Interactive Brokers Reports 58% Growth In Daily Average Revenue Trades For January 2025

Interactive Brokers said that it had a strong growth in January 2025, with more trading on its platform. It saw a 58% rise in Daily Average Revenue Trades (DARTs) compared to January 2024. Client equity and margin loans also increased.

The company recorded 3.473 million DARTs, which was also 6% higher than the month before. This showed steady activity in trading.

Interactive Brokers Grows Client Activity While Keeping Steady Market Position

Client equity reached $591.4 billion, rising by 39% from last year. This showed more people joined the platform and had larger accounts. Margin loans climbed by 47% to $64.9 billion, while client credit balances increased by 17% to $120.4 billion.

Insured bank deposit sweeps held $4.7 billion. The number of client accounts grew to 3.45 million, 31% more than last year.

The company said each account had about 223 trades. The average trade fee was $2.59. Stock trades had a fee of $1.87, equity options had $3.71, and futures had $4.07.

Trading stayed fast, with almost no change in January. The company got stronger by having more clients and more trades.

Meanwhile, Keefe, Bruyette & Woods still gave Interactive Brokers Group (NASDAQ: IBKR) a Market Perform rating and did not change the price target of $205.00. The firm saw that trading stayed strong and more people joined at the start of the quarter.

In early 2025, Interactive Brokers’ Daily Average Revenue Trades (DARTs) were 15% higher than what Keefe, Bruyette & Woods thought for the whole quarter. But the fee for each trade was 9% lower than what the firm expected.

Interactive Brokers Sees Strong Start To 2025 With Growth In Trading Activity

In January, more people joined, and new accounts grew fast, going up 40% for the year. Customer money, or cash at the broker, went up 1% from last month.

Margin loans also went up 1%. These numbers showed a strong start, after growing 17.3% in the last year.

Keefe, Bruyette & Woods guessed that Interactive Brokers’ earnings per share (EPS) for the first quarter would be $1.83, a little less than the market’s guess of $1.85. But if January stayed the same, EPS could be one cent more than expected.

The firm’s report showed Interactive Brokers was having a good quarter, with more trades and more people joining. These might help earnings go up, but only a little. The stock rating and price target stayed the same.

Interactive Brokers is a trading company in Greenwich, Connecticut. It helps people buy and sell stocks, options, futures, bonds, and other money products. It also helps clear trades and works in 34 countries with 27 kinds of money.