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NASDAQ NMS - GLOBAL MARKET · Insurance · CIK 0001140536
$332.18
+4.58% · delayed ~15 min
Last price from Oct 22, 2026
$33.12B market value
From WILLIS TOWERS WATSON PLC's FY2025 10-K, filed Feb 25, 2026 · read the filing
It took in $9.52B last year, which makes it a mid-sized company. Of every dollar it sells, about 17 cents is left as profit.
The financial picture is led by profitability, with debt worth watching, while growth remain weak.
A conclusion from the filings, not a recommendation. Detailed figures and supporting evidence appear in their dedicated sections below.
Financial health
A mixed picture — some clear strengths and some weaknesses.
From WILLIS TOWERS WATSON PLC's FY2025 annual filing · share price scored separately
Largest year-over-year changes in FY2025
Operating income
$627.0M → $2.23B
Profit
-$98.0M → $1.60B
Operating margin
6.4% → 23.5%
Profit margin
-1.0% → 16.9%
Measured against FY2024, from the 10-K filed Feb 25, 2026
Improved: +256.3%
$627.0M to $2.23BCritical
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.
Improved: turned positive
-$98.0M to $1.60BCritical
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.
How the latest move compares (quote delayed ~15 min), and what was published around it
WTW rose 4.58% on the latest quote. The average Financials company tracked here moved +1.06%, and the S&P 500 −1.04%. That is 3.5 points above its sector and 5.6 points above the market.
Expectations
Not from the filings — what other people are betting on, and what the price already assumes.
Opinions from 27 analysts covering this company, as of . Their views, not this site's.
Of 27 analysts publishing on this company, 4 say strong buy, 15 say buy and 8 say hold. 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.
The essentials
Each answered from the filings, with the numbers behind it.
Yes. It keeps about 17 cents of every dollar of sales as profit, earning $1.60B last year.
No. Sales shrank 2.3% last year.
For every $1 it owes, it owns $1.37 in assets. Banks and insurers always carry high debt — that is how lending works — so this is normal for the industry and not comparable with other sectors.
Core operating and valuation reference metrics
Whether the dividend is covered by what the business actually earns
It pays out 22 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 FY2025 annual filing
Last year it earned $1.60B and generated $1.77B of cash from operations.
As reported to the SEC, in USD. Hover or show sources to see where each figure came from.
| Income statement | FY202510-K · Feb 25, 2026Filing for FY2025 | FY202410-K · Feb 25, 2026Filing for FY2024 | FY202310-K · Feb 25, 2026Filing for FY2023 | FY202210-K · Feb 24, 2023Filing for FY2022 | FY202110-K · Feb 24, 2022Filing for FY2021 | ChangeFY2025 vs FY2024 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RevenueWhat is this? | $9.52B | $9.74B | $9.30B | $8.73B | $8.83B | −2.3% |
| Operating income | $2.23B | $627.0M | $1.36B | $1.18B | $2.20B | +256.3% |
| Operating marginOperating income ÷ revenueWhat is this? | 23.5% | 6.4% | 14.7% | 13.5% | 24.9% | +17.0 pts |
| Interest expense | $260.0M | $263.0M | $235.0M | $208.0M | $211.0M | −1.1% |
| Income before tax | $1.95B | $102.0M | $1.28B | $1.26B | $2.69B | +1814.7% |
| Net income | $1.60B | -$98.0M | $1.05B | $1.01B | $4.22B | n/m |
| Net marginNet income ÷ revenueWhat is this? | 16.9% | -1.0% | 11.3% | 11.6% | 47.8% | +17.9 pts |
| Earnings per shareNet income ÷ shares outstanding at the period end — close to, but not the same as, the reported EPSWhat is this? | $16.10 | $-0.9563 | $9.90 | $8.57 | $32.74 | n/m |
† calculated from other reported figures, such as total liabilities as assets minus equity.
Insider activity, ownership stakes and what's coming — straight from EDGAR, before any article is written about it
Officers, directors and major shareholders must report within two business days of a trade.
Had shares withheld to cover taxes — 6 shares at $288.23 ($1.7K)
Holds 20,872 shares after this filing.
Was granted or awarded shares — 6 shares
Holds 35,565 shares after this filing.
20 recent filings, newest first. Each is labelled from its form and item numbers, not from its wording.
Quarterly report for Q2 FY2026
Revenue +9.6% · Operating margin −1.6 pts · Profit -30.8% — against Q2 FY2025
Read the filingPublished results · Made a Regulation FD disclosure
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Every figure above traces back to a filing in the timeline, each linked to the document itself.
The 320 subsidiaries named in its 10-K, incorporated across 93 places. A filer lists the significant ones and may leave the rest out, so this is the floor rather than the full count.
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 WTW's 10-K for fiscal year 2025 (period ending 2025-12-31, filed Feb 25, 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. 8 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | 6.0 | 6/8 | 10-K, filed Feb 25, 2026 |
| FY2024 | 4.7 | 5/8 | 10-K, filed Feb 25, 2025 |
| FY2023 | 7.3 | 6/8 | 10-K, filed Feb 22, 2024 |
| FY2022 | 6.0 | 4/8 | 10-K, filed Feb 24, 2023 |
| FY2021 | 7.3 | 7/8 | 10-K, filed Feb 24, 2022 |
| FY2020 | 7.3 | 5/8 | 10-K, filed Feb 23, 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 8 checks passed
Nine yes-or-no tests of whether this year's finances improved on last year's. One could not be evaluated and is excluded from the total rather than counted as a failure.
not reported — Not meaningful for banks, insurers and other financial companies. Their balance sheets have no working capital and are leveraged by design, which this model misreads as distress.
Not meaningful for banks, insurers and other financial companies. Their balance sheets have no working capital and are leveraged by design, which this model misreads as 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 — Not meaningful for banks, insurers and other financial companies. Their balance sheets have no working capital and are leveraged by design, which this model misreads as distress.
Not meaningful for banks, insurers and other financial companies. Their balance sheets have no working capital and are leveraged by design, which this model misreads as distress.
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 FY2025 filing as filed with the SEC.
Improved: +17.0 pts
6.4% to 23.5%Critical
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.
Improved: +17.9 pts
-1.0% to 16.9%Critical
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: turned positive
-$0.96 to $16.10Critical
Why it matters: Profit divided by the shares in issue at the period end, so it sits close to but not on the company's own reported figure. It can rise with no growth in profit when the company buys back stock — read it beside the share count.
Improved: +65.7%
$1.89B to $3.13BCritical
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: +22.0%
$1.27B to $1.55BSignificant
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.
Deteriorated: +8.4%
$5.31B to $5.76BNotable
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.
Improved: -2.7%
102.5M to 99.7MNotable
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.
Changed: -6.5%
$245.0M to $229.0MNotable
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.
Q2 FY2026 against Q2 FY2025, from the 10-Q filed Jul 30, 2026 — read it.
Deteriorated: -30.8%
$331.0M to $229.0MSignificant
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: −5.5 pts
14.9% to 9.4%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.
Deteriorated: -27.1%
$3.34 to $2.44Significant
Why it matters: Profit divided by the shares in issue at the period end, so it sits close to but not on the company's own reported figure. It can rise with no growth in profit when the company buys back stock — read it beside the share count.
Deteriorated: +21.4%
$4.76B to $5.78BSignificant
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: -17.1%
$1.96B to $1.63BSignificant
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: -5.1%
99.0M to 94.0MSignificant
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: +9.6%
$2.21B to $2.43BNotable
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: −1.6 pts
16.6% to 15.0%Notable
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.
Q2 FY2026 against Q1 FY2026, from the 10-Q filed Jul 30, 2026 — read it. Quarter-to-quarter moves include seasonal swings — a retailer's holiday quarter — which the year-earlier comparison removes.
Deteriorated: -18.8%
$448.0M to $364.0MSignificant
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: -22.9%
$297.0M to $229.0MSignificant
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: −4.0 pts
19.0% to 15.0%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.
Deteriorated: −3.1 pts
12.6% to 9.4%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.
Deteriorated: -22.1%
$3.13 to $2.44Significant
Why it matters: Profit divided by the shares in issue at the period end, so it sits close to but not on the company's own reported figure. It can rise with no growth in profit when the company buys back stock — read it beside the share count.
Improved: -8.3%
$6.30B to $5.78BNotable
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: -12.3%
$1.85B to $1.63BNotable
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: -1.1%
95.0M to 94.0MNotable
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.
2 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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About 3.0% 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.
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The trailing P/E is 28.5x — investors pay $28.5 for each $1 of trailing profit.
Not meaningful for banks, insurers and other financial companies. Their balance sheets have no working capital and are leveraged by design, which this model misreads as distress.
Reported annual figures
Was granted or awarded shares — 11 shares
Holds 78,039 shares after this filing.
Was granted or awarded shares — 48 shares
Holds 117,577 shares after this filing.
Was granted or awarded shares — 14 shares
Holds 4,485 shares after this filing.
Was granted or awarded shares — 1 shares
Holds 1,695 shares after this filing.
Was granted or awarded shares — 6 shares
Holds 22,452 shares after this filing.
Was granted or awarded shares — 6 shares
Holds 2,361 shares after this filing.
Notice filed ahead of a planned sale — the sale itself has not necessarily happened yet.
Filed notice to sell 730 shares ($250.2K) on or after .
Shares originally obtained via Restricted Stock Vesting.
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.
Held a shareholder vote
Quarterly report for Q1 FY2026
Revenue +8.4% · Profit margin +1.8 pts · Profit +26.4% — against Q1 FY2025
Read the filingPublished results · Made a Regulation FD disclosure
Read the filingProxy statement for a shareholder meeting
Read the filingAnnual report for FY2025
Operating margin +17.0 pts · Operating income +256.3% · Profit turned positive — against FY2024
Read the filingPublished results · Made a Regulation FD disclosure
Read the filingMade a Regulation FD disclosure
Read the filingSigned a material agreement · Took on a direct financial obligation
Read the filingSigned a material agreement · Reported another event
Read the filingReported another event
Read the filingMade a Regulation FD disclosure
Read the filingPublished results
Read the filingQuarterly report for Q3 FY2025
Operating margin +52.9 pts · Operating income turned positive · Profit turned positive — against Q3 FY2024
Read the filingPublished results · Made a Regulation FD disclosure
Read the filingSigned a material agreement · Took on a direct financial obligation
Read the filingQuarterly report for Q2 FY2025
Operating margin +7.1 pts · Operating income +73.6% · Profit +134.8% — against Q2 FY2024
Read the filingPublished results · Made a Regulation FD disclosure
Read the filingHeld a shareholder vote · Reported another event
Read the filingThe first 40 of 320. The rest are in the exhibit.
Source: Exhibit 21 of the 10-K filed 2026-02-25. These are legal entities, not brands or acquisitions — a company that bought a business may hold it inside an entity named here, or inside one small enough that the rule does not require naming it at all.
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