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Factset Research Systems Inc. FDS

17 fiscal years on record · USD · FY2025 reported · SEC filings only
$2.3B
▲ 5.4% YoY
$597.0M
▲ 11.2% YoY
$617.5M
▲ 0.5% YoY
In brief

What this company does

FactSet provides financial data and market intelligence on securities, companies, industries and people, enabling its clients to research investment ideas and analyze, monitor and manage their portfolios. Its products and services include workstations, portfolio analytics and enterprise data solutions. It had 8,996 clients and 237,324 professionals using FactSet as of August 31, 2025. As of August 31, 2025, it had 35 offices in 19 countries with 12,800 employees. It operates its business through three reportable segments: the Americas, EMEA and Asia Pacific. Revenues during fiscal 2025 were 65% from the Americas segment, 25% from the EMEA segment, and 10% from the Asia Pacific segment. FactSet Research Systems Inc. and its wholly-owned subsidiaries were founded in 1978 and have been publicly traded since June 1996.

Written from the business description in FACTSET RESEARCH SYSTEMS INC.'s annual report to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, filed 22 October 2025. Every sentence was checked against that document before publication.

Growth
USD 2.3B
Revenue, FY2025 · full 17-year series below
Revenue $B Net income $B
FY2025 · Revenue 2.3 · Net income 0.6
0.8B1.6B200920112013201520172019202120232025
Compound annual growth
+8.0%
+9.2%
+8.7%
+9.0%
+14.6%
+9.9%
+9.5%
+9.6%
+14.9%
+10.0%
+10.5%
+11.3%
+47.1%
+8.2%
+3.6%
+7.9%
3 yrs
5 yrs
10 yrs
15 yrs

Revenue compounded at +9.2% a year over five years — but profit grew faster: net income at +9.9%, earnings per share at +10.0%.

The share count fell from 0.04B to 0.04B — the buyback concentrates the same profit into fewer slices.

Compound annual rates per period — left blank where that exact year isn't on file, the series crosses a loss, or (per-share rows) a split falls inside the window.

Profitability
26 cents
of every revenue dollar became profit
Operating margin Net margin
FY2025 · Operating 32.2% · Net 25.7%
10%20%30%200920112013201520172019202120232025
ROE
FY2025 · ROE 29.1%
20%40%60%200920112013201520172019202120232025

Each USD of equity produced 29 cents of profit this year.

Cash & shareholders
USD 460.4M
returned in FY2025 · dividends + net buybacks
Free cash flow $M
FY2025 · FCF 617.5
250.0M500.0M200920112013201520172019202120232025
Net buybacks $M Dividends $M
FY2025 · Dividends 160.0 · Net buybacks 300.5
200M400MDividendsNet buybacks200920112013201520172019202120232025

USD 160.0M in dividends and USD 300.5M in buybacks — 77% of the year's profit went back to shareholders.

Total assetsUSD 4.3B
EquityUSD 2.2B
CashUSD 337.7M
Gross debtUSD 1.4B
Net debtUSD 1.0B
Current ratio1.40×

Net debt stands at 47% of equity.

The 17-year record
17 fiscal years
Every figure from documents filed with the SEC · USD
row low → row highnegative
Metric 20252024202320222021202020192018201720162015201420132012201120102009
Revenue $B2.32.22.11.81.61.51.41.41.21.11.00.90.90.80.70.60.6
Operating income $B0.70.70.60.50.50.40.40.40.40.30.30.30.30.30.20.20.2
EBITDA $B0.90.80.70.60.50.50.50.40.40.40.40.30.30.30.30.30.2
Income tax $B0.10.10.10.00.10.10.10.10.10.10.10.10.10.10.10.10.1
Net income $B0.60.50.50.40.40.40.40.30.30.30.20.20.20.20.20.20.1
Free cash flow $B0.60.60.60.50.50.40.40.40.30.30.30.20.30.20.20.20.2
EPS, diluted $15.5513.9112.0410.2510.369.659.086.786.518.195.714.924.454.123.613.132.97
Dividend / sh $·············1.24···
Payout %2728303230302833312228292826262624
ROE %29.130.431.733.841.847.558.949.248.064.646.240.236.335.433.629.928.9
Shares out B0.040.040.040.040.040.040.040.040.040.040.040.040.040.040.050.050.05

Slide the table for earlier years · "·" marks a figure not available in our data for that year.

Provenance
Company facts, as filed
How we verify · 0 failures in 66 reconciliationsAUDITED

Reconciled in 17 of 19 fiscal years. 12 checks could not be computed.

EPS recomputationBalance-sheet identityGross profitBalance-sheet liquiditymoeda_consistente0 failures
ActivityServices-Computer Programming, Data Processing, Etc.
Listed onNYSE
Incorporated inDelaware
Fiscal year endsAugust 31
Data on record since2009

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