Interactive Brokers sees June DARTs slighty down, balances up – H1 ’14 sees growth

Interactive Brokers Group, Inc. (NASDAQ:IBKR) the USA based automated global electronic broker and market maker, today reported its Electronic Brokerage monthly performance metrics for June.

Highlights for the month included:

  • 95K Daily Average Revenue Trades (DARTs), 7% lower than prior year and 4% lower than prior month.
  • Ending customer equity of $53.9 billion, 44% higher than prior year and 6% higher than prior month.
  • Ending customer margin loan balances of $15.4 billion, 38% higher than prior year and 4% higher than prior month.
  • Ending customer credit balances of $28.3 billion, 25% higher than prior year and 2% higher than prior month.
  • 262 thousand customer accounts, 17% higher than prior year and 1% higher than prior month.
  • 435 annualized average cleared DARTs per customer account.
  • Average commission per cleared customer order of $4.07 including exchange, clearing and regulatory fees.

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In the first half of 2014, annualized:

  • Customer equity grew 36%
  • Customer margin loan balances grew 28%
  • Customer credit balances grew 19%
  • Customer accounts grew 19%
  • Average DARTS for the first half of 2014 grew 14% compared to the first half of last year.

IB’s shares (NASDAQ:IBKR) were trading up today on the strong metric report to $23.78, up 0.49 cents (2.10%) during mid-day trading.

More information, including historical results for each of the above metrics, can be found on the investor relations page of the Company’s corporate website.

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