Virtu Financial (VIRT)
Financials · Electronic market making and execution services
A technology-driven market maker and execution services provider delivering liquidity and trading solutions across global equities, options, fixed income, cryptocurrencies, and commodities.
What Virtu Financial does
Virtu Financial is a leading financial firm that leverages proprietary technology to provide liquidity to global markets and transparent trading solutions to institutional and retail clients. The company operates two main segments: Market Making, where it engages in principal trading across multiple asset classes and geographies, and Execution Services, offering order routing, analytics, and broker-neutral trading platforms. Virtu's integrated, multi-asset technology platform enables clients to trade across hundreds of venues in over 50 countries with a product suite spanning global equities, ETFs, options, foreign exchange, futures, fixed income, and cryptocurrencies.
Themes: ["Market making and liquidity provision","Electronic trading infrastructure","Multi-asset trading technology","Global financial markets","Cryptocurrency trading and markets","Execution services and institutional trading"]
Fundamentals
- Price$65.60 as of 2026-07-09 close
- Market cap$10.2B as of 2026-07-09
- 1-year return+50.2% as of 2026-07-09 close
- P/E18.58 as of 2026-07-09
- Net margin+14.2% as of 2026-07-09
- Gross margin+59.1% as of 2026-07-09
- ROE+35.7% as of 2026-07-09
- Debt / equity4.69 as of 2026-07-09
- Revenue growth (YoY)-2.9% as of 2026-07-09
- Revenue CAGR (3y)+15.4% SEC XBRL
- Beta0.61 as of 2026-07-09
Dividend: yield +1.9%; 5-year non-decreasing per-share dividend streak (SEC XBRL).
Key risks (from latest filing)
["Dependence on market volatility and trading volumes; declining revenue growth (-2.87% YoY) amid lower market activity could reduce trading income and execution volumes","Regulatory and compliance risks across multiple jurisdictions (SEC, FCA, CBI, CIRO, MAS, SFC, ASIC) with potential for increased capital requirements, transaction fees, or restrictions on market making activities","Technology infrastructure risk; disruptions to proprietary trading systems, exchange connectivity, or cybersecurity breaches could impair operations and client relationships across globally distributed trading centers"]
Competitors & peers
- Citadel Securities
- Jane Street
- Tower Research Capital
- Optiver
- Interactive Brokers (IBKR)
- Charles Schwab (SCHW)
- E*TRADE Financial (now part of Morgan Stanley)
Fundamentals: Finnhub, as of 2026-07-09. Filings: SEC EDGAR. Prices are delayed daily-close data.
Last updated 2026-07-09.
Informational only — NOT financial advice. All figures are delayed daily-close data from SEC EDGAR & Finnhub, shown with their as-of date.