company engages in the execution, clearance, and settlement of trades in stocks, options, futures, foreign exchange instruments, bonds, precious metals, and cryptocurrencies.
- It also offers custody and service accounts for hedge and mutual funds, ETFs, registered investment advisors, proprietary trading groups, introducing brokers, and individual investors.
- In addition, the company provides trading platforms, including IBKR Trader Workstation, IBKR Desktop, IBKR Mobile, and IBKR Client Portal platform, as well as IBKR GlobalTrader mobile application, and IBKR APIs.
- Further, it offers IBKR Pro, IBKR Lite, IBKR Universal Account, insured bank deposit sweep program, investors’ marketplace, mutual fund marketplace, bond marketplace, forecast and event contracts, fractional trading.
Current key questions
- Can asset growth, client flows, fee rates, credit quality, or spread income support durable earnings in capital markets?
- How sensitive are margins and returns to interest rates, market levels, funding costs, and regulation?
- Do capital allocation, risk controls, and balance-sheet quality improve long-term per-share value?