INTERCONTINENTALEXCHANGE, INC.
UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
FORM 10-Q
(Mark one)
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Quarterly Report Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 |
For the quarterly period ended June 30, 2006
or
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Transition Report Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 |
For the transition period from to
Commission File Number 001-32671
INTERCONTINENTALEXCHANGE, INC.
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
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| Delaware
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58-2555670 |
| (State or other jurisdiction of
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(IRS Employer |
| incorporation or organization)
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Identification Number) |
2100 RiverEdge Parkway, Suite 500, Atlanta, Georgia 30328
(Address of principal executive offices) (Zip Code)
(770) 857-4700
(Registrants telephone number, including area code)
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant (1) has filed all reports required to be filed by
Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 during the preceding 12 months (or for
such shorter period that the registrant was required to file such reports), and (2) has been
subject to such filing requirements for the past 90 days. Yes þ No o
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated
filer or a non-accelerated filer. See definition of accelerated filer and large accelerated filer
in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act.
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Accelerated filer o
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Non-accelerated filer þ |
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a shell company (as defined in Rule 12b-2 of
the Exchange Act). Yes o No þ
As of July 26, 2006, the number of shares of IntercontinentalExchange common stock outstanding
was 56,551,705 comprised of 56,548,494 shares of Common Stock, 0 shares of Class A Common Stock, Series 1, and
3,211 shares of Class A Common Stock, Series 2.
IntercontinentalExchange, Inc.
Form 10-Q
Quarterly Period Ended June 30, 2006
Table of Contents
Part I. Financial Information
Item 1. Consolidated Financial Statements (Unaudited)
IntercontinentalExchange, Inc. and Subsidiaries
Consolidated Balance Sheets
(In thousands, except per share amounts)
(Unaudited)
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June 30, |
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December 31, |
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2006 |
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2005 |
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ASSETS |
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Current assets: |
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Cash and cash equivalents |
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$ |
54,094 |
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$ |
20,002 |
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Restricted cash |
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14,178 |
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12,578 |
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Short-term investments |
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134,461 |
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111,181 |
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Customer accounts receivable: |
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Trade, net of allowance for doubtful accounts of $369 and $261 at June 30, 2006 and December 31,
2005, respectively |
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25,801 |
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13,000 |
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Related-parties |
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3,803 |
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1,773 |
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Prepaid expenses and other current assets |
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10,096 |
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5,481 |
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Total current assets |
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242,433 |
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164,015 |
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Property and equipment, net |
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23,887 |
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20,348 |
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Other noncurrent assets: |
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Goodwill, net |
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79,574 |
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73,967 |
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Other intangible assets, net |
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1,618 |
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2,087 |
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Long-term investments |
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2,296 |
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Other noncurrent assets |
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2,708 |
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3,057 |
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Total other noncurrent assets |
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83,900 |
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81,407 |
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Total assets |
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$ |
350,220 |
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$ |
265,770 |
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LIABILITIES AND SHAREHOLDERS EQUITY |
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Current liabilities: |
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Accounts payable |
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$ |
1,204 |
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$ |
1,697 |
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Accrued salaries and benefits |
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9,396 |
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8,916 |
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Accrued liabilities, including $197 to a related-party at December 31, 2005 |
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7,177 |
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5,396 |
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Income taxes payable |
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4,997 |
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8,512 |
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Current deferred tax liability, net |
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957 |
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676 |
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Deferred revenue |
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1,961 |
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1,197 |
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Total current liabilities |
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25,692 |
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26,394 |
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Noncurrent liabilities: |
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Noncurrent deferred tax liability, net |
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6,484 |
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5,450 |
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Other noncurrent liabilities |
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1,401 |
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1,303 |
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Total noncurrent liabilities |
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7,885 |
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6,753 |
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Total liabilities |
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33,577 |
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33,147 |
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Commitments and contingencies |
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SHAREHOLDERS EQUITY: |
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Preferred stock, $0.01 par value; 25,000 shares authorized; no shares issued or outstanding at June
30, 2006 and December 31, 2005 |
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Common stock, $0.01 par value; 194,275 shares authorized; 52,491 and 18,400 shares issued at June
30, 2006 and December 31, 2005, respectively; 50,922 and 18,400 shares outstanding at June 30, 2006
and December 31, 2005, respectively |
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525 |
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184 |
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Class A common stock, Series 1, $0.01 par value; 5,725 shares authorized; no shares issued and
outstanding at June 30, 2006; 2,863 shares issued and outstanding at December 31, 2005 |
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Class A common stock, Series 2, $0.01 par value; 75,000 shares authorized; 5,432 and 35,782 shares
issued at June 30, 2006 and December 31, 2005, respectively; 5,432 and 34,248 shares outstanding at
June 30, 2006 and December 31, 2005, respectively |
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54 |
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358 |
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Treasury stock, at cost; 1,569 and 1,534 shares at June 30, 2006 and December 31, 2005, respectively |
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(8,101 |
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(5,541 |
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Additional paid-in capital |
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197,555 |
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177,602 |
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Deferred stock compensation |
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(6,899 |
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Retained earnings |
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98,542 |
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47,911 |
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Accumulated other comprehensive income |
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28,068 |
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18,979 |
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Total shareholders equity |
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316,643 |
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232,623 |
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Total liabilities and shareholders equity |
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$ |
350,220 |
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$ |
265,770 |
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See accompanying notes.
1
IntercontinentalExchange, Inc. and Subsidiaries
Consolidated Statements of Income
(In thousands, except per share amounts)
(Unaudited)
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Six Months Ended |
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Three Months Ended |
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June 30, |
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June 30, |
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2006 |
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2005 |
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2006 |
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2005 |
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Revenues: |
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Transaction fees, net (including $12,055 and
$6,866 with related-parties for the six months
ended June 30, 2006 and 2005, respectively,
and $6,867 and $3,666 for the three months
ended June 30, 2006 and 2005, respectively) |
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$ |
106,892 |
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$ |
60,120 |
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$ |
63,657 |
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$ |
33,035 |
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Market data fees (including $329 and $111 with
related-parties for the six months ended June
30, 2006 and 2005, respectively, and $269 and
$54 for the three months ended June 30, 2006
and 2005, respectively) |
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14,841 |
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6,942 |
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8,819 |
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3,460 |
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Other (including $1,030 and $1,164 with
related-parties for the six months ended June
30, 2006 and 2005, respectively, and $561 and
$626 for the three months ended June 30, 2006
and 2005, respectively) |
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2,140 |
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2,296 |
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1,115 |
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1,035 |
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Total revenues |
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123,873 |
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69,358 |
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73,591 |
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37,530 |
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Operating expenses: |
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Compensation and benefits |
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22,549 |
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16,399 |
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11,932 |
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8,513 |
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Professional services |
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5,925 |
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5,751 |
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3,235 |
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2,551 |
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Selling, general and administrative |
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13,833 |
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9,204 |
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7,699 |
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4,828 |
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Floor closure costs |
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4,814 |
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4,814 |
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Settlement expense |
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15,000 |
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15,000 |
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Depreciation and amortization |
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6,497 |
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7,755 |
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3,309 |
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3,797 |
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Total operating expenses |
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48,804 |
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58,923 |
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26,175 |
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39,503 |
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Operating income (loss) |
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75,069 |
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10,435 |
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47,416 |
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(1,973 |
) |
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Other income (expense): |
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Interest income |
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2,428 |
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1,410 |
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1,250 |
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744 |
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Interest expense |
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(120 |
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(315 |
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(57 |
) |
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(152 |
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Other income (expense), net |
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(347 |
) |
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1,070 |
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(340 |
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581 |
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Total other income, net |
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1,961 |
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2,165 |
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853 |
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1,173 |
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Income (loss) before income taxes |
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77,030 |
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12,600 |
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48,269 |
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(800 |
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Income tax expense (benefit) |
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26,399 |
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3,871 |
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17,302 |
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(659 |
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Net income (loss) |
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$ |
50,631 |
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$ |
8,729 |
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$ |
30,967 |
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$ |
(141 |
) |
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Redemption adjustments to redeemable stock put |
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(6,594 |
) |
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(6,594 |
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Net income (loss) available to common shareholders |
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$ |
50,631 |
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$ |
2,135 |
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$ |
30,967 |
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$ |
(6,735 |
) |
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Earnings (loss) per common share: |
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Basic |
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$ |
0.91 |
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$ |
0.04 |
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$ |
0.55 |
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$ |
(0.13 |
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Diluted |
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$ |
0.86 |
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$ |
0.04 |
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$ |
0.52 |
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$ |
(0.13 |
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Weighted average common shares outstanding: |
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Basic |
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55,703 |
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52,870 |
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55,871 |
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52,873 |
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Diluted |
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59,092 |
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53,072 |
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59,209 |
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52,873 |
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See accompanying notes.
2
IntercontinentalExchange, Inc. and Subsidiaries
Consolidated Statements of Changes in Shareholders Equity
(In thousands)
(Unaudited)
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Accumulated Other |
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Class A |
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Comprehensive Income |
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Common |
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Class A |
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Net Unrealized Gain (Loss) from |
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Common |
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Stock, |
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Common Stock, |
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Additional |
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Deferred |
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Foreign |
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Available- |
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Total |
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Stock |
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Series 1 |
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Series 2 |
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Treasury Stock |
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Paid-in |
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Stock |
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Retained |
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Currency |
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For-Sale |
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Hedging |
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Shareholders |
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Shares |
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Value |
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Shares |
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Value |
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Shares |
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Value |
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Shares |
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Value |
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Capital |
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Compensation |
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Earnings |
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Translation |
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Investments |
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Derivatives |
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Equity |
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Balance, January 1,
2005 |
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$ |
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2,863 |
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$ |
29 |
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51,537 |
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$ |
515 |
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(1,534 |
) |
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$ |
(5,541 |
) |
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$ |
39,886 |
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$ |
(6,087 |
) |
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$ |
68,820 |
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$ |
37,043 |
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$ |
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$ |
(2,516 |
) |
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$ |
132,149 |
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Other comprehensive
income (loss) |
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(15,705 |
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91 |
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66 |
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(15,548 |
) |
Exercise of common
stock options |
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145 |
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2 |
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864 |
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866 |
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Issuance of
restricted stock |
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2,837 |
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(2,467 |
) |
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|
370 |
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Amortization of
deferred
compensation |
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1,655 |
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1,655 |
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Redemption
adjustments to
redeemable stock
put |
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|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
(61,319 |
) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
(61,319 |
) |
Cancellation of
redeemable stock
put |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
78,901 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
78,901 |
|
Issuance of common
stock |
|
|
2,500 |
|
|
|
25 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
55,114 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
55,139 |
|
Conversion of Class
A common stock,
Series 2 into
common stock |
|
|
15,900 |
|
|
|
159 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
(15,900 |
) |
|
|
(159 |
) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Net income |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
40,410 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
40,410 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Balance, December
31, 2005 |
|
|
18,400 |
|
|
|
184 |
|
|
|
2,863 |
|
|
|
29 |
|
|
|
35,782 |
|
|
|
358 |
|
|
|
(1,534 |
) |
|
|
(5,541 |
) |
|
|
177,602 |
|
|
|
(6,899 |
) |
|
|
47,911 |
|
|
|
21,338 |
|
|
|
91 |
|
|
|
(2,450 |
) |
|
|
232,623 |
|
Other comprehensive
income (loss) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
9,356 |
|
|
|
(267 |
) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
9,089 |
|
Exercise of common
stock options |
|
|
800 |
|
|
|
8 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
78 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
7,647 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
7,655 |
|
Reversal of
deferred stock
compensation in
connection with
adoption of SFAS
No. 123(R) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
(6,899 |
) |
|
|
6,899 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Conversion of Class
A common stock,
Series 1 and Series
2 into common stock |
|
|
33,291 |
|
|
|
333 |
|
|
|
(2,863 |
) |
|
|
(29 |
) |
|
|
(30,428 |
) |
|
|
(304 |
) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Treasury shares
received for stock
option tax payment |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
(35 |
) |
|
|
(2,560 |
) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
(2,560 |
) |
Stock-based
compensation |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
5,033 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
5,033 |
|
Tax benefits from
stock option plans |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
14,191 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
14,191 |
|
Additional costs
related to issuance
of common stock |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
(19 |
) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
(19 |
) |
Net income |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
50,631 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
50,631 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Balance, June 30,
2006 |
|
|
52,491 |
|
|
$ |
525 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
$ |
|
|
|
|
5,432 |
|
|
$ |
54 |
|
|
|
(1,569 |
) |
|
$ |
(8,101 |
) |
|
$ |
197,555 |
|
|
$ |
|
|
|
$ |
98,542 |
|
|
$ |
30,694 |
|
|
$ |
(176 |
) |
|
$ |
(2,450 |
) |
|
$ |
316,643 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
See accompanying notes.
3
IntercontinentalExchange, Inc. and Subsidiaries
Consolidated Statements of Comprehensive Income (Loss)
(In thousands)
(Unaudited)
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
Six Months Ended |
|
| |
|
June 30, |
|
| |
|
2006 |
|
|
2005 |
|
Net income |
|
$ |
50,631 |
|
|
$ |
8,729 |
|
Other comprehensive income (loss): |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Foreign currency translation adjustments |
|
|
9,356 |
|
|
|
(10,694 |
) |
Change in available-for-sale investments |
|
|
(267 |
) |
|
|
|
|
Change in derivatives used for hedging activities |
|
|
|
|
|
|
66 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Comprehensive income (loss) |
|
$ |
59,720 |
|
|
$ |
(1,899 |
) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
See accompanying notes.
4
IntercontinentalExchange, Inc. and Subsidiaries
Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows
(In thousands)
(Unaudited)
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
Six Months Ended |
|
| |
|
June 30, |
|
| |
|
2006 |
|
|
2005 |
|
Operating activities |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Net income |
|
$ |
50,631 |
|
|
$ |
8,729 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Adjustments to reconcile net income to net cash provided by operating activities: |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Depreciation and amortization |
|
|
6,497 |
|
|
|
7,755 |
|
Amortization of revolving credit facility issuance costs |
|
|
74 |
|
|
|
48 |
|
Allowance for doubtful accounts |
|
|
269 |
|
|
|
10 |
|
Net realized gains on sales of available-for-sale investments |
|
|
(2,668 |
) |
|
|
(81 |
) |
Stock-based compensation |
|
|
4,791 |
|
|
|
816 |
|
Deferred taxes |
|
|
1,202 |
|
|
|
(1,196 |
) |
Non-cash floor closure costs |
|
|
|
|
|
|
560 |
|
Excess tax benefits from stock-based compensation |
|
|
(13,222 |
) |
|
|
|
|
Changes in assets and liabilities: |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Customer accounts receivable: |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Trade, net |
|
|
(12,353 |
) |
|
|
(6,426 |
) |
Related-parties |
|
|
(2,030 |
) |
|
|
(618 |
) |
Prepaid expenses and other current assets |
|
|
(4,831 |
) |
|
|
(3,839 |
) |
Noncurrent assets |
|
|
801 |
|
|
|
7 |
|
Accounts payable |
|
|
(554 |
) |
|
|
384 |
|
Income taxes payable |
|
|
10,150 |
|
|
|
(3,414 |
) |
Deferred revenue |
|
|
711 |
|
|
|
342 |
|
Accrued salaries and benefits, and other accrued liabilities |
|
|
(784 |
) |
|
|
13,157 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total adjustments |
|
|
(11,947 |
) |
|
|
7,505 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Net cash provided by operating activities |
|
|
38,684 |
|
|
|
16,234 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Investing activities |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Capital expenditures |
|
|
(4,347 |
) |
|
|
(755 |
) |
Capitalized software development costs |
|
|
(3,229 |
) |
|
|
(2,625 |
) |
Proceeds from sales of available-for-sale investments |
|
|
107,909 |
|
|
|
12,481 |
|
Purchases of available-for-sale investments |
|
|
(125,459 |
) |
|
|
(6,700 |
) |
(Increase) decrease in restricted cash |
|
|
(628 |
) |
|
|
5,080 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Net cash (used in) provided by investing activities |
|
|
(25,754 |
) |
|
|
7,481 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Financing activities |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Payments on capital lease obligations |
|
|
|
|
|
|
(482 |
) |
Repayments of revolving credit facility |
|
|
|
|
|
|
(12,000 |
) |
Excess tax benefits from stock-based compensation |
|
|
13,222 |
|
|
|
|
|
Payments relating to offerings of common stock |
|
|
(510 |
) |
|
|
(2,985 |
) |
Proceeds from exercise of common stock options |
|
|
7,655 |
|
|
|
122 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Net cash provided by (used in) financing activities |
|
|
20,367 |
|
|
|
(15,345 |
) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Effect of exchange rate changes on cash and cash equivalents |
|
|
795 |
|
|
|
(3,930 |
) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Net increase in cash and cash equivalents |
|
|
34,092 |
|
|
|
4,440 |
|
Cash and cash equivalents, beginning of period |
|
|
20,002 |
|
|
|
61,199 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Cash and cash equivalents, end of period |
|
$ |
54,094 |
|
|
$ |
65,639 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Supplemental cash flow disclosure |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Cash paid for income taxes |
|
$ |
15,661 |
|
|
$ |
4,913 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Cash paid for interest |
|
$ |
47 |
|
|
$ |
257 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
See accompanying notes.
5
IntercontinentalExchange, Inc. and Subsidiaries
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
(Unaudited)
1. Nature of Business and Organization
IntercontinentalExchange, Inc. (the Company) operates the leading electronic global futures
and over-the-counter (OTC) marketplace (the Platform) for trading a broad array of energy
products. The Company owns 100% of ICE Futures Holdings Plc, which is the sole shareholder of ICE
Futures. ICE Futures operates as a United Kingdom (U.K.) Recognized Investment Exchange (RIE)
in London, England, for the purpose of trading energy commodity futures and options contracts.
Headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, the Company also has offices in London, New York, Chicago,
Houston, Calgary and Singapore.
As an RIE, ICE Futures is subject to supervision in the U.K. by the Financial Services
Authority in accordance with the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000. ICE Futures is
responsible for properly supervising its markets as a self-regulatory organization, and for
maintaining financial resources sufficient for the proper performance of its functions as a RIE,
and, in order to satisfy this requirement, is obligated to maintain a minimum amount of liquid
financial assets at all times.
The Company currently operates its OTC markets as an exempt commercial market (ECM) pursuant
to the Commodity Exchange Act and regulations of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC).
As an ECM, the Company is required to file a notice with the CFTC, provide the CFTC with access to
its trading system and respond to requests for information or records from the CFTC.
2. Basis of Presentation and New Accounting Pronouncements
The accompanying unaudited consolidated financial statements have been prepared by the Company
pursuant to the rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) regarding
interim financial reporting. Accordingly, the unaudited consolidated financial statements do not
include all of the information and footnotes required by generally accepted accounting principles
for complete financial statements and should be read in conjunction with the Companys audited
consolidated financial statements and related notes thereto for the year ended December 31, 2005.
The accompanying unaudited consolidated financial statements reflect all adjustments that are, in
the opinion of the Companys management, necessary for a fair presentation of results for the
interim periods presented. Preparing financial statements requires management to make estimates and
assumptions that affect the amounts that are reported in the consolidated financial statements and
accompanying disclosures. Although these estimates are based on managements best knowledge of
current events and actions that the Company may undertake in the future, actual results may be
different from the estimates. The results of operations for the six months and three months ended
June 30, 2006 are not necessarily indicative of the results to be expected for any future period or
the full fiscal year.
The accompanying unaudited consolidated financial statements are presented in accordance with
U.S. generally accepted accounting principles. The unaudited consolidated financial statements
include the accounts of the Company and its wholly-owned subsidiaries. All intercompany balances
and transactions between the Company and its wholly-owned subsidiaries have been eliminated in
consolidation.
Certain prior period amounts have been reclassified to conform to the current periods
financial statement presentation.
In July 2006, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) issued FASB Interpretation
No. 48, Accounting for Uncertainty in Income Taxes, an interpretation of FASB Statement No.
109 (FIN 48). FIN 48 clarifies the accounting and reporting for uncertainties in income tax law.
This Interpretation prescribes a comprehensive model for the financial statement recognition,
measurement, presentation and disclosure of uncertain tax positions taken or expected to be
taken in income tax returns. We will adopt this Interpretation on January 1, 2007. The
cumulative effects, if any, of applying this Interpretation will be recorded as an adjustment to
retained earnings as of the beginning of the period of adoption. We have commenced the process
of evaluating the expected effect of FIN 48 on our consolidated financial statements and are
currently not yet in a position to determine such effects.
3. Foreign Currency Translation Adjustments and Transactions
In accordance with Statement of Financial Accounting Standards (SFAS) No. 52, Foreign
Currency Translation, the functional currency of the Companys U.K. subsidiaries has historically
been U.K. pounds sterling. The Company translated the assets and liabilities of its U.K.
subsidiaries into U.S. dollars using period-end
6
IntercontinentalExchange, Inc. and Subsidiaries
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements (Continued)
(Unaudited)
exchange rates and the revenues and expenses of
these entities were translated using the average exchange rates for the reporting period.
Translation adjustments were recorded in accumulated other comprehensive income, a separate
component of shareholders equity in the accompanying consolidated balance sheets and in the
consolidated statements of comprehensive income (loss). Gains and losses from foreign currency
transactions, such as those resulting from the settlement of foreign receivables or payables or the
Companys foreign subsidiaries cash accounts held in U.S. dollars, were included in other income
(expense) in the accompanying consolidated statements of income.
Effective July 1, 2006, the functional currency of the Companys U.K. subsidiaries became U.S.
dollars. SFAS No. 52 states that the functional currency of an entity is the currency of the
primary economic environment in which the entity operates. Normally, it is the currency of the
environment in which an entity primarily generates and expends cash. Once the functional currency
of a foreign entity is determined, that determination should be used consistently unless
significant changes in economic facts and circumstances indicate clearly that the functional
currency has changed. A change in functional currency should be accounted for prospectively, and
previously issued financial statements should not be restated for a change in functional currency.
In addition, if the functional currency changes from a foreign currency to the reporting currency,
as is the case with the Company, translation adjustments for prior periods should not be removed
from equity and the translated amounts for non-monetary assets at the end of the prior period
become the accounting basis for those assets in the period of the change and subsequent periods.
The functional currency changed based on various economic factors and circumstances, including the
fact that during the second quarter of 2006, ICE Futures began to charge and collect exchange fees
in U.S. dollars rather than pounds sterling in its key futures contracts, including crude oil and
heating oil contracts. The Company will no longer recognize any translation adjustments in the
accompanying consolidated financial statements subsequent to June 30, 2006. However, gains and
losses from foreign currency transactions will continue to be included in other income (expense) in
the accompanying consolidated statements of income.
4. Stock-Based Compensation
The Company currently sponsors employee stock option and restricted stock plans. On January 1,
2006, the Company adopted SFAS No. 123(R), Share-Based Payment, which is a revision of SFAS No.
123, Accounting for Stock-Based Compensation. SFAS No. 123(R) requires the measurement and
recognition of compensation expenses for all share-based payment awards made to employees and
directors including employee stock options and restricted stock based on estimated fair values.
SFAS No. 123(R) supersedes the Companys previous accounting under Accounting Principles Board
(APB) Opinion No. 25, Accounting for Stock Issued to Employees, for periods beginning in fiscal
2006.
The Company adopted SFAS No. 123(R) using the modified prospective method. Under the modified
prospective method, compensation costs are recognized beginning with the effective date based on
the requirements of SFAS No. 123(R) for all share-based payments granted after the effective date
and based on the requirements of SFAS No. 123 for all awards granted to employees prior to the
effective date of SFAS No. 123(R) that remain unvested on the effective date. The Companys
consolidated financial statements as of and for the six months and three months ended June 30, 2006
reflect the impact of SFAS No. 123(R). In accordance with the modified prospective transition
method, the Companys consolidated financial statements for the prior periods have not been
restated to reflect, and do not include, the impact of SFAS No. 123(R).
SFAS No. 123(R) requires companies to estimate the fair value of share-based payment awards on
the date of grant using an option-pricing model. The value of the portion of the award that is
ultimately expected to vest is recognized as stock-based compensation expenses over the requisite
service period in the Companys consolidated financial statements. Prior to the adoption of SFAS
No. 123(R), the Company accounted for stock-based awards to employees and directors using the
intrinsic value method in accordance with APB Opinion No. 25 as allowed under SFAS No. 123. Under
the intrinsic value method, no stock-based compensation expenses have been recognized in the
Companys consolidated statements of income for stock options because the exercise price of the
Companys stock options granted to employees and directors equaled the fair market value of the
underlying stock at the date of grant.
As stock-based compensation expenses recognized in the accompanying unaudited consolidated
statement of income for the six months ended June 30, 2006 is based on awards ultimately expected
to vest, it has been reduced
7
IntercontinentalExchange, Inc. and Subsidiaries
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements (Continued)
(Unaudited)
for estimated forfeitures. SFAS No. 123(R) requires forfeitures to be
estimated at the time of grant and revised, if necessary, in subsequent periods if actual
forfeitures differ from those estimates. Forfeitures were estimated based
on historical experience and managements estimates. In the Companys pro forma information
required under SFAS No. 123 for the periods prior to fiscal 2006, the Company accounted for stock
option forfeitures as they occurred. The Company also did not estimate any forfeitures for the
restricted stock grants in 2004 and 2005. At the adoption of SFAS No. 123(R), the Company was
required to record a cumulative adjustment to reverse compensation costs that would not have been
recorded if forfeitures had been estimated. Therefore, the Company recorded a cumulative adjustment
of $440,000 for the six months ended June 30, 2006 to reduce compensation costs that were actually
recognized in the Companys consolidated financial statements during 2004 and 2005 relating to the
restricted stock compensation expense amortization. The Company is not required to adjust the pro
forma SFAS No. 123 disclosures.
A company that adopts SFAS No. 123(R) is required to calculate its historical additional
paid-in capital pool (APIC Pool) for the period from 1995 to 2005 at such time that excess tax
deficiencies arise in connection with stock-based compensation. Under SFAS No. 123(R), a company
may use one of two methods to calculate its historical APIC Pool. A company may elect to calculate
its initial pool of excess tax benefits pursuant to the method described in paragraph 81 of SFAS
No. 123(R) or pursuant to the method described in FSP No. SFAS 123(R)-3, Transition Election
Related to Accounting for the Tax Effects of Share-Based Payment Awards. Generally, the pool of
excess tax benefits that is available to offset future excess tax deficiencies is based on the
amounts that would have been recognized under SFAS No. 123 and SFAS No. 123(R) as if the company
had always applied those standards for recognition purposes.
The Company has not yet elected which method it will choose to calculate its historical APIC
Pool balance. However, prior to January 1, 2006, the Company had not reported any taxable income
arising in connection with the share-based awards nor has it deducted in its tax returns any
compensation related to the share-based awards. Accordingly, the Company has no tax benefits
available to credit toward its historical APIC Pool calculation. As of January 1, 2006, the APIC
Pool for the Company is zero using either calculation methodology. The Company will elect a method
in accordance with the prescribed time limitation for doing so and understands that the election
will dictate the treatment of awards vested as of the date of adoption of SFAS No. 123(R) for
purposes of updating its APIC Pool post-adoption. During the six months ended June 30, 2006, excess
tax benefits of $14.2 million were recognized as an increase to the APIC balance. Of that amount,
$13.2 million were qualifying excess tax benefits that increased the APIC Pool eligible to absorb
future write-offs of unrealized deferred tax assets. In accordance with SFAS No. 123(R), the $13.2
million is reported as a financing cash flow in the accompanying unaudited consolidated statement
of cash flows.
No unearned compensation is included in stockholders equity under SFAS No. 123(R) for stock
options and restricted stock awards granted. Rather, such stock options and restricted stock awards
and units are included in stockholders equity under SFAS No. 123(R) when services required from
employees and directors in exchange for the awards are rendered and expensed. Upon the adoption of
SFAS No. 123(R) on January 1, 2006, the Company reversed the December 31, 2005 $6.9 million
deferred stock compensation balance by a charge to additional paid-in capital.
Employee and director stock-based compensation expenses and the related income tax benefit
recognized for both stock options and restricted stock in the accompanying unaudited consolidated
statement of income for the six months ended June 30, 2006 was $4.8 million and $1.5 million,
respectively, and for the three months ended June 30, 2006 was $2.6 million and $813,000,
respectively. Employee and director stock-based compensation expenses and the related income tax
benefit recognized on the restricted stock in the accompanying unaudited consolidated statement of
income for the six months ended June 30, 2005 was $816,000 and $307,000 respectively, and for the
three months ended June 30, 2005 was $410,000 and $158,000, respectively. As a result of the
adoption SFAS No. 123(R), the Companys income before income taxes and net income for the six
months ended June 30, 2006 was $909,000 and $823,000 lower, respectively, than if it had continued
to account for share-based compensation under APB Opinion No. 25. The adoption of SFAS No. 123(R)
decreased the Companys calculation of basic and diluted earnings per share by $0.01 and $0.01
during the six months and three months ended June 30, 2006, respectively. Had the Company
determined compensation costs based on the estimated fair value at the grant dates for its stock
options granted prior to adoption of SFAS No. 123(R), the Companys pro forma net income and
earnings per common share for the six months and three months ended June 30, 2005 would have been
as follows:
8
IntercontinentalExchange, Inc. and Subsidiaries
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements (Continued)
(Unaudited)
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
Six Months Ended |
|
|
Three Months Ended |
|
| |
|
June 30, |
|
|
June 30, |
|
| |
|
2005 |
|
|
2005 |
|
| |
|
(In thousands, except per share amounts) |
|
Net income (loss) available to common shareholders, as reported |
|
$ |
2,135 |
|
|
$ |
(6,735 |
) |
Add: Stock-based compensation expenses included in reported net
income, net of tax |
|
|
544 |
|
|
|
275 |
|
Deduct: Total stock-based compensation expenses determined under
the fair value method for all awards, net of tax |
|
|
(3,726 |
) |
|
|
(1,834 |
) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Net loss available to common shareholders, pro forma |
|
$ |
(1,047 |
) |
|
$ |
(8,294 |
) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Earnings (loss) per common share: |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Basic and Diluted as reported |
|
$ |
0.04 |
|
|
$ |
(0.13 |
) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Basic and Diluted pro forma |
|
$ |
(0.02 |
) |
|
$ |
(0.16 |
) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
The Company will continue to use the Black-Scholes option pricing model for purposes of
valuing share-based awards. The Companys determination of fair value of share-based payment awards
on the date of grant using the Black-Scholes option pricing model is affected by the Companys
stock price as well as assumptions regarding a number of highly complex and subjective variables.
These variables include, but are not limited to, the Companys expected price volatility over the
term of the awards and actual and projected employee stock option exercise behaviors.
Option-pricing models were developed for use in estimating the value of traded options that have no
vesting or hedging restrictions and are fully transferable. Because the Companys employee stock
options have certain characteristics that are significantly different from traded options, and
because changes in the subjective assumptions can materially affect the estimated value, in
managements opinion, the existing valuation models may not provide an accurate measure of the fair
value of the Companys employee stock options. Although the fair value of employee stock options is
determined in accordance with SFAS No. 123(R) using an option-pricing model, that value may not be
indicative of the fair value observed in a willing buyer/willing seller market transaction. The
Company did not grant any stock options during the six months ended June 30, 2006.
5. Stock Option and Restricted Stock Plans
The Company has adopted the IntercontinentalExchange, Inc. 2000 Stock Option Plan (the 2000
Stock Option Plan), pursuant to which 5,250,000 shares of common stock have been reserved for
issuance. As of June 30, 2006, there are 436,274 shares available for future issuance under this
plan.
The Company has adopted the IntercontinentalExchange, Inc. 2005 Equity Incentive Plan (the
2005 Equity Incentive Plan). Under this plan, 2,125,000 shares have been reserved for issuance,
which may be granted in the form of incentive stock options, nonqualified stock options, stock
appreciation rights, restricted stock and restricted stock units. As of June 30, 2006, there were
150,184 restricted stock units issued and outstanding. The Company granted 86,434 restricted stock
units under the 2005 Equity Incentive Plan during the six months ended June 30, 2006 with a fair
value of $49.23 per share. The fair value was based on the closing stock price on the date of
grant. The fair value of the restricted stock units on the date of the grant is recognized as
expense ratably over the vesting period, net of estimated forfeitures.
Stock options are granted at the discretion of the compensation committee of the board of
directors. The Company may grant both incentive stock options and nonqualified stock options.
Options generally vest over four years, but can vest at different intervals based on the
compensation committees determination. Generally, options may be exercised up to ten years after
the date of grant, but generally expire 14 days after termination of employment. All stock options
were granted at a price equal to the estimated fair value of the common stock at the date of grant.
The following is a summary of stock options for the six months ended June 30, 2006:
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
Weighted Average |
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
Exercise Price per |
|
| |
|
Number of Options |
|
|
Option |
|
Outstanding at January 1, 2006 |
|
|
4,787,418 |
|
|
$ |
9.51 |
|
Granted |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Exercised |
|
|
(888,279 |
) |
|
|
8.91 |
|
Forfeited |
|
|
(123,782 |
) |
|
|
8.31 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Outstanding at June 30, 2006 |
|
|
3,775,357 |
|
|
|
9.68 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
9
IntercontinentalExchange, Inc. and Subsidiaries
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements (Continued)
(Unaudited)
Details of stock options outstanding as of June 30, 2006 are as follows:
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Weighted Average |
|
|
Aggregate |
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
Weighted Average |
|
|
Remaining |
|
|
Intrinsic |
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
Exercise |
|
|
Contractual Life |
|
|
Value |
|
| |
|
Number of Options |
|
|
Price |
|
|
(Years) |
|
|
(In thousands) |
|
Vested or expected to vest |
|
|
3,480,057 |
|
|
$ |
9.40 |
|
|
|
7.38 |
|
|
$ |
168,910 |
|
Exercisable |
|
|
2,197,001 |
|
|
$ |
8.59 |
|
|
|
6.89 |
|
|
$ |
108,426 |
|
The total intrinsic value of stock options exercised during the six months and three months
ended June 30, 2006 was $45.1 million and $39.0 million, respectively. As of June 30, 2006, there
were $6.1 million in total unrecognized compensation costs related to stock options. These costs
are expected to be recognized over a weighted average period of 2.4 years as the stock options
vest.
The Company has also adopted the IntercontinentalExchange, Inc. 2004 Restricted Stock Plan
(the Restricted Plan), pursuant to which 1,475,000 shares of common stock have been reserved for
issuance. As of June 30, 2006, 1,446,674 were subject to outstanding awards of restricted stock
units made to senior officers of the Company and members of the board of directors. Of these
shares, 800,212 were granted in 2004 as time-based restricted shares and vest based on a four-year
vesting schedule. The fair value of the restricted shares on the date of the grant is recognized as
expense ratably on a straight-line basis over the vesting period. Until the shares vest and are
issued, the participants have no voting or dividend rights and the shares may not be sold,
assigned, transferred, pledged or otherwise encumbered. During the six months ended June 30, 2006,
no restricted shares were issued.
An additional 208,404 to 625,212 restricted shares under the Restricted Plan have been
reserved for potential issuance as performance-based restricted shares for the Companys senior
officers and vest based on Company financial performance relative to three-year cumulative
performance targets (the Performance Targets) set by the Companys Compensation Committee for the
period from January 1, 2005 to December 31, 2007. The potential compensation expenses to be
recognized under the performance-based restricted shares would be $1.4 million if the minimum
Performance Targets are met and 208,404 restricted shares are issued, $2.8 million if the target
Performance Targets are met and 416,807 restricted shares are issued or $4.2 million if the maximum
Performance Targets are met and 625,212 restricted shares are issued. Under SFAS No. 123(R), the
Company would recognize compensation costs for awards with performance conditions only if it is
probable that the condition will be satisfied. If the Company initially determines that it is not
probable that the performance condition will be satisfied and later determines that it is probable
the performance condition will be satisfied, or vice versa, the effect of the change in estimate
should be accounted for in the period of change by recording a cumulative catch-up adjustment to
retroactively apply the new estimate. The Company would recognize the remaining compensation costs
over the remaining requisite service period.
During the three months ended March 31, 2006, the Company determined that it was probable that
the target Performance Targets will be met and the Company recorded a cumulative catch-up
adjustment to non-cash compensation expenses of $1.2 million. During the three months ended June
30, 2006, the Company determined that it was probable that the maximum Performance Targets will be
met and the Company recorded a cumulative catch-up adjustment to non-cash compensation expenses of
$943,000. The remaining $2.1 million in non-cash compensation expenses under the maximum
Performance Targets will be expensed ratably over the remaining requisite service period, currently
estimated to be the end of the three-year performance period, or December 31, 2007. If the
Performance Targets are not reached, the corresponding performance-based restricted shares will not
be issued and the expense previously recognized will be reversed.
10
Intercontinental Exchange, Inc. and Subsidiaries
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements (Continued)
(Unaudited)
The following is a summary of the nonvested restricted shares for the six months ended June
30, 2006:
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
Weighted Average |
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
Grant-Date Fair |
|
| |
|
Number of |
|
|
Value |
|
| |
|
Restricted Stock Shares |
|
|
per Share |
|
Nonvested at January 1, 2006 |
|
|
1,260,773 |
|
|
$ |
8.73 |
|
Granted |
|
|
89,078 |
|
|
|
49.64 |
|
Vested |
|
|
(125,502 |
) |
|
|
(13.48 |
) |
Forfeited |
|
|
(67,175 |
) |
|
|
(8.00 |
) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Nonvested at June 30, 2006 |
|
|
1,157,174 |
|
|
|
11.38 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
As of June 30, 2006, there were $9.9 million in total unrecognized compensation costs related
to restricted stock. These costs are expected to be recognized over a weighted average period of
2.0 years as the restricted stock vests.
6. Short-Term and Long-Term Investments
Short-term and long-term investments consist of available-for-sale securities.
Available-for-sale securities are carried at fair value with unrealized gains or losses, net of
deferred income taxes, reported as a component of accumulated other comprehensive income. The cost
of securities sold is based on the specific identification method. As of June 30, 2006,
available-for-sale securities consisted of the following (in thousands):
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
Gross |
|
|
Gross |
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
Unrealized |
|
|
Unrealized |
|
|
Estimated |
|
| |
|
Cost |
|
|
Gains |
|
|
Losses |
|
|
Fair Value |
|
Municipal bonds |
|
$ |
134,637 |
|
|
$ |
|
|
|
$ |
176 |
|
|
$ |
134,461 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
During the six months ended June 30, 2005, the Company only invested in Auction Rate
Securities (ARS). Based on the short-term nature of the 28-day auction rate issues and their
market rates, the estimated fair value of the ARS approximates carrying value. Therefore, no
unrealized gains or losses were recorded on available-for-sale securities during the six months
ended June 30, 2005.
The contractual maturities of these investments as of June 30, 2006, were as follows (in
thousands):
| |
|
|
|
|
| |
|
Estimated |
|
| |
|
Fair Value |
|
Maturities: |
|
|
|
|
Due within 1 year |
|
$ |
27,141 |
|
Due within 1 year to 5 years |
|
|
7,990 |
|
Due within 5 years to 10 years |
|
|
17,570 |
|
Due after 10 years |
|
|
81,760 |
|
|
|
|
|
Total |
|
$ |
134,461 |
|
|
|
|
|
As of June 30, 2006, the Company had $134.5 million in short-term investments. Investments
that the Company intends to hold for more than one year are classified as long-term investments in
the accompanying unaudited consolidated balance sheets. As of June 30, 2006, the Company does not
intend to hold any of the investments for more than one year.
7. Income Taxes
For the six months ended June 30, 2006 and 2005, income before income taxes from domestic
operations was $50.3 million and $771,000, respectively, and income before income taxes from
foreign operations was $26.7 million and $11.8 million, respectively. For the three months ended
June 30, 2006 and 2005, income (loss) before income taxes from domestic operations was $31.2
million and ($5.3 million), respectively, and income before income taxes from foreign operations
was $17.0 million and $4.5 million, respectively. Details of the income tax provision in the
accompanying unaudited consolidated statements of income for the six months and three months ended
June 30, 2006 and 2005 are as follows:
11
IntercontinentalExchange, Inc. and Subsidiaries
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements (Continued)
(Unaudited)
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
Six Months Ended |
|
|
Three Months Ended |
|
| |
|
June 30, |
|
|
June 30, |
|
| |
|
2006 |
|
|
2005 |
|
|
2006 |
|
|
2005 |
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
(In thousands) |
|
|
|
|
|
Current tax expense (benefit): |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Domestic |
|
$ |
14,521 |
|
|
$ |
1,435 |
|
|
$ |
9,910 |
|
|
$ |
(895 |
) |
Foreign |
|
|
11,370 |
|
|
|
4,000 |
|
|
|
6,795 |
|
|
|
1,684 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
25,891 |
|
|
|
5,435 |
|
|
|
16,705 |
|
|
|
789 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Deferred tax expense (benefit): |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Domestic |
|
|
479 |
|
|
|
(1,202 |
) |
|
|
624 |
|
|
|
(1,151 |
) |
Foreign |
|
|
29 |
|
|
|
(362 |
) |
|
|
(27 |
) |
|
|
(297 |
) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
508 |
|
|
|
(1,564 |
) |
|
|
597 |
|
|
|
(1,448 |
) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total tax expense (benefit) |
|
$ |
26,399 |
|
|
$ |
3,871 |
|
|
$ |
17,302 |
|
|
$ |
(659 |
) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
The Companys effective tax rate increased to 34.3% for the six months ended June 30, 2006
from 30.7% for the six months ended June 30, 2005. The Companys effective tax rate was 35.8% for
the three months ended June 30, 2006. The effective tax rate for the six months ended June 30, 2006
is lower than the statutory rate primarily due to tax exempt income and a $1.2 million reduction in
U.S. residual taxes that was recorded as a discrete item during the three months ended March 31,
2006. The effective tax rate for the six months ended June 30, 2005 is lower than the statutory
rate primarily due to federal and state research and development tax credits.
8. Commitments and Contingencies
Licensing Agreement
In March 2002, the Company entered into a long-term, non-exclusive licensing agreement with a
third party, which granted the use of the third partys patent to the Company and its
majority-owned and controlled affiliates. The patent relates to automated futures trading systems
in which transactions are completed by a computerized matching of bids and offers of futures
contracts on an electronic platform. The license of the patent provides legal certainty to traders,
clearing banks and brokers wishing to utilize the Companys Platform for trading futures contracts
from within the U.S. Under the agreement, the Company is required to pay minimum annual license
fees of $2.0 million beginning April 5, 2002 through the expiration date of the patent on February
20, 2007 along with additional royalty payments calculated quarterly based upon the volume of
certain futures transactions executed on the Platform. The agreement also includes a clause that
requires an additional $2.0 million payment each time that the number of electronic futures
contacts covered by the agreement exceeds 25 million contracts in any given year. The agreement
covers the Companys use of the patent in certain markets including energy, certain metals,
weather, sulfur and nitrogen pollution allowances and financial products specifically related to
products in these markets.
The Company recorded amortization expense of $1.0 million during the six months ended June 30,
2006 and 2005 and $500,000 during the three months ended June 30, 2006 and 2005 relating to the
licensing agreement. The Company incurred royalty payments of $2.7 million and $323,000 during the
six months ended June 30, 2006 and 2005, respectively, and $1.6 million and $297,000 during the
three months ended June 30, 2006 and 2005, respectively, which were recorded as selling, general
and administrative expenses in the accompanying unaudited consolidated statements of income. The
Company also determined that it is probable that the contract volume will exceed 25 million
contracts during the period from April 1, 2006 to February 20, 2007 and will require an additional
$2.0 million payment. Therefore, the Company accrued $561,000 to selling, general and
administrative expenses during the six months and three months ended June 30, 2006. If the contract
volume does not exceed 25 million contracts during the period from April 1, 2006 to February 20,
2007, the $2.0 million payment will not be required and any previously recorded expense will be
reversed.
Legal Proceedings
On September 29, 2005, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York granted
the Companys motion for summary judgment dismissing all claims brought by the New York Mercantile
Exchange, Inc. (NYMEX) against the Company in an action commenced in November 2002. NYMEXs
complaint alleged copyright infringement by the Company on the basis of its use of NYMEXs publicly
available settlement prices in two of the Companys cleared OTC contracts. The complaint also
alleged that the Company infringed and diluted
12
IntercontinentalExchange, Inc. and Subsidiaries
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements (Continued)
(Unaudited)
NYMEXs trademark rights by referring to NYMEX trademarks in certain of the Companys swap
contract specifications and that the Company has tortiously interfered with a contract between
NYMEX and the data provider that provides the Company with the NYMEX settlement prices pursuant to
a license. In dismissing all of NYMEXs claims, the court found that NYMEXs settlement prices were
not copyrightable works as a matter of law, and the Company had not engaged in copyright or
trademark infringement in referencing NYMEXs publicly available settlement prices. The trademark
dilution and tortious interference claims, which are state law claims, were dismissed on
jurisdictional grounds. While the court granted summary judgment in the Companys favor on all
claims, NYMEX is currently appealing the decision regarding the copyright claims and state law
claims in the Second Circuit Court of Appeals. If NYMEX continues with its appeal, or proceeds with
a claim in state court, the Company intends to vigorously defend these actions. The Company does
not believe that the resolution of this matter will have a material adverse effect on the Companys
consolidated financial condition, results of operations or liquidity.
On February 2, 2006, MBF Clearing Corp. filed a complaint against the Company in the U.S.
District Court for the Southern District of New York asserting that the Company has monopoly power
in the markets for electronic trading of Brent Crude Oil futures and certain other energy
contracts. On March 22, 2006, the Company filed a motion to dismiss all of MBF Clearings claims in
the complaint. Rather than responding to our motion, MBF Clearing filed an amended complaint
dropping one state law claim, and making additional allegations that actions taken by the Company
with respect to MBF Clearing were taken with the intention of foreclosing competition from
contracts presently traded or to be traded on NYMEXs electronic trading platform. MBF Clearing,
which is a major NYMEX clearing and trading firm and a market maker for certain NYMEX electronic
contracts, alleges that the Company disconnected MBF Clearings access to the Companys trading
platform and denied MBF Clearing information from ICE Data in breach of a contract with MBF
Clearing and in violation of U.S. antitrust laws. MBF Clearing also alleges, among other things,
that the Company has engaged in tortious interference with contract and business advantage. The
amended complaint does not specify the amount of damages alleged to have been caused to MBF
Clearing but requests that MBF Clearing be awarded treble and punitive damages. On June 5, 2006,
the Company filed a renewed motion to dismiss all of MBF Clearings claims and MBF Clearing filed
its brief in opposition of the Companys motion to dismiss on July 12, 2006. Briefing is still
ongoing and the Company plans on filing a reply brief in the near future. The Company intends to
vigorously defend these claims and does not believe that the resolution of this matter will have a
material adverse effect on the Companys consolidated financial condition, results of operations or
liquidity.
9. Floor Closure Costs
On April 7, 2005, the Company closed its open-outcry trading floor in London. This was done to take
advantage of the increasing acceptance and adoption of electronic trading, and to maintain and
enhance the Companys competitive position. All futures trading is now conducted exclusively on the
Companys electronic platform. The Company recorded floor closure costs of $4.8 million during the
second quarter of 2005 in connection with the closure of the open-outcry trading floor. These costs
include lease terminations for the building where the floor was located, payments made to 18
employees who were terminated as a result of the closure, contract terminations, and other
associated costs, including legal costs and asset impairment charges. This expense was classified
as Floor closure costs in the accompanying unaudited consolidated statements of income for the
six months and three months ended June 30, 2005. No floor closure costs were incurred in prior
periods and no additional closure costs are expected to be incurred.
10. Settlement Expense
In January 2004, EBS Dealing Resources, Inc. (EBS) filed a complaint against the Company in
United States District Court, Southern District of New York, alleging that the Company infringed on
patents held by EBS related to credit filter technology for electronic brokerage systems. In
September 2005, the Company settled the legal action brought by EBS related to the alleged patent
infringement. Under the settlement agreement, the Company made a payment of $15.0 million to EBS,
and was released from the legal claims brought against it without admitting liability. The payment
was classified as Settlement expense in the accompanying unaudited consolidated statements of
income for the six months and three months ended June 30, 2005.
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IntercontinentalExchange, Inc. and Subsidiaries
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements (Continued)
(Unaudited)
11. Redemption Adjustments to Redeemable Stock Put
Continental Power Exchange, Inc. is the Companys predecessor company and is owned by the
chief executive officer of the Company. The Company had a put agreement (the Redeemable Stock
Put) with Continental Power Exchange, Inc. under which, in certain circumstances, Continental
Power Exchange, Inc. had the right to require the Company to purchase a portion of the Companys
common stock held by Continental Power Exchange, Inc. for an amount equal to the greater of fair
market value at the date the put was exercised, or $5.0 million. Continental Power Exchange, Inc.
had the right to exercise the put option upon the termination, retirement, death or disability of
the senior officer, exercisable at any time within six months of such an event.
The Company initially recorded the Redeemable Stock Put at the minimum $5.0 million redemption
threshold. The Company had adjusted the Redeemable Stock Put to its redemption amount at each
subsequent balance sheet date. The adjustment to the redemption amount had been recorded directly
to retained earnings or, in the absence of positive retained earnings, by charges against
additional paid-in capital. The Company increased the Redeemable Stock Put by $6.6 million during
the six months and three months ended June 30, 2005. This adjustment resulted from an increase in
the estimated fair value of the Companys common stock from $8.00 per share as of March 31, 2005 to
$11.00 per share as of June 30, 2005.
In October 2005, the Company entered into an agreement with Continental Power Exchange, Inc.
(the Put Termination Agreement) to cancel the Redeemable Stock Put contingent upon the closing of
the Companys initial public offering of common stock. The Company increased the Redeemable Stock
Put by $61.3 million during the year ended December 31, 2005 resulting from an increase in the
estimated fair value of the Companys common stock from $8.00 per share as of December 31, 2004 to
$35.90 per share as of November 21, 2005, the closing date of the Companys initial public offering
of common stock and the termination date of the Redeemable Stock Put. The balance of the Redeemable
Stock Put on November 21, 2005 was $78.9 million and was reclassified to additional paid-in capital
upon its termination.
12. Segment Reporting
The Companys principal business segments consist of its OTC business, its futures business
and its market data business. The operations of ICE Futures comprise the futures business segment
and the operations of ICE Data, L.P. and ICE Data LLP comprise the market data business segment.
Intersegment revenues and transactions attributable to the performance of services are recorded at
cost plus an agreed market percentage intercompany profit. Intersegment revenues attributable to
licensing transactions have been priced in accordance with comparable third party agreements.
Financial data for the Companys business segments and geographic areas are as follows:
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Market |
|
|
| |
|
OTC |
|
Futures |
|
Data |
|
|
| |
|
Business |
|
Business |
|
Business |
|
|
| |
|
Segment |
|
Segment |
|
Segment |
|
Total |
| |
|
(In thousands) |
Six Months Ended June 30, 2006: |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Revenues from external customers |
|
$ |
65,690 |
|
|
$ |
49,622 |
|
|
$ |
8,561 |
|
|
$ |
123,873 |
|
Intersegment revenues |
|
|
9,975 |
|
|
|
3,028 |
|
|
|
4,510 |
|
|
|
17,513 |
|
Depreciation and amortization |
|
|
5,458 |
|
|
|
1,033 |
|
|
|
6 |
|
|
|
6,497 |
|
Interest income |
|
|
1,668 |
|
|
|
743 |
|
|
|
17 |
|
|
|
2,428 |
|
Interest expense |
|
|
120 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
120 |
|
Income tax expense |
|
|
12,414 |
|
|
|
10,953 |
|
|
|
3,032 |
|
|
|
26,399 |
|
Net income |
|
|
24,658 |
|
|
|
20,341 |
|
|
|
5,632 |
|
|
|
50,631 |
|
Total assets |
|
|
272,090 |
|
|
|
72,405 |
|
|
|
5,725 |
|
|
|
350,220 |
|
Capital expenditures and software development costs |
|
|
6,882 |
|
|
|
692 |
|
|
|
2 |
|
|
|
7,576 |
|
Goodwill and other intangibles, net |
|
|
81,192 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
81,192 |
|
Net cash provided by operating activities |
|
|
7,915 |
|
|
|
22,233 |
|
|
|
8,536 |
|
|
|
38,684 |
|
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IntercontinentalExchange, Inc. and Subsidiaries
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements (Continued)
(Unaudited)
Geographic areas:
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
European |
|
|
| |
|
United States |
|
Union |
|
Total |
| |
|
(In thousands) |
Six Months Ended June 30, 2006: |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Revenues from external customers |
|
$ |
70,148 |
|
|
$ |
53,725 |
|
|
$ |
123,873 |
|
As of June 30, 2006: |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Property and equipment, net |
|
|
14,681 |
|
|
|
9,206 |
|
|
|
23,887 |
|
Revenues from one customer of the futures business segment comprised 14% of the Companys
futures revenues for the six months ended June 30, 2006. No additional customers accounted for more
than 10% of the Companys segment revenues or consolidated revenues during the six months ended
June 30, 2006.
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Market |
|
|
| |
|
OTC |
|
Futures |
|
Data |
|
|
| |
|
Business |
|
Business |
|
Business |
|
|
| |
|
Segment |
|
Segment |
|
Segment |
|
Total |
| |
|
(In thousands) |
Six Months Ended June 30, 2005: |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Revenues from external customers |
|
$ |
36,314 |
|
|
$ |
27,558 |
|
|
$ |
5,486 |
|
|
$ |
69,358 |
|
Intersegment revenues |
|
|
5,066 |
|
|
|
2,228 |
|
|
|
881 |
|
|
|
8,175 |
|
Depreciation and amortization |
|
|
6,493 |
|
|
|
1,259 |
|
|
|
3 |
|
|
|
7,755 |
|
Interest income |
|
|
447 |
|
|
|
963 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
1,410 |
|
Interest expense |
|
|
315 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
315 |
|
Income tax expense (benefit) |
|
|
(533 |
) |
|
|
3,274 |
|
|
|
1,130 |
|
|
|
3,871 |
|
Net income |
|
|
551 |
|
|
|
6,080 |
|
|
|
2,098 |
|
|
|
8,729 |
|
Total assets |
|
|
136,196 |
|
|
|
61,968 |
|
|
|
4,376 |
|
|
|
202,540 |
|
Capital expenditures and software development costs |
|
|
2,561 |
|
|
|
808 |
|
|
|
11 |
|
|
|
3,380 |
|
Goodwill and other intangibles, net |
|
|
79,911 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
79,911 |
|
Net cash provided by operating activities |
|
|
7,920 |
|
|
|
6,253 |
|
|
|
2,061 |
|
|
|
16,234 |
|
Geographic areas:
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
European |
|
|
| |
|
United States |
|
Union |
|
Total |
| |
|
(In thousands) |
Six Months Ended June 30, 2005: |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Revenues from external customers |
|
$ |
38,242 |
|
|
$ |
31,116 |
|
|
$ |
69,358 |
|
As of June 30, 2005: |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Property and equipment, net |
|
|
8,756 |
|
|
|
7,349 |
|
|
|
16,105 |
|
Revenues from one customer of the futures business segment comprised 14% of the Companys
futures revenues for the six months ended June 30, 2005. No additional customers accounted for more
than 10% of the Companys segment revenues or consolidated revenues during the six months ended
June 30, 2005.
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Market |
|
|
| |
|
OTC |
|
Futures |
|
Data |
|
|
| |
|
Business |
|
Business |
|
Business |
|
|
| |
|
Segment |
|
Segment |
|
Segment |
|
Total |
| |
|
(In thousands) |
Three Months Ended June 30, 2006: |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Revenues from external customers |
|
$ |
39,104 |
|
|
$ |
30,159 |
|
|
$ |
4,328 |
|
|
$ |
73,591 |
|
Intersegment revenues |
|
|
4,898 |
|
|
|
557 |
|
|
|
3,283 |
|
|
|
8,738 |
|
Depreciation and amortization |
|
|
2,798 |
|
|
|
508 |
|
|
|
3 |
|
|
|
3,309 |
|
Interest income |
|
|
996 |
|
|
|
245 |
|
|
|
9 |
|
|
|
1,250 |
|
Interest expense |
|
|
57 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
57 |
|
Income tax expense |
|
|
8,139 |
|
|
|
6,960 |
|
|
|
2,203 |
|
|
|
17,302 |
|
Net income |
|
|
13,952 |
|
|
|
12,925 |
|
|
|
4,090 |
|
|
|
30,967 |
|
Total assets |
|
|
272,090 |
|
|
|
72,405 |
|
|
|
5,725 |
|
|
|
350,220 |
|
Capital expenditures and software development costs |
|
|
4,070 |
|
|
|
188 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
4,258 |
|
Goodwill and other intangibles, net |
|
|
81,192 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
81,192 |
|
Net cash provided by (used in) operating activities |
|
|
(699 |
) |
|
|
15,052 |
|
|
|
7,255 |
|
|
|
21,608 |
|
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IntercontinentalExchange, Inc. and Subsidiaries
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements (Continued)
(Unaudited)
Geographic areas:
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
European |
|
|
| |
|
United States |
|
Union |
|
Total |
| |
|
(In thousands) |
Three Months Ended June 30, 2006: |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Revenues from external customers |
|
$ |
41,592 |
|
|
$ |
31,999 |
|
|
$ |
73,591 |
|
As of June 30, 2006: |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Property and equipment, net |
|
|
14,681 |
|
|
|
9,206 |
|
|
|
23,887 |
|
Revenues from one customer of the futures business segment comprised 15% of the Companys
futures revenues for the three months ended June 30, 2006. No additional customers accounted for
more than 10% of the Companys segment revenues or consolidated revenues during the three months
ended June 30, 2006.
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Market |
|
|
| |
|
OTC |
|
Futures |
|
Data |
|
|
| |
|
Business |
|
Business |
|
Business |
|
|
| |
|
Segment |
|
Segment |
|
Segment |
|
Total |
| |
|
(In thousands) |
Three Months Ended June 30, 2005: |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Revenues from external customers |
|
$ |
20,272 |
|
|
$ |
14,458 |
|
|
$ |
2,800 |
|
|
$ |
37,530 |
|
Intersegment revenues |
|
|
2,792 |
|
|
|
1,192 |
|
|
|
451 |
|
|
|
4,435 |
|
Depreciation and amortization |
|
|
3,166 |
|
|
|
630 |
|
|
|
1 |
|
|
|
3,797 |
|
Interest income |
|
|
237 |
|
|
|
507 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
744 |
|
Interest expense |
|
|
152 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
152 |
|
Income tax expense (benefit) |
|
|
(2,454 |
) |
|
|
1,225 |
|
|
|
570 |
|
|
|
(659 |
) |
Net income (loss) |
|
|
(3,474 |
) |
|
|
2,275 |
|
|
|
1,058 |
|
|
|
(141 |
) |
Total assets |
|
|
136,196 |
|
|
|
61,968 |
|
|
|
4,376 |
|
|
|
202,540 |
|
Capital expenditures and software development costs |
|
|
1,455 |
|
|
|
355 |
|
|
|
7 |
|
|
|
1,817 |
|
Goodwill and other intangibles, net |
|
|
79,911 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
79,911 |
|
Net cash provided by (used in) operating activities |
|
|
(500 |
) |
|
|
7,381 |
|
|
|
1,032 |
|
|
|
7,913 |
|
Geographic areas:
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
European |
|
|
| |
|
United States |
|
Union |
|
Total |
| |
|
(In thousands) |
Three Months Ended June 30, 2005: |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Revenues from external customers |
|
$ |
21,244 |
|
|
$ |
16,286 |
|
|
$ |
37,530 |
|
As of June 30, 2005: |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Property and equipment, net |
|
|
8,756 |
|
|
|
7,349 |
|
|
|
16,105 |
|
Revenues from one customer of the futures business segment comprised 14% of the Companys
futures revenues for the three months ended June 30, 2005. No additional customers accounted for
more than 10% of the Companys segment revenues or consolidated revenues during the three months
ended June 30, 2005.
16
IntercontinentalExchange, Inc. and Subsidiaries
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements (Continued)
(Unaudited)
13. Earnings Per Common Share
The following is a reconciliation of the numerators and denominators of the basic and diluted
earnings per common share computations for the six months ended June 30, 2006 and 2005:
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
Six Months Ended |
|
|
Three Months Ended |
|
| |
|
June 30, |
|
|
June 30, |
|
| |
|
2006 |
|
|
2005 |
|
|
2006 |
|
|
2005 |
|
| |
|
(In thousands, except per share amounts) |
|
Basic: |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Net income (loss) available to common shareholders |
|
$ |
50,631 |
|
|
$ |
2,135 |
|
|
$ |
30,967 |
|
|
$ |
(6,735 |
) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Weighted average common shares outstanding |
|
|
55,703 |
|
|
|
52,870 |
|
|
|
55,871 |
|
|
|
52,873 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Basic earnings (loss) per common share |
|
$ |
0.91 |
|
|
$ |
0.04 |
|
|
$ |
0.55 |
|
|
$ |
(0.13 |
) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Diluted: |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Weighted average common shares outstanding |
|
|
55,703 |
|
|
|
52,870 |
|
|
|
55,871 |
|
|
|
52,873 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Effect of dilutive securities: |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Stock options and restricted shares |
|
|
3,389 |
|
|
|
202 |
|
|
|
3,338 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Diluted weighted average common shares outstanding |
|
|
59,092 |
|
|
|
53,072 |
|
|
|
59,209 |
|
|
|
52,873 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Diluted earnings (loss) per common share |
|
$ |
0.86 |
|
|
$ |
0.04 |
|
|
$ |
0.52 |
|
|
$ |
(0.13 |
) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
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|
|
|
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Basic earnings per common share is calculated using the weighted average common shares
outstanding during the period. Common equivalent shares from stock options and restricted stock
awards, using the treasury stock method, are also included in the diluted per share calculations
unless their effect of inclusion would be antidilutive. The Companys outstanding options and
restricted shares have not been included in the computation of diluted earnings per share for the three months ended June 30, 2005 due to the $6.7 million net loss available to common
shareholders. Therefore, the Companys diluted earnings per share is computed in the same manner as
basic earnings per share for the three months ended June 30, 2005.
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Item 2. Managements Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations
This Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q, including the sections entitled Legal Proceedings and
Managements Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations, contains
forward-looking statements as defined in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995
that are based on our present beliefs and assumptions and on information currently available to us.
You can identify forward-looking statements by terminology such as may, will, should,
could, would, targets, goal, expect, intend, plan, anticipate, believe,
estimate, predict, potential, continue, or the negative of these terms or other comparable
terminology. These statements relate to future events or our future financial performance and
involve risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause our actual results, levels of
activity, performance or achievements to differ materially from those expressed or implied by these
forward-looking statements. These risks and other factors include those set forth in Item 1(A)
under the heading Risk Factors in this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q and other filings with the
Securities and Exchange Commission. Although we believe that the expectations reflected in the
forward-looking statements are reasonable, we cannot guarantee future results, levels of activity,
performance or achievements. Forward-looking statements and other risks and factors that may affect
our performance include, but are not limited to: our business environment, trends in our industry,
increasing competition, strategic initiatives by our competitors, technological developments,
expectations of various costs, expansion of our market data business, development of new products
and services, pursuit of strategic acquisitions and alliances, maintaining existing market
participants and attracting new ones, protection of our intellectual property rights, our ability
to avoid violating the intellectual property rights of others, changes in domestic and foreign
regulations or government policy, adverse litigation results and our ability to gain access to
comparable products and services if our key technology contracts were terminated. We caution you
not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements as they speak only as of the date
on which such statement is made, and we undertake no obligation to update any forward-looking
statement or to reflect the occurrence of an unanticipated event. New factors emerge from time to
time, and it is not possible for management to predict all factors that may affect our business and
prospects. Further, management cannot assess the impact of each factor on the business or the
extent to which any factor, or combination of factors, may cause actual results to differ
materially from those contained in any forward-looking statements.
In this quarterly report on Form 10-Q, unless otherwise indicated, the terms
IntercontinentalExchange, we, us, our, our company and our business refer to
IntercontinentalExchange, Inc., together with our consolidated subsidiaries. Due to rounding,
figures may not sum exactly.
Overview
We operate the leading electronic global futures and over-the-counter, or OTC, marketplace for
trade execution in a broad array of energy products. Currently, we are the only marketplace to
offer an integrated electronic platform for trading energy products in both futures and OTC
markets. Through our widely-distributed electronic trading platform, our marketplace brings
together buyers and sellers of derivative and physical energy commodities contracts. We operate our
business in, and report our financial results based on, three distinct segments: futures markets,
OTC markets and market data markets. Futures markets offer trading in standardized derivative
contracts on a regulated exchange and OTC markets offer trading in over-the-counter, or
off-exchange, derivative contracts, including contracts that can provide for the physical delivery
of an underlying commodity or for financial settlement based on the price of an underlying
commodity. Through our market data segment, we offer a variety of market data services and products
for both futures and OTC market participants and observers.
On a consolidated basis, we generated $123.9 million in revenues for the six months ended June
30, 2006, a 78.6% increase compared to $69.4 million for the six months ended June 30, 2005. On a
consolidated basis, we generated $50.6 million in net income for the six months ended June 30, 2006
compared to $8.7 million for the six months ended June 30, 2005. During the six months ended June
30, 2006, 37.7 million contracts were traded in our futures markets and 49.2 million contracts were
traded in our OTC markets, up 102.6% from 18.6 million futures contracts traded during the six
months ended June 30, 2005 and up 98.2% from 24.8 million OTC contracts traded during the six
months ended June 30, 2005. The financial results for the six months ended June 30, 2005 include
$4.8 million in expenses incurred relating to the closure of our open-outcry trading floor in
London and a $15.0 million settlement expense related to a payment to EBS Dealing Resources, Inc.,
or EBS, to settle litigation.
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Our futures business segment consists primarily of trade execution in futures contracts and
options on futures contracts, which we conduct through our subsidiary, ICE Futures. Historically,
we offered futures trading both on our electronic platform and on our open-outcry trading floor. We
closed our open-outcry trading floor in London on April 7, 2005 and all of our futures trading is
now conducted exclusively in our electronic markets. This decision has allowed us to maintain and
enhance our competitive position in our futures markets, and to take advantage of the increasing
demand for electronically traded markets. Our OTC business segment consists of trade execution in
OTC energy contracts conducted exclusively on our electronic platform and the provision of
trading-related services, including OTC electronic trade confirmation and OTC risk management
functionality. Our market data business segment, which we conduct through our subsidiary, ICE Data,
consists of the distribution of electronically generated, verifiable energy market data primarily
derived from actual trades executed in our marketplace.
Our Business Environment
Our business is primarily transaction-based, and our revenues and profitability relate
directly to the level of trading activity in our markets. Trading volumes are driven by a number of
factors, including the degree of volatility in commodities prices. Higher price volatility
increases the need to hedge contractual price risk and creates opportunities for arbitrage or
speculative trading. While higher energy prices do not have a direct correlation to our trading
volumes, changes in the absolute price level of energy commodities, such as those experienced in
recent years in crude oil, can have a significant impact on our trading volumes. Changes in our
futures trading volumes and OTC average daily commissions have also been driven by varying levels
of liquidity both in our markets and in the broader markets for energy commodities trading, which
influence trading volumes across all of the markets we operate. For example, the use of clearing in
the OTC markets has served to increase participation in the OTC markets by non-traditional
participants. This in turn has increased liquidity in formerly illiquid contracts, and resulted in
increased trading activity, particularly in North American natural gas and power markets. Our
trading volumes in our futures business segment were also favorably impacted by our transition to
electronic trading in April 2005 when the distribution of our futures markets was significantly
expanded through increased use of screen-based trading.
Commodity futures markets are highly regulated and offer trading of standardized contracts.
The futures markets are more structured and mature than the institutional markets for OTC energy
trading. In our futures business segment, rising demand for, among other things, increased price
discovery and risk management tools in the energy sector has driven annual record trading volumes
for eight consecutive years at ICE Futures and its predecessor company.
Unlike the futures markets, the OTC markets generally involve limited regulation and offer
customization of contract terms by counterparties. While the OTC markets have matured considerably
in recent years, contracts traded in the OTC markets are generally less standardized than the
futures markets. These markets have been characterized by less transparency and fragmentation of
liquidity. However, we have introduced a number of structural changes to our OTC markets to
increase both transparency and liquidity, including the availability of electronic trading, the
introduction of cleared OTC contracts and the use of transaction-based indices.
We introduced the industrys first cleared OTC energy contracts in North America in March 2002
in the natural gas market. The use of OTC clearing serves to reduce the credit risk associated with
bilateral OTC trading by interposing an independent clearinghouse as a counterparty to trades in
these contracts. The use of a central clearinghouse rather than the reliance on bilateral trading
agreements resulted in more participants becoming active in the OTC markets. In addition, clearing
through a central clearinghouse typically offers market participants the ability to reduce the
amount of capital required to trade as well as the ability to cross-margin positions in various
commodities. Cross-margining means that a participant is able to have offsetting positions taken
into account in determining its margin requirements, which could reduce the amount of margin the
participant must deposit with the futures commission merchant through which it clears. As a result
of the introduction of OTC clearing, the addition of new participants and an improved credit
environment in the markets for energy commodities trading, our OTC markets have experienced steady
growth, increased price transparency and increased institutionalization.
We believe that the move toward electronic trade execution, together with the improved
accessibility for new market participants and the increased adoption of energy commodities as a
tradable, investable asset class, will support continued secular growth in the global energy
markets. As participation continues to increase and as
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participants continue to employ more sophisticated financial instruments and risk management
strategies to manage their energy price exposure, we believe there remains considerable opportunity
for growth in energy derivatives trading on a global basis.
Variability in Quarterly Comparisons
In addition to general conditions in the financial markets and in the energy markets in
particular, energy trading has historically been subject to variability in trading volumes due
primarily to five key factors. These factors include geopolitical events, weather, real and
perceived supply and demand imbalances, number of trading days in the period and seasonality. These
and other factors could cause our revenues to fluctuate from quarter to quarter. These fluctuations
may affect the reliability of quarter to quarter comparisons of our revenues and operating results
when, for example, these comparisons are between quarters in different seasons. Inter-seasonal
comparisons will not necessarily be indicative of our results for future periods.
Products
We offer products and services to serve the front-, middle- and back-offices of our
participants and are well positioned in the energy trading market and risk management operations.
For traders, we offer a range of commodity contracts in both our futures and OTC marketplace on a
common electronic platform. We offer an electronic trade confirmation system and trade capture
services for back office professionals as well as a range of market data services.
In our futures markets, we offer trading in the ICE Brent Crude and ICE West Texas
Intermediate, or WTI, Crude futures contracts, among others. Brent crude is a light, sweet grade of
crude oil that serves as the price benchmark to approximately two-thirds of the worlds traded oil
products. WTI crude is also a light sweet crude that serves as a global crude oil benchmark. We
introduced our cash-settled WTI contracts in February 2006. We continually develop and launch new
products designed to meet market demand and the needs of our participants. The addition of a WTI
Crude futures contract to our suite of energy futures and options brings the worlds two most
significant crude oil benchmarks together on our trading platform. Also through our futures
segment, we list the leading heating oil contract, known as ICE Gas Oil futures. In April 2006, we
introduced two new cash-settled futures contracts, the ICE New York Harbor Unleaded Gasoline
Blendstock (RBOB) futures contract and the ICE New York Harbor Heating Oil futures contract.
In our OTC markets, we offer trading in hundreds of natural gas, power and refined oil
products on a bilateral basis. At the end of the second quarter of 2006, we also offered over 65
cleared OTC contracts, which account for the majority of our OTC commission revenue. In March 2006,
we began the introduction of a slate of new cleared OTC contracts. To date, we have launched over
50 of these planned cleared contracts and plan to launch additional cleared contracts in the
future.
Our market data business segment, which we conduct through our subsidiary, ICE Data, consists
of the distribution of electronically generated, verifiable energy market data primarily derived
from actual trades executed in our marketplace.
Technology
Our innovative Internet-accessible trading platform was designed for energy trading and risk
management. Deployed on the desktops of thousands of energy market participants around the world,
our electronic platform is an integral tool for energy market participants. In addition to our own
front-end, participants may select from 12 independent software vendors that are linked to our
trading platform. There is also a rapidly growing base of proprietary front-end development around
our electronic platform to connect various dealer and prime brokerage systems as well as
algorithmic trading systems. Most of our largest customers back-offices are connected to our
platform to realize the efficiencies of straight-through processing for both futures and OTC
trades. From a connectivity perspective, customers can access our redundant data centers in the
U.S. and U.K. using the Internet or any one of several private line alternatives, including routing
through our recently opened telecommunications hubs in London, Chicago, Singapore and New York.
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We are continuously enhancing our technology to improve our speed and reliability. Since our
futures business transitioned from floor-based trading to screen-based trading in April 2005, we
have experienced a ten-fold increase in message volume. In order to sustain the scalability of our
platform, we have completed a number of hardware and software upgrades that have allowed us to
reduce roundtrip time and increase throughput. During the second quarter, we decreased order
processing time to 31 milliseconds, representing a six-fold increase in speed from the beginning of
2006. From a reliability standpoint, we also made system improvements to minimize downtime,
particularly as we expanded our platform trading hours to cover 23 hours per day.
We believe that our electronic platform offers the most comprehensive set of energy markets
and functionality available in the industry today. The platform provides a rich set of features for
trading futures and options as well as OTC swaps and physical spot and forwards on one screen. OTC
trades can be executed and settled bilaterally between counterparties or cleared anonymously.
Implied spreading in both futures and OTC markets improves execution, while spreadsheet
capabilities embedded into the WebICE front-end allow traders to easily build and deploy simple
market-making algorithms.
We believe our continued focus on distribution, performance, and functionality will enable us
to maintain and enhance our technological edge in the energy marketplace.
Segment Reporting
For financial reporting purposes, our business is divided into three segments: our futures
business segment, our OTC business segment and our market data business segment. For a discussion
of these segments and related financial disclosure, refer to note 12 to our unaudited consolidated
financial statements and related notes included elsewhere in this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q.
Intersegment Fees
Our OTC business segment provides and supports the platform for electronic trading and market
data in our futures and market data business segments. Intersegment fees include charges for
developing, operating, managing and supporting the platform for electronic trading in our futures
and market data businesses. Our futures business segment provides access to futures trading volumes
to our market data business segment. We determine the intercompany or intersegment fees to be paid
by the business segments based on transfer pricing standards and independent documentation. These
intersegment fees have no impact on our consolidated operating results. We expect the structure of
these intersegment fees to remain unchanged and expect that they will continue to have no impact on
our consolidated operating results.
Our Futures Business Segment
The following table presents, for the periods indicated, selected statement of income data in
dollars and as a percentage of revenues for our futures business segment:
| |
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|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
Six Months Ended June 30, |
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| |
|
2006 |
|
|
% |
|
|
2005 |
|
|
% |
|
| |
|
(In thousands, except for percentages) |
|
Revenues(1): |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Transaction fees, net(2): |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
ICE Brent Crude futures |
|
$ |
28,766 |
|
|
|
54.6 |
% |
|
$ |
18,888 |
|
|
|
63.4 |
% |
ICE Gas Oil futures |
|
|
10,614 |
|
|
|
20.2 |
|
|
|
6,576 |
|
|
|
22.1 |
|
ICE WTI Crude futures(3) |
|
|
8,295 |
|
|
|
15.8 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Other futures products and options |
|
|
856 |
|
|
|
1.6 |
|
|
|
464 |
|
|
|
1.6 |
|
Intersegment fees |
|
|
3,028 |
|
|
|
5.7 |
|
|
|
2,228 |
|
|
|
7.5 |
|
Market data fees |
|
|
37 |
|
|
|
0.1 |
|
|
|
197 |
|
|
|
0.7 |
|
Other |
|
|
1,054 |
|
|
|
2.0 |
|
|
|
1,433 |
|
|
|
4.7 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total revenues |
|
|
52,650 |
|
|
|
100.0 |
|
|
|
29,786 |
|
|
|
100.0 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Operating expenses: |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Selling, general and administrative expenses(4) |
|
|
11,471 |
|
|
|
21.8 |
|
|
|
16,430 |
|
|
|
55.2 |
|
Intersegment expenses(5) |
|
|
9,291 |
|
|
|
17.6 |
|
|
|
4,460 |
|
|
|
15.0 |
|
21
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
Six Months Ended June 30, |
|
| |
|
2006 |
|
|
% |
|
|
2005 |
|
|
% |
|
| |
|
(In thousands, except for percentages) |
|
Depreciation and amortization |
|
|
1,033 |
|
|
|
2.0 |
|
|
|
1,259 |
|
|
|
4.2 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total operating expenses |
|
|
21,795 |
|
|
|
41.4 |
|
|
|
22,149 |
|
|
|
74.4 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Operating income |
|
|
30,855 |
|
|
|
58.6 |
|
|
|
7,637 |
|
|
|
25.6 |
|
Other income, net |
|
|
439 |
|
|
|
0.8 |
|
|
|
1,717 |
|
|
|
5.8 |
|
Income tax expense |
|
|
10,953 |
|
|
|
20.8 |
|
|
|
3,274 |
|
|
|
11.0 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Net income |
|
$ |
20,341 |
|
|
|
38.6 |
% |
|
$ |
6,080 |
|
|
|
20.4 |
% |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| (1) |
|
We generate revenues from related parties in the ordinary course of our business. Revenues
attributable to related parties were $11.0 million and $4.7 million for the six months ended
June 30, 2006 and 2005, respectively. |
| |
| (2) |
|
Our transaction fees are presented net of rebates. |
| |
| (3) |
|
The ICE WTI Crude futures contract was introduced in February 2006 and we began charging
transaction fees in April 2006. |
| |
| (4) |
|
Includes compensation and benefits expenses and professional services expenses. |
| |
| (5) |
|
Intersegment expenses represent fees paid by our futures business segment for support
provided by the OTC business segment to operate the electronic trading platform used in our
futures business. |
In our futures business segment, we earn fees from both counterparties to each futures
contract or option on futures contract that is traded. In our futures business, we refer to these
fees as exchange fees. We derived exchange fees of $48.5 million and $25.9 million for the six
months ended June 30, 2006 and 2005, respectively, representing 39.2% and 37.4%, respectively, of
our consolidated revenues. A contract is a standardized quantity of the physical commodity
underlying each futures contract.
Our ICE Brent Crude futures contract is a benchmark contract relied upon by a broad range of
market participants, including certain large oil producing nations, to price their crude oil.
During the six months ended June 30, 2006, the average daily quantity of Brent crude oil traded in
our markets was 160 million barrels, with an average notional daily value of $10.8 billion. We
believe that market participants are increasingly relying on this contract for their risk
management activities, as evidenced by steady increases in traded volumes over the past several
years.
The following table presents, for the periods indicated, trading activity in our futures
markets for commodity type based on the total number of contracts traded:
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|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
Six Months Ended |
|
Three Months Ended |
| |
|
June 30, |
|
June 30, |
| |
|
2006 |
|
2005 |
|
2006 |
|
2005 |
| |
|
(In thousands) |
Number of futures contracts traded: |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
ICE Brent Crude futures |
|
|
20,383 |
|
|
|
13,555 |
|
|
|
10,209 |
|
|
|
7,394 |
|
ICE Gas Oil futures |
|
|
7,637 |
|
|
|
4,766 |
|
|
|
3,700 |
|
|
|
2,339 |
|
ICE WTI Crude futures(1) |
|
|
9,105 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
6,789 |
|
|
|
|
|
Other(2) |
|
|
556 |
|
|
|
277 |
|
|
|
324 |
|
|
|
126 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total |
|
|
37,681 |
|
|
|
18,598 |
|
|
|
21,022 |
|
|
|
9,859 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| (1) |
|
A fee waiver applied to trade execution for our ICE WTI Crude futures contracts from the
launch date of February 3, 2006 through March 31, 2006. |
| |
| (2) |
|
Consists primarily of ICE Natural Gas futures, ICE Electricity futures, ICE Brent Crude
options, ICE Heating Oil futures, ICE Unleaded Gasoline Blendstock (RBOB) futures, ICE Gas Oil
options and ICE ECX CFI futures contracts. The ICE ECX CFI Futures contract is the result of a
cooperative relationship between ICE Futures and the Chicago Climate Exchange, Inc. and its
subsidiary, the European Climate Exchange. ICE Futures shares in the revenue derived from the
ICE ECX CFI futures contract. |
The following chart presents the futures exchange fee revenues by contract traded in our
markets for the periods presented:
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Futures Transaction Fee Revenues
|
|
|
| (1) |
|
Presented net of $2.3 million of exchange fee rebates. |
| |
| (2) |
|
A fee waiver applied to trade execution for our ICE WTI Crude futures contracts from
the launch date of February 3, 2006 through March 31, 2006. |
The following table presents our average daily open interest for our futures contracts. Open
interest is the number of contracts (long or short) that a member holds either for its own account
or on behalf of its clients. Open interest refers to the total number of contracts that are
currently open in other words, contracts that have been traded but not yet liquidated by either
an offsetting trade, exercise, expiration or assignment. The level of open interest in a contract
is often considered a measure of an exchanges liquidity in that contract. In general, the higher
the level of open interest, the greater the extent it is being used as a hedging and risk
management tool. Open interest is also a measure of the health of a market in terms of both the
number of contracts that members and their clients continue to hold in the particular contract and
the number of contracts held for each contract month listed by our exchange.
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|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
Six Months Ended |
|
Three Months Ended |
| |
|
June 30, |
|
June 30, |
| |
|
2006 |
|
2005 |
|
2006 |
|
2005 |
| |
|
(In thousands) |
Open Interest Futures (in contracts): |
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|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
ICE Brent Crude futures |
|
|
422 |
|
|
|
340 |
|
|
|
447 |
|
|
|
328 |
|
ICE Gas Oil futures |
|
|
225 |
|
|
|
182 |
|
|
|
225 |
|
|
|
196 |
|
ICE WTI Crude futures |
|
|
151 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
198 |
|
|
|
|
|
Other(1) |
|
|
66 |
|
|
|
36 |
|
|
|
76 |
|
|
|
37 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total |
|
|
864 |
|
|
|
558 |
|
|
|
946 |
|
|
|
561 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| (1) |
|
Consists primarily of ICE Natural Gas futures, ICE Electricity futures, ICE Brent Crude
options, ICE Heating Oil futures, ICE Unleaded Gasoline Blendstock (RBOB) futures, ICE Gas Oil
options and ICE ECX CFI futures contracts. |
We charge exchange fees to ICE Futures 44 clearing members for contracts traded for their own
account and for contracts cleared on behalf of their customers. As ICE Futures operations are
currently centered in London, we consider all revenues derived from exchange fees to be generated
in the U.K.
Historically, the revenues and expenses generated in our futures business have been
denominated in pounds sterling, which was the functional currency of ICE Futures and related U.K.
subsidiaries through June 2006. We translated these revenues and expenses into U.S. dollars using
the average exchange rates for the reporting period. Effective as of July 1, 2006, the functional
currency of our U.K. subsidiaries became the U.S. dollar. The functional currency switched based on
various economic factors and circumstances, including the fact that during the second quarter of
2006, ICE Futures began to charge and collect exchange fees in U.S. dollars rather than pounds
sterling in
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its key futures contracts, including crude oil and heating oil futures contracts. We will no
longer recognize any translation adjustments in the consolidated financial statements subsequent to
June 30, 2006. However, gains and losses from foreign currency transactions will continue to be
included in other income (expense) in our consolidated statements of income. We may experience
substantial gains or losses from foreign currency transactions given the significant amounts in our
U.K. subsidiaries financial statements denominated in pounds sterling.
Our OTC Business Segment
The following table presents, for the periods indicated, selected statement of income data in
dollars and as a percentage of revenues for our OTC business segment:
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
Six Months Ended June 30, |
|
| |
|
2006 |
|
|
% |
|
|
2005 |
|
|
% |
|
| |
|
(In thousands, except for percentages) |
|
Revenues(1): |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Transaction fees, net(2): |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
North American natural gas |
|
$ |
44,692 |
|
|
|
59.1 |
% |
|
$ |
24,879 |
|
|
|
60.1 |
% |
North American power |
|
|
11,244 |
|
|
|
14.8 |
|
|
|
7,533 |
|
|
|
18.2 |
|
Global oil |
|
|
848 |
|
|
|
1.1 |
|
|
|
836 |
|
|
|
2.0 |
|
Other commodities markets |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
191 |
|
|
|
0.5 |
|
Electronic trade confirmation |
|
|
1,577 |
|
|
|
2.1 |
|
|
|
753 |
|
|
|
1.8 |
|
Intersegment fees |
|
|
9,975 |
|
|
|
13.2 |
|
|
|
5,066 |
|
|
|
12.2 |
|
Market data fees |
|
|
6,243 |
|
|
|
8.3 |
|
|
|
1,259 |
|
|
|
3.0 |
|
Other |
|
|
1,086 |
|
|
|
1.4 |
|
|
|
863 |
|
|
|
2.2 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total revenues |
|
|
75,665 |
|
|
|
100.0 |
|
|
|
41,380 |
|
|
|
100.0 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Operating expenses: |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Selling, general and administrative expenses(3) |
|
|
30,129 |
|
|
|
39.8 |
|
|
|
34,289 |
|
|
|
82.9 |
|
Intersegment expenses |
|
|
4,557 |
|
|
|
6.0 |
|
|
|
932 |
|
|
|
2.2 |
|
Depreciation and amortization |
|
|
5,458 |
|
|
|
7.2 |
|
|
|
6,493 |
|
|
|
15.7 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total operating expenses |
|
|
40,144 |
|
|
|
53.0 |
|
|
|
41,714 |
|
|
|
100.8 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Operating income (loss) |
|
|
35,521 |
|
|
|
47.0 |
|
|
|
(334 |
) |
|
|
(0.8 |
) |
Other income, net |
|
|
1,551 |
|
|
|
2.0 |
|
|
|
352 |
|
|
|
0.8 |
|
Income tax expense (benefit) |
|
|
12,414 |
|
|
|
16.4 |
|
|
|
(533 |
) |
|
|
(1.3 |
) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Net income |
|
$ |
24,658 |
|
|
|
32.6 |
% |
|
$ |
551 |
|
|
|
1.3 |
% |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| (1) |
|
We generate revenues from related parties in the ordinary course of our business. Revenues
attributable to related parties were $2.3 million and $2.8 million for the six months ended
June 30, 2006 and 2005, respectively. |
| |
| (2) |
|
Our transaction fees are presented net of rebates. |
| |
| (3) |
|
Includes compensation and benefits expenses and professional services expenses. |
Revenues in our OTC business segment are generated primarily through commission fees earned
from trades executed in our markets. We also receive fees from the provision of electronic trade
confirmation services, which primarily relates to bilateral or off-exchange trades. While we charge
a monthly data access fee for access to our electronic platform, we derive a substantial portion of
our OTC revenues from commission fees paid by participants for each trade that they execute.
Commission fees are payable by each counterparty to a trade. We do not risk our own capital by
engaging in any trading activities or by extending credit to market participants. We derived
commission fees for OTC trades executed on our electronic platform of $56.8 million and $33.4
million for the six months ended June 30, 2006 and 2005, respectively, or 45.8% and 48.2%,
respectively, of our consolidated revenues. Our OTC commission rates vary by product and are based
on the volume of the commodity underlying the contract that is traded.
In addition to our commission fees, a participant that chooses to clear a trade must pay a fee
to LCH.Clearnet and another for the services of the relevant member clearing firm, or futures
commission merchant. Consistent with our futures business, we derive no direct revenues from the
clearing process and participants pay the clearing fees
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directly to LCH.Clearnet and the futures commission merchants. However, we believe that the
introduction of cleared OTC contracts has attracted new participants to our platform, which has led
to increased liquidity in our markets. We believe that increased liquidity has led to increased
trading volumes in the OTC markets for North American natural gas and power. Transaction or
commission fees derived from our cleared OTC contracts represent an increasing percentage of our
total OTC revenues. For the six months ended June 30, 2006 and 2005, cleared transaction fees
represented 68.6% and 65.5% of our total OTC revenues, respectively, net of intersegment fees. We
intend to continue to support the introduction of these products in response to the requirements of
our participants.
The following tables present, for the periods indicated, the total volume of the underlying
commodity and number of contracts traded in our OTC markets, measured in the units indicated in the
footnotes:
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
Six Months Ended |
|
Three Months Ended |
| |
|
June 30, |
|
June 30, |
| |
|
2006 |
|
2005 |
|
2006 |
|
2005 |
| |
|
(In millions) |
Total Volume OTC: |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
North American natural gas(1) |
|
|
112,859 |
|
|
|
54,962 |
|
|
|
67,953 |
|
|
|
31,124 |
|
North American power(2) |
|
|
1,652 |
|
|
|
958 |
|
|
|
936 |
|
|
|
541 |
|
Global oil(3) |
|
|
338 |
|
|
|
274 |
|
|
|
69 |
|
|
|
170 |
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
Six Months Ended |
|
Three Months Ended |
| |
|
June 30, |
|
June 30, |
| |
|
2006 |
|
2005 |
|
2006 |
|
2005 |
| |
|
(In thousands) |
Number of OTC contracts traded: |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
North American natural gas |
|
|
45,154 |
|
|
|
21,985 |
|
|
|
27,190 |
|
|
|
12,450 |
|
North American power |
|
|
2,511 |
|
|
|
1,389 |
|
|
|
1,425 |
|
|
|
776 |
|
Global oil |
|
|
1,580 |
|
|
|
1,464 |
|
|
|
660 |
|
|
|
760 |
|
Other |
|
|
|
|
|
|
9 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
2 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total |
|
|
49,245 |
|
|
|
24,847 |
|
|
|
29,275 |
|
|
|
13,988 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| (1) |
|
Measured in million British thermal units, or MMBtu. |
| |
| (2) |
|
Measured in megawatt hours. |
| |
| (3) |
|
Measured in equivalent barrels of oil. |
The following chart presents the OTC commission fee revenues by commodity traded in our
markets for the periods presented:
OTC Transaction Fee Revenues
The following table presents our average weekly open interest for our cleared OTC contracts:
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| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
Six Months Ended |
|
Three Months Ended |
| |
|
June 30, |
|
June 30, |
| |
|
2006 |
|
2005 |
|
2006 |
|
2005 |
| |
|
(In thousands) |
Open Interest Cleared OTC (in contracts): |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
North American natural gas |
|
|
1,885 |
|
|
|
877 |
|
|
|
2,443 |
|
|
|
914 |
|
North American power |
|
|
421 |
|
|
|
220 |
|
|
|
458 |
|
|
|
256 |
|
Global oil |
|
|
21 |
|
|
|
37 |
|
|
|
16 |
|
|
|
36 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total |
|
|
2,327 |
|
|
|
1,134 |
|
|
|
2,917 |
|
|
|
1,206 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Our Market Data Business Segment
The following table presents, for the periods indicated, selected statement of income data in
dollars and as a percentage of revenues for our market data business segment:
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
Six Months Ended June 30, |
|
| |
|
2006 |
|
|
% |
|
|
2005 |
|
|
% |
|
| |
|
(In thousands, except for percentages) |
|
Revenues(1): |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Market data fees |
|
$ |
8,561 |
|
|
|
65.5 |
% |
|
$ |
5,486 |
|
|
|
86.2 |
% |
Intersegment fees |
|
|
4,510 |
|
|
|
34.5 |
|
|
|
881 |
|
|
|
13.8 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total revenues |
|
|
13,071 |
|
|
|
100.0 |
|
|
|
6,367 |
|
|
|
100.0 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Operating expenses: |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Selling, general and administrative expenses(2) |
|
|
707 |
|
|
|
5.4 |
|
|
|
449 |
|
|
|
7.1 |
|
Intersegment expenses |
|
|
3,665 |
|
|
|
28.1 |
|
|
|
2,783 |
|
|
|
43.7 |
|
Depreciation and amortization |
|
|
6 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
3 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total operating expenses |
|
|
4,378 |
|
|
|
33.5 |
|
|
|
3,235 |
|
|
|
50.8 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Operating income |
|
|
8,693 |
|
|
|
66.5 |
|
|
|
3,132 |
|
|
|
49.2 |
|
Other income (expense), net |
|
|
(29 |
) |
|
|
(0.2 |
) |
|
|
96 |
|
|
|
1.5 |
|
Income tax expense |
|
|
3,032 |
|
|
|
23.2 |
|
|
|
1,130 |
|
|
|
17.7 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Net income |
|
$ |
5,632 |
|
|
|
43.1 |
% |
|
$ |
2,098 |
|
|
|
33.0 |
% |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| (1) |
|
We generate revenues from related parties in the ordinary course of our business. Revenues
attributable to related parties were $138,000 and $111,000 for the six months ended June 30,
2006 and 2005, respectively. |
| |
| (2) |
|
Includes compensation and benefits expenses and professional services expenses. |
We earn terminal and license fee revenues that we receive from data vendors through the
distribution of real-time and historical futures prices and other futures market data derived from
trading in our futures markets. We also earn subscription fee revenues from OTC daily indices, view
only access to the OTC markets, data access fees to both the OTC and futures markets and OTC and
futures end of day reports. In addition, we manage the market price validation curves whereby
participant companies subscribe to receive consensus market valuations for their commodity
positions.
Sources of Revenues
Our revenues are comprised of transaction fees, market data fees and other revenues.
Transaction Fees
Transaction fees, including both futures exchange fees and OTC commission fees, have accounted
for, and are expected to continue to account for, a substantial portion of our revenues.
Transaction fees consist of exchange fees earned on futures transactions, commission fees earned on
OTC transactions and electronic confirmation fees.
Consolidated transaction fees were $106.9 million and $60.1 million for the six months ended
June 30, 2006 and 2005, respectively, and accounted for 86.3% and 86.7% of our consolidated
revenues for the six months ended June 30, 2006 and 2005, respectively. Consolidated transaction
fees were $63.7 million and $33.0 million for the three months ended June 30, 2006 and 2005,
respectively, and accounted for 86.5% and 88.0% of our consolidated
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revenues for the three months ended June 30, 2006 and 2005, respectively. Transaction fees,
net of intersegment fees, accounted for 97.8% and 94.1% of revenues generated by our futures
business segment for the six months ended June 30, 2006 and 2005, respectively, and accounted for
88.8% and 94.2% of revenues generated by our OTC business segment for the six months ended June 30,
2006 and 2005, respectively. Transaction fees, net of intersegment fees, accounted for 98.1% and
95.9% of revenues generated by our futures business segment for the three months ended June 30,
2006 and 2005, respectively, and accounted for 87.2% and 94.5% of revenues generated by our OTC
business segment for the three months ended June 30, 2006 and 2005, respectively. Transaction fees
are recognized as revenues as services are provided.
In our futures business segment, we charge exchange fees to both the buyer and the seller in
each transaction. In this segment, our exchange fees are calculated and collected by LCH.Clearnet
on our behalf. Exchange fees are based on the number of contracts traded during each month
multiplied by the commission rate. A change to either our commission rate or to the volume of
contracts executed through our futures business directly affects the revenues of our futures
business. In our futures segment, we derived exchange fees of $48.5 million and $25.9 million for
the six months ended June 30, 2006 and 2005, respectively, and $29.6 million and $13.9 million for
the three months ended June 30, 2006 and 2005, respectively.
We accept Exchange of Futures for Physical, or EFP, and Exchange of Futures for Swaps, or EFS,
transactions from members and their customers. EFP and EFS are trades that occur off exchange and
are then reported for registration and clearing onto our futures markets. We have also implemented
block trading facilities for members and their customers through which members may bilaterally
arrange large volume trades and/or certain complex strategies and then submit these transactions
for registration as exchange trades. For these transactions, we charge both the clearing firms of
the buyer and seller a premium to our standard commission rate.
Transaction fees in our futures business segment are presented net of rebates. We have
historically granted trade rebates to local floor members to generate market liquidity. Under this
arrangement, we rebated a percentage of the exchange fee for contracts bought and sold on our
open-outcry trading floor on the same day for the same price. Trade rebates to local floor members
amounted to $171,000 for the three months ended March 31, 2005. In connection with the closure of
our open-outcry trading floor on April 7, 2005, we discontinued the trade rebate to local floor
members. From time to time, we may enter into market maker agreements with certain participants to
make markets in certain contracts on our electronic platform that includes rebates.
In our OTC business segment, we charge commission fees to both the buyer and the seller in
each transaction executed on our platform. The commission fees are based on the underlying
commodity volume of each product traded multiplied by the commission rate for that product. We also
accept transactions that participants execute off-platform but wish to have processed for clearing.
For these transactions, we charge both the buyer and seller, but at typically half the commission
rate for on-platform execution. LCH.Clearnet performs the commission fee calculation and collection
function for the majority of our trades. The transaction fees in our OTC business segment also
include fees derived from our electronic trade confirmation services, in which we charge a standard
fee across all products for each trade confirmation successfully submitted by a participant. In our
OTC segment, we derived commission fees for OTC trades executed on our electronic platform of $56.8
million and $33.4 million for the six months ended June 30, 2006 and 2005, respectively, and $33.2
million and $18.8 million for the three months ended June 30, 2006 and 2005, respectively.
Changes in the volume of contracts traded on our electronic platform and in our commission
rates directly affect transaction fees in our OTC segment. Since launching our electronic markets
in 2000, we have, in limited circumstances, adjusted our commission rates or waived our commissions
with respect to certain products. We have, for example, waived commission fees on our ICE WTI Crude
futures contract for the months of February 2006 and March 2006. We also increased the commission
rates in our futures business in April 2006. We continue to evaluate our commission rates on a
regular basis.
Market Data Fees
Consolidated market data fees were $14.8 million and $6.9 million for the six months ended
June 30, 2006 and 2005, respectively, and $8.8 million and $3.5 million for the three months ended
June 30, 2006 and 2005, respectively. Market data fees consist of terminal fees and license fees
that we receive from data vendors in
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exchange for the provision of real-time price information generated from our futures markets
through ICE Data. We invoice these data vendors monthly for terminal fees based on the number of
terminals that carry our futures market data. Each data vendor also pays an annual license fee to
us. Annual license fee revenues are deferred and amortized ratably over the period for which
services are provided.
Market data fees consist of data access fees that we have historically charged to participants
or customers that were not active traders, but that were registered to trade or view OTC natural
gas and power products on our electronic platform. The data access fees were based on their
historical trading activity and the number of users the participant firm has registered to trade on
our platform. We recognize the difference between the monthly data access fee for a given
participant and the actual amount of commission fees generated by such participant for trading
activity in that month as data access revenues. Beginning in March 2006, we changed the methodology
for charging OTC data access fees. The OTC data access fees are now charged based upon the number
of individual users with access to our platform (both trading and view only access) instead of at
the participant or customer level for the less active participants. We also began to charge data
access fees in our futures business segment beginning in February 2006, also at the individual user
level. The futures data access fees replaced the futures system user fees that were previously
charged to our futures exchange members.
Market data fees also consist of subscription fees that we receive from market participants
that subscribe to our OTC market data services through ICE Data. ICE Data has an exclusive license
to use our OTC market data and publishes the ICE Data end of day report, ICE daily indices, as well
as market price validation curves, which are available to subscribers for a monthly subscription
fee. ICE Data also markets real-time view only screen access to OTC markets and charges subscribers
a fee that varies depending on the number of users and the markets accessed at each subscribing
company. The revenues we receive from market data fees are deferred and amortized ratably over the
period for which services are provided.
Other Revenues
Other revenues include revenues generated from membership fees charged to our futures exchange
members, training seminars, communication charges and equipment rentals, and fees charged to the
Chicago Climate Exchange, or CCX. We generated other revenues of $2.1 million and $2.3 million for
the six months ended June 30, 2006 and 2005, respectively, and $1.1 million and $1.0 million for
the three months ended June 30, 2006 and 2005, respectively.
In our futures business, we generate revenues from, among other things, annual membership and
subscription fees charged to ICE Futures members. We recorded fees related to futures exchange
membership and subscription fees of $608,000 and $529,000 for the six months ended June 30, 2006
and 2005, respectively, and $310,000 and $256,000 for the three months ended June 30, 2006 and
2005, respectively. We defer revenues derived from membership and subscription fees and amortize
them ratably over the period for which services are provided.
We recognize revenues generated from training seminars and communication charges and equipment
rentals as services are provided. Of the other revenues, $335,000 for the six months ended June 30,
2005 relate to revenues generated from communication charges and equipment rentals relating to the
futures business floor operations. We no longer charge our futures participants for these costs
subsequent to the closure of the open-outcry trading floor on April 7, 2005.
Other revenues include fees charged to CCX, a self-regulated exchange that administers a
voluntary multi-sector greenhouse gas reduction and trading program for North America. We, through
our OTC business segment, have been contracted to provide, design and service CCXs electronic
trading platform in the United States. We charge licensing and service fees in advance to CCX on a
monthly basis and these fees are recognized as services are provided. We also have an agreement,
through our futures business segment, with CCX and its wholly owned subsidiary, the European
Climate Exchange, or ECX, to list certain European emissions contracts on our platform. Under this
agreement, we charge ECX certain operating costs, 25% of the net European emissions membership fees
and 25% of the net transaction fees earned from the European emissions contracts traded on our
platform. Pursuant to an amendment to this agreement effective June 28, 2006, these amounts charged
to ECX have increased to 27.5% and 27.5%, respectively. We also recognize technology development
fees as revenues from both CCX and ECX when the development work is completed and accepted. Our
arrangement with CCX began in July 2003, and we
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recognized revenues of $813,000 and $953,000 for the six months ended June 30, 2006 and
2005, respectively, and $435,000 and $511,000 for the three months ended June 30, 2006 and 2005,
respectively, pursuant to our contractual relationships.
Components of Expenses
Compensation and Benefits
Compensation and benefits expenses consist of salaries, bonuses, non-cash compensations
expenses, payroll taxes, employer-provided medical and other benefit plan costs and recruiting
costs. Compensation and benefits expenses were $22.5 million and $16.4 million for the six months
ended June 30, 2006 and 2005, respectively, and $11.9 million and $8.5 million for the three months
ended June 30, 2006 and 2005, respectively. Substantially all of our employees are full-time
employees. We capitalized and recorded as property and equipment a portion of our compensation and
benefits costs for technology employees engaged in software development and the enhancement of our
electronic platform. We expect that our compensation and benefits expense will vary from quarter to
quarter as a percentage of total revenues due to additional employees associated with the growth of
our business, accrual of bonuses and due to non-cash compensation expenses recognized in accordance
with the adoption of SFAS No. 123(R) on January 1, 2006. We recognized non-cash compensation
expenses of $4.8 million and $816,000 for the six months ended June 30, 2006 and 2005,
respectively, and $2.6 million and $410,000 for the three months ended June 30, 2006 and 2005,
respectively. Over the next year, we expect compensation and benefits expenses to increase from
current levels.
Professional Services
Professional services expenses primarily consist of outside legal, accounting and other
professional and consulting services expenses. Professional services expenses were $5.9 million and
$5.8 million for the six months ended June 30, 2006 and 2005, respectively, and $3.2 million and
$2.6 million for the three months ended June 30, 2006 and 2005, respectively. We capitalize and
record as property and equipment a portion of the costs associated with fees for technology
consultants engaged in software development and enhancements to our electronic platform. We
expensed the remaining portion of these fees in the month in which they were incurred. We engaged a
number of consultants in our futures business segment to facilitate ongoing technology development,
maintenance and support work in connection with the migration of trading of our futures contracts
to our electronic platform and the support of the legacy systems used in the operation of the
exchange floor. We reduced the number of consultants in our futures business segment during 2005
following the substantial completion of development relating to futures trading on our electronic
platform.
In 2005, we incurred substantial accounting and legal fees in connection with external and
internal audit functions, the regulatory and disciplinary functions of our futures markets and
legal fees associated with the NYMEX copyright and trademark and EBS patent infringement
litigation. As a public company, we are now subject to the requirements of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act
of 2002, which require us to incur significant expenditures in the near term to document internal
controls and hire and train personnel to comply with these requirements. In addition, we incur
costs for external advisors such as legal, accounting and auditing fees, as well as increased
marketing and investor relations expenses. Even with these additional public company expenses, we
anticipate that professional services expenses may decrease in future periods due to the reduction
in consultants at ICE Futures and the reduction in legal fees due to our settlement of the EBS case
and the courts grant of summary judgment in our favor on all claims asserted against us by NYMEX,
notwithstanding NYMEXs current appeal of the decision.
Selling, General and Administrative
Selling, general and administrative expenses were $13.8 million and $9.2 million for the six
months ended June 30, 2006 and 2005, respectively, and $7.7 million and $4.8 million for the three
months ended June 30, 2006 and 2005, respectively. Cost of hosting expenses, hardware and software
support expenses, rent and occupancy expenses, and marketing and market-maker expenses are the
major expense categories in selling, general and administrative expenses during the periods
discussed herein.
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Cost of Hosting Expenses. Cost of hosting expenses primarily consists of hosting and
participant network expenses. Cost of hosting expenses were $1.2 million and $624,000 for the six
months ended June 30, 2006 and 2005, respectively, and $670,000 and $340,000 for the three months
ended June 30, 2006 and 2005, respectively. Our hosting expenses include the amounts we pay for the
physical facilities, maintenance and other variable costs associated with securely housing the
hardware used to operate our electronic platform, as well as our redundant disaster recovery
facility. Our participant network expenses include the amounts we pay to provide participants with
direct connectivity to our platform. Because our electronic platform is highly scalable, we
anticipate that the cost of hosting will remain relatively constant in the near term, even though
we believe that we will continue to increase the number of participants trading on our electronic
platform.
Hardware and Software Support Expenses. Hardware and software support expenses were $2.3
million and $2.0 million for the six months ended June 30, 2006 and 2005, respectively, and $1.3
million and $989,000 for the three months ended June 30, 2006 and 2005, respectively. Hardware and
software support expenses primarily consist of costs related to external hardware and software
maintenance and support as well as trade registration system costs. The trade registration system,
which is owned and administered by a third party, handles our post trade administration matters,
such as giving up trades to alternate parties, clearing and margining. We expect our hardware and
software support expenses to increase slightly in absolute terms in future periods in connection
with the growth of our business. As a percentage of total revenues, our hardware and software
support expenses may decrease in future periods due to anticipated revenue growth.
Rent and Occupancy Expenses. Rent and occupancy expenses were $1.4 million and $1.9 million
for the six months ended June 30, 2006 and 2005, respectively, and $658,000 and $878,000 for the
three months ended June 30, 2006 and 2005, respectively. We currently lease office space in
Atlanta, New York, Houston, Chicago, London, Singapore and Calgary. Our rent costs consist
primarily of rent expense for these properties. Our occupancy expenses primarily relate to the use
of electricity, telephone lines and other miscellaneous operating costs. The decrease in rent and
occupancy expenses is primarily related to the closure of our open-outcry trading floor on April 7,
2005. As a percentage of total revenues, our rent and occupancy expenses may decrease in future
periods due to anticipated revenue growth.
Marketing and Market-Maker Expenses. Marketing and market-maker expenses were $677,000 and
$1.2 million for the six months ended June 30, 2006 and 2005, respectively, and $338,000 and
$619,000 for the three months ended June 30, 2006 and 2005, respectively. Marketing expenses
primarily consist of advertising, public relations and product promotion campaigns used to promote
brand awareness, as well as new and existing products and services. These expenses also include our
participation in seminars, trade shows, conferences and other industry events. The level of
marketing activity, and thus the amount of related expenses, may vary from period to period based
upon managements discretion and available opportunities.
Other. Other costs include all selling, general and administrative costs not included in
separate expense categories and primarily consist of insurance expense, telephone and
communications expense, corporate insurance expense, travel expense, meals and entertainment
expense, royalty and contract volume payments under the patent licensing agreement and dues,
subscriptions and registration expense. The royalty payments and contract volume accruals under the
patent licensing agreement were $3.2 million and $323,000 for the six months ended June 30, 2006
and 2005, respectively, and $2.2 million and $297,000 for the three months ended June 30, 2006 and
2005, respectively.
We expect our selling, general and administrative expenses to increase slightly in absolute
terms in future periods in connection with the growth of our business, partially offset by lower
selling, general and administrative costs associated with closure of our open-outcry trading floor.
As a percentage of total revenues, our selling, general and administrative expenses may decrease in
future periods due to the expiration of the patent licensing agreement in February 2007 and due to
anticipated revenue growth.
Floor Closure Costs
Floor closure costs incurred during the six months and three months ended June 30, 2005 relate
to the April 2005 closure of our open-outcry floor in London. We closed our open-outcry floor to
take advantage of increasing acceptance and adoption of electronic trading, and to maintain and
enhance our competitive position. Floor closure
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costs were $4.8 million for the six months and the three months ended June 30, 2005, and
included lease terminations for the buildings where the trading floor was located, payments made to
18 employees who were terminated as a result of the closure, contract terminations, and other
associated costs, such as legal costs and asset impairment charges. No floor closure costs were
incurred for the six months ended June 30, 2006.
Settlement Expense
Settlement expense recorded during the six months and three months ended June 30, 2005 related
to the September 2005 settlement of the legal action brought by EBS related to alleged patent
infringement. Under the settlement agreement, we made a cash payment of $15.0 million to EBS, and
were released from the legal claims brought against us without admitting liability. Settlement
expense was $15.0 million for the six months and the three months ended June 30, 2005. No
settlement expenses were incurred for the six months ended June 30, 2006.
Depreciation and Amortization
Depreciation and amortization expenses were $6.5 million and $7.8 million for the six months
ended June 30, 2006 and 2005, respectively, and $3.3 million and $3.8 million for the three months
ended June 30, 2006 and 2005, respectively. We depreciate and/or amortize costs related to our
property and equipment, including computer and network equipment, software and internally developed
software, office furniture and equipment and leasehold improvements. We compute depreciation
expense using the straight-line method based on estimated useful lives of the assets, or in the
case of leasehold improvements, the shorter of the lease term or the estimated useful life of the
assets, which range from three to seven years. Gains on disposal of property and equipment are
included in other income, losses on disposals of property and equipment are included in
depreciation expense and maintenance and repairs are expensed as incurred. We do not amortize
goodwill and intangible assets with indefinite lives. We amortize intangible assets with
contractual or finite useful lives, in each case over the estimated useful life of five years.
We capitalize costs, both internal and external, direct and incremental, related to software
developed or obtained for internal use in accordance with AICPA Statement of Position 98-1,
Accounting for Costs of Computer Software Developed or Obtained for Internal Use. Costs incurred in
the application development phase are capitalized and amortized over the useful life of the
software, for a period not to exceed three years.
We amortize the licensing fees we pay for a non-exclusive license to use a patent related to
an automated futures trading system in the United States over the period to which the license fees
relate. We recognized amortization expense of $1.0 million for the six months ended June 30, 2006
and 2005, and $500,000 for the three months ended June 30, 2006 and 2005. This patent expires in
February 2007.
We anticipate that depreciation and amortization expenses will decrease in future periods due
to certain property and equipment purchased in prior years becoming fully depreciated, the
expiration of the patent licensing agreement in February 2007 and lower computer hardware costs in
the future due to declining costs of technology.
Other Income (Expense)
We had net other income of $2.0 million and $2.2 million for the six months ended June 30,
2006 and 2005, respectively, and $853,000 and $1.2 million for the three months ended June 30, 2006
and 2005, respectively. Other income (expense) consists primarily of interest income and expense,
as well as gains and losses on foreign currency transactions.
We generate interest income from the investment of our cash and cash equivalents and
restricted cash, short-term investments and long-term investments. Interest expense consisted of
interest from capitalized leases, interest on the outstanding indebtedness and the unused fee
calculated under our revolving credit facility.
Other income (expense) also relates to gains and losses from foreign currency transactions,
such as those resulting from the settlement of foreign assets, liabilities and payables that occur
through our foreign operations which are received in or paid in pounds sterling.
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Provision for Income Taxes
We incurred income tax expenses (benefits) of $26.4 million and $3.9 million for the six
months ended June 30, 2006 and 2005, respectively, and $17.3 million and ($659,000) for the three
months ended June 30, 2006 and 2005, respectively. Our provision for income taxes consists of
current and deferred tax provisions relating to federal, state and local taxes, as well as taxes
related to foreign subsidiaries. We file a consolidated United States federal income tax return and
file state income tax returns on a separate, combined or consolidated basis in accordance with
relevant state laws and regulations. Our foreign subsidiaries are based in the United Kingdom and
in Canada and we file separate local country income tax returns and take advantage of the United
Kingdoms group relief provisions when applicable. The difference between the statutory income tax
rate and our effective tax rate for a given fiscal period is primarily a reflection of the tax
effects of our foreign operations, general business and tax credits, tax exempt income, state
income taxes and the non-deductibility of certain expenses. We have made provisions for U.S. income
taxes on the majority of the undistributed earnings of our foreign subsidiaries as such earnings
are not expected to be permanently reinvested.
Key Statistical Information
The following table presents key transaction volume information, as well as other selected
operating information, for the periods presented. A description of how we calculate our market
share, our trading volumes and other operating measures is set forth below.
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Six Months Ended June 30, |
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Three Months Ended June 30, |
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2005 |
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2005 |
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Operating Data: |
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Our Market Share of Selected Key Products: |
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Total crude oil futures contracts traded globally(1) |
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62,772 |
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44,080 |
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33,278 |
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23,696 |
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ICE Brent Crude oil futures contracts traded |
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20,383 |
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13,555 |
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10,209 |
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7,394 |
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ICE WTI Crude oil futures contracts traded |
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9,105 |
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6,789 |
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Our crude oil futures market share(1) |
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47.0 |
% |
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30.8 |
% |
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51.1 |
% |
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31.2 |
% |
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Total cleared OTC Henry Hub natural gas contracts traded on us
and NYMEX-ClearPort |
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44,157 |
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20,978 |
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26,723 |
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12,131 |
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Our cleared OTC Henry Hub natural gas contracts traded |
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34,843 |
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16,398 |
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20,991 |
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9,566 |
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Our market share cleared OTC Henry Hub natural gas vs.
NYMEX-ClearPort(2) |
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78.9 |
% |
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78.2 |
% |
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78.6 |
% |
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78.9 |
% |
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Total cleared OTC PJM financial power contracts traded on us
and NYMEX- ClearPort |
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1,159 |
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905 |
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637 |
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553 |
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Our cleared OTC PJM financial power contracts traded |
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1,045 |
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585 |
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601 |
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346 |
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Our market share cleared OTC PJM financial power vs.
NYMEX-ClearPort(3) |
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90.2 |
% |
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64.7 |
% |
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94.4 |
% |
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62.5 |
% |
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Our Average Daily Trading Fee Revenues(4): |
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Our futures business average daily exchange fee revenues |
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$ |
382 |
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$ |
209 |
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$ |
469 |
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$ |
220 |
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Our bilateral OTC business average daily commission fee revenues |
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94 |
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77 |
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101 |
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76 |
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Our cleared OTC business average daily commission fee revenues |
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360 |
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191 |
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426 |
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217 |
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Our OTC business average daily commission fee revenues |
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454 |
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268 |
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527 |
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293 |
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Our total average daily exchange fee and commission fee revenues |
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$ |
836 |
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$ |
477 |
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$ |
996 |
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$ |
513 |
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Our Trading Volume(5): |
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Futures volume |
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37,681 |
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18,598 |
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21,022 |
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9,859 |
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Futures average daily volume |
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297 |
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150 |
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334 |
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156 |
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OTC volume |
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49,245 |
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24,847 |
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29,275 |
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13,988 |
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OTC average daily volume |
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394 |
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199 |
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465 |
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219 |
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OTC Participants Trading Commission Percentages: |
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Commercial companies (including merchant energy) |
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49.8 |
% |
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48.1 |
% |
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49.3 |
% |
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46.5 |
% |
Banks and financial institutions |
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22.1 |
% |
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16.8 |
% |
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22.8 |
% |
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15.6 |
% |
Funds and electronic locals |
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28.1 |
% |
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35.1 |
% |
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27.9 |
% |
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37.9 |
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OTC Trading Commission Fees: |
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Percentage of OTC commission fees by the top 20 customers |
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55.7 |
% |
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58.5 |
% |
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60.4 |
% |
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59.7 |
% |
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Total crude oil futures contracts traded globally and our resulting crude oil futures
market share is calculated based on the number of ICE Brent Crude futures contracts and ICE
WTI Crude futures contracts traded as compared to the total number of ICE Brent Crude futures
contracts, ICE WTI Crude futures contracts and NYMEX Light Sweet Crude and London Brent Crude
futures contracts traded. |
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Our cleared Henry Hub natural gas market share versus NYMEX-ClearPort is calculated based on
the number of IntercontinentalExchange cleared Henry Hub natural gas contracts traded as a
percentage of the total IntercontinentalExchange cleared Henry Hub natural gas contracts and
NYMEX-ClearPort Henry Hub natural gas futures contracts traded. |
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Our cleared PJM financial power market share versus NYMEX-ClearPort is calculated based on
the number of IntercontinentalExchange cleared PJM financial power contracts traded as a
percentage of the total IntercontinentalExchange cleared PJM financial power contracts and
NYMEX-ClearPort cleared PJM financial power contracts traded. PJM refers to the Pennsylvania,
New Jersey and Maryland power hub. Data regarding the volumes of NYMEX-ClearPort cleared PJM
for annual contracts traded is derived from the Futures Industry Association. |
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Represents the total commission fee and exchange fee revenues for the period divided by the
number of trading days during that period. |
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Represents the total volume, in contracts, for the period divided by the number of trading
days during that period. |
For purposes of our operating data, we calculate our volumes based on the number of contracts
traded in our markets, or based on the number of round turn trades. Each round turn represents a
matched buy and sell order of one contract. Each side to a contract is matched and treated as one
contract and each side is not separately calculated. The volume of contracts traded in a given
market is a widely recognized indicator of the liquidity in that market, including our markets.
Six Months Ended June 30, 2006 Compared to Six Months Ended June 30, 2005
Overview
Consolidated net income increased $41.9 million to $50.6 million for the six months ended June
30, 2006 from $8.7 million for the comparable period in 2005. Net income from our futures business
segment increased $14.3 million to $20.3 million for the six months ended June 30, 2006 from $6.1
million for the comparable period in 2005, primarily due to higher transaction fees revenues and
due to the $4.8 million in floor closure costs recognized during the six months ended June 30,
2005. Net income from our OTC business segment increased $24.1 million to $24.7 million for the six
months ended June 30, 2006 from $551,000 for the comparable period in 2005. Net income in our OTC
business segment increased primarily due to significantly higher transaction fees revenues and due
to the $15.0 million settlement expense recognized during the six months ended June 30, 2005. Net
income from our market data business segment increased $3.5 million to $5.6 million for the six
months ended June 30, 2006 from $2.1 million for the comparable period in 2005. Net income in our
market data business segment increased primarily due to increased market data sales in our OTC and
futures businesses. Consolidated operating income, as a percentage of consolidated revenues,
increased to 60.6% for the six months ended June 30, 2006 from 15.0% for the comparable period in
2005. Consolidated net income, as a percentage of consolidated revenues, increased to 40.9% for the
six months ended June 30, 2006 from 12.6% for the comparable period in 2005.
Our consolidated revenues increased $54.5 million, or 78.6%, to $123.9 million for the six
months ended June 30, 2006 from $69.4 million for the comparable period in 2005. This increase is
primarily attributable to increased trading volumes on our electronic platform and increased
non-transaction revenues, including market data fees. A significant factor driving our revenues and
volume growth during this period was the continued growth in trading volumes of our futures and
cleared OTC contracts.
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Consolidated operating expenses decreased $10.1 million to $48.8 million for the six months
ended June 30, 2006 from $58.9 million for the comparable period in 2005, representing a decrease
of 17.2%. This decrease is primarily attributable to the $19.8 million in floor closure costs and
settlement expense incurred during the six months ended June 30, 2005, partially offset by $6.2
million in higher compensation expenses during the six months ended June 30, 2006 and due to a $2.9
million increase in royalty payments and contract volume accruals under the patent licensing
agreement.
Revenues
Transaction Fees
Consolidated transaction fees increased $46.8 million, or 77.8%, to $106.9 million for the six
months ended June 30, 2006 from $60.1 million for the comparable period in 2005. Transaction fees,
as a percentage of consolidated revenues, decreased to 86.3% for the six months ended June 30, 2006
from 86.7% for the comparable period in 2005.
Transaction fees generated in our futures business segment increased $22.6 million, or 87.2%,
to $48.5 million for the six months ended June 30, 2006 from $25.9 million for the comparable
period in 2005, while increasing as a percentage of consolidated revenues to 39.2% for the six
months ended June 30, 2006 from 37.4% for the comparable period in 2005. Average transaction fees
per trading day increased 82.7% to $382,000 per trading day for the six months ended June 30, 2006
from $209,000 per trading day for the comparable period in 2005. The increase in transaction fees
was primarily due to an increase in our futures contract volumes and due to a fee increase
beginning in April 2006. Futures contract volumes increased primarily due to increased liquidity
brought by new market participants due to electronic trading, the launch of the ICE WTI Crude
futures contract in February 2006 and increased volatility relating to geopolitical events and real
and perceived supply and demand imbalances. Volumes in our futures business segment increased
102.6% to 37.7 million contracts traded during the six months ended June 30, 2006 from 18.6 million
contracts traded during the comparable period in 2005. The 37.7 million contracts include 2.3
million ICE WTI Crude futures contracts for which we did not charge any commissions during the
three months ended March 31, 2006.
In conjunction with the introduction of our ICE WTI Crude futures contract in February 2006,
we reviewed the pricing of our oil futures and option contract transaction fees and the currency in
which such transaction fees are calculated and charged. We determined, as a result of this review,
to change our basis for pricing such transaction fees to U.S. dollars, in line with the currency
generally used to price the underlying commodity and in accordance with general practice in the
industry. We began to charge in U.S. dollar rather than pounds sterling in our key futures
contracts, including crude oil and heating oil contracts, during the second quarter of 2006. We
determined that $0.70 per contract per side, or $1.40 per round turn, was an appropriate level of
fees for such contracts, taking into account a number of factors, principally the competitiveness
of our service offering. Transaction rates for the crude oil and heating oil contracts had
previously been charged at £0.35 per contract per side, or £0.70 per round turn. Based on the
average pounds sterling to U.S dollar exchange rate of 1.8536 during the three months ended June
30, 2005, this equals a 7.9% increase in the futures transaction rates.
Transaction fees generated in our OTC business segment increased $24.2 million, or 70.7%, to
$58.4 million for the six months ended June 30, 2006 from $34.2 million for the comparable period
in 2005, primarily due to increased trading volumes. Average transaction fees per trading day
increased 69.8% to $454,000 per trading day for the six months ended June 30, 2006 from $268,000
per trading day for the comparable period in 2005. Transaction fees in this segment, as a
percentage of consolidated revenues, decreased to 47.1% for the six months ended June 30, 2006 from
49.3% for the comparable period in 2005. The number of transactions or trades executed in our OTC
business segment increased by 66.8% to 1,480,046 trades for the six months ended June 30, 2006 from
887,568 trades for the comparable period in 2005.
Increased volumes in our OTC business segment were primarily due to increased trading activity
in North American natural gas and power markets as a result of the availability of cleared OTC
contracts, as well as increased liquidity brought by new market participants and increased
volatility relating to geopolitical events and real and perceived supply and demand imbalances.
Transaction fees generated by trading in North American natural gas
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contracts increased $19.8 million, or 79.6%, to $44.7 million for the six months ended June
30, 2006 from $24.9 million for the comparable period in 2005. In addition, transaction fees
generated by trading in North American power contracts increased $3.7 million, or 49.3%, to $11.2
million for the six months ended June 30, 2006 from $7.5 million for the comparable period in 2005.
The continued growth in trading volumes in OTC contracts can be attributed in part to the use of
cleared OTC contracts, which eliminates the need for a counterparty to post capital against each
trade and also reduces requirements for entering into multiple negotiated bilateral settlement
agreements to enable trading with other counterparties. We believe that the introduction of OTC
cleared contracts has facilitated trading by market participants that otherwise would not have
engaged in trading in energy derivatives.
Revenues derived from electronic trade confirmation fees in our OTC business segment increased
$824,000, or 109.5%, to $1.6 million for the six months ended June 30, 2006 from $753,000 for the
comparable period in 2005. During the six months ended June 30, 2006, 267,730 trades were matched
through our electronic trade confirmation service, compared to 196,430 trades during the comparable
period in 2005. We implemented a fee increase for our electronic trade confirmation service
beginning in February 2006. Consolidated electronic trade confirmation fees, as a percentage of
consolidated revenues, increased to 1.3% for the six months ended June 30, 2006 from 1.1% for the
comparable period in 2005.
Market Data Fees
Consolidated market data fees increased $7.9 million, or 113.8%, to $14.8 million for the six
months ended June 30, 2006 from $6.9 million for the comparable period in 2005. This increase was
primarily due to increased data access fees in our OTC and futures markets, increased terminal fees
and license fees that we receive from data vendors in exchange for the provision of real-time price
information generated from our futures markets, increased market data fees in our OTC markets from
the market price validation service, and increased fees from view only screen access and end of day
reports. During the six months ended June 30, 2006 and 2005, we recognized $6.8 million and $1.5
million, respectively, in data access fees and terminal fees in our futures and OTC business
segments. The increase in the market data fees received from data vendors were due to both an
increase in the average charge per terminal and an increase in the number of terminals. During the
six months ended June 30, 2006 and 2005, we recognized $5.6 million and $3.6 million, respectively,
in terminal and license fees from data vendors. We also continued to enroll new individual monthly
subscribers for our market price validation service and our view only screen access service.
Consolidated market data fees, as a percentage of consolidated revenues, increased to 12.0% for the
six months ended June 30, 2006 from 10.0% for the comparable period in 2005.
Other Revenues
Consolidated other revenues decreased $155,000, or 6.8%, to $2.1 million for the six months
ended June 30, 2006 from $2.3 million for the comparable period in 2005. This decrease was
primarily due to a $335,000 reduction in the communication charges and equipment rentals to ICE
Futures members following the closure of our open-outcry trading floor. Consolidated other
revenues, as a percentage of consolidated revenues, decreased to 1.7% for the six months ended June
30, 2006 from 3.3% for the comparable period in 2005.
Expenses
Compensation and Benefits
Consolidated compensation and benefits expenses increased $6.2 million, or 37.5%, to $22.5
million for the six months ended June 30, 2006 from $16.4 million for the comparable period in
2005. This increase was primarily due to an increase in the non-cash compensation expenses in
accordance with the adoption of SFAS No. 123(R) on January 1, 2006, an increase in our
discretionary bonus accrual for the six months ended June 30, 2006 as compared to the six months
ended June 30, 2005 and an increase in our employee headcount. The non-cash compensation expenses
recognized in our consolidated financial statements for our stock options and restricted stock were
$4.8 million for the six months ended June 30, 2006 as compared to $816,000 for the six months
ended June 30, 2005. Our discretionary bonus expense increased due to improved operating results
for the six months ended June 30, 2006 as compared to the six months ended June 30, 2005. Our
employee headcount increased from 192 employees as of June 30, 2005 to 212 employees as of June
30, 2006. Consolidated compensation and benefits expenses, as a
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percentage of consolidated revenues, decreased to 18.2% for the six months ended June 30, 2006
from 23.6% for the comparable period in 2005 primarily due to our increased revenues.
Professional Services
Consolidated professional services expenses increased $175,000, or 3.1%, to $5.9 million for
the six months ended June 30, 2006 from $5.8 million for the comparable period in 2005. This
increase was primarily due to costs that we incurred to comply with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002,
partially offset by an aggregate decrease in legal fees related to litigation with NYMEX and EBS,
the former of which was dismissed by a ruling in our favor on a motion for summary judgment in the
third quarter of 2005, which is currently on appeal by NYMEX, and the latter of which was settled
in the second quarter of 2005. Consolidated professional services expenses, as a percentage of
consolidated revenues, decreased to 4.8% for the six months ended June 30, 2006 from 8.3% for the
comparable period in 2005.
Selling, General and Administrative
Consolidated selling, general and administrative expenses increased $4.6 million, or 50.3%, to
$13.8 million for the six months ended June 30, 2006 from $9.2 million for the comparable period in
2005. This increase was primarily due to an increase in royalty payments and contract volume
accruals under the patent licensing agreement, increased insurance costs and increased travel and
entertainment costs. The royalty payments and contract volume accruals under the patent licensing
agreement increased to $3.2 million for the six months ended June 30, 2006 from $323,000 for the
six months ended June 30, 2005 due to increased futures volumes following the launch of exclusive
electronic trading during 2005 and due to the launch of the ICE WTI Crude futures contract during
February 2006. Consolidated selling, general and administrative expenses, as a percentage of
consolidated revenues, decreased to 11.2% for the six months ended June 30, 2006 from 13.3% for the
comparable period in 2005.
Floor Closure Costs
Consolidated floor closure costs were $4.8 million for the six months ended June 30, 2005, due
to the closure of our open-outcry trading floor in London in April 2005. Consolidated floor closure
costs, as a percentage of consolidated revenues, were 6.9% for the six months ended June 30, 2005.
We did not have floor closure costs in the comparable period in 2006.
Settlement Expense
Consolidated settlement expense was $15.0 million for the six months ended June 30, 2005, due
to the payment made to settle litigation with EBS. Consolidated settlement expense, as a percentage
of consolidated revenues, was 21.6% for the six months ended June 30, 2005. We did not have
settlement expenses in the comparable period in 2006.
Depreciation and Amortization
Consolidated depreciation and amortization expenses decreased $1.3 million, or 16.2%, to $6.5
million for the six months ended June 30, 2006 from $7.8 million for the comparable period in 2005.
This decrease was due to certain property and equipment purchased in 2002 with estimated useful
lives of three years becoming fully depreciated over the course of 2005. Consolidated depreciation
and amortization expenses, as a percentage of consolidated revenues, decreased to 5.2% for the six
months ended June 30, 2006 from 11.2% for the comparable period in 2005.
Other Income
Consolidated other income decreased $204,000, or 9.4%, to $2.0 million for the six months
ended June 30, 2006 from $2.2 million for the comparable period in 2005. The decrease in other
income was primarily due to foreign currency transaction losses recognized during the six months
ended June 30, 2006. We recognized net foreign currency transaction losses of $317,000 for the six
months ended June 30, 2006 as compared to net foreign currency transaction gains of $1.1 million
for the six months ended June 30, 2005. The foreign currency transaction gains and
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losses primarily related to the revaluation of the U.S. dollar cash balances held by our
foreign subsidiaries due to the increase or decrease in the period-end foreign currency exchange
rates between periods. Through June 30, 2006, the functional currency of our foreign subsidiaries
was pounds sterling. The period-end foreign currency exchange rate of pounds sterling to the U.S.
dollar increased 3.2% to 1.8491 as of June 30, 2006 from 1.7921 as of June 30, 2005.
These decreases in other income were partially offset by an increase in interest income and a
decrease in interest expense. Interest income increased $1.0 million from the prior period
primarily due to an increase in our cash balances from the net proceeds received from our initial
public offering of common stock in November 2005 and from the cash flows generated from operations
during the six months ended June 30, 2006. Interest expense decreased $195,000 from the prior
period primarily due to the remaining $13.0 million outstanding balance under the Wachovia
revolving credit agreement being paid off with a portion of the proceeds from our initial public
offering of common stock in November 2005.
Income Taxes
Consolidated tax expense increased $22.5 million to $26.4 million for the six months ended
June 30, 2006 from $3.9 million for the comparable period in 2005, primarily due to the increase in
our pre-tax income. Our effective tax rate increased to 34.3% for the six months ended June 30,
2006 from 30.7% for the comparable period in 2005. The effective tax rate for the six months ended
June 30, 2006 is lower than the statutory rate primarily due to tax exempt income and a $1.2
million reduction in U.S. residual taxes that was recorded as a discrete item during the six months
ended June 30, 2006. The effective tax rate for the six months ended June 30, 2005 is lower than
the statutory rate primarily due to an increase in federal and state research and development tax
credits.
Three Months Ended June 30, 2006 Compared to Three Months Ended June 30, 2005
Overview
Consolidated net income increased $31.1 million to $31.0 million for the three months ended
June 30, 2006 from a net loss of $141,000 for the comparable period in 2005. Net income from our
futures business segment increased $10.7 million to $12.9 million for the three months ended June
30, 2006 from $2.3 million for the comparable period in 2005, primarily due to higher transaction
fees revenues and due to the $4.8 million in floor closure costs recognized during the three months
ended June 30, 2005. Net income from our OTC business segment increased $17.4 million to $14.0
million for the three months ended June 30, 2006 from a net loss of $3.5 million for the comparable
period in 2005. Net income in our OTC business segment increased primarily due to significantly
higher transaction fees revenues and due to the $15.0 million settlement expense recognized during
the three months ended June 30, 2005. Net income from our market data business segment increased
$3.0 million to $4.1 million for the three months ended June 30, 2006 from $1.1 million for the
comparable period in 2005. Net income in our market data business segment increased due to
increased market data sales in both our OTC and futures businesses. Consolidated operating income,
as a percentage of consolidated revenues, increased to 64.4% for the three months ended June 30,
2006 from (5.3%) for the comparable period in 2005. Consolidated net income, as a percentage of
consolidated revenues, increased to 42.1% for the three months ended June 30, 2006 from (0.4%) for
the comparable period in 2005.
Our consolidated revenues increased $36.1 million, or 96.1%, to $73.6 million for the three
months ended June 30, 2006 from $37.5 million for the comparable period in 2005. This increase is
primarily attributable to increased trading volumes on our electronic platform and increased
non-transaction revenues, including market data fees. A significant factor driving our revenues and
volume growth during this period was the continued growth in trading volumes of our futures and
cleared OTC contracts.
Consolidated operating expenses decreased $13.3 million to $26.2 million for the three months
ended June 30, 2006 from $39.5 million for the comparable period in 2005, representing a decrease
of 33.7%. This decrease is primarily attributable to the $19.8 million in floor closure costs and
settlement expense incurred during the three months ended June 30, 2005, partially offset by $3.4
million in higher compensation expenses during the three months ended June 30, 2006 due to a $1.9
million increase in royalty payments and contract volume accruals under the patent licensing
agreement.
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Revenues
Transaction Fees
Consolidated transaction fees increased $30.6 million, or 92.7%, to $63.7 million for the
three months ended June 30, 2006 from $33.0 million for the comparable period in 2005. Transaction
fees, as a percentage of consolidated revenues, decreased to 86.5% for the three months ended June
30, 2006 from 88.0% for the comparable period in 2005.
Transaction fees generated in our futures business segment increased $15.7 million, or 113.2%,
to $29.6 million for the three months ended June 30, 2006 from $13.9 million for the comparable
period in 2005, while increasing as a percentage of consolidated revenues to 40.2% for the three
months ended June 30, 2006 from 37.0% for the comparable period in 2005. Average transaction fees
per trading day increased 113.2% to $469,000 per trading day for the three months ended June 30,
2006 from $220,000 per trading day for the comparable period in 2005. The increase in transaction
fees was primarily due to an increase in our futures contract volumes and due to a fee increase
beginning in April 2006. Futures contract volumes increased primarily due to increased liquidity
brought by new market participants due to electronic trading, the launch of the ICE WTI Crude
futures contract in February 2006 and increased volatility relating to geopolitical events and real
and perceived supply and demand imbalances. Volumes in our futures business segment increased
113.2% to 21.0 million contracts traded during the three months ended June 30, 2006 from 9.9
million contracts traded during the comparable period in 2005.
In conjunction with the introduction of our ICE WTI Crude futures contract in February 2006,
we reviewed the pricing of our oil futures and option contract transaction fees and the currency in
which such transaction fees are calculated and charged. We determined, as a result of this review,
to change our basis for pricing such transaction fees to U.S. dollars, in line with the currency
generally used to price the underlying commodity and in accordance with general practice in the
industry. We began to charge in U.S. dollar rather than pounds sterling in our key futures
contracts, including crude oil and heating oil contracts, beginning in April 2006. We determined
that $0.70 per contract per side, or $1.40 per round turn, was an appropriate level of fees for
such contracts, taking into account a number of factors, principally the competitiveness of our
service offering. Transaction rates for the crude oil and heating oil contracts had previously been
charged at £0.35 per contract per side, or £0.70 per round turn. Based on the pounds sterling to
U.S dollar exchange rate of 1.7389 as of the beginning of April 2006, this equals a 15.0% increase
in the futures transaction rates.
Transaction fees generated in our OTC business segment increased $14.9 million, or 77.9%, to
$34.1 million for the three months ended June 30, 2006 from $19.2 million for the comparable period
in 2005, primarily due to increased trading volumes. Average transaction fees per trading day
increased 79.6% to $527,000 per trading day for the three months ended June 30, 2006 from $293,000
per trading day for the comparable period in 2005. Transaction fees in this segment, as a
percentage of consolidated revenues, decreased to 46.3% for the three months ended June 30, 2006
from 51.1% for the comparable period in 2005. The number of transactions or trades executed in our
OTC business segment increased by 58.1% to 795,107 trades for the three months ended June 30, 2006
from 502,945 trades for the comparable period in 2005.
Increased volumes in our OTC business segment were primarily due to increased trading activity
in North American natural gas and power markets as a result of the availability of cleared OTC
contracts, as well as increased liquidity brought by new market participants and increased
volatility relating to geopolitical events and real and perceived supply and demand imbalances.
Transaction fees generated by trading in North American natural gas contracts increased $12.4
million, or 88.2%, to $26.4 million for the three months ended June 30, 2006 from $14.0 million for
the comparable period in 2005. In addition, transaction fees generated by trading in North American
power contracts increased $2.1 million, or 49.6%, to $6.4 million for the three months ended June
30, 2006 from $4.3 million for the comparable period in 2005. The continued growth in trading
volumes in OTC contracts can be attributed in part to the use of cleared OTC contracts, which
eliminates the need for a counterparty to post capital against each trade and also reduces
requirements for entering into multiple negotiated bilateral settlement agreements to enable
trading with other counterparties. We believe that the introduction of OTC cleared contracts has
facilitated trading by market participants that otherwise would not have engaged in trading in
energy derivatives.
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Revenues derived from electronic trade confirmation fees in our OTC business segment increased
$500,000, or 126.6%, to $895,000 for the three months ended June 30, 2006 from $395,000 for the
comparable period in 2005. During the three months ended June 30, 2006, 144,588 trades were matched
through our electronic trade confirmation service, compared to 103,271 trades during the comparable
period in 2005. We implemented a fee increase for our electronic trade confirmation service
beginning in February 2006. Consolidated electronic trade confirmation fees, as a percentage of
consolidated revenues, increased to 1.2% for the three months ended June 30, 2006 from 1.1% for the
comparable period in 2005.
Market Data Fees
Consolidated market data fees increased $5.4 million, or 154.9%, to $8.8 million for the three
months ended June 30, 2006 from $3.5 million for the comparable period in 2005. This increase was
primarily due to increased data access fees in our OTC and futures markets, increased terminal fees
and license fees that we receive from data vendors in exchange for the provision of real-time price
information generated from our futures markets, increased market data fees in our OTC markets from
the market price validation service, and increased fees from view only screen access and end of day
reports. During the three months ended June 30, 2006 and 2005, we recognized $4.8 million and
$661,000, respectively, in data access fees and terminal fees in our futures and OTC business
segments. The increase in the market data fees received from data vendors were due to both an
increase in the average charge per terminal and an increase in the number of terminals. During the
three months ended June 30, 2006 and 2005, we recognized $2.8 million and $1.8 million,
respectively, in terminal and license fees from data vendors. We also continued to enroll new
individual monthly subscribers for our market price validation service and our view only screen
access service. Consolidated market data fees, as a percentage of consolidated revenues, increased
to 12.0% for the three months ended June 30, 2006 from 9.2% for the comparable period in 2005.
Other Revenues
Consolidated other revenues increased $80,000, or 7.8%, to $1.1 million for the three months
ended June 30, 2006 from $1.0 million for the comparable period in 2005. Consolidated other
revenues, as a percentage of consolidated revenues, decreased to 1.5% for the three months ended
June 30, 2006 from 2.8% for the comparable period in 2005.
Expenses
Compensation and Benefits
Consolidated compensation and benefits expenses increased $3.4 million, or 40.2%, to $11.9
million for the three months ended June 30, 2006 from $8.5 million for the comparable period in
2005. This increase was primarily due to an increase in the non-cash compensation expenses
recognized in accordance with the adoption of SFAS No. 123(R) on January 1, 2006, an increase in
our discretionary bonus accrual for the three months ended June 30, 2006 as compared to the three
months ended June 30, 2005 and an increase in our employee headcount. The non-cash compensation
expenses recognized in our consolidated financial statements for our stock options and restricted
stock were $2.6 million for the three months ended June 30, 2006 as compared to $410,000 for the
three months ended June 30, 2005. Our discretionary bonus expense increased due to improved
operating results for the three months ended June 30, 2006 as compared to the three months ended
June 30, 2005. Our employee headcount increased from 192 employees as of June 30, 2005 to 212
employees as of June 30, 2006. Consolidated compensation and benefits expenses, as a percentage of
consolidated revenues, decreased to 16.2% for the three months ended June 30, 2006 from 22.7% for
the comparable period in 2005 primarily due to our increased revenues.
Professional Services
Consolidated professional services expenses increased $685,000, or 26.9%, to $3.2 million for
the three months ended June 30, 2006 from $2.6 million for the comparable period in 2005. This
increase was primarily due to costs that we incurred to comply with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002,
partially offset by an aggregate decrease in legal fees related to litigation with NYMEX and EBS,
the former of which was dismissed by a ruling in our favor on a motion for summary judgment in the
third quarter of 2005, which is currently on appeal by NYMEX, and the latter of which was settled
in the second quarter of 2005. Consolidated professional services expenses, as a percentage of
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consolidated revenues, decreased to 4.4% for the three months ended June 30, 2006 from 6.8%
for the comparable period in 2005.
Selling, General and Administrative
Consolidated selling, general and administrative expenses increased $2.9 million, or 59.5%, to
$7.7 million for the three months ended June 30, 2006 from $4.8 million for the comparable period
in 2005. This increase was primarily due to an increase in royalty payments and contract volume
accruals under the patent licensing agreement. The royalty payments and contract volume accruals
under the patent licensing agreement increased to $2.2 million for the three months ended June 30,
2006 from $297,000 for the three months ended June 30, 2005 due to increased futures volumes
following the launch of exclusive electronic trading during 2005 and due to the launch of the ICE
WTI Crude futures contract during February 2006. Consolidated selling, general and administrative
expenses, as a percentage of consolidated revenues, decreased to 10.5% for the three months ended
June 30, 2006 from 12.9% for the comparable period in 2005.
Floor Closure Costs
Consolidated floor closure costs were $4.8 million for the three months ended June 30, 2005,
due to the closure of our open-outcry trading floor in London in April 2005. Consolidated floor
closure costs, as a percentage of consolidated revenues, were 12.8% for the three months ended June
30, 2005. We did not have floor closure costs in the comparable period in 2006.
Settlement Expense
Consolidated settlement expense was $15.0 million for the three months ended June 30, 2005,
due to the payment made to settle litigation with EBS. Consolidated settlement expense, as a
percentage of consolidated revenues, were 40.0% for the three months ended June 30, 2005. We did
not have settlement expenses in the comparable period in 2006.
Depreciation and Amortization
Consolidated depreciation and amortization expenses decreased $489,000, or 12.9%, to $3.3
million for the three months ended June 30, 2006 from $3.8 million for the comparable period in
2005. This decrease was due to certain property and equipment purchased in 2002 with estimated
useful lives of three years becoming fully depreciated over the course of 2005. Consolidated
depreciation and amortization expenses, as a percentage of consolidated revenues, decreased to 4.5%
for the three months ended June 30, 2006 from 10.1% for the comparable period in 2005.
Other Income
Consolidated other income decreased $320,000, or 27.3%, to $853,000 for the three months ended
June 30, 2006 from $1.2 million for the comparable period in 2005. The decrease in other income was
primarily due to foreign currency transaction losses recognized during the three months ended June
30, 2006. We recognized net foreign currency transaction losses of $320,000 for the three months
ended June 30, 2006 as compared to net foreign currency transaction gains of $583,000 for the three
months ended June 30, 2005. The foreign currency transaction gains and losses primarily related to
the revaluation of the U.S. dollar cash balances held by our foreign subsidiaries due to the
increase or decrease in the period-end foreign currency exchange rates between periods. Through
June 30, 2006, the functional currency of our foreign subsidiaries was pounds sterling. The
period-end foreign currency exchange rate of pounds sterling to the U.S. dollar increased 3.2% to
1.8491 as of June 30, 2006 from 1.7921 as of June 30, 2005.
These decreases in other income were partially offset by an increase in interest income and a
decrease in interest expense. Interest income increased $506,000 from the prior period primarily
due to an increase in our cash balances from the net proceeds received from our initial public
offering of common stock in November 2005 and from the cash flows generated from operations during
the six months ended June 30, 2006. Interest expense decreased $94,000 from the prior period
primarily due to the remaining $13.0 million outstanding balance under the Wachovia
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revolving credit agreement being paid off with a portion of the proceeds from our initial
public offering of common stock in November 2005.
Income Taxes
Consolidated tax expense increased $18.0 million to $17.3 million for the three months ended
June 30, 2006 from a tax benefit of $659,000 for the comparable period in 2005, primarily due to
the increase in our pre-tax income. Our effective tax rate is 35.8% for the three months ended June
30, 2006. The effective tax rate for the three months ended June 30, 2006 is lower than the
statutory rate primarily due to tax exempt income.
Quarterly Results of Operations
The following table sets forth quarterly unaudited consolidated statements of income (loss)
for the periods presented. We believe that this data has been prepared on substantially the same
basis as our audited consolidated financial statements and includes all adjustments, consisting
only of normal recurring adjustments, necessary for the fair presentation of our consolidated
results of operations for the quarters presented. The historical results for any quarter do not
necessarily indicate the results expected for any future period.
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Revenues: |
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Transaction fees, net: |
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Futures: |
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ICE Brent Crude futures |
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$ |
15,290 |
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$ |
13,476 |
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$ |
10,715 |
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$ |
11,731 |
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$ |
10,390 |
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ICE Gas Oil futures |
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5,476 |
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5,138 |
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4,188 |
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4,008 |
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3,254 |
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ICE WTI Crude futures |
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8,295 |
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Other futures products and options |
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511 |
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345 |
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316 |
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304 |
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226 |
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OTC: |
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North American natural gas |
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26,369 |
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18,323 |
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16,566 |
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18,466 |
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14,008 |
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North American power |
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6,411 |
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4,833 |
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3,734 |
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5,177 |
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4,287 |
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Global oil |
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410 |
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438 |
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287 |
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509 |
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400 |
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Other commodities markets |
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28 |
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75 |
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Electronic trade confirmation services |
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895 |
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682 |
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390 |
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437 |
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395 |
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Market data fees |
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8,819 |
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6,022 |
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3,972 |
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3,728 |
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3,460 |
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Other |
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1,115 |
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1,025 |
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1,094 |
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857 |
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1,035 |
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Total revenues |
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73,591 |
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50,282 |
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41,262 |
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45,245 |
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37,530 |
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|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Operating expenses: |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Compensation and benefits |
|
|
11,932 |
|
|
|
10,617 |
|
|
|
9,938 |
|
|
|
9,416 |
|
|
|
8,513 |
|
Professional services |
|
|
3,235 |
|
|
|
2,690 |
|
|
|
1,950 |
|
|
|
2,424 |
|
|
|
2,551 |
|
Selling, general and administrative |
|
|
7,699 |
|
|
|
6,134 |
|
|
|
4,811 |
|
|
|
4,870 |
|
|
|
4,828 |
|
Floor closure costs |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
4,814 |
|
Settlement expense |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
15,000 |
|
Depreciation and amortization |
|
|
3,309 |
|
|
|
3,188 |
|
|
|
3,655 |
|
|
|
3,673 |
|
|
|
3,797 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total operating expenses |
|
|
26,175 |
|
|
|
22,629 |
|
|
|
20,354 |
|
|
|
20,383 |
|
|
|
39,503 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Operating income (loss) |
|
|
47,416 |
|
|
|
27,653 |
|
|
|
20,908 |
|
|
|
24,862 |
|
|
|
(1,973 |
) |
Other income, net |
|
|
853 |
|
|
|
1,108 |
|
|
|
911 |
|
|
|
714 |
|
|
|
1,173 |
|
Income tax expense (benefit) |
|
|
17,302 |
|
|
|
9,097 |
|
|
|
6,959 |
|
|
|
8,755 |
|
|
|
(659 |
) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Net income (loss) |
|
$ |
30,967 |
|
|
$ |
19,664 |
|
|
$ |
14,860 |
|
|
$ |
16,821 |
|
|
$ |
(141 |
) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| (1) |
|
The increase in the quarter ended September 30, 2005 revenues and net income is due in part
to increased trading volume relating to extreme weather conditions, including two major
hurricanes in the United States. |
| |
| (2) |
|
The financial results for the three months ended June 30, 2005 include $4.8 million in
expenses incurred relating to the closure of our open-outcry trading floor in London, and a
$15.0 million settlement expense related to the payment made to EBS to settle litigation. |
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Liquidity and Capital Resources
Since our inception on May 11, 2000, we have financed our operations, growth and cash needs
primarily through income from operations, borrowings under our related-party loan agreement and
borrowings under our revolving credit facility. Our principal capital requirements have been to
fund capital expenditures, working capital, strategic acquisitions and marketing and development of
our electronic platform. In the future, we may incur additional debt or issue equity securities in
connection with strategic acquisitions, joint ventures or other types of investments.
Cash and Cash Equivalents, Short-term Investments, Restricted Cash and Restricted Short-Term
Investments
We had consolidated cash and cash equivalents of $54.1 million and $20.0 million as of June
30, 2006 and December 31, 2005, respectively. We had $134.5 million and $111.2 million in
short-term investments as of June 30, 2006 and December 31, 2005, respectively; $2.3 million in
long-term investments as of December 31, 2005; and $14.2 million and $12.6 million in restricted
cash as of June 30, 2006 and December 31, 2005, respectively. We consider all short-term, highly
liquid investments with original maturity dates of three months or less at the time of purchase to
be cash equivalents. We classify all investments with original maturity dates in excess of three
months and with maturities less than one year as short-term investments. We classify all
investments that we intend to hold for more than one year as long-term investments. We classify all
cash that is not available for general use, either due to Financial Services Authority requirements
or through restrictions in specific agreements, as restricted cash. The increase in the short-term
investments and the long-term investments were primarily due to the $38.7 million in cash flows
from operations generated during the six months ended June 30, 2006 and due to the $17.6 million in
net cash and cash equivalents being used to purchase investments during the six months ended June
30, 2006.
Cash Flow
The following tables present, for the periods indicated, the major components of net increases
(decreases) in cash and cash equivalents:
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|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
Six Months Ended |
|
| |
|
June 30, |
|
| |
|
2006 |
|
|
2005 |
|
| |
|
(In thousands) |
|
Net cash provided by (used in): |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Operating activities |
|
$ |
38,684 |
|
|
$ |
16,234 |
|
Investing activities |
|
|
(25,754 |
) |
|
|
7,481 |
|
Financing activities |
|
|
20,367 |
|
|
|
(15,345 |
) |
Effect of exchange rate changes |
|
|
795 |
|
|
|
(3,930 |
) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Net increase in cash and cash equivalents |
|
$ |
34,092 |
|
|
$ |
4,440 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Operating Activities
Consolidated net cash provided by operating activities was $38.7 million and $16.2 million for
the six months ended June 30, 2006 and 2005, respectively. Net cash provided by operating
activities primarily consists of net income adjusted for certain non-cash items, including
depreciation and amortization and the effects of changes in working capital. Fluctuations in net
cash provided by operating activities are primarily attributable to increases and decreases in our
net income between periods and, to a lesser extent, due to fluctuations in working capital. The
$38.7 million increase in net cash provided by operating activities for the six months ended June
30, 2006 from the comparable period in 2005 is primarily due to the $24.1 million increase in the
OTC business segments net income and the $14.3 million increase in the futures business segments
net income for the six months ended June 30, 2006 from the comparable period in 2005.
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Investing Activities
Consolidated net cash (used in) provided by investing activities was ($25.8 million) and $7.5
million for the six months ended June 30, 2006 and 2005, respectively. These activities primarily
relate to sales and purchases of available-for-sale investments and capital expenditures in each
period for software, including internally developed software, and for computer and network
equipment. We had a net increase (decrease) in investments classified as available-for-sale of
$17.6 million and ($5.8 million) for the six months ended June 30, 2006 and 2005, respectively. We
incurred capitalized software development costs of $3.2 million and $2.6 million for the six months
ended June 30, 2006 and 2005, respectively, and we had additional capital expenditures of $4.3
million and $755,000 for the six months ended June 30, 2006 and 2005, respectively. The additional
capital expenditures primarily relate to hardware purchases to continue the development and
expansion of our electronic platform.
Financing Activities
Consolidated net cash provided by (used in) financing activities was $20.4 million and ($15.3
million) for the six months ended June 30, 2006 and 2005, respectively. We received proceeds from
the exercise of common stock options of $7.7 million and $122,000 for the six months ended June 30,
2006 and 2005, respectively. We recognized excess tax benefits from stock-based compensation of
$13.2 million for the six months ended June 30, 2006. Consolidated net cash used in financing
activities for the six months ended June 30, 2005 primarily relates to $12.0 million in repayments
under the revolving credit facility with Wachovia and $3.0 million in costs incurred relating to
our initial public offering of common stock.
Loan Agreements
We entered into our revolving credit agreement with Wachovia on November 17, 2004, which we
amended on October 18, 2005. Under the amended Wachovia Bank, National Association, or Wachovia,
revolving credit facility, we may borrow an aggregate principal amount of up to $50.0 million at
any time through November 17, 2007. The facility includes an unused line fee that is equal to the
unused maximum revolver amount multiplied by an applicable margin rate and is payable on a
quarterly basis, which as of June 30, 2006 was 0.15%.
Loans under the Wachovia facility bear interest on the principal amounts outstanding at LIBOR
plus an applicable margin rate, which was 0.85% as of June 30, 2006. We have the option to select
the interest rate and interest period applicable to any loans at the time of borrowing, which can
be either a daily LIBOR market index loan or a LIBOR rate loan with a period of one, three or six
months. Interest on LIBOR market index loans is payable monthly and the interest on the LIBOR rate
loans is payable on the last day of each interest period generally.
The facility also contains affirmative and negative covenants including, but not limited to,
cash flow leverage ratios, minimum tangible net worth ratios and limitations or approvals needed
from Wachovia for acquisitions, external debt and other fundamental changes to our business. We
historically have been and are currently in compliance with the financial covenants of our credit
facility. Currently, we have no borrowings outstanding under the facility.
Future Capital Requirements
Our future capital requirements will depend on many factors, including, among others, the rate
of our trading volume growth, required technology initiatives, regulatory compliance costs, the
expansion of sales and marketing activities, the timing and introduction of new products and
enhancements to existing products, and the continuing market acceptance of our electronic platform.
We currently expect to make capital expenditures ranging between an aggregate of $15.0 million and
$20.0 million in 2006 and 2007 to support the continued expansion of our futures, OTC and market
data businesses. We expect that these expenditures will focus on the further expansion of our
electronic futures and OTC participant base, the expansion of distribution opportunities through
the possible acquisition of existing businesses, the expansion of products in our market data
services business, and the provision of back office service systems as well as technical
improvements to, and enhancements of, our existing systems, products and services. We expect our
capitalized software development costs to remain relatively consistent with our 2005 software
development costs.
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We believe that cash flows from operations and the net proceeds of our November 2005 initial
public offering will be sufficient to fund our working capital needs and capital expenditure
requirements at least through the end of 2007. Our $50.0 million revolving credit agreement is
currently the only agreement or arrangement that we have with third parties to provide us with
sources of liquidity and capital resources. We currently have no borrowings under this revolving
credit agreement. In the event that we consummate any strategic acquisitions, joint ventures or
other types of investments, or if we are required to raise capital for any reason, we may need to
incur additional debt or issue equity securities. We cannot assure you that we will be able to
obtain any such financing on acceptable terms or at all.
Off-Balance Sheet Entities
We currently do not have any relationships with unconsolidated entities or financial
partnerships, often referred to as structured finance or special purpose entities, which have been
established for the purpose of facilitating off-balance sheet arrangements or other contractually
narrow or limited purposes.
Contractual Obligations and Commercial Commitments
In the first quarter of 2006, there were no significant changes, outside of the ordinary
course of our business, to our contractual obligations disclosed in the table of contractual
obligations in the section Managements Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results
of Operations in our 2005 Form 10-K.
Recently Adopted Accounting Pronouncements
Prior to January 1, 2006, we accounted for stock-based awards to employees and directors using
the intrinsic value method in accordance with Accounting Principles Board (APB) Opinion No. 25,
Accounting for Stock Issued to Employees, as allowed under Statement of Financial Accounting
Standards (SFAS) No. 123, Accounting for Stock-Based Compensation. Under the intrinsic value
method, no stock-based compensation expenses have been recognized in our consolidated statements of
income for stock options because the exercise price of our stock options granted to employees and
directors equaled the fair market value of the underlying stock at the date of grant.
On January 1, 2006, we adopted SFAS No. 123(R), Share-Based Payment, which is a revision of
SFAS No. 123. SFAS No. 123(R) requires the measurement and recognition of compensation expenses for
all share-based payment awards made to employees and directors including employee stock options and
restricted stock based on estimated fair values. We adopted SFAS No. 123(R) using the modified
prospective method. Under the modified prospective method, compensation costs are recognized
beginning with the effective date based on the requirements of SFAS No. 123(R) for all share-based
payments granted after the effective date and based on the requirements of SFAS No. 123 for all
awards granted to employees prior to the effective date of SFAS No. 123(R) that remain unvested on
the effective date. Our unaudited consolidated financial statements as of and for the six months
ended June 30, 2006 reflect the impact of SFAS No. 123(R). In accordance with the modified
prospective transition method, our consolidated financial statements for the prior periods have not
been restated to reflect, and do not include, the impact of SFAS No. 123(R).
As stock-based compensation expenses recognized in the unaudited consolidated statement of
income for the six months ended March 31, 2006 is based on awards ultimately expected to vest, it
has been reduced for estimated forfeitures. At the adoption of SFAS No. 123(R), we are required to
record a cumulative adjustment to reverse compensation costs that would not have been recorded if
forfeitures had been estimated in prior periods. Therefore, we recorded a cumulative adjustment of
$440,000 for the six months ended June 30, 2006 to reduce compensation costs that were actually
recognized in our consolidated financial statements during 2004 and 2005 relating to restricted
stock compensation expense amortization.
No unearned compensation is included in stockholders equity under SFAS No. 123(R) for stock
options and restricted stock awards granted. Rather, such stock options and restricted stock awards
and units are included in stockholders equity under SFAS No. 123(R) when services required from
employees and directors in exchange for the awards are rendered and expensed. Upon the adoption of
SFAS No. 123(R) on January 1, 2006, we reversed the December 31, 2005 $6.9 million deferred stock
compensation balance by a charge to additional paid-in capital.
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Employee and director stock-based compensation expenses recognized under SFAS No. 123(R), for
both stock options and restricted stock, in the unaudited consolidated statements of income was
$4.8 million and $2.6 million for the six months and three months ended June 30, 2006,
respectively. Employee and director stock-based compensation expenses recognized on the restricted
stock in the unaudited consolidated statements of income was $816,000 and $410,000 for the six
months and three months ended June 30, 2005, respectively. Prior to our adoption of SFAS No.
123(R), benefits of tax deductions in excess of recognized compensation costs were reported as
operating cash flows. SFAS No. 123(R) requires excess tax benefits be reported as a financing cash
inflow rather than as a reduction of taxes paid. As of June 30, 2006, there was $6.1 million and
$9.9 million in total unrecognized compensation costs related to stock options and restricted
stock, respectively. These costs are expected to be recognized over a weighted average period of
2.4 years and 2.0 years as the stock options and restricted stock, respectively, vests.
New Accounting Pronouncements
In
July 2006, the Financial Accounting Standards Board
(FASB) issued FASB Interpretation
No. 48, Accounting for Uncertainty in Income Taxes, an interpretation of FASB Statement No.
109 (FIN 48). FIN 48 clarifies the accounting and reporting for uncertainties in income tax law.
This Interpretation prescribes a comprehensive model for the financial statement recognition,
measurement, presentation and disclosure of uncertain tax positions taken or expected to be
taken in income tax returns. We will adopt this Interpretation on
January 1, 2007. The
cumulative effects, if any, of applying this Interpretation will be recorded as an adjustment to
retained earnings as of the beginning of the period of adoption. We have commenced the process
of evaluating the expected effect of FIN 48 on our consolidated financial statements and are
currently not yet in a position to determine such effects.
Critical Accounting Policies and Estimates
In the second quarter of 2006, there were no significant changes to our critical accounting
policies and estimates from those disclosed in the section Managements Discussion and Analysis of
Financial Condition and Results of Operations in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal
year ended December 31, 2005 and other filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Item 3. Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk
We are exposed to market risk in the ordinary course of business. This market risk consists
primarily of interest rate risk associated with our cash and cash equivalents, short-term
investments, restricted cash, long-term investments and foreign currency exchange rate risk.
Interest Rate Risk
We have exposure to market risk for changes in interest rates relating to our cash and cash
equivalents, short-term and long-term investments, and restricted cash. As of June 30, 2006 and
December 31, 2005, our cash and cash equivalents, short-term and long-term investments and
restricted cash, were $202.7 million and $146.1 million, respectively, of which $38.9 million and
$35.9 million, respectively, were denominated in pounds sterling. The remaining investments are
denominated in U.S. dollars. Due to the conservative nature of our investment portfolio, which is
structured with a focus on capital preservation, we would not expect our operating results or cash
flows to be significantly affected by changes in market interest rates. We do not use our
investment portfolio for trading or other speculative purposes.
Foreign Currency Exchange Rate Risk
The revenues, expenses and financial results of ICE Futures and other U.K. subsidiaries have
historically been denominated in pounds sterling, the functional currency of our U.K. subsidiaries.
We had foreign currency translation risk equal to our net investment in our subsidiaries. The
financial statements of our U.K. subsidiaries were translated into U.S. dollars using current rates
of exchange, with gains or losses included in the cumulative translation adjustment account, a
component of shareholders equity. As of June 30, 2006 and December 31, 2005, the portion of our
shareholders equity attributable to accumulated other comprehensive income from foreign currency
translation was $30.7 million and $21.3 million, respectively. The period-end foreign currency
exchange rate for pounds sterling to the U.S. dollar increased from 1.7188 as of December 31, 2005
to 1.8491 as of June 30, 2006.
Effective as of July 1, 2006, the functional currency of our U.K. subsidiaries became the U.S.
dollar. The functional currency of an entity is the currency of the primary economic environment in
which the entity operates.
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Normally, it is the currency of the environment in which an entity primarily generates and
expends cash. Once the functional currency of a foreign entity is determined, that determination
should be used consistently unless significant changes in economic facts and circumstances indicate
clearly that the functional currency has changed. A change in functional currency should be
accounted for prospectively, and previously issued financial statements should not be restated for
a change in functional currency. In addition, if the functional currency changes from a foreign
currency to the reporting currency, as is the case with us, translation adjustments for prior
periods should not be removed from equity and the translated amounts for non-monetary assets as the
end of the prior period become the accounting basis for those assets in the period of the change
and subsequent periods. The functional currency switched based on various economic factors and
circumstances, including the fact that beginning in the second quarter of 2006, ICE Futures began
to charge and collect exchange fees in U.S. dollars rather than pounds sterling in its key futures
contracts, including crude oil and heating oil contracts. We will no longer recognize any
translation adjustments in the consolidated financial statements subsequent to June 30, 2006.
However, gains and losses from foreign currency transactions will continue to be included in other
income (expense) in the consolidated statements of income.
We have foreign currency transaction risk primarily related to the settlement of foreign
assets, liabilities and payables that occur through our foreign operations which are received in or
paid in pounds sterling. We had foreign currency transaction gains (losses) of ($317,000) and $1.1
million for the six months ended June 30, 2006 and 2005, respectively, primarily attributable to
the fluctuations of pounds sterling relative to the U.S. dollar. The average exchange rate of
pounds sterling to the U.S. dollar decreased from 1.8713 for the six months ended June 30, 2005 to
1.7973 for the six months ended June 30, 2006.
We may experience substantial gains or losses from foreign currency transactions given the
significant pounds sterling expense operations of our futures business segment in the United
Kingdom. Of our consolidated operating expenses, 30.8% and 34.6% were denominated in pounds
sterling for the six months ended June 30, 2006 and 2005, respectively. As the pounds sterling
exchange rate changes, the U.S. equivalent of expenses denominated in foreign currencies changes
accordingly. All sales in our business are denominated in U.S. dollars, except for some small
futures contracts in our futures business segment. Our U.K. operations in some instances function
as a natural hedge because we generally hold an equal amount of monetary assets and liabilities
that are denominated in pounds sterling.
In the past, we have entered into hedging transactions to help mitigate our foreign exchange
risk exposure. During the six months ended June 30, 2006, we did not enter into or hold any foreign
currency hedging activities. We do not hold or issue any derivative financial instruments for
trading purposes.
Impact of Inflation
We have not been adversely affected by inflation as technological advances and competition
have generally caused prices for the hardware and software that we use for our electronic platform
to remain constant or to decline. In the event of inflation, we believe that we will be able to
pass on any price increases to our participants, as the prices that we charge are not governed by
long-term contracts.
Item 4. Controls and Procedures
(a) Evaluation of disclosure controls and procedures. Our chief executive officer and chief
financial officer, after evaluating the effectiveness of our disclosure controls and procedures (as
defined in the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e)) as of the end of the
period covered by this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q, have concluded that our disclosure controls
and procedures are adequate and effective in timely alerting them to material information relating
to our company (including our consolidated subsidiaries) required to be included in our periodic
SEC filings.
(b) Changes in internal controls. There were no significant changes in our internal controls
over financial reporting that occurred during our most recent fiscal quarter that have materially
affected, or are reasonably likely to materially affect, our internal controls over financial
reporting. As a result, no corrective actions were taken.
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Part II. Other Information
Item 1. Legal Proceedings
NYMEX Claim of Infringement
On September 29, 2005, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York granted
our motion for summary judgment dismissing all claims brought by the New York Mercantile Exchange, Inc, or NYMEX, against us in an action
commenced in November 2002. NYMEXs complaint alleged copyright infringement by us on the basis of
our use of NYMEXs publicly available settlement prices in two of our cleared OTC contracts. The
complaint also alleged that we infringed and diluted NYMEXs trademark rights by referring to NYMEX
trademarks in certain of our swap contract specifications and that we tortiously interfered with a
contract between NYMEX and the data provider that provides us with the NYMEX settlement prices
pursuant to a license. In dismissing all of NYMEXs claims, the court found that NYMEXs settlement
prices were not copyrightable works as a matter of law, and we had not engaged in copyright or
trademark infringement in referencing NYMEXs publicly available settlement prices. The trademark
dilution and tortious interference claims, which are state law claims, were dismissed on
jurisdictional grounds. While the court granted summary judgment in our favor on all claims, NYMEX
is currently appealing the decision regarding the copyright claims and state law claims in the
Second Circuit Court of Appeals. If NYMEX continues with its appeal, or proceeds with a claim in
state court, we intend to vigorously defend these actions. We do not believe that the resolution of
this matter will have a material adverse effect on our consolidated financial condition, results of
operations or liquidity.
MBF Clearing Corp. Antitrust Claims
On February 2, 2006, MBF Clearing Corp. filed a complaint against us in the U.S. District
Court for the Southern District of New York asserting that we have monopoly power in the markets
for electronic trading of Brent Crude Oil futures and certain other energy contracts. On March 22,
2006, we filed a motion to dismiss all of MBF Clearings claims in the complaint. Rather than
responding to our motion, MBF Clearing filed an amended complaint dropping one state law claim, and
making additional allegations that actions taken by us with respect to MBF Clearing were taken with
the intention of foreclosing competition from contracts presently traded or to be traded on NYMEXs
electronic trading platform. MBF Clearing, which is a major NYMEX clearing and trading firm and a
market maker for certain NYMEX electronic contracts, alleges that we disconnected MBF Clearings
access to our trading platform and denied MBF Clearing information from ICE Data in breach of a
contract with MBF Clearing and in violation of U.S. antitrust laws. MBF Clearing also alleges,
among other things, that we have engaged in tortious interference with contract and business
advantage. The amended complaint does not specify the amount of damages alleged to have been caused
to MBF Clearing but requests that MBF Clearing be awarded treble and punitive damages. We intend to
vigorously defend these claims. On June 5, 2006, we filed a renewed motion to dismiss all of MBF
Clearings claims and MBF Clearing filed its brief in opposition of our motion to dismiss on July
12, 2006. Briefing is still ongoing and the Company plans on filing a reply brief in the near
future. We do not believe that the resolution of this matter will have a material adverse effect on
our consolidated financial condition, results of operations or liquidity.
Item 1A. Risk Factors
The risks described below comprise the material risks of which we are aware. In addition,
there may be risks of which we are currently unaware, or that we currently regard as immaterial
based on the information available to us, that later prove to be material. These risks may
adversely affect our business, financial condition and operating results. As a result, the trading
price of our common stock could decline.
Risks Relating to Our Business
We face intense competition from regulated exchanges, voice brokers and other electronic
platforms, which could adversely affect our business. If we are not able to compete successfully,
our business will not survive.
The market for commodities trading facilities is highly competitive and we expect competition
to intensify in the future. Our current and prospective competitors, both domestically and
internationally, are numerous.
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Our principal competitor, NYMEX, is a regulated,
predominantly open-outcry futures exchange that offers trading in futures products and options on
those futures in the crude oil, gas and metals markets, among other commodities markets. NYMEX has
also established two electronic platforms: NYMEX Access and ClearPort, although NYMEX recently
entered into an agreement with the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, or CME, under which CME will
exclusively list NYMEX energy contracts on its electronic trading platform. NYMEX operates its own
clearinghouse, which may give it greater flexibility in introducing new products and clearing
services than us.
NYMEX has taken several actions in the past year to improve its competitive position. In
September 2005, NYMEXs board of directors selected General Atlantic, a leading private equity
firm, as a minority investment partner to assist NYMEX in evaluating its strategic options, which
may include an initial public offering of NYMEX common stock in late 2006. In addition to its
alliance with General Atlantic as a strategic partner, NYMEX also undertook initiatives to offer
increased access to electronic trading in its futures contracts. In February 2006, NYMEX launched a
mini version of the Brent crude futures contract. In April, NYMEX announced that it had entered
into a definitive technology services agreement with CME pursuant to which CME, through CME Globex,
will become the exclusive electronic trading services provider for NYMEXs energy futures and
options contracts. Under this agreement, the CME will host trading in mini versions of NYMEXs
contracts and full size versions of the contracts. Initial trading of NYMEXs energy products on
CME Globex began in June 2006 with full roll-out expected by the third quarter of 2006. This
agreement is expected to increase access to trading in NYMEX contracts and could increase the
liquidity of NYMEXs markets by offering customers electronic trading capabilities that NYMEX
previously did not offer its customers. Our business could be materially and adversely affected if
our trading volumes decline and we lose liquidity in our markets due to participants opting to
trade competing NYMEX contracts.
We also currently compete with:
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|
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voice brokers active in the commodities markets, including Amerex, ICAP, Prebon Yamane
and Tradition (North America); |
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| |
|
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other electronic energy trading platforms, such as NGX (a subsidiary of the Toronto Stock
Exchange) and Houston Street; |
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We may also face additional competition from new entrants to our markets. Competition in the
market for commodities trading could increase if new electronic trading platforms or futures
exchanges are established, or if existing platforms or exchanges that currently do not trade energy
commodities products decide to do so, as CME has done through its agreement with NYMEX to trade
NYMEX energy products on CME Globex. Additional competition from new entrants to our markets could
negatively impact our trading volumes and profitability.
In addition, some of the exchanges, trading systems, dealers and other companies with which we
currently or in the future could compete are or may be substantially larger than we are and have or
may have substantially greater financial, technical, marketing and other resources and more diverse
revenue streams than we do. Some of these exchanges and other businesses have long standing, well
established and, in some cases, dominant positions in their existing markets. They may offer a
broader range of products and services and may take better advantage of business opportunities than
we do.
Our ability to continually maintain and enhance our competitiveness and respond to threats
from stronger current and potential competitors will have a direct impact on our results of
operations. We cannot assure you that we will be able to compete effectively. If our markets,
products and services are not competitive, our business, financial condition and operating results
will be materially affected. In addition, even if new entrants or existing competitors do not
significantly erode our market share, we may be required to reduce significantly the rates we
charge for trade execution or market data to remain competitive, which could have a material
adverse effect on our profitability.
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Our business is primarily transaction-based, and declines in trading volumes and market liquidity
would adversely affect our business and profitability.
We earn transaction fees for transactions executed in our markets and from the provision of
electronic trade confirmation services. Historically, we have also earned transaction fees under
order flow agreement shortfalls. We derived 86.3%, 87.9%, 83.9% and 86.9% of our consolidated
revenues for the six months ended June 30, 2006, and for the years ended December 31, 2005, 2004
and 2003, respectively, from our transaction-based business. Even if we are able to further
diversify our product and service offerings, our revenues and profitability will continue to depend
primarily on our transaction-based business. A substantial portion of our revenues are derived from
transaction fees generated from trades executed on our trading platform, which are based primarily
on the volume of contracts traded. Any decline in our trading volumes in the short-term or
long-term will negatively impact our transaction fees and, therefore, our revenues. Accordingly,
the occurrence of any event that reduces the amount of transaction fees we receive, whether as a
result of declines in trading volumes or market liquidity, adverse response to our all electronic
market, reductions in commission rates, regulatory changes, competition or otherwise, will have a
significant impact on our operating results and profitability. See also Our business depends in
large part on volatility in energy commodity prices.
Our business depends in large part on volatility in energy commodity prices.
Participants in the markets for energy commodities trading pursue a range of trading
strategies. While some participants trade in order to satisfy physical consumption needs, others
seek to hedge contractual price risk or take speculative or arbitrage positions, seeking returns
from price movements in different markets. Trading volume is driven primarily by the degree of
volatility the magnitude and frequency of fluctuations in prices of commodities. Higher
volatility increases the need to hedge contractual price risk and creates opportunities for
speculative or arbitrage trading. Energy commodities markets historically have experienced
significant price volatility and in recent years reached record levels. We cannot predict whether
this pattern will continue, or for how long, or if this trend will reverse itself. Were there to be
a sustained period of stability in the prices of energy commodities, we could experience lower
trading volumes, slower growth or even declines in revenues as compared to recent periods.
In addition to price volatility, the increase in global energy prices, particularly for crude
oil, during the past three years may have had a positive impact on the trading volume of global
energy commodities, including trading volumes in our markets. If global crude oil prices decrease
or return to the lower levels where they historically have been, it is possible that many market
participants could reduce their trading activity or leave the trading markets altogether. Global
energy prices are determined by many factors, including those listed below, that are beyond our
control and are unpredictable. Consequently, we cannot predict whether global energy prices will
remain at their current levels, nor can we predict the impact that these prices will have on our
future revenues or profitability.
Factors that are particularly likely to affect price volatility and price levels, and thus
trading volumes, include:
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Any one or more of these factors may reduce price volatility or price levels in the markets
for energy commodities trading, which in turn could reduce trading activity in those markets,
including in our markets. Moreover, any reduction in trading activity could reduce liquidity the
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current prices which in turn could further discourage existing and potential market
participants and thus accelerate any decline in the level of trading activity in these markets. In
these circumstances, the markets with the highest trading volumes, and therefore the most
liquidity, would likely have a growing competitive advantage over other markets. This could put us
at a greater disadvantage relative to our principal competitor, whose markets are larger and more
established than ours.
We are unable to predict whether or when these unfavorable conditions may arise in the future
or, if they occur, how long or severely they will affect our trading volumes. A significant decline
in our trading volumes, due to reduced volatility, lower prices or any other factor, could have a
material adverse effect on our revenues, since our transaction fees would decline, and in
particular on our profitability, since our revenues would decline faster than our expenses, some of
which are fixed. Moreover, if these unfavorable conditions were to persist over a lengthy period of
time, and our trading volumes were to decline substantially and for a long enough period, the
liquidity of our markets, and the critical mass of transaction volume necessary to support viable
markets, could be jeopardized.
Our revenues depend heavily upon trading volumes in the markets for ICE Brent Crude and ICE Gas
Oil futures contracts and OTC North American natural gas and power contracts. A decline in
volumes or in our market share in these contracts would jeopardize our ability to remain
profitable and grow.
Our revenues depend heavily on trading volumes in four principal markets: the markets for ICE
Brent Crude futures contracts, ICE Gas Oil futures contracts, OTC North American natural gas
contracts and OTC North American power contracts. Trading in these four contracts in the aggregate
has represented over 80% of our consolidated revenues for the most recent interim and annual
periods. Trading in ICE Brent Crude futures contracts accounted for 23.2%, 26.5%, 29.7% and 30.4%
of our consolidated revenues for the six months ended June 30, 2006, and for the years ended
December 31, 2005, 2004 and 2003, respectively. Trading in ICE Gas Oil futures contracts accounted
for 8.6%, 9.5%, 11.3% and 10.6% of our consolidated revenues for the six months ended June 30,
2006, and for the years ended December 31, 2005, 2004 and 2003, respectively. Trading in OTC North
American natural gas contracts accounted for 36.1%, 38.4%, 26.8% and 17.9% of our consolidated
revenues for the six months ended June 30, 2006, and for the years ended December 31, 2005, 2004
and 2003, respectively. Trading in OTC North American power contracts accounted for 9.1%, 10.6%,
8.7% and 6.1% of our consolidated revenues for the six months ended June 30, 2006, and for the
years ended December 31, 2005, 2004 and 2003, respectively. Our trading volume or market share in
these markets may decline due to a number of factors, including:
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A decline in trading volumes in one or more of these contracts could adversely affect our
business. In addition, we recently launched trading in the ICE WTI Crude futures contract, which
has traded in substantial volumes since it began trading in February 2006. While we only began to
derive transaction fees from this contract in the second quarter of 2006, we expect that this
contract could represent a significant percentage of our consolidated revenues in future periods.
Accordingly, a decline in trading volumes in this contact could adversely affect our future
revenues. If our market share in any of these markets declines, participants may decide to trade in
other markets and our revenues would decline, which could harm our ability to remain profitable and
to grow our business.
A decline in the production of commodities traded in our markets could reduce our liquidity and
adversely affect our revenues and profitability.
We derived 85.0%, 86.9%, 82.1% and 79.1% of our consolidated revenues for the six months ended
June 30, 2006, and for the years ended December 31, 2005, 2004 and 2003, respectively, from
exchange fees and commission fees generated from trading in commodity products in our futures and
OTC markets. The volume of contracts traded in the futures and OTC markets for any specific
commodity tends to be a multiple of the physical production of that commodity. If the physical
supply or production of any commodity declines, market participants could become less willing to
trade in contracts based on that commodity. For example, the ICE Brent Crude futures contract has
been subject to this risk as production of Brent crude oil peaked in 1984 and began steadily
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subsequent years. We, in consultation with market participants, altered the mechanism for
settlement of the ICE Brent Crude futures contract to a mechanism based on the
Brent/Forties/Oseberg North Sea oil fields, known as the BFO Index, to ensure that the commodity
prices on which its settlement price is based reflect a large enough pool of traders and trading
activity so as to be less susceptible to manipulation. Market participants that trade in the ICE
Brent Crude futures contract may determine in the future, however, that additional underlying
commodity products need to be considered in the settlement of that contract or that the settlement
mechanism is not credible. Exchange fees earned from trading in the ICE Brent Crude futures
contract accounted for 58.0%, 68.8%, 65.3% and 66.6% of our total revenues from our futures
business, net of intersegment fees, for the six months ended June 30, 2006, and for the years ended
December 31, 2005, 2004 and 2003, respectively, or 21.4%, 26.5%, 29.7% and 30.4% of our
consolidated revenues for the six months ended June 30, 2006, and for the years ended December 31,
2005, 2004 and 2003, respectively. Any uncertainty concerning the settlement of the ICE Brent Crude
futures contract, or a decline in the physical supply or production of any other commodity on which
are trading products are based, could result in a decline in trading volumes in our markets,
adversely affecting our revenues and profitability.
We may acquire other businesses, products or technologies. If we do, we may be unable to
integrate them with our business, or we may impair our financial performance.
We are actively exploring and evaluating strategic acquisitions and alliances to strengthen
our current business and grow our company. We intend to pursue strategic transactions and may
acquire other businesses, products or technologies to expand our products and services, advance our
technology or take advantage of new developments and potential changes in our industry. Strategic
transactions may involve acquiring or making a strategic investment in an existing clearinghouse to
provide services directly to participants in our futures and OTC markets or establishing our own
clearinghouse, acquiring or entering into an agreement with another exchange or clearinghouse to
broaden our product offering, or acquiring or entering into an agreement with a business
complementary to our market data business or a business that offers risk management or other
complementary services. In addition, we may be acquired by another company. Any such transaction
could happen at any time, could be material to our business and could take any number of forms. We
cannot assure you that we will be able to identify strategic opportunities or negotiate or finance
any future acquisition successfully. Even if we do succeed in acquiring a business, product or
technology, we have limited experience, other than with respect to ICE Futures, in integrating a
significant acquisition into our business. The process of integration may produce unforeseen
regulatory and operating difficulties and expenditures and may divert the attention of our
management from the ongoing operation of our business. Additionally, rumors or news stories
regarding potential acquisitions could have an impact on our stock price. If we make future
acquisitions, we may issue shares of our stock that dilute shareholders, expend cash, incur debt,
assume contingent liabilities or create additional expenses related to amortizing intangible assets
with estimable useful lives, any of which could harm our business, financial condition or
results of operations and negatively impact our stock price.
We do not own our own clearinghouse and must rely on LCH.Clearnet to provide clearing services
for the trading of futures and cleared OTC contracts in our markets. We cannot continue to
operate our futures and cleared OTC businesses without clearing services.
We have contracted with LCH.Clearnet to provide clearing services to us for all futures
contracts traded in our markets pursuant to a contract for an indefinite term that is terminable by
either party upon one years prior written notice, if not otherwise terminated in accordance with
its terms. LCH.Clearnet also provides clearing services to participants in our OTC business that
trade designated contracts eligible for clearing. These services are provided pursuant to a
separate contract we have entered into with LCH.Clearnet, which continues in force unless either
party gives one years prior written notice.
The interruption or cessation of these clearing services and our inability to make alternate
arrangements in a timely manner would have a material adverse effect on our business, financial
condition and results of operations. In particular, if our agreement with LCH.Clearnet with respect
to our futures business were terminated, and we could not obtain clearing services from another
source, we may be unable to operate our futures markets and would likely be required to cease
operations in that segment of our business. For the six months ended June 30, 2006, and for the
years ended December 31, 2005, 2004 and 2003, transaction fees generated by our futures business,
which are also referred to as exchange fees, accounted for 39.2%, 36.7%, 42.0% and 42.6%,
respectively, of our consolidated revenues.
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If our agreement with LCH. Clearnet relating to our OTC business were terminated, we may be
unable to offer clearing services in connection with trading OTC contracts in our markets for a
considerable period of time. While we would still be able to offer OTC trading in bilateral
contracts, our inability to offer trading in cleared contracts, assuming that no other clearing
alternatives were available, would significantly impair our ability to compete, particularly in
light of the launch of a competing swaps-to-futures clearing facility by one of our competitors and
the ease with which other competitors can introduce new cleared OTC and futures products. For the
six months ended June 30, 2006, and for the years ended December 31, 2005, 2004 and 2003,
transaction fees derived from trading in cleared OTC contracts accounted for 36.4%, 37.5%, 21.7%
and 6.4%, respectively, of our consolidated revenues. Our cleared OTC contracts have become a
significant component of our business, and accounted for 68.6%, 69.3%, 47.6% and 13.9% of the total
revenues, net of the intersegment fees, generated by our OTC business for the six months ended June
30, 2006, and for the years ended December 31, 2005, 2004 and 2003, respectively.
Our ability to introduce new cleared OTC products is subject to review by and approval of
LCH.Clearnet. In addition, all clearing fees are determined by LCH.Clearnet and may be set at
prices higher than those set by our competitors or at levels prohibitive to trading. LCH.Clearnet
could elect for strategic reasons to discontinue providing clearing services to us for our futures
and OTC businesses at any time with appropriate notice. For example, LCH.Clearnet could decide to
enter into a strategic alliance with a competing exchange or other trading facility. In addition,
according to the terms of our contract with LCH.Clearnet with respect to our OTC business, our
relationship may be terminated upon a change in control of either party. The commodity markets have
experienced increased consolidation in recent years and may continue to do so, and strategic
alliances and changes in control involving various market participants are possible. LCH.Clearnet
is owned by its members, which include banks and other financial institutions whose commercial
interests are broader than the clearing services business. We cannot assure you that our futures or
OTC businesses would be able to obtain clearing services from an alternate provider on acceptable
terms or in sufficient time to avoid or mitigate the material adverse effects described above.
If we establish our own clearinghouse, or acquire a clearinghouse or an interest in a
clearinghouse, we will be exposed to risks related to the cost of establishing or operating a
clearinghouse and the risk of defaults by our participants.
In order to address the competitive disadvantages of not owning our own clearinghouse, we may
decide to establish a clearinghouse that would clear transactions executed in our markets.
Alternatively, we may decide to purchase or acquire, or make a strategic investment in, an existing
clearinghouse for that purpose, although the number of clearing facilities not owned by our
competitors is limited. Establishing or acquiring a clearinghouse, and subsequently operating the
clearinghouse, would require substantial ongoing expenditures and would consume a significant
portion of our managements time, potentially limiting our ability to expand our business in other
ways, such as through acquisitions of other companies or the development of new products and
services. We cannot assure you that these clearing arrangements would be satisfactory to our
participants or would not require substantial systems modifications to accommodate them. The
transition to new clearing facilities could also be disruptive and costly to our participants.
There are substantial risks inherent in operating a clearinghouse.
In addition, our establishment or acquisition of a clearinghouse may not be successful, and it
is possible that the clearinghouse would not generate sufficient revenues to cover the expenses
incurred, which would subject us to losses. Moreover, by owning our own clearinghouse, we would be
exposed to the credit risk of our participants, to which we are not currently subject, and defaults
by our participants could subject us to substantial losses. We would also be subject to additional
regulation as a result of owning a clearinghouse.
We are currently subject to regulation in certain of our markets. Failure to comply with existing
regulatory requirements, and possible future changes in these requirements or in the current
interpretation of these requirements, could adversely affect our business.
We operate our OTC markets as an exempt commercial market under the Commodity Exchange Act.
As such, we are subject to access, reporting and record-keeping requirements of the Commodity
Futures Trading Commission, or the CFTC. However, unlike a futures exchange, our OTC business is
not generally regulated by the CFTC. Members of Congress have, at various times over the last
several years, introduced legislation seeking to restrict OTC derivatives trading of energy
generally and to bring electronic trading of OTC energy derivatives within the direct scope of CFTC
regulation. Separate pieces of legislation have recently been introduced in Congress
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that would (i) provide the CFTC with the authority to require exempt commercial markets to
comply with additional regulatory requirements, including the imposition of position limits, and to
require some participants on exempt commercial markets to file reports on their positions, and (ii)
place price controls on natural gas derivatives and make those derivatives tradable only on a
designated contract market, which is a regulatory status we do not presently hold. If adopted, this
legislation could require us and our participants to operate under heightened regulatory burdens
and incur additional costs in order to comply with the additional regulations, and could deter some
participants from trading on our OTC platform.
In contrast to our OTC business, ICE Futures, through which we conduct our futures business,
operates as a Recognized Investment Exchange in the United Kingdom. As a Recognized Investment
Exchange, ICE Futures has regulatory responsibility in its own right and is subject to supervision
by the Financial Services Authority pursuant to the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000, or
FSMA. ICE Futures is required under the FSMA to maintain sufficient financial resources, adequate
systems and controls and effective arrangements for monitoring and disciplining its members. ICE
Futures ability to comply with all applicable laws and rules is largely dependent on its
maintenance of compliance, audit and reporting systems. We cannot assure you that these systems and
procedures are fully effective.
Electronic trading in futures contracts on ICE Futures is permitted in many jurisdictions,
including in the United States, through no-action relief from the local jurisdictions regulatory
requirements. In the United States, direct electronic access to trading in ICE Futures products is
offered to U.S. persons based on a series of no-action letters from the CFTC that permit non-U.S.
exchanges, referred to as foreign boards of trade, to provide U.S. persons with electronic access
to their markets without registration with the CFTC. In connection with the launch of our ICE WTI
Crude futures contract in February 2006, the CFTC stated that it will be evaluating the future use
of its no-action process. The CFTC held a public hearing on June 27, 2006 to consider the issue of
what constitutes a board of trade, exchange, or market located outside the United States for the
purposes of exemption from CFTC jurisdiction and regulation. Prior to the hearing, the CFTC issued
a request for comment with respect to this issue. The comment period originally expired on July 12,
2006, but has been extended by the CFTC to August 1, 2006. Our ability to offer new futures
products under our existing no-action relief could be impacted by the pendency of the CFTCs policy
review and any actions taken by the CFTC as a result of its policy review. We cannot predict what
level of additional regulation our futures business and future products may be subjected to as a
result of this CFTC policy review. If we are unable to offer additional products, or if our
offerings of products are subject to additional regulatory constraints, our business could be
adversely affected. If the CFTC revokes or makes substantial revisions to the no-action process or
to the no-action decisions upon which we currently rely, ICE Futures may be required to comply with
additional regulation in the United States, including the possibility of being required to register
as a regulated futures exchange in the United States, known as a designated contract market.
Requiring ICE Futures to comply with regulation in addition to that presently required by its
primary regulator, the FSA, would be costly and time consuming and could subject ICE Futures to
duplicative or inconsistent regulatory requirements. Failure to comply with our current regulatory
requirements and regulatory requirements that may be imposed on us in the future could subject us
to significant penalties, including termination of our ability to conduct our regulated businesses.
Additional legislative and regulatory initiatives, either in the United States, the United
Kingdom or elsewhere, could affect one or more of the following aspects of our business or impose
one or more of the following requirements:
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The implementation of new regulations, or changes in or unfavorable interpretations of
existing regulations by courts or regulatory bodies could require us to incur significant
compliance costs and impede our ability to operate, expand and enhance our electronic platform as
necessary to remain competitive and expand our business. Regulatory changes inside or outside the
United States or the United Kingdom could materially and adversely affect our business, financial
condition and results of operations.
The energy commodities trading industry in North America has been subject to increased regulatory
scrutiny in the recent past, and we face the risk of changes to our regulatory environment in the
future, which may diminish trading volumes on our electronic platform.
Our OTC business is currently subject to limited regulatory oversight due to the types of
market participants eligible to trade in our OTC markets. As an exempt commercial market, we are
not subject to registration as an exchange nor to the type of ongoing comprehensive oversight to
which exchanges are subject. Instead, we are required to comply with access, reporting and
record-keeping requirements of the CFTC. In addition, our futures business is subject to primary
regulation by the FSA, and offers its products for trading in the United States pursuant to a
series of no-action letters, which effectively exempts it from CFTC jurisdiction and regulation.
In past years, and again recently, the market for OTC energy commodities trading has been the
subject of increased scrutiny by regulatory and enforcement authorities due to a number of highly
publicized problems involving energy commodities trading companies. This increased scrutiny has
included investigations by the Department of Justice, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and
the Federal Trade Commission of alleged manipulative trading practices, misstatements of financial
results, and other matters.
Furthermore, in response to the rise in energy commodity prices in recent years and
allegations that manipulative trading practices by certain market participants may have contributed
to the rise in prices, legislative and regulatory authorities at both the federal and state levels,
as well as political and consumer groups, have called for increased regulation and monitoring of
the OTC energy commodities markets and a review of the no-action process pursuant to which our
futures products are presently offered to market participants in the United States. For example,
regulators in some states have publicly questioned whether some form of regulation, including price
controls, should be re-imposed in OTC commodities markets, particularly in states where power
markets were deregulated in recent years. In addition, members of Congress have, at various times
in the last several years, introduced legislation seeking to restrict OTC derivatives trading of
energy contracts generally, to bring electronic trading of OTC energy derivatives within the direct
scope of CFTC regulation, to impose position limits on trading in energy commodities, and to
provide for expanded CFTC surveillance of both OTC and futures markets and the people and entities
that trade in those markets. Most recently, the United States Senate Permanent Subcommittee on
Investigations issued a report regarding its investigation into the role of market speculation in
rising oil and gas prices in which it specifically refers to our company. If any of these measures
are implemented, they could reduce demand for our products, which will adversely affect our
business.
Also, on January 19, 2006, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission issued final rules under
the Energy Policy Act of 2005 clarifying the agencys authority over market manipulation by all
electricity and natural gas sellers, transmission owners and pipe lines, regardless of whether they
are regulated by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. In addition, the Energy Policy Act of
2005 granted the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission the power to prescribe rules related to the
collection and government dissemination of information regarding the availability and price of
natural gas and wholesale electric energy. These rules and possible future exercises of the Federal
Energy Regulatory Commissions rulemaking powers could adversely affect the trading of certain of
our products and adversely impact demand for our data products in the United States or have other
material adverse impacts on our business.
It is possible that future unanticipated events in the markets for energy commodities trading
will lead to additional regulatory scrutiny and changes in the level of regulation to which our
business is subject. Increased regulation of our participants or our markets could materially
adversely affect our business. The imposition of stabilizing measures such as price controls in
energy commodities markets could substantially reduce or potentially even eliminate trading
activity in affected markets. New laws and rules applicable to our business could significantly
increase our regulatory compliance costs, delay or prevent us from introducing new products and
services as planned and discourage some market participants from using our electronic platform. New
allegations of manipulative trading by market participants could subject us to regulatory scrutiny
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business, as well as adverse publicity. All of this could lead to lower trading volumes and
transaction fees, higher operating costs and lower profitability or losses.
If we are unable to keep up with rapid changes in technology and participant preferences, we may
not be able to compete effectively.
To remain competitive, we must continue to enhance and improve the responsiveness,
functionality, accessibility and reliability of our electronic platform and our proprietary
technology. The financial services industry is characterized by rapid technological change, change
in use patterns, change in client preferences, frequent product and service introductions and the
emergence of new industry standards and practices. These changes could render our existing
proprietary technology uncompetitive or obsolete. Our ability to pursue our strategic objectives,
including increasing trading volumes on our platform following our transition to an all-electronic
marketplace, as well as our ability to continue to grow our business, will depend, in part, on our
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We cannot assure you that we will successfully implement new technologies or adapt our
proprietary technology to our participants requirements or emerging industry standards in a timely
and cost-effective manner. Any failure on our part to remain abreast of industry standards in
technology and to be responsive to participant preferences could cause our market share to decline
and negatively impact our profitability.
Our operating results are subject to significant fluctuations due to a number of factors. As a
result, you will not be able to rely on our operating results in any particular period as an
indication of our future performance.
A number of factors beyond our control may contribute to substantial fluctuations in our
operating results, particularly in our quarterly results. As a result of the factors described in
the preceding risk factors, you will not be able to rely on our operating results in any particular
period as an indication of our future performance. The energy commodities trading industry has
historically been subject to variability in trading volumes due primarily to five key factors.
These factors include geopolitical events, weather, real and perceived supply and demand imbalances
in the underlying energy commodities, the number of trading days in a quarter and seasonality. As a
result of one or more of these factors, trading volumes in our markets could decline, possibly
significantly, which would adversely affect our revenues derived from transaction fees. If we fail
to meet securities analysts expectations regarding our operating performance, the price of our
common stock could decline substantially. See also Risks Relating to our Common Stock The
market price of our common stock may fluctuate significantly.
Our cost structure is largely fixed. If our revenues decline and we are unable to reduce our
costs, our profitability will be adversely affected.
Our cost structure is largely fixed. We base our expectations of our cost structure on
historical and expected levels of demand for our products and services as well as our fixed
operating infrastructure, such as computer hardware and software, hosting facilities and security
and staffing levels. If demand for our products and services declines and, as a result, our
revenues decline, we may not be able to adjust our cost structure on a timely basis. In that event,
our profitability will be adversely affected.
Fluctuations in currency exchange rates may adversely affect our operating results.
The revenues, expenses and financial results of ICE Futures and other U.K. subsidiaries have
historically been denominated in pounds sterling, the functional currency of our U.K. subsidiaries.
We had foreign currency translation risk equal to our net investment in our subsidiaries. The
financial statements of our U.K. subsidiaries
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were translated into U.S. dollars using current rates of exchange, with gains or losses
included in the cumulative translation adjustment account, a component of shareholders equity. As
of June 30, 2006 and December 31, 2005, the portion of our shareholders equity attributable to
accumulated other comprehensive income from foreign currency translation was $30.7 million and
$21.3 million, respectively. The period-end foreign currency exchange rate for pounds sterling to
the U.S. dollar increased from 1.7188 as of December 31, 2005 to 1.8491 as of June 30, 2006.
Effective as of July 1, 2006, the functional currency of our U.K. subsidiaries became the U.S.
dollar. The functional currency of an entity is the currency of the primary economic environment in
which the entity operates. A change in functional currency should be accounted for prospectively,
and previously issued financial statements should not be restated for a change in functional
currency. In addition, if the functional currency changes from a foreign currency to the reporting
currency, as is the case with us, translation adjustments for prior periods should not be removed
from equity and the translated amounts for non-monetary assets as the end of the prior period
become the accounting basis for those assets in the period of the change and subsequent periods.
The functional currency switched based on various economic factors and circumstances, including the
fact that beginning in the second quarter of 2006, ICE Futures began to charge and collect exchange
fees in U.S. dollars rather than pounds sterling in its key futures contracts, including crude oil
and heating oil contracts. We will no longer recognize any translation adjustments in the
consolidated financial statements subsequent to June 30, 2006. However, gains and losses from
foreign currency transactions will continue to be included in other income (expense) in the
consolidated statements of income.
We have foreign currency transaction risk primarily related to the settlement of foreign
assets, liabilities and payables that occur through our foreign operations which are received in or
paid in pounds sterling. We had foreign currency transaction gains (losses) of ($317,000) and $1.1
million for the six months ended June 30, 2006 and 2005, respectively, primarily attributable to
the fluctuations of pounds sterling relative to the U.S. dollar. The average exchange rate of
pounds sterling to the U.S. dollar decreased from 1.8713 for the six months ended June 30, 2005 to
1.7973 for the six months ended June 30, 2006.
We may experience substantial gains or losses from foreign currency transactions given the
significant pounds sterling expense operations of our futures business segment in the United
Kingdom. Of our consolidated operating expenses, 30.8% and 34.6% were denominated in pounds
sterling for the six months ended June 30, 2006 and 2005, respectively. As the pounds sterling
exchange rate changes, the U.S. equivalent of expenses denominated in foreign currencies changes
accordingly. All sales in our business are denominated in U.S. dollars, except for some small
futures contracts in our futures business segment. Our U.K. operations in some instances function
as a natural hedge because we generally hold an equal amount of monetary assets and liabilities
that are denominated in pounds sterling.
While we currently enter into hedging transactions to help mitigate our foreign exchange risk
exposure, primarily with respect to our net investment in our U.K. subsidiaries, these hedging
arrangements may not always be effective, particularly in the event of imprecise forecasts of the
levels of our non-U.S. denominated assets and liabilities. Accordingly, if there is an adverse
movement in exchange rates, we may suffer significant losses, which would adversely affect our
operating results and financial condition.
The nature of our business is highly competitive, which may result in litigation with competitors
or competitors affiliated entities.
Our business is highly competitive. We have been sued in the past by NYMEX and we are
presently being sued by MBF Clearing Corp, an entity closely affiliated with NYMEX, over actions we
have taken in connection with conducting our business. In the latter action, MBF Clearing, a market
maker for certain NYMEX electronic contracts, filed a complaint against us that claims that we have
a monopoly over the electronic trading of Brent Crude Oil futures and certain other energy
contracts and that certain actions we have taken in denying MBF Clearing access to our markets are
in violation of antitrust laws, are in breach of contract and constitute tortious activity. MBF
Clearing claims that its business has been harmed as a result, and while MBF Clearing has not
specified an amount of damages in its suit, it claims that it should be awarded treble damages
under antitrust laws and punitive damages under state law. We filed a motion to dismiss all of MBF
Clearings claims in June 2006 and MBF Clearing filed its brief in opposition of our motion to
dismiss in July 2006. Briefing is still ongoing and we
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plan on filing a reply brief in the near future in connection with our motion to dismiss.
Separately, the CFTC has requested information in connection with this matter. While we intend to
defend these claims vigorously, litigation may be expensive, lengthy and disruptive to our normal
business operations. Moreover, the results of the above-referenced litigation, or possible future
litigation, are inherently uncertain and may result in adverse rulings or decisions that may,
individually or in the aggregate, impact our business in a material and adverse manner. For more
information regarding the NYMEX and MBF Clearing litigation, see Regulation and Legal Proceedings
Legal Proceedings. See also Any infringement by us of intellectual property rights of others
could result in litigation and adversely affect our ability to continue to provide, or increase the
costs of providing, our products and services.
Any infringement by us of intellectual property rights of others could result in litigation and
adversely affect our ability to continue to provide, or increase the cost of providing, our
products and services.
Patents and other intellectual property rights of third parties may have an important bearing
on our ability to offer certain of our products and services. Our competitors, as well as other
companies and individuals, may have obtained, and may be expected to obtain in the future, patent
rights related to the types of products and services we offer or plan to offer. We cannot assure
you that we are or will be aware of all patents that may pose a risk of infringement by our
products and services. In addition, some patent applications in the United States are confidential
until a patent is issued, and therefore we cannot evaluate the extent to which our products and
services may be covered or asserted to be covered in pending patent applications. Thus, we cannot
be sure that our products and services do not infringe on the rights of others or that others will
not make claims of infringement against us.
In addition, our competitors may claim other intellectual property rights over information
that is used by us in our product offerings. For example, in November 2002, NYMEX filed claims
against us in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York asserting that, among
other things, we infringed copyrights NYMEX claims exist in its publicly available settlement
prices that we use in connection with the clearing of certain of our OTC derivative contracts.
While the court granted a motion for summary judgment in our favor in September 2005 dismissing all
claims brought against us by NYMEX, NYMEX is appealing the ruling of the District Court to the
Second Circuit Court of Appeals, and no decision has yet been made by the Court of Appeals. If
NYMEX successfully appeals the courts judgment and we are subsequently found to have infringed
NYMEXs intellectual property rights after a trial, we may incur substantial monetary damages and
we may be enjoined from using or referring to one or more types of NYMEX settlement prices. If we
are enjoined from using or referring to NYMEX settlement prices, we could lose all or a substantial
portion of our cleared trading volume in Henry Hub natural gas and West Texas Intermediate crude
oil contracts and the related commission revenues. For more information regarding the NYMEX
litigation, see Regulation and Legal Proceedings Legal Proceedings NYMEX Claim of
Infringement.
With respect to our intellectual property, if one or more of our products or services is found
to infringe patents held by others, we may be required to stop developing or marketing the products
or services, obtain licenses to develop and market the products or services from the holders of the
patents or redesign the products or services in such a way as to avoid infringing the patents. We
also could be required to pay damages if we were found to infringe patents held by others, which
could materially adversely affect our business, financial condition and operating results. We
cannot assess the extent to which we may be required in the future to obtain licenses with respect
to patents held by others, whether such licenses would be available or, if available, whether we
would be able to obtain such licenses on commercially reasonable terms. If we were unable to obtain
such licenses, we may not be able to redesign our products or services at a reasonable cost to
avoid infringement, which could materially adversely affect our business, financial condition and
operating results.
Some of the proprietary technology we employ may be vulnerable to infringement by others.
Our business is dependent on proprietary technology and other intellectual property that we
own or license from third parties. Despite precautions we have taken or may take to protect our
intellectual property rights, third parties could copy or otherwise obtain and use our proprietary
technology without authorization. It may be difficult for us to monitor unauthorized use of our
intellectual property. We cannot assure you that the steps that we have taken will prevent
misappropriation of our proprietary technology or intellectual property.
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We have filed U.S. patent applications for our electronic trade confirmation service, our
method to allow a participant to engage in program trading while protecting its data (referred to
as ICEMaker), our method for displaying both cleared and bilateral OTC contracts in single price
stream, our method for locking prices on electronic trading screens, and our method for exchanging
OTC contracts and futures contracts in similar base commodities on an electronic trading platform.
In addition, we have been issued a joint U.S. patent with NYMEX covering an implied market trading
system. We have also filed patent applications in the European Patent Office and Canada for our
electronic trade confirmation service and our method for displaying cleared and bilateral OTC
contracts in a single price stream, as well as having made a filing under the Patent Cooperation
Treaty with respect to ICEMaker. On May 5, 2006, we filed two new patent applications with the U.S.
patent office and three corresponding patent applications under the Patent Cooperation Treaty, all
of which related to systems and features for trading commodities contracts. We cannot assure you
that we will obtain any final patents covering these services, nor can we predict the scope of any
patents issued. In addition, we cannot assure you that any patent issued will be effective to
protect this intellectual property against misappropriation. Third parties in Europe or elsewhere
could acquire patents covering this or other intellectual property for which we obtain patents in
the United States, or equivalent intellectual property, as a result of differences in local laws
affecting patentability and patent validity. Third parties in other jurisdictions might also
misappropriate our intellectual property rights with impunity if intellectual property protection
laws are not actively enforced in those jurisdictions. Patent infringement and/or the grant of
parallel patents would erode the value of our intellectual property.
We have secured trademark registrations for IntercontinentalExchange and ICE from the
United States Patent and Trademark Office and from relevant agencies in Europe as appropriate, as
well as registrations for other trademarks we use in our business. We also have several U.S. and
foreign applications pending for other trademarks we use in our business. We cannot assure you that
any of these marks for which applications are pending will be registered.
We may have to resort to litigation to enforce our intellectual property rights, protect our
trade secrets, and determine the validity and scope of the intellectual property rights of others
or defend ourselves from claims of infringement. We may not receive an adequate remedy for any
infringement of our intellectual property rights, and we may incur substantial costs and diversion
of resources and the attention of management as a result of litigation, even if we prevail. As a
result, we may choose not to enforce our infringed intellectual property rights, depending on our
strategic evaluation and judgment regarding the best use of our resources, the relative strength of
our intellectual property portfolio and the recourse available to us.
We face significant challenges in implementing our strategic goals of expanding product and
service offerings and attracting new market participants to our markets. If we do not meet these
challenges, we may not be able to increase our revenues or remain profitable.
We seek to expand the range of commodity products that can be traded in our markets and to
ensure that trading in those new products becomes liquid within a sufficiently short period of time
to support viable trading markets. We also seek to expand the number of contracts traded in our
futures markets following the closure of our open-outcry trading floor. In meeting these strategic
goals, however, we face a number of significant challenges, including the following:
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To introduce new cleared contracts, we must first obtain the approval of LCH.Clearnet,
our provider of clearing services. The timing and terms of LCH.Clearnets approval may
prevent us from bringing new cleared contracts to market as quickly and competitively as our
competitors. The approval of LCH.Clearnet and the timing of its receipt will depend upon the
type of product proposed, the type and extent of system modification required to establish
clearing functionality for the relevant product and the integration of the new contract with
our electronic platform and other challenges posed. This could result in a substantial delay
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must continue to expand capacity without disrupting functionality to satisfy evolving
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that will interface successfully with the wide variety of unique internal systems used by
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We must continue to build significant brand recognition among commodities market
participants in order to attract new participants to our markets. This will require us to
increase our marketing expenditures. The cost of our marketing efforts may be greater than
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Even if we resolve these issues and are able to introduce new products and services, there is
no assurance that they will be accepted by our participants, attract new market participants, or be
competitive with those offered by other companies. If we do not succeed in these efforts on a
consistent, sustained basis, we will be unable to implement our strategic objectives. This would
seriously jeopardize our ability to increase and diversify our revenues, remain profitable and
continue as a viable competitor in our markets.
Reductions in our commission rates resulting from competitive pressures could lower our revenues
and profitability.
We expect to experience pressure on our commission rates as a result of competition we face in
our futures and OTC markets. Some of our competitors offer a broader range of products and services
to a larger participant base, and enjoy higher trading volumes, than we do. Consequently, our
competitors may be able and willing to offer commodity trading services at lower commission rates
than we currently offer or may be able to offer. As a result of this pricing competition, we could
lose both market share and revenues. We believe that any downward pressure on commission rates
would likely continue and intensify as we continue to develop our business and gain recognition in
our markets. A decline in commission rates could lower our revenues, which would adversely affect
our profitability. In addition, our competitors may offer other financial incentives such as
rebates or payments in order to induce trading in their markets, rather than ours.
Our business may be harmed by computer and communications systems failures and delays.
We support and maintain many of the systems that comprise our electronic platform. Our failure
to monitor or maintain these systems, or to find replacements for defective components within a
system in a timely and cost-effective manner when necessary, could have a material adverse effect
on our ability to conduct our business. Although we fully replicate our primary data center, our
redundant systems or disaster recovery plans may prove to be inadequate. Our systems, or those of
our third party providers, may fail or, due to capacity constraints, may operate slowly, causing
one or more of the following:
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We could experience system failures due to power or telecommunications failures, human error
on our part or on the part of our vendors or participants, natural disasters, fire, sabotage,
hardware or software malfunctions or defects, computer viruses, intentional acts of vandalism or
terrorism and similar events. In these instances, our disaster recovery plan may prove ineffective.
If any one or more of these situations were to arise, they could result in damage to our business
reputation, participant dissatisfaction with our electronic platform, prompting participants to
trade elsewhere, or exposure to litigation or regulatory sanctions. As a consequence, our business,
financial condition and results of operations could suffer materially.
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Our systems and those of our third party service providers may be vulnerable to security
risks, which could result in wrongful use of our information, or which could make our
participants reluctant to use our electronic platform.
We regard the secure transmission of confidential information on our electronic platform as a
critical element of our operations. Our networks and those of our participants and our third party
service providers, including LCH.Clearnet, may, however, be vulnerable to unauthorized access,
computer viruses, firewall or encryption failures and other security problems. We may be required
to expend significant resources to protect ourselves and our participants against the threat of
security breaches or to alleviate problems caused by security breaches. Although we intend to
continue to implement industry standard security measures, we cannot assure you that those measures
will be sufficient to protect our business against losses or any reduced trading volume incurred in
our markets as a result of any significant security breaches on our platform.
We rely on specialized management and employees.
Our future success depends, in part, upon the continued contributions of our executive
officers and key employees who we rely on for executing our business strategy and identifying new
strategic initiatives. Some of these individuals have significant experience in the energy
commodities trading industry and financial services markets generally, and possess extensive
technology skills. We rely in particular on Jeffrey C. Sprecher, our chief executive officer,
Charles A. Vice, our president and chief operating officer, Richard V. Spencer, our chief financial
officer, David S. Goone, our chief strategic officer, and Edwin D. Marcial, our chief technology
officer, as well as certain other employees responsible for product development and technological
development within our company. Although we have entered into employment agreements with each of
these executive officers, it is possible that one or more of these persons could voluntarily
terminate their employment agreements with us. Furthermore, we have not entered into employment
agreements with non-executive personnel, who may terminate their employment with us at any time.
Several of these employees have been with our company since inception and have fully vested stock
options. Any loss or interruption of the services of our executive officers or other key personnel
could result in our inability to manage our operations effectively or to execute our business
strategy. We cannot assure you that we would be able to find appropriate replacements for these key
personnel if the need arose. We may have to incur significant costs to replace key employees who
leave, and our ability to execute our business strategy could be impaired if we cannot replace
departing employees in a timely manner. Competition in our industry for persons with trading
industry and technology expertise is intense.
We rely on third party providers and other suppliers for a number of services that are important
to our business. An interruption or cessation of an important service or supply by any third
party could have a material adverse effect on our business.
In addition to our dependence on LCH.Clearnet as a clearing service provider, we depend on a
number of suppliers, such as online service providers, hosting service and software providers, data
processors, software and hardware vendors, banks, and telephone companies, for elements of our
trading, clearing and other systems. For example, we rely on Atos Euronext Market Solutions Limited
for the provision of a trade registration system that routes trades executed in our markets to
LCH.Clearnet for clearing. Atos Euronext Market Solutions Limited and other companies within the
Euronext, N.V. group of companies, are potential competitors to both our futures business and our
OTC business, which may affect the continued provision of these services in the future. Moreover,
the proposed merger between NYSE Group, Inc. and Euronext, N.V., as well as the general trend
toward industry consolidation, may increase the risk that these services may not be available to us
in the future. We also rely on a large international telecommunications company for the provision
of hosting services. If this company were to discontinue providing these services to us, we would
likely experience significant disruption to our business until we were able to establish
connectivity with another provider.
We cannot assure you that any of these providers will be able to continue to provide these
services in an efficient, cost-effective manner or that they will be able to adequately expand
their services to meet our needs. We also cannot assure you that any of these providers will not
terminate its business relationship with us for competitive reasons or otherwise. An interruption
in or the cessation of an important service or supply by any third party and our inability to make
alternative arrangements in a timely manner, or at all, would result in lost revenues and higher
costs.
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In addition, our participants may access our electronic platform through 12 independent
software vendors, which represent a substantial portion of the independent software vendors that
serve the commodities markets. The loss of a significant number of independent software vendors
providing access could make our platform less attractive to participants who prefer this form of
access.
As an electronic futures and OTC marketplace, we are subject to significant litigation and
liability risks.
Many aspects of our business, and the businesses of our participants, involve substantial
risks of liability. These risks include, among others, potential liability from disputes over terms
of a trade, the claim that a system failure or delay caused monetary loss to a participant or that
an unauthorized trade occurred. For example, dissatisfied participants that have traded on our
electronic platform, or those on whose behalf our participants have traded, may make claims
regarding the quality of trade execution, or alleged improperly confirmed or settled trades,
abusive trading practices, security and confidentiality breaches, mismanagement or even fraud
against us or our participants. In addition, because of the ease and speed with which sizable
trades can be executed on our electronic platform, participants can lose substantial amounts by
inadvertently entering trade orders or by entering them inaccurately. A large number of significant
error trades could result in participant dissatisfaction.
As a result, we could incur significant legal expenses defending claims against us, even those
without merit. The adverse resolution of any lawsuits or claims against us could result in our
obligation to pay substantial damages, and cause us reputational harm. Our participants may face
similar legal challenges, and these challenges could affect their ability or willingness to trade
on our electronic platform. The initiation of lawsuits or other claims against us, or against our
participants with regard to their trading activities, could adversely affect our business,
financial condition and results of operations, whether or not these lawsuits or other claims are
resolved in our favor. If we violate the terms and provisions of the Commodity Exchange Act under
which we operate our OTC business, or if the CFTC concludes or believes we have violated other
provisions of the Commodity Exchange Act, we could also be exposed to substantial liability. See
also We are currently subject to regulation in certain of our markets. Failure to comply with
existing regulatory requirements, and possible future changes in these requirements, could
adversely affect our business.
If we are compelled to monitor our OTC participants compliance with applicable standards, our
operating expenses and exposure to private litigation could increase.
While we have self-regulatory status in our futures business, we currently do not assume
responsibility for enforcing compliance with applicable commercial and legal standards by our
participants when they trade OTC contracts in our markets. If we determined that it was necessary
to undertake such a role in respect of OTC products for example, to deter unfavorable regulatory
actions, to respond to regulatory actions or simply to maintain our participants confidence in the
integrity of our OTC markets we would have to invest heavily in developing new compliance and
surveillance systems, and our operating expenses could increase significantly. Our assumption of
such a role could also increase our exposure to lawsuits from dissatisfied participants and other
parties claiming that we failed to deter inappropriate or illegal conduct.
Our compliance and risk management methods might not be effective and may result in outcomes that
could adversely affect our financial condition and operating results.
Our ability to comply with applicable laws and rules is largely dependent on our establishment
and maintenance of compliance, audit and reporting systems, as well as our ability to attract and
retain qualified compliance and other risk management personnel. Our policies and procedures to
identify, monitor and manage our risks may not be fully effective. Management of operational, legal
and regulatory risk requires, among other things, policies and procedures to record properly and
verify a large number of transactions and events. We cannot assure you that our policies and
procedures will always be effective or that we will always be successful in monitoring or
evaluating the risks to which we are or may be exposed.
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Risks Relating to Our Common Stock
The market price of our common stock may fluctuate significantly.
The market price of our common stock has, and may continue, to fluctuate significantly from
time to time as a result of many factors, including:
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differences between our actual financial and operating results and those expected by
investors and analysts; |
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strategic partnerships or divestitures; |
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In particular, announcements of potentially adverse developments, such as proposed regulatory
changes, new government investigations or the commencement or threat of litigation against us or
our major participants, as well as announced changes in our business plans or those of our
competitors, could adversely affect the trading price of our stock, regardless of the likely
outcome of those developments. Broad market and industry factors may adversely affect the market
price of our common stock, regardless of our actual operating performance.
Future sales of our shares could adversely affect the market price of our common stock.
If our existing shareholders sell substantial amounts of our common stock in the public market
or if we issue a large number of shares of our common stock in connection with future acquisitions,
the market price of our common stock could decline significantly. Also, the perception that such
sales of a large number of shares of our common stock could occur may cause our stock price to
decline. Sales by our existing shareholders might also make it more difficult for us to raise
equity capital by selling common stock at a time and price that we deem appropriate.
Delaware law and some provisions of our organizational documents and employment agreements make a
takeover of our company more difficult.
Provisions of our charter and bylaws may have the effect of delaying, deferring or preventing
a change in control of our company. A change of control could be proposed in the form of a tender
offer or takeover proposal that might result in a premium over the market price for our common
stock. In addition, these provisions could make it more difficult to bring about a change in the
composition of our board of directors, which could result in entrenchment of current management.
For example, our charter and bylaws:
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holders of the Class A common stock; |
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not permit shareholders to call a special meeting unless at least a majority of the
shareholders join in the request to call such a meeting; |
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allow a meeting of shareholders to be adjourned or postponed without the vote of
shareholders; |
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and require that a bylaw amendment proposed by shareholders be approved by 66 2/3% of all
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require that notice of shareholder proposals be submitted between 90 and 120 days prior
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In addition, Section 203 of the Delaware General Corporation Law imposes restrictions on
mergers and other business combinations between us and any holder of 15% or more of our common
stock. Delaware law prohibits a publicly held corporation from engaging in a business combination
with an interested shareholder for three years after the shareholder becomes an interested
shareholder, unless the corporations board of directors and shareholders approve the business
combination in a prescribed manner or the interested shareholder has acquired a designated
percentage of our voting stock at the time it becomes an interested shareholder.
Our employment agreements with our executive officers also contain change in control
provisions. Under the terms of these employment agreements, all of the stock options granted to
these officers after entering into the agreement will fully vest and become immediately exercisable
if such officers employment is terminated following, or as a result of, a change in control of our
company. In addition, the executive officer is entitled to receive a significant cash payment.
These and other provisions of our organizational documents, employment agreements and Delaware
law may have the effect of delaying, deferring or preventing changes of control or changes in
management of our company, even if such transactions or changes would have significant benefits for
our shareholders. As a result, these provisions could limit the price some investors might be
willing to pay in the future for shares of our common stock.
We do not expect to pay any dividends for the foreseeable future.
We do not anticipate paying any dividends to our shareholders for the foreseeable future.
Accordingly, investors must be prepared to rely on sales of their common stock after price
appreciation to earn an investment return, which may never occur. Investors seeking cash dividends
should not purchase our common stock. Any determination to pay dividends in the future will be made
at the discretion of our board of directors and will depend upon our results of operations,
financial conditions, contractual restrictions, restrictions imposed by applicable law or the
Securities and Exchange Commission and other factors our board deems relevant.
Item 2. Unregistered Sales of Equity Securities and Use of Proceeds
None.
Item 3. Defaults Upon Senior Securities
None.
Item 4. Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders
Our annual meeting of shareholders was held in Atlanta, Georgia on May 11, 2006. At the annual
meeting, the shareholders were presented with two proposals as set forth in our annual proxy
statement, both of which were approved.
Out of 55,581,702 shares of stock entitled to vote at such meeting based upon the record date
of March 20, 2006, there were present in person or by proxy an aggregate of 47,977,078 shares,
constituting a quorum. The following sets forth detailed information regarding the results of the
voting at the meeting for each proposal:
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Proposal 1. The shareholders elected the following directors to serve for the ensuing year.
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| Name of Nominee |
|
Votes For |
|
Votes Withheld |
Charles R. Crisp |
|
|
47,856,280 |
|
|
|
120,798 |
|
Jean-Marc Forneri |
|
|
43,413,563 |
|
|
|
4,563,515 |
|
Sir Robert Reid |
|
|
47,502,968 |
|
|
|
474,110 |
|
Frederic V. Salerno |
|
|
47,838,508 |
|
|
|
138,570 |
|
Richard L. Sandor |
|
|
47,700,121 |
|
|
|
276,957 |
|
Jeffrey C. Sprecher |
|
|
47,773,221 |
|
|
|
203,857 |
|
Judith A. Sprieser |
|
|
47,932,979 |
|
|
|
44,099 |
|
Vincent Tese |
|
|
47,606,645 |
|
|
|
370,433 |
|
Proposal 2. The shareholders ratified the appointment by the Audit Committee of the Board of
Directors of Ernst & Young LLP as our independent registered public accounting firm for 2006.
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| For |
|
Against |
|
Abstain |
47,944,202 |
|
|
23,951 |
|
|
|
8,925 |
|
Item 5. Other Information
None.
Item 6. Exhibits
| |
|
|
|
|
| Exhibit |
|
|
|
|
| Number |
|
|
|
Description of Document |
10.1
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|
|
|
Employment Agreement, dated as of May 12, 2006, between
IntercontinentalExchange, Inc. and David S. Goone (incorporated by reference to
Exhibit 10.1 to our Current Report on Form 8-K, filed with the SEC on May 17,
2006, File No. 001-32671). |
|
|
|
|
|
10.2
|
|
|
|
Lease Amendment Seven, dated as of May 12, 2006, by and between CMD Realty
Investment Fund IV, L.P. and IntercontinentalExchange, Inc. (incorporated by
reference to Exhibit 10.2 to our Current Report on Form 8-K, filed with the SEC
on May 17, 2006, File No. 001-32671). |
|
|
|
|
|
31.1
|
|
|
|
Rule 13a-14(a)/15d-14(a) Certification of Chief Executive Officer. |
|
|
|
|
|
31.2
|
|
|
|
Rule 13a-14(a)/15d-14(a) Certification of Chief Financial Officer. |
|
|
|
|
|
32.1
|
|
|
|
Section 1350 Certification of Chief Executive Officer. |
|
|
|
|
|
32.2
|
|
|
|
Section 1350 Certification of Chief Financial Officer. |
|
|
|
| |
|
Confidential treatment has been requested for portions of this exhibit. |
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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 thereunto duly authorized.
| |
|
|
|
|
| |
INTERCONTINENTALEXCHANGE, INC.
(Registrant)
|
|
| Date: July 28, 2006 |
By: |
/s/ Richard V. Spencer
|
|
| |
|
Richard V. Spencer |
|
| |
|
Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer
(Principal Financial Officer and Principal
Accounting Officer) |
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