Virtu Financial, Inc. Q4 FY2025 Earnings Call

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Quarter Overview

  • Virtu delivered one of its strongest quarters since early 2021, driven by favorable market conditions, effective capital deployment, and broad-based strength across trading businesses.
  • Management highlighted that Q4 was an early preview of the firm’s renewed focus on firm-wide growth through infrastructure investment, talent acquisition, and expanding deployable capital.

Key Financial Results (Q4 2025)

  • Adjusted Net Trading Income (ANTI): $9.7M per day / $613M total. This is the highest quarterly ANTI since Q1 2021.
  • Market Making ANTI: $7.8M per day (vs. $6.7M per day for FY 2025).
  • Virtu Execution Services (VES) ANTI: $2M per day. This marks the seventh consecutive quarterly increase and the highest since early 2022.
  • Adjusted EBITDA: $442M with a 72% margin (a multi‑year high since 2021).
  • Adjusted EPS: $1.85.

Full-Year 2025 Highlights

  • Full-year ANTI: $8.6M per day / $2.1B total.
  • Adjusted EBITDA: $1.4B with a 65% margin, both the highest since 2021.
  • Adjusted EPS: $5.73.
  • VES reached $1.9M per day ANTI for the year, showing sustained multi‑quarter improvement.
  • Cash compensation ratio: 19%, consistent with historical range, reflecting a push to acquire and retain top trading and technology talent.

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Operator: Hello, everybody, and welcome to the Virtu Financial Fourth Quarter 2025 Earnings Call. My name is Elliot, and I'll be coordinating your call today. [Operator Instructions] I'd now like to hand over to Matt Sandberg at Virtu Financial. Please go ahead. Matthew Sandberg: Thank you, and good morning, everyone. Thank you for joining us. Our fourth quarter 2025 results were released this morning and are available on our website. With us today on this morning's call, we have Aaron Simons, our Chief Executive Officer; Cindy Lee; our Chief Financial Officer; and Joe Molluso, our Co-President and Co-Chief Operating Officer. We will begin with brief prepared remarks and then take your questions. First, if you remind us, today's call may include forward-looking statements, which represent Virtu'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-looking statements. It is important to note that any forward-looking statements made on this call are based on information presently available to the company, and we do not undertake to update or revise any forward-looking statements as new information becomes available. We refer you to disclaimers in our press release and encourage you to review the description of risk factors contained in our annual report, Form

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