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UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549

FORM 8-K

CURRENT REPORT
Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934

Date of Report (Date of Earliest Event Reported): July 27, 2020

INTERACTIVE BROKERS GROUP, INC.

(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in its Charter)

Delaware

001-33440

30-0390693

(State or Other Jurisdiction
of Incorporation)

(Commission File Number)

(I.R.S. Employer Identification

Number)

One Pickwick Plaza, Greenwich, CT 06830

(Address of Principal Executive Offices) (Zip Code)

(203) 618-5800

(Registrant’s Telephone Number, Including Area Code)

Not Applicable

(Former Name or Former Address, if Changed Since Last Report)

Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following provisions:

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Title of each class

Trading Symbol

Name of the exchange on which registered

Common Stock, par value $.01 per share

  IBKR  

  The Nasdaq Global Select Market

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is an emerging growth company as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act of 1933 (§230.405 of this chapter) or Rule 12b-2 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (§240.12b-2 of this chapter).

Emerging growth company

If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 13(a) of the Exchange Act.


Item 8.01 Other Information

Selected Financial Information

As previously disclosed in Interactive Brokers Group, Inc.’s (the “Company”) Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended March 31, 2017, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) on May 8, 2017, and in subsequent filings, the Company intended to eliminate the reporting of separate operating business segments upon its determination that the continued wind-down of the Company’s market making activity rendered it no longer reportable as a business segment. Pursuant to the requirements of Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) Accounting Standards Codification (ASC) Topic 280, “Segment Reporting,” the Company performed a quantitative and a qualitative assessment of its business and determined that its remaining market making activity no longer supports the Company’s reporting of separate business segments. Accordingly, effective for the quarter ended March 31, 2020, the Company discontinued the reporting of separate business segments. Since the Company’s decision to wind down its market making activities, management has continued to shift its focus to growing and strengthening the Company’s electronic brokerage business. The Company believes the elimination of segment reporting aligns its financial reporting with its business strategy and management’s focus on the electronic brokerage business. In addition, the Company changed the presentation of its consolidated statements of comprehensive income to better align with its business strategy. As a result, the Company made the following changes to the presentation of its consolidated statement of comprehensive income:

Other fees and services – reclassified previously reported amounts as other income to other fees and services, which includes market data fees, account activity fees, risk exposure fees, order flow income from options exchange-mandated programs, and revenues from other fees and services.

Other income – reclassified previously reported as trading gains to other income as a component of “principal transactions.” Other income includes gains (losses) from principal transactions; the impact of the currency diversification strategy; gains (losses) from equity method investments; and other revenues not directly attributable to the Company’s core business offerings.

The Company has determined that the discontinuation of reporting separate business segments and the change in presentation of its consolidated statements of comprehensive income does not constitute a material change as per Item 11(a) of Form S-3. The change in presentation of its consolidated statements of comprehensive income did not change the amounts reported as total net revenues or net income for the years ended December 31, 2017, 2018, and 2019 disclosed in the Company’s audited consolidated statements of comprehensive income reported in the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K, filed with the SEC on February 28, 2020.

The Company is providing this selected financial information to provide investors and other users of the Company’s financial statements with the most recent presentation of its consolidated statements of comprehensive income on a historical basis.



The following table shows the impact of the change in presentation to the consolidated statement of comprehensive income on selected historical financial and other data of the Company for the periods indicated:

Year Ended December 31,

(in millions, except share or per share amounts)

2019

2018

2017

2016

2015

Revenues

Commissions

$

706

$

777

$

647

$

612

$

617

Other fees and services

141

148

114

98

95

Other income (loss)

7

49

258

159

52

Total non-interest income

854

974

1,019

869

764

Interest income

1,726

1,392

908

606

492

Interest expense

(643)

(463)

(225)

(79)

(67)

Total net interest income

1,083

929

683

527

425

Total net revenues

1,937

1,903

1,702

1,396

1,189

Non-interest expenses

Execution, clearing and distribution fees

251

269

241

244

231

Employee compensation and benefits

288

264

249

242

227

Occupancy, depreciation and amortization

60

49

47

51

44

Communications

25

25

28

30

25

General and administrative

112

96

86

62

58

Customer bad debt

44

4

2

6

146

Total non-interest expenses

780

707

653

635

731

Income before income taxes

1,157

1,196

1,049

761

458

Income tax expense

68

71

256

62

43

Net income

1,089

1,125

793

699

415

Less net income attributable to noncontrolling interests

928

956

717

615

366

Net income available for common stockholders

$

161

$

169

$

76

$

84

$

49

Earnings per share

Basic

$

2.11

$

2.30

$

1.09

$

1.28

$

0.80

Diluted

$

2.10

$

2.28

$

1.07

$

1.25

$

0.78

Weighted average common shares outstanding

Basic

76,121,570 76,121,570

73,438,209 73,438,209

69,926,933 69,926,933

66,013,247 66,013,247

61,043,071 61,043,071

Diluted

76,825,863 76,825,863

74,266,370 74,266,370

70,904,921 70,904,921

67,299,413 67,299,413

62,509,796 62,509,796

Comprehensive income

Net income available for common stockholders

$

161

$

169

$

76

$

84

$

49

Other comprehensive income

Cumulative translation adjustment, before income taxes

4

(14)

11

(4)

(10)

Income taxes related to items of other comprehensive income

(1)

Other comprehensive income (loss), net of tax

4

(13)

11

(4)

(10)

Comprehensive income available for common stockholders

$

165

$

156

$

87

$

80

$

39

Comprehensive income attributable to noncontrolling interests

Net income attributable to noncontrolling interests

$

928

$

956

$

717

$

615

$

366

Other comprehensive income - cumulative translation adjustment

20

(66)

54

(21)

(53)

Comprehensive income attributable to noncontrolling interests

$

948

$

890

$

771

$

594

$

313

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1)The Company reclassified $141 million, $148 million, $114 million, $98 million, and $95 million for the years ended December 31, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, and 2015, respectively, previously reported as other income to other fees and services.

2)The Company reclassified $27 million, $39 million, $40 million, $163 million, and $269 million for the years ended December 31, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, and 2015, respectively, previously reported as trading gains to other income as a component of “principal transactions”.


Item. 9.01 Financial Statements and Exhibits.

Exhibit No.

  

Description

104

Cover Page Interactive Data File (the cover page XBRL tags are embedded within the Inline XBRL Document).

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SIGNATURE

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.

Dated: July 27, 2020

INTERACTIVE BROKERS GROUP, INC.

By:

/s/ Paul J. Brody

Name:

Paul J. Brody

Title:

Chief Financial Officer, Treasurer
and Secretary