Recurring & Diversified FeesWide moat
GPW (GPW) — moat facet
Many small tolls rather than one big one — listing, trading, clearing, data.
GPW's revenue is not one toll but a portfolio of them, and the mix is a genuine source of resilience. On the financial side there are transaction fees from trading, listing fees from issuers, and clearing and settlement charges; there is market-data and index-licensing revenue; and on the commodity side there is the whole energy-and-certificate toll plus IRGiT's clearing fees. No single stream dominates to the point of fragility, and the streams respond to different drivers.
Crucially, the streams differ in how cyclical they are. Transaction fees swing with market volumes and are the most sentiment-driven; but listing fees are paid year after year by companies that stay listed, data subscriptions renew, and a meaningful share of energy volume is underpinned by regulation. That blend of cyclical and recurring revenue makes the whole far steadier than a pure trading business, which lives and dies by volume alone. When equity turnover slumps, the recurring and commodity streams carry more of the load; when it booms, the transaction line supercharges the result. Diversification across many small tolls is exactly what lets an exchange in a volatile market still pay a dependable dividend — 60-80% of profit, by policy1.
Widening, slowly. As data, commodity, and benchmark revenue grow beside the cyclical trading toll, the recurring share of the mix rises — a gradual strengthening of the revenue's quality and steadiness.
The less of revenue that depends on turnover, the steadier the booth; a rising share means more cyclicality.
Source: GPW 2025 Management Board report ↗- ReportedThe dividend is 60-80% of profit, by policy.GPW FY2025 results (management board report) — record revenue 551,9m zł (+18,7%), adjusted EBITDA 225,4m zł (+37,7%), adjusted net profit 204,7m zł (+30,2%); dividend policy 60–80% of profit — FY2025 · publ. March 2026 · source ↗