factset research systems inc. - FDS

FDS

Close Chg Chg %
319.93 9.83 3.07%

Closed Market

329.76

+9.83 (3.07%)

Volume: 1.23M

Last Updated:

Oct 30, 2026, 3:59 PM EDT

Company Overview: factset research systems inc. - FDS

FDS Key Data

Open

$322.43

Day Range

322.00 - 332.67

52 Week Range

185.00 - 339.83

Market Cap

$11.02B

Shares Outstanding

35.25M

Public Float

35.14M

Beta

0.77

Rev. Per Employee

N/A

P/E Ratio

21.46

EPS

$14.61

Yield

141.23%

Dividend

$1.16

EX-DIVIDEND DATE

Aug 31, 2026

SHORT INTEREST

N/A

AVERAGE VOLUME

704.23K

 

FDS Performance

1 Week
 
-0.53%
 
1 Month
 
23.90%
 
3 Months
 
25.22%
 
1 Year
 
23.53%
 
5 Years
 
-26.25%
 

FDS Analyst Ratings

  • Sell
  • Under
  • Hold
  • Over
  • Buy
Number of Ratings 22
Full Ratings ➔

About factset research systems inc. - FDS

FactSet Research Systems Inc. (the "Company" or "FactSet") is a global financial digital platform and enterprise solutions provider with open and flexible technologies that aims to supercharge financial intelligence. Since inception, global financial professionals have utilized the company's content and multi-asset class solutions across each stage of the investment process. FactSet's goal is to provide a seamless user experience spanning idea generation, research, portfolio construction, trade execution, performance measurement, risk management, reporting, and portfolio analysis, in which the company serves the front, middle, and back offices to drive productivity and improved performance. FactSet's flexible, open data and technology solutions can be implemented both across the investment portfolio lifecycle or as standalone components serving different workflows in the organization. FactSet is focused on growing the business throughout each of its three segments, the Americas, EMEA (formerly known as Europe), and Asia Pacific. FactSet revised its internal organization within each segment to offer data, products and analytical applications by firm type: Institutional Buyside, Dealmakers, Wealth, and Partnerships and CGS. The company believes organization by firm type better aligns with its clients, the long-term view of its business and commitment to investing for growth and efficiency. FactSet currently serves financial professionals, which include portfolio managers, investment research professionals, investment bankers, risk and performance analysts, wealth advisors and corporate clients. FactSet provides both insights on global market trends and intelligence on companies and industries, as well as capabilities to monitor portfolio risk and performance and to execute trades. The company combines dedicated client service with open and flexible technology offerings, such as a configurable desktop and mobile platform, comprehensive data feeds, an open marketplace and digital portals and application programming interfaces ("APIs"). The company’s revenue is primarily derived from subscriptions to products and services such as workstations, analytics, enterprise data, and research management. FactSet Research Systems was founded by Howard E. Wille and Charles J. Snyder in September 1978 and is headquartered in Norwalk, CT.

FDS At a Glance

FactSet Research Systems, Inc.
45 Glover Avenue
Norwalk, Connecticut 06850
Phone 1-203-810-1000 Revenue 2.48B
Industry Financial Publishing/Services Net Income 533.48M
Sector Commercial Services 2026 Sales Growth 6.655%
Fiscal Year-end 08 / 2027 Employees 12,444
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FDS Valuation

P/E Current 21.459
P/E Ratio (with extraordinary items) N/A
P/E Ratio (without extraordinary items) 21.518
Price to Sales Ratio 4.636
Price to Book Ratio 5.522
Price to Cash Flow Ratio 13.96
Enterprise Value to EBITDA 13.148
Enterprise Value to Sales 5.149
Total Debt to Enterprise Value 0.121

FDS Efficiency

Revenue/Employee 198,991.964
Income Per Employee 42,870.54
Receivables Turnover 8.292
Total Asset Turnover 0.586

FDS Liquidity

Current Ratio 0.598
Quick Ratio 0.598
Cash Ratio 0.249

FDS Profitability

Gross Margin 50.605
Operating Margin 30.558
Pretax Margin 26.238
Net Margin 21.544
Return on Assets 12.635
Return on Equity 25.475
Return on Total Capital 15.052
Return on Invested Capital 15.872

FDS Capital Structure

Total Debt to Total Equity 77.049
Total Debt to Total Capital 43.518
Total Debt to Total Assets 37.256
Long-Term Debt to Equity 50.389
Long-Term Debt to Total Capital 28.461
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Annual Financials for Factset Research Systems Inc. - FDS

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All values USD millions. 2023 2024 2025 2026 5-year trend
Sales/Revenue
2.09B 2.20B 2.32B 2.48B
Sales Growth
+13.10% +5.64% +5.39% +6.65%
Cost of Goods Sold (COGS) incl D&A
973.23M 1.01B 1.10B 1.22B
COGS excluding D&A
- - - -
-
Depreciation & Amortization Expense
137.73M 155.59M 188.67M 213.10M
Depreciation
50.44M 50.64M 55.10M 57.76M
Amortization of Intangibles
87.28M 104.95M 133.57M 155.34M
COGS Growth
+11.72% +3.98% +8.48% +11.42%
Gross Income
1.11B 1.19B 1.22B 1.25B
Gross Income Growth
+14.34% +7.09% +2.76% +2.38%
Gross Profit Margin
+53.33% +54.07% +52.72% +50.61%
2023 2024 2025 2026 5-year trend
SG&A Expense
427.04M 478.59M 457.64M 496.41M
Research & Development
267.40M 265.20M 300.70M 346.10M
Other SG&A
159.64M 213.39M 156.94M 150.31M
SGA Growth
+8.23% +12.07% -4.38% +8.47%
Other Operating Expense
- - - -
-
Unusual Expense
52.86M 11.16M 18.02M 56.74M
EBIT after Unusual Expense
632.38M 701.37M 748.30M 699.96M
Non Operating Income/Expense
31.55M 19.20M 28.98M 4.44M
Non-Operating Interest Income
12.81M 14.45M 6.53M 4.06M
Equity in Earnings of Affiliates
- - - -
-
Interest Expense
79.98M 69.06M 56.32M 54.68M
Interest Expense Growth
+115.84% -13.64% -18.45% -2.91%
Gross Interest Expense
79.98M 69.06M 56.32M 54.68M
Interest Capitalized
- - - -
-
Pretax Income
583.95M 651.50M 720.96M 649.72M
Pretax Income Growth
+31.64% +11.57% +10.66% -9.88%
Pretax Margin
+28.00% +29.57% +31.05% +26.24%
Income Tax
115.78M 114.38M 123.92M 116.23M
Income Tax - Current - Domestic
77.22M 87.83M 43.85M 68.31M
Income Tax - Current - Foreign
69.67M 58.57M 83.61M 62.20M
Income Tax - Deferred - Domestic
(22.89M) (32.61M) 1.74M (15.60M)
Income Tax - Deferred - Foreign
(8.23M) 590.00K (5.29M) 1.31M
Income Tax Credits
- - - -
-
Equity in Earnings of Affiliates
- - - -
-
Other After Tax Income (Expense)
- - - -
-
Consolidated Net Income
468.17M 537.13M 597.04M 533.48M
Minority Interest Expense
- - - -
-
Net Income
468.17M 537.13M 597.04M 533.48M
Net Income Growth
+17.95% +14.73% +11.15% -10.65%
Net Margin Growth
+22.45% +24.38% +25.72% +21.54%
Extraordinaries & Discontinued Operations
- - - -
-
Discontinued Operations
- - - -
-
Net Income After Extraordinaries
468.17M 537.13M 597.04M 533.48M
Preferred Dividends
- - - -
-
Net Income Available to Common
468.17M 537.13M 597.04M 533.48M
EPS (Basic)
12.2578 14.113 15.7431 14.6291
EPS (Basic) Growth
+16.93% +15.13% +11.55% -7.08%
Basic Shares Outstanding
38.19M 38.06M 37.92M 36.47M
EPS (Diluted)
12.0359 13.9087 15.554 14.5712
EPS (Diluted) Growth
+17.46% +15.56% +11.83% -6.32%
Diluted Shares Outstanding
38.90M 38.62M 38.38M 36.61M
EBITDA
822.97M 868.12M 955.00M 969.80M
EBITDA Growth
+16.25% +5.49% +10.01% +1.55%
EBITDA Margin
+39.46% +39.41% +41.13% +39.16%

Snapshot

Average Recommendation HOLD Average Target Price 285.813
Number of Ratings 22 Current Quarters Estimate 5.00
FY Report Date 11 / 2026 Current Year's Estimate 19.672
Last Quarter’s Earnings 4.52 Median PE on CY Estimate N/A
Year Ago Earnings 18.01 Next Fiscal Year Estimate 21.719
Median PE on Next FY Estimate N/A

Earnings Per Share

This Quarter Next Quarter This Fiscal Next Fiscal
# of Estimates 16 16 18 16
Mean Estimate 5.00 4.91 19.67 21.72
High Estimates 5.13 5.04 20.46 23.05
Low Estimate 4.75 4.81 19.39 21.12
Coefficient of Variance 2.18 1.46 1.32 2.18

Analysts Recommendations

Current 1 Month Ago 3 Months Ago
BUY 4 4 3
OVERWEIGHT 0 0 0
HOLD 11 11 11
UNDERWEIGHT 2 2 1
SELL 5 5 5
MEAN Hold Hold Hold

Insider Actions for Factset Research Systems Inc. - FDS

Date Name Shares Transaction Value
Oct 14, 2026 Gregory T. Moskoff MD,Controller and CAO 183 Other acquisition or disposition Non-derivative transaction at $301.23 per share 55,125.09
Oct 14, 2026 Katherine M. Stepp EVP, Chief AI Officer 808 Other acquisition or disposition Non-derivative transaction at $273.39 per share 220,899.12
Oct 14, 2026 John Costigan EVP, Co-Head of Product 4,488 Other acquisition or disposition Non-derivative transaction at $184.29 per share 827,093.52
Oct 14, 2026 John Costigan EVP, Co-Head of Product 4,481 Other acquisition or disposition Non-derivative transaction at $273.39 per share 1,225,060.59
Oct 14, 2026 John Costigan EVP, Co-Head of Product 4,480 Other acquisition or disposition Non-derivative transaction at $301.23 per share 1,349,510.40
Oct 14, 2026 Gregory T. Moskoff MD,Controller and CAO 225 Other acquisition or disposition Non-derivative transaction at $230.22 per share 51,799.50
Oct 14, 2026 Gregory T. Moskoff MD,Controller and CAO 206 Other acquisition or disposition Non-derivative transaction at $221.29 per share 45,585.74
Oct 14, 2026 Gregory T. Moskoff MD,Controller and CAO 206 Other acquisition or disposition Non-derivative transaction at $186.95 per share 38,511.70
Oct 14, 2026 Gregory T. Moskoff MD,Controller and CAO 187 Other acquisition or disposition Non-derivative transaction at $208.84 per share 39,053.08
Oct 14, 2026 Gregory T. Moskoff MD,Controller and CAO 186 Other acquisition or disposition Non-derivative transaction at $184.29 per share 34,277.94
Oct 14, 2026 Gregory T. Moskoff MD,Controller and CAO 183 Other acquisition or disposition Non-derivative transaction at $273.39 per share 50,030.37
Oct 14, 2026 Goran Skoko EVP, Chief Revenue Officer 9,198 Other acquisition or disposition Non-derivative transaction at $301.23 per share 2,770,713.54
Oct 14, 2026 Kristina W. Karnovsky EVP, Co-Head of Product 2,538 Other acquisition or disposition Non-derivative transaction at $208.84 per share 530,035.92
Oct 14, 2026 Kristina W. Karnovsky EVP, Co-Head of Product 2,537 Other acquisition or disposition Non-derivative transaction at $273.39 per share 693,590.43
Oct 14, 2026 Kristina W. Karnovsky EVP, Co-Head of Product 2,536 Other acquisition or disposition Non-derivative transaction at $301.23 per share 763,919.28
Oct 14, 2026 Christopher Guy McLoughlin Chief Legal Officer 2,773 Other acquisition or disposition Non-derivative transaction at $230.22 per share 638,400.06
Oct 14, 2026 Christopher Guy McLoughlin Chief Legal Officer 2,747 Other acquisition or disposition Non-derivative transaction at $221.29 per share 607,883.63
Oct 14, 2026 Christopher Guy McLoughlin Chief Legal Officer 2,747 Other acquisition or disposition Non-derivative transaction at $186.95 per share 513,551.65
Oct 14, 2026 Joshua B. Warren EVP, Chief Financial Officer 2,273 Other acquisition or disposition Non-derivative transaction at $230.22 per share 523,290.06
Oct 14, 2026 Goran Skoko EVP, Chief Revenue Officer 9,215 Other acquisition or disposition Non-derivative transaction at $208.84 per share 1,924,460.60

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