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Symbol: CME

52-week high: $122.74

52-week low: $81.87

Annual revenues: $3.5 billion

Projected 2017 earnings growth: 10%

CME Group owns the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and other trading venues where speculators bet on everything from the price of pork bellies to the future level of Standard & Poor’s 500-stock index. CME has expanded by merging with other exchanges and providing more services to traders.

CME pays a regular dividend of 60 cents a share and will likely pay a special dividend at year-end. That could lift the total payout to $5.67 a share in 2017, estimates Bank of America Merrill Lynch, giving the stock a hefty 5.1% yield.