Intercontinental Exchange, Inc.
ICEHIGH VELOCITYFILING INTENSITYIntercontinental Exchange, Inc. reads as an High Velocity (composite 78/100); Transformational Buyer deploying $10B across 1 disclosed transactions, running flat vs the prior cycle · primary market Financial Infrastructure, ranked #4 on disclosed spend.
Lens
Disclosed M&A capital (2023–2025)
$10.3B
vs $9.6B in 2020–2022
Disclosed transactions
1
3/3 active fiscal years in window
Buyer archetype
Transformational Buyer
Episodic but very large disclosed transactions drive the profile.
Composite score
78
High Velocity dominates · Filing Intensity
Behavioral posture, nine reads.
Each index scores the issuer 0–100 against an EDGAR-anchored definition. Scores ≥ threshold elevate the issuer into the index's constituent set; the dominant index drives the masthead label.
Active Acquirer
Companies actively deploying disclosed capital into M&A
- $28.8B disclosed buyer spend
- Filed within 26d
Buyer Cadence
Buyer-side companies with recent filing activity
- Filed within 26d
- 23 acquisition-history signals
- 172 8-Ks
Target Probability
Issuers showing target-side patterns from filings
- 6 activism filings
Spin/Carve
Issuers showing spin-off, carve-out, or sum-of-parts posture
- 6 activism filings
Pressure Watch
Issuers facing activism, governance, or control pressure
- 6 activism filings
- Latest activism 1.9y ago
Distress Watch
Issuers showing financial-distress filing patterns
- 6 activism filings
Restatement Risk
Issuers with accounting-integrity flags from filings
Capital Velocity
DominantIssuers with the highest filing-activity intensity
- 172 8-Ks
- Filed within 26d
- 5 form types
Quiet Power
Large issuers with low signal volume and clean disclosure cadence
- Enterprise value $107.6B
- 10-Q 26d ago
- 2 active signals
Capital cadence.
Ten-year disclosed M&A activity. Bars show spend ($MM); ticks show recorded transaction count. Disclosure tier annotated where v6 audited corpus carries an entry.
Disclosed spend $MM Disclosed transactions (right axis)Peak spend year: $10,198M · Peak count: 4
| FY | Disclosed buys | Disclosed spend | Avg ticket | Audited tier |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | N/A | $19M | N/A | N/A |
| 2024 | N/A | $38M | N/A | N/A |
| 2023 | 1 | $10.2B | $10.2B | N/A |
| 2022 | N/A | $59M | N/A | N/A |
| 2021 | N/A | $66M | N/A | N/A |
| 2020 | 2 | $9.4B | $4.7B | N/A |
Strategy posture.
The buyer's playbook in terms of strategic archetype: what each disclosed move says about how they're deploying capital.
Archetype mix
- Horizontal Consolidation20%
- Geographic Expansion20%
- Bolt On20%
- Technology Acquisition20%
- Platform20%
Strategy keywords
Terms recurring across recent 10-K acquisition disclosures.
- horizontal_consolidation
- geographic_expansion
- platform
- bolt_on
- technology_acquisition
Filing language.
Direct excerpts from acquisition disclosures and strategy sections: the verbs the buyer chose, in the filings they signed.
“The acquisition builds on our global market data growth strategy by expanding the markets served, adding technology platforms and increasing new data and valuation services.”
“Market liquidity is one of the primary market attributes for attracting and maintaining customers and is an important indicator of a market’s strength.”
“market participants’ rising demand for speed, data capacity and connectivity, which requires ongoing investment in technology”
“The transaction is expected to enable us to provide new technology and software-related services to our energy customers.”
“industry consolidation and increasing competition among global markets for trading, clearing and listings”
Market context.
Where this issuer sits inside its SE-Cluster rollup wedge, with disclosed-spend rank plus trading comparables against the public peer set.
Primary market
Financial Infrastructure
- Market spend (2023–2025)
- $186.1B
- Market spend (2020–2022)
- $98.1B
- Recent vs prior
- +90%
- Issuer rank in market
- #4 of 186
- Share of market capital
- 5.8%
Valuation positioning
ICE trades at a -5.2-turn discount to the Financial Infrastructure peer median of 21.4×.
- EV / Revenue
- 8.2×
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 3.2×
- Peer median EV / EBITDA
- 21.4×
Trading comparables
FMP market data · 2026-05-10
| Company | EV / EBITDA | EV / Rev | Net debt / EBITDA | Revenue | M&A 2023–2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Fair Isaac CorpFICO | 25.4× | 13.1× | 2.9× | $2.3B | N/A |
Msci Inc.MSCI | 24.5× | 15.1× | 3.0× | $3.2B | $755M |
| 21.4× | 10.8× | 1.4× | $7.9B | $451M | |
S&P Global Inc.SPGI | 17.4× | 8.7× | 1.5× | $15.7B | $2.6B |
Intercontinental Exchange, Inc.ICE | 16.2× | 8.2× | 3.2× | $13.1B | $10.3B |
| 10.1× | 3.9× | 1.2× | $2.4B | $372M |
Trading multiples from FMP market data; disclosed M&A spend from the SE-Cluster EDGAR 10-K corpus. Peer set = top disclosed buyers in Financial Infrastructure. Bars scaled to the highest EV/EBITDA in the set.
Target landscape.
Public-issuer targets that fit this buyer's archetype and target categories from filing-derived signal. Scores reflect cross-signal fit; reasons cite the EDGAR-anchored facts that drove the match.
No qualifying public-issuer targets surfaced from the current signal mix.
Stated target categories
No target categories enumerated in the audited corpus for this issuer.
Filing activity & signal stream.
Filing cadence and event-driven signals visible on EDGAR. The signal stream below is curated from restatement / spin-carve / activism categories, providing context for any near-term call.
Filing cadence
- 10-K (annual)172026-02-05
- 10-Q (quarterly)402026-04-30
- 8-K (event)1722026-04-30
- Proxy / DEF 14A322026-03-31
- Activism (13D / DFAN / PREC)62024-07-09
Signals on file
- elevated
Activism on file
2024-07-096 activist filings on file (13D, DFAN14A, PREC14A series).
- info
Signal
Disclosed acquisition spend
- info
Signal
10-K strategy themes
Audited corpus.
No audited record on file for this CIK in the current v6 corpus.
This issuer has not been extracted into the v6 audited acquirer corpus yet. The brief above pulls from ranking-level aggregates and issuer-index signal only.