By Daniel Sparks
Publication Date: 2025-12-29 18:51:00
Interactive Brokers’ stock has soared, fueled by surging account growth and strong momentum across its entire business.
Interactive Brokers (IBKR 1.28%) has quietly outpaced one of the market’s most talked-about winners in 2025. As of this writing, Interactive Brokers’ stock has risen about 50% in 2025, beating AI (artificial intelligence) chipmaker Nvidia‘s (NVDA 1.77%) 42% gain.
That comparison is useful because it highlights something investors can miss when attention is concentrated in one corner of the market: You don’t always need the hottest market darlings to earn market-beating returns. Interactive Brokers is doing it by compounding client accounts and scaling its low-cost online brokerage model.
But can Interactive Brokers continue to outperform Nvidia stock going forward?
I think so — and here’s why.
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Incredible momentum
Interactive is seeing strong growth in its business across essentially every key metric.
To get a glimpse of just how well the company is doing, just take a look at its third-quarter results. Attracted to Interactive Brokers’ low-cost and highly automated platform with global market access, the online broker’s customer accounts increased 32% year over year to 4.13 million last quarter. Even more, customer equity rose 40% to $757.5 billion. And total daily average revenue trades — the company’s count of customer orders per trading day that generated revenue for the company — increased 34% to 3.62 million.
These…
