CMC Markets reports higher income and active-client counts for year ended March 2026
CMC Markets reported net operating income of £392.6 million for the year ended 31 March 2026, up from £340.1 million a year earlier. Active-client counts rose in both trading and investing, alongside higher investing-client assets.
CMC Markets plc reported higher net operating income, active-client counts and investing-client assets for the financial year ended 31 March 2026. The group’s annual disclosure points to a larger operating base across trading and investing, although the income increase alone does not establish an improvement in profitability.
Net operating income reached £392.6 million, compared with £340.1 million in the previous financial year. This is a group-wide income measure covering CMC’s trading and investing businesses, rather than a measure of foreign-exchange trading volume. The increase is therefore best read as an improvement in the group’s reported income, not as evidence of stronger activity in any single product or business line.
Client growth spans trading and investing
Active trading clients increased to 55,081 from 52,290, while active investing clients rose to 281,442 from 238,656. Both businesses thus recorded higher active-client counts alongside the group’s income increase. That combination supports a picture of expansion in customer participation, but it does not identify how much each business contributed to the change in income. These are active-client measures, rather than counts of newly registered accounts.
The two client categories also use different definitions and should be assessed separately. Adding them would not produce a reliable count of unique customers across CMC Markets. Their analytical value here is that each measure increased against its own previous-year comparison, rather than that they establish a combined group customer total.
Investing assets increase
Assets under administration stood at £46.3 billion at the financial year end, up from £37.5 billion a year earlier. These are investing-client assets, not cash belonging to CMC Markets. Together with the higher investing active-client count, the increase shows a larger investing business on both reported measures. It does not, by itself, distinguish customer flows from asset-value changes or establish client investment returns.
The company-specific operating picture is consequently positive on scale and income. Whether that translated into stronger margins depends on expenses and profitability measures, which these operating figures do not establish.
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