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Formula Systems (1985) Ltd. FORTY

11 fiscal years on record · USD · FY2021 reported · SEC filings only
$141.9M
▲ 24.5% YoY
In brief

What this company does

It is a global information technology company principally engaged, through its directly and indirectly held investees, in providing software consulting services, and in selling and marketing computer-based business solutions and hardware products from a wide range of domestic and international manufacturers. It delivers its solutions in Israel and in numerous countries worldwide to customers with complex IT services needs, including a number of "Fortune 1000" companies. Its consolidated revenues, in thousands of U.S. dollars, totaled $2,627,124 for 2025, geographically distributed as $2,092,849 from Israel, $435,800 from the United States, $83,866 from Europe, $11,920 from Japan, and $2,689 from other regions, mainly Asia Pacific. As of December 31, 2025, its equity interests included 90.1% of InSync, an 80% interest in Ofek Aerial Photography, a 51% interest in Hashahar Telecom, a 48.12% interest in Matrix, and a 46.7% interest in Magic Software. It designs and implements IT solutions and software systems that improve the productivity of customers' existing IT assets, help them manage their operations, and reduce their business risks amid changing business environments. It designs, develops and markets proprietary software solutions for sale in selected niche markets worldwide.

Written from the business description in FORMULA SYSTEMS (1985) LTD's annual report to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, filed 13 May 2026. Every sentence was checked against that document before publication.

Growth
Revenue, FY2021 · full 11-year series below
Revenue $M Net income $M
FY2015 · Revenue 750.6 · Net income 73.7
400M200920112013201520192021
Compound annual growth
+0.3%
+6.4%
+22.4%
+3.1%
3 yrs
5 yrs
10 yrs
15 yrs

Revenue compounded at +6.4% a year over five years.

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
Operating margin Net margin
FY2015 · Operating 6.2% · Net 12.3%
5%10%200920112013201520192021
ROE
FY2015 · ROE 17.5%
10%20%200920112013201520192021

Cash & shareholders
returned in FY2021 · dividends + net buybacks
Free cash flow $M
FY2015 · FCF 49.0
25.0M50.0M200920112013201520192021

Not available: we don't have the total debt figure for this period.

The 11-year record
11 fiscal years
Every figure from documents filed with the SEC · USD

EPS, diluted, dividend per share and shares outstanding are shown without shading, and a vertical line marks the year the share count changed — the series crosses a large, unexplained change in share count, so the years on either side are not on a comparable scale.

row low → row highnegative
Metric 20212020201920182015201420132012201120102009
Revenue $B····0.80.60.80.70.60.50.5
Operating income $B0.20.20.10.10.00.00.10.10.00.00.0
EBITDA $B····0.10.00.10.10.10.1·
Income tax $B····0.00.00.00.00.00.0−0.0
Net income $B0.10.10.10.10.10.10.10.00.00.00.0
Free cash flow $B····0.00.00.10.10.00.00.1
EPS, diluted $····5.005.595.681.673.111.361.40
Dividend / sh $·····0.540.31····
Payout %···········
ROE %····17.522.828.610.120.69.3·
Shares out B····0.010.010.010.010.010.01·

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 38 reconciliationsAUDITED

Reconciled in 12 of 19 fiscal years. 57 checks could not be computed.

EPS recomputationBalance-sheet identityGross profitBalance-sheet liquiditymoeda_consistente0 failures
ActivityServices-Computer Programming Services
Listed onNASDAQ
Incorporated inoutside the United States — SEC code L3
Fiscal year endsDecember 31
Data on record since2009

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