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NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE, INC. · Financial Services · CIK 0001013237
$335.45
+4.86% · live
Updated
$11.83B market value
From FACTSET RESEARCH SYSTEMS INC's FY2026 10-K, filed Oct 20, 2026 · read the filing
FACTSET RESEARCH SYSTEMS makes and sells software and computing services. It took in $2.48B last year, which makes it a mid-sized company. Of every dollar it sells, about 22 cents is left as profit.
The financial picture is led by profitability and debt, with growth worth watching.
A conclusion from the filings, not a recommendation. Detailed figures and supporting evidence appear in their dedicated sections below.
Financial health
Strong finances across the board.
From FACTSET RESEARCH SYSTEMS INC's FY2026 annual filing · share price scored separately
Largest year-over-year changes in FY2026
Operating margin
32.2% → 28.3%
Profit margin
25.7% → 21.5%
Long-term debt
$1.37B → $870.6M
Cash
$337.7M → $233.3M
Measured against FY2025, from the 10-K filed Oct 20, 2026
Deteriorated: −4.0 pts
32.2% to 28.3%Significant
Why it matters: What survives each sale after running the business. A falling operating margin beside a steady gross margin points at overheads — wages, marketing, research — rather than pricing.
How the latest move compares (quote live), and what was published around it
FDS rose 4.86% on the latest quote. The average Technology company tracked here moved −1.33%, and the S&P 500 −1.04%. That is 6.2 points above its sector and 5.9 points above the market.
Expectations
Not from the filings — what other people are betting on, and what the price already assumes.
The growth rate someone buying today is paying for, against what the company has delivered
At today's price, the market is paying for free cash flow to grow by about 4% a year for the next 10 years. Over the last 10 years it grew by about 10% a year.
The essentials
Each answered from the filings, with the numbers behind it.
Yes. It keeps about 22 cents of every dollar of sales as profit, earning $533.5M last year.
Slowly. Sales grew 6.7% last year.
No. At its current cash flow it could clear its debt in about 1.4 years. For every $1 it owes, it owns $1.94 in assets.
Core operating and valuation reference metrics
Whether the dividend is covered by what the business actually earns
It pays out 31 cents of every dollar of profit and keeps the rest, which leaves the payment comfortably covered. It paid out 20% of the cash its operations generated. It has paid in each of the last 12 years.
GoodNext payment expected around , projected from how regularly it has paid before rather than from a date the company has announced.
Figures from the FY2026 annual filing
Last year it earned $533.5M and generated $822.2M of cash from operations.
Reported annual figures
As reported to the SEC, in USD. Hover or show sources to see where each figure came from.
| Income statement | FY202610-K · Oct 20, 2026Filing for FY2026 | FY202510-K · Oct 22, 2025Filing for FY2025 | FY202410-K · Oct 22, 2025Filing for FY2024 | FY202310-K · Oct 22, 2025Filing for FY2023 | FY202210-K · Oct 27, 2023Filing for FY2022 | ChangeFY2026 vs FY2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RevenueWhat is this? | $2.48B | $2.32B | $2.20B | $2.09B | $1.84B | +6.7% |
| Cost of revenue | $1.22B | $1.10B | $1.01B | $973.2M | $871.1M | +11.4% |
| Gross profit | $1.25B† | $1.22B† | $1.19B† | $1.11B† | $972.8M† | +2.4% |
| Gross marginGross profit ÷ revenueWhat is this? | 50.6% | 52.7% | 54.1% | 53.3% | 52.8% | −2.1 pts |
| Selling, general and administrative | $553.2M | $475.7M | $489.8M | $483.1M | $433.0M | +16.3% |
| Operating income | $700.0M | $748.3M | $701.3M | $629.2M | $475.5M | −6.5% |
| Operating marginOperating income ÷ revenueWhat is this? | 28.3% | 32.2% | 31.8% | 30.2% | 25.8% | −4.0 pts |
| Interest expense | $54.4M | $57.7M | $65.4M | $66.3M | $35.2M | −5.7% |
| Income before tax | $649.7M | $721.0M | $651.5M | $584.0M | $443.6M | −9.9% |
| Net income | $533.5M | $597.0M | $537.1M | $468.2M | $396.9M | −10.6% |
| Net marginNet income ÷ revenueWhat is this? | 21.5% | 25.7% | 24.4% | 22.4% | 21.5% | −4.2 pts |
| Earnings per shareNet income ÷ shares outstanding at the period end — close to, but not the same as, the reported EPSWhat is this? | $15.13 | $15.86 | $14.15 | $12.31 | $10.43 | −4.6% |
† calculated from other reported figures, such as total liabilities as assets minus equity.
This company's latest filing beside its peers' stored scores
| Company | Health | F-Score | Revenue growth | Profit margin | P/E | Debt to equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FDSFACTSET RESEARCH SYSTEMS INC · this page | 8.7/10 | 6/9 |
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Officers, directors and major shareholders must report within two business days of a trade.
Gifted shares — 125 shares
Holds 15,365 shares after this filing.
Gifted shares — 125 shares
Holds 15,240 shares after this filing.
Gifted shares — 125 shares
Holds 15,115 shares after this filing.
20 recent filings, newest first. Each is labelled from its form and item numbers, not from its wording.
Annual report for FY2026
Revenue +6.7% · Operating margin −4.0 pts · Profit margin −4.2 pts — against FY2025
Read the filingPublished results · Amended its charter or changed its financial year
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Every company's figures are checked for internal consistency: the balance sheet adding up, figures sharing one currency, cash flow and share counts within plausible ranges, and how recent the latest annual report is. Nothing here changes a figure.
Financial figures are from FDS's 10-K for fiscal year 2026 (period ending 2026-08-31, filed Oct 20, 2026), reported under the US GAAP taxonomy. View the source filing.
3 of 4 scored areas had enough reported figures to judge
The score averages profitability, growth, debt and accounting. Accounting had too few reported figures and is left out of the average rather than counted as a weakness, so a company is never marked down for a figure it did not publish. Cash generation is shown for context and already feeds profitability. Valuation is scored separately, because a share price says nothing about whether the business is sound. 9 of the 9 Piotroski checks could be evaluated. How the score works
Each year scored only from its annual report as it was first filed
| Fiscal year | Health | F-Score | Scored from |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2026 | 8.7 | 6/9 | 10-K, filed Oct 20, 2026 |
| FY2025 | 8.7 | 6/9 | 10-K, filed Oct 22, 2025 |
| FY2024 | 8.7 | 8/9 | 10-K, filed Oct 29, 2024 |
| FY2023 | 9.0 | 8/9 | 10-K, filed Oct 27, 2023 |
| FY2022 | 10.0 | 5/9 | 10-K, filed Oct 21, 2022 |
| FY2021 | 9.0 | 6/9 | 10-K, filed Oct 22, 2021 |
A later restatement never reaches back into an earlier year, and every year is scored without a share price, so the latest point can differ a little from the headline score, which uses today's price.
Every check behind the three models, and what each one tests
6 of 9 checks passed
Nine yes-or-no tests of whether this year's finances improved on last year's.
3.55
In the safe zone
For this model, above 2.6 is safe and below 1.1 is distress.
Distance from bankruptcy, from a model fitted on companies that did and did not go bust. It describes a balance sheet's shape today; it does not forecast a failure.
not reported — This company has not reported enough of the required figures to calculate this score.
This company has not reported enough of the required figures to calculate this score.
Screens eight accounting ratios for the pattern earnings manipulators tend to leave. A flag is a reason to read the filing closely, never evidence of wrongdoing.
Every figure above comes from the FY2026 filing as filed with the SEC.
Deteriorated: −4.2 pts
25.7% to 21.5%Significant
Why it matters: What survives to the very end of each sale. Worth reading beside revenue: growing sales on a shrinking margin means the company is buying its growth.
Improved: -36.4%
$1.37B to $870.6MSignificant
Why it matters: Rising debt is not automatically bad — borrowing to build something that earns more than the interest is ordinary. It matters when it grows faster than the profit meant to service it.
Deteriorated: -30.9%
$337.7M to $233.3MSignificant
Why it matters: A falling cash pile is only a warning if the company is consuming it. Paying down debt, buying back stock and paying a dividend all reduce cash by choice.
Improved: -6.3%
37.6M to 35.3MSignificant
Why it matters: The company bought back stock, so each remaining holding owns slightly more of it. Worth checking it was not funded by borrowing.
Improved: +6.7%
$2.32B to $2.48BNotable
Why it matters: Sales are what everything else is built on. A fall can be lost customers, lower prices, or a business the company sold — the filing itself says which.
Deteriorated: -6.5%
$748.3M to $700.0MNotable
Why it matters: Profit from running the business, before interest and tax. Less exposed than profit to one-off financing and tax items, so a clearer read on the business itself.
Deteriorated: -10.6%
$597.0M to $533.5MNotable
Why it matters: Profit swings far more than sales do, and one-off items — a legal settlement, a tax charge, an asset sale — move it without the underlying business changing.
Deteriorated: −2.1 pts
52.7% to 50.6%Notable
Why it matters: What survives each sale before overheads. Falling gross margin usually means the company is discounting or its input costs rose — it is the earliest place pricing pressure shows.
Improved: +14.6%
$617.5M to $707.5MNotable
Why it matters: Cash left after paying for the plant that produced it — the money genuinely available for dividends, buybacks or paying down debt. Harder to flatter than profit.
Changed: +5.4%
$108.8M to $114.7MNotable
Why it matters: Neither good nor bad on its own. Heavy spending is a company building capacity or a company struggling to stand still, and the two look identical in this figure.
3 other measures barely moved. Figures compare the two most recent annual filings — read the latest one. Moves are graded on fixed lines — 5%, 15% and 40% for amounts, and 1, 3 and 8 points for margins — as notable, significant or critical. Nothing here reads the management commentary, which is where a company explains its own numbers.
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Discounted at 8%–10% a year, with growth settling to 2.5% after 10 years. Those rates are ordinary choices, not measurements: across that range the assumed growth works out between 2% and 7%. This describes what the price implies — it is not a forecast, and not a view on whether the price is right.
Opinions from 27 analysts covering this company, as of . Their views, not this site's.
Of 27 analysts publishing on this company, 1 say strong buy, 3 say buy, 12 say hold, 9 say sell and 2 say strong sell. Analysts are paid to publish a view and are wrong often; the split above says how much they agree with each other, which is the part a single headline rating hides.
Published by Finnhub. Analyst coverage skews towards larger companies and towards optimism — sell ratings are rare across the whole market, so a company with none is ordinary rather than endorsed.
Measured on and published about a week later — this is a fortnightly snapshot, not a live position.
About 9.0% of this company's shares have been borrowed and sold by people expecting to buy them back cheaper. That is a bet the price falls. Those people can be wrong, and when a heavily shorted share rises they have to buy it back, which pushes it up further.
Collected by FINRA from broker-dealers twice a month. It counts positions, not intentions, and some of it is hedging rather than a directional bet against the company.
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The trailing P/E is 21.1x — investors pay $21.1 for each $1 of trailing profit.
This company has not reported enough of the required figures to calculate this score.
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Had shares withheld to cover taxes — 8,065 shares at $276.42 ($2.2M)
Holds 50,267 shares after this filing.
Estimated from how often this has happened before, not a confirmed date.
Not investment advice, and not a signal to act on by itself — a filing says what happened, not why, and insiders trade for ordinary reasons having nothing to do with where they think the company is headed.
Had a director or senior officer leave or join
Signed a material agreement · Took on a direct financial obligation
Read the filingQuarterly report for Q3 FY2026
Revenue +6.4% · Operating margin −6.5 pts · Profit margin −5.0 pts — against Q3 FY2025
Read the filingPublished results
Read the filingHad a director or senior officer leave or join
Read the filingQuarterly report for Q2 FY2026
Revenue +7.1% · Operating margin −2.2 pts · Profit margin −3.6 pts — against Q2 FY2025
Read the filingPublished results
Read the filingHad a director or senior officer leave or join
Read the filingQuarterly report for Q1 FY2026
Revenue +6.9% · Operating margin −2.0 pts · Free cash flow +49.5% — against Q1 FY2025
Read the filingHad a director or senior officer leave or join · Amended its charter or changed its financial year · Held a shareholder vote
Read the filingPublished results
Read the filingProxy statement for a shareholder meeting
Read the filingAnnual report for FY2025
Revenue +5.4% · Profit margin +1.3 pts · Cash -20.2% — against FY2024
Read the filingHad a director or senior officer leave or join · Published results · Amended its charter or changed its financial year
Read the filingQuarterly report for Q3 FY2025
Revenue +5.9% · Operating margin −3.5 pts · Gross margin −3.3 pts — against Q3 FY2024
Read the filingPublished results
Read the filingHad a director or senior officer leave or join
Read the filingSigned a material agreement · Terminated a material agreement · Took on a direct financial obligation
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