Virtu Financial, Inc. Q1 FY2025 Earnings Call

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  • Normalized EPS: $1.30, above Q4 2024 levels and the highest since 2021.
  • Adjusted Net Trading Income (NTI): $497M ($8.3M/day), highest net trading income/day since 2021.
  • Adjusted EBITDA: $320M, with a 64% adjusted EBITDA margin, demonstrating strong operational efficiency.
  • Market Making NTI: $382M or $6.4M/day – best quarter since Q1 2021. Strong performance across retail wholesale, non-customer equities, digital assets, ETFs, metals, and options.
  • Execution Services NTI: $115M or $1.9M/day – seventh straight quarter of growth, validating the firm's investment in this area.
  • Operating Expenses: $193M – contained through disciplined cost control despite inflationary pressure.
  • Financing Interest Expense: $30M with a blended interest rate of ~7.1% on long-term debt.
  • Share Repurchase: 1.3M shares repurchased in Q1 2025 for $48M at $36.44/share. To date: over 52M shares repurchased totaling $1.4B (18.9% of diluted shares).
  • Dividend: 24% payout maintained, underscoring commitment to shareholder returns.
  • Outlook: Strong immediate market tailwinds from recent volatility and tariffs. Long-term bullish on retail engagement with sustained growth trends in place.

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Operator: Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for standing by, and welcome to Virtu Financial, Inc. 2025 first quarter results. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode. After the speaker's presentation, there will be a question and answer session. To ask a question during the session, you would need to press star one one on your telephone. You will then hear an automated message advising your hand is raised. To withdraw your question, please press star one one again. Please be advised that today's conference is being recorded. I would like now to turn the conference over to Andrew Smith, Head of Investor Relations. Please go ahead. Andrew Smith: Thank you, Michelle, and good morning, everyone. Thank you for joining us. Our first quarter 2025 results were released this morning and are available on our website. With us today on this morning's call, we have Mr. Douglas Cifu, our Chief Executive Officer, Mr. Joseph Molluso, our Co-President and Co-Chief Operating Officer, and Ms. Cindy Lee, our Chief Financial Officer. We'll begin with prepared remarks and then take your questions. First, a few reminders. Today's call may include forward-looking statements, which represent Virtu Financial, Inc.'s current belief regarding future events and are therefore subject to risks, assumptions, and uncertainties which may be outside the company's control. Please note that our actual results and financial conditions may differ materially from what is indicated in these forward-lo

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