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FactSet Research Systems Inc. (FDS)

NYSE / Financial Services / Financial - Data & Stock Exchanges

Share price

301.83 USD Market dataClose of Oct 15, 2026

Market capitalisation

10.73B USD Market dataClose of Oct 15, 2026
Market data
Oct 15, 2026
Filed accounts
FY2025, filed Oct 22, 2025
Ratios computed
Oct 15, 2026
Filed years
16, FY2009 to FY2025
Four kinds of sourceSEC filingCompany statementMarket dataComputedWhat each means
SEC filingFiled with the SEC
Read from a statement the company filed with the SEC, with the form, fiscal year, filing date and accession beside it.
Company statementCompany statement
What the company says about itself in a filing: an 8-K item, the auditor, its own segment names.
Market dataMarket data
Prices, market value and what analysts publish, with the date they are as of.
ComputedComputed by ValueScreener
Worked out by us from the other three, with the inputs and the formula one press away. A score is a research output, not a rating or a recommendation.
Reading

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Overview

What the business is, what it costs, and how it reads on four questions.

Market dataSEC filingComputed

Four questions, at a glance

Quality

Return on invested capital, after tax

18.2% Computed

From the FY2025 filing

Read quality

Valuation

Price to earnings

19.18x Computed

FY2025 accounts, priced at the latest close

Read valuation

Cash generation

Free cash flow yield

5.3% Computed

FY2025 accounts, priced at the latest close

Read cash generation

Revenue and net income, as filed

FY2016 Revenue: 1.13B USDFY2016 Net income: 338.8M USDFY2017 Revenue: 1.22B USDFY2017 Net income: 258.3M USDFY2018 Revenue: 1.35B USDFY2018 Net income: 267.1M USDFY2019 Revenue: 1.44B USDFY2019 Net income: 352.8M USDFY2020 Revenue: 1.49B USDFY2020 Net income: 372.9M USDFY2021 Revenue: 1.59B USDFY2021 Net income: 399.6M USDFY2022 Revenue: 1.84B USDFY2022 Net income: 396.9M USDFY2023 Revenue: 2.09B USDFY2023 Net income: 468.2M USDFY2024 Revenue: 2.20B USDFY2024 Net income: 537.1M USDFY2025 Revenue: 2.32B USDFY2025 Net income: 597.0M USD
Revenue Net income10 filed fiscal years, from the annual reports; the table in Filings names each document.
Named tests met
4 of 30 Which tests
The business, and the score behind its five axes

The reading, in brief

Is it cheap

Price to earnings is 19.18x at the close of 2026-10-15 on FY2025 figures; the lines are 15.00x (Graham's defensive ceiling) and, by market convention, 10.00x, 25.00x and 40.00x, and this sits between 15.00x and 25.00x.

Today, against the Financial Services sector (655 companies), 19.18x sits at the 68th percentile; the middle half of that group runs from 11.12x to 24.47x.

Is it good

Return on invested capital was 18.2% in FY2025, in the band labelled "Above the cost of capital" (12.0% to 20.0%), on lines anchored on Damodaran's cost-of-capital data.

Today, against the Financial Services sector (75 companies), 18.2% sits at the 89th percentile; the middle half of that group runs from -0.5% to 9.1%.

Is it safe

Interest coverage was 13.29x in FY2025, in the band labelled "Comfortable" (6.00x and above), on lines anchored on Damodaran's interest-coverage table, suggesting an interest bill operating profit covers many times over.

Year by year against peers
Whether FactSet Research Systems Inc.'s return on equity stayed above the median of the Financial Services sector, year by year. (FY2016 to FY2025, 10 fiscal years of FactSet Research Systems Inc. with a comparable figure)
The direction
Which way FactSet Research Systems Inc.'s return on equity has moved, and how steadily. (FY2016 to FY2025, 10 filed years of FactSet Research Systems Inc.)
What could explain it
What in FactSet Research Systems Inc.'s filed statements could explain the movements. (8 readings drawn from the statement lines FactSet Research Systems Inc. filed)
What to check next
What to check next on FactSet Research Systems Inc., and where in its filings. (2 questions for FactSet Research Systems Inc.)
In one paragraph
One paragraph on FactSet Research Systems Inc.'s returns, cash, balance sheet and price. (16 of sixteen figures read for FactSet Research Systems Inc.)

These are FDS’s filed figures. The research desk says what they mean, against peers and its own years, with what to check next.

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What changed

The newest filing, what it moved, and when the next one is due.

SEC filingCompany statement

The newest accounts on file are the FY2025 annual report: 10-K, filed Oct 22, 2025, accession 0001628280-25-045769.

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Quality

The returns the business earns on its capital, and the margins behind them.

SEC filingComputed

FactSet Research Systems Inc: returns on capital and margins, each with its source
FigureValue, source and document
Return on invested capital, after tax18.2% ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Oct 22, 2025, 0001628280-25-045769
Return on equity27.3% ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Oct 22, 2025, 0001628280-25-045769
Return on capital employed, pre-tax19.8% ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Oct 22, 2025, 0001628280-25-045769
Return on assets13.9% ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Oct 22, 2025, 0001628280-25-045769
Gross margin52.7% ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Oct 22, 2025, 0001628280-25-045769
Operating margin32.2% ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Oct 22, 2025, 0001628280-25-045769
Net margin25.7% ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Oct 22, 2025, 0001628280-25-045769
FDS 25.7%
COIN 17.6%NDAQ 21.6%MCO 31.9%ICE 26.2%MSCI 38.4%
17.6%38.4%
Net margin: FDS against the 5 companies named under Valuation context, each as filed for its own latest year. Placement only: no average is drawn.

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Financial strength

What it owes against what it owns, and whether it can meet what falls due.

SEC filingComputedCompany statement

FactSet Research Systems Inc: leverage, liquidity and distress, each with its source
FigureValue, source and document
Debt to equity0.71 ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Oct 22, 2025, 0001628280-25-045769
Current ratio1.40 ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Oct 22, 2025, 0001628280-25-045769
Quick ratio1.40 ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Oct 22, 2025, 0001628280-25-045769
Interest coverage13.29x ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Oct 22, 2025, 0001628280-25-045769
Altman Z-score
Why n/m

Altman's Z-Score was estimated on manufacturers and explicitly excludes financial firms. A financial company scores in the distress zone by construction, so the number would be wrong rather than alarming. Not applicable to financials.

n/m ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Oct 22, 2025, 0001628280-25-045769
Net debt1.20B ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Oct 22, 2025, 0001628280-25-045769
Total assets 4.30BTotal liabilities 2.12BShareholders' equity 2.19BOwnsOwes, and equity
Total assets Total liabilities Shareholders’ equity
The balance sheet, line by line

Financial health

What FactSet Research Systems Inc owned and owed at the end of fiscal 2025, from the balance sheet it filed (10-K, filed Oct 22, 2025, 0001628280-25-045769).

FactSet Research Systems Inc: balance sheet position
Total assets4.30B FiledFY2025 10-K, filed Oct 22, 2025
Total liabilities2.12B FiledFY2025 10-K, filed Oct 22, 2025
Shareholders' equity2.19B FiledFY2025 10-K, filed Oct 22, 2025
Cash355.1M FiledFY2025 10-K, filed Oct 22, 2025
Total debt1.56B FiledFY2025 10-K, filed Oct 22, 2025
Net debt1.20B
Current ratio1.40
Debt to equity0.71

Read from the filed balance sheet for each year, with the income statement of the same year supplying operating profit where a ratio needs it. Nothing here is a view on whether this company is sound.

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Valuation context

What the market charges for it, against its own record and companies like it.

Market dataSEC filingComputed

FactSet Research Systems Inc: what the market charges, each with its source
FigureValue, source and document
Price to earnings19.18x ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Oct 22, 2025, 0001628280-25-045769
P/E on trailing twelve months19.09x ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · Trailing four quarters, each as known on the day; the quarterly filings are listed under Filings
Price to book5.30x ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Oct 22, 2025, 0001628280-25-045769
Price to sales4.99x ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Oct 22, 2025, 0001628280-25-045769
Enterprise value to EBIT17.11x ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Oct 22, 2025, 0001628280-25-045769
Enterprise value to EBITDA14.14x ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Oct 22, 2025, 0001628280-25-045769
Price to earnings over growth1.94 ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Oct 22, 2025, 0001628280-25-045769
Diluted earnings per share15.55 USD FiledFY2025 10-K, filed Oct 22, 2025, 0001628280-25-045769
Graham number142.03 USD ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Oct 22, 2025, 0001628280-25-045769

We publish no fair value or price target of our own. Value FDS on your own assumptions in the DCF workbench, starting from the filed figures.

Its own record, and companies like it

Valuation

What the market charges for FactSet Research Systems Inc today, and the multiples it has carried. No value of ours: the figures are the filings’ and the market’s.

FactSet Research Systems Inc: valuation
Share price301.83 USD
Market capitalisation10.73B USD
Enterprise value to EBITDA14.14x
Graham number142.03 USD
Diluted earnings per share, FY202515.55 USD

Price to earnings on trailing twelve months, a different basis from the fiscal-year P/E above, since Oct 3, 2016: low 12.09x, median 32.52x, high 47.19x, latest 19.09x. 2,522 trading days with a meaningful ratio. Each close over the trailing twelve months of earnings as known that day: a quarter counts from the day it was filed.

Companies like FactSet Research Systems Inc

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  3. Moody's Corporation (MCO)Market cap 83.78B USD
  4. Intercontinental Exchange, Inc. (ICE)Market cap 88.93B USD
  5. MSCI Inc. (MSCI)Market cap 41.81B USD

Same industry (Financial - Data & Stock Exchanges) and size band (Large, 10B to 200B), nearest in market value, net margin and current ratio. Each of those counts equally, by how many of the companies considered sit between the two on it. Closest first: the order is likeness and nothing else.

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Cash generation

Whether profit arrives as cash, and what is paid back to shareholders.

SEC filingComputed

FactSet Research Systems Inc: cash generation and what is paid out, each with its source
FigureValue, source and document
Free cash flow yield5.3% ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Oct 22, 2025, 0001628280-25-045769
Free cash flow617.5M USD ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Oct 22, 2025, 0001628280-25-045769
Free cash flow margin26.6% ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Oct 22, 2025, 0001628280-25-045769
Dividend yield1.5% ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Oct 22, 2025, 0001628280-25-045769
Payout ratio26.8% ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Oct 22, 2025, 0001628280-25-045769
FY2016 Free cash flow: 283.4M USDFY2016 Net income: 338.8M USDFY2017 Free cash flow: 283.7M USDFY2017 Net income: 258.3M USDFY2018 Free cash flow: 352.1M USDFY2018 Net income: 267.1M USDFY2019 Free cash flow: 367.8M USDFY2019 Net income: 352.8M USDFY2020 Free cash flow: 428.2M USDFY2020 Net income: 372.9M USDFY2021 Free cash flow: 493.9M USDFY2021 Net income: 399.6M USDFY2022 Free cash flow: 487.1M USDFY2022 Net income: 396.9M USDFY2023 Free cash flow: 584.8M USDFY2023 Net income: 468.2M USDFY2024 Free cash flow: 614.7M USDFY2024 Net income: 537.1M USDFY2025 Free cash flow: 617.5M USDFY2025 Net income: 597.0M USD
Free cash flow Net incomeProfit that arrives as cash stands level with net income; a gap year after year is worth reading about.

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Filings

Every figure, the year it is for and the document it was read from.

SEC filingMarket data

The filed figures

Computed from the accounts this company filed with the SEC and, in a ratio with a price in it, the last close, dated on this page. Every filed figure below carries the fiscal year and the filing date its accounts were read from, and every blank carries the reason it is blank. Nothing here is a view on this company.

FactSet Research Systems Inc.: the eight ratios, with the fiscal year and filing date behind each.
FigureValueYearAs of
19.18xFY2025Oct 15, 2026
5.30xFY2025Oct 15, 2026
17.11xFY2025Oct 15, 2026
5.3%FY2025Oct 15, 2026
18.2%FY2025Oct 22, 2025
1.5%FY2025Oct 15, 2026
0.71FY2025Oct 22, 2025
1.40FY2025Oct 22, 2025
4.99xFY2025Oct 15, 2026
1.94FY2025Oct 15, 2026
n/mFY2025Oct 15, 2026
n/m Not meaningful for this company, such as a P/E on negative earnings or a bank's EV/EBIT.
-2.29FY2025Oct 22, 2025
6/9FY2025Oct 22, 2025

The figures are computed from the accounts for fiscal 2025, the newest full year on file. 16 filed fiscal years on record, FY2009 to FY2025, from SEC EDGAR. Prices as of Oct 15, 2026. Ratios recomputed Oct 15, 2026. Two facts, because a recompute is not a fresh quote.

The year and the filing date name the statement each figure’s accounts are read from, and they stand even where the figure itself could not be computed: the line beneath a blank says what that statement did not carry. A figure’s name opens its formula and the filings behind it; a statement that names no SEC filing has no filing date, and reads n/a.

Ten years of filed figures, year by year

Ten years of filed figures

10 filed fiscal years, FY2016 to FY2025, read from the annual reports FactSet Research Systems Inc filed with the SEC. Each year names its filing. Amounts in USD, as filed.

FactSet Research Systems Inc: revenue, earnings, free cash flow and returns, by fiscal year, with the filing each year was read from
YearRevenueOperating incomeNet incomeEPS, dilutedFree cash flowOperating marginReturn on equityFiling
FY20252.32B748.3M597.0M15.55617.5M32.2%27.3%10-K, Oct 22, 20250001628280-25-045769
FY20242.20B701.3M537.1M13.91614.7M31.8%28.1%10-K, Oct 29, 20240001013237-24-000141
FY20232.09B629.2M468.2M12.04584.8M30.2%28.9%10-K, Oct 27, 20230001013237-23-000128
FY20221.84B475.5M396.9M10.25487.1M25.8%29.8%10-K, Oct 21, 20220001013237-22-000159
FY20211.59B474.0M399.6M10.36493.9M29.8%39.3%10-K, Oct 22, 20210001013237-21-000142
FY20201.49B439.7M372.9M9.65428.2M29.4%41.6%10-K, Oct 29, 20200001013237-20-000153
FY20191.44B438.0M352.8M9.08367.8M30.5%52.5%10-K, Oct 30, 20190001437749-19-020894
FY20181.35B366.2M267.1M6.78352.1M27.1%50.8%10-K, Oct 30, 20180001437749-18-019028
FY20171.22B352.1M258.3M6.51283.7M28.8%46.1%10-K, Oct 30, 20170001437749-17-017840
FY20161.13B349.7M338.8M8.19283.4M31.0%65.5%10-K, Oct 31, 20160001437749-16-040606
  • Revenue, compound annual growth FY2016 to FY2025: 8.4%
  • Earnings, compound annual growth FY2016 to FY2025: 6.5%
  • Earnings per share, compound annual growth FY2016 to FY2025: 7.4%
  • Free cash flow, compound annual growth FY2016 to FY2025: 9.0%

Every figure in this section is a line of a filed annual statement or a ratio of two of them. Nothing here is estimated or smoothed. Earnings per share filed before a share split are put on today's share count, and say so. Nothing here is a verdict on the company.

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Risks and guardrails

The accounting screens, the published tests, and the lines you can set to be told.

ComputedCompany statement

FactSet Research Systems Inc: accounting screens and published tests, each with its source
FigureValue, source and document
Beneish M-score-2.29 ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Oct 22, 2025, 0001628280-25-045769
Piotroski F-score6/9 ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Oct 22, 2025, 0001628280-25-045769
Named tests met4 of 30 Computed
Beta0.56 ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026

The named tests

Of 30 tests value investors published: 4 met, 26 not met, 0 we could not complete. Counts, never a score: a single figure would have to decide that meeting one investor’s criteria and meeting another’s are worth the same.

Which tests, by name(all 30)
Meets
ROIC at or above WACC; High return on tangibles; Cash-covered dividend; Cash-flow yield and ROIC
Does not
Defensive investor (Benjamin Graham); Deep value; Large cap, low P/E; Earnings yield and ROIC (Joel Greenblatt); High F-score, low P/B (Joseph Piotroski); Three forensic scores; Low PEG, low debt (Peter Lynch); High returns and growth; Gross margin, turnover (Robert Novy-Marx); EV/EBITDA and coverage; High yield, low payout; Dividends and buybacks; Low beta, profitable; Near the 52-week low; Z-score and coverage (Edward Altman); Two thirds of NCAV (Benjamin Graham); P/E times P/B (Benjamin Graham); High returns, low debt; Owner earnings yield; Low P/S, rising earnings (James O'Shaughnessy); Book or below, low debt (Walter Schloss); Tangible book or below; Clean books, high ROIC; Cheapest quarter on P/E (David Dreman); Cheapest quarter on P/B (David Dreman); Low P/E, growth, yield (John Neff)
Figures we could not read(3)
  • Current Ratio: Graham set this test for industrial companies.
  • Altman Z-Score: Altman's Z-Score was estimated on manufacturers and explicitly excludes financial firms. A financial company scores in the distress zone by construction, so the number would be wrong rather than alarming. Not applicable to financials.
  • Price Tangible Book: We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.

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Declared positions

Whether anybody here owns this company.

Positions declared by the founder: no holding in any company shown here, as of October 3, 2026.

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