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Willis Towers Watson Public Limited Company (WTW)

NASDAQ / Financial Services / Insurance - Brokers

Share price

310.36 USD Market dataClose of Oct 15, 2026

Market capitalisation

28.82B USD Market dataClose of Oct 15, 2026
Market data
Oct 15, 2026
Filed accounts
FY2025, filed Feb 25, 2026
Ratios computed
Oct 14, 2026
Filed years
18, FY2008 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

15.9% Computed

From the FY2025 filing

Read quality

Valuation

Price to earnings

18.18x 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: 7.89B USDFY2016 Net income: 420.0M USDFY2017 Revenue: 8.20B USDFY2017 Net income: 568.0M USDFY2018 Revenue: 8.51B USDFY2018 Net income: 695.0M USDFY2019 Revenue: 8.37B USDFY2019 Net income: 1.04B USDFY2020 Revenue: 8.62B USDFY2020 Net income: 996.0M USDFY2021 Revenue: 9.00B USDFY2021 Net income: 4.22B USDFY2022 Revenue: 8.87B USDFY2022 Net income: 1.01B USDFY2023 Revenue: 9.48B USDFY2023 Net income: 1.05B USDFY2024 Revenue: 9.93B USDFY2024 Net income: -98.0M USDFY2025 Revenue: 9.71B USDFY2025 Net income: 1.60B USD
Revenue Net income10 filed fiscal years, from the annual reports; the table in Filings names each document.
Named tests met
3 of 30 Which tests
The business, and the score behind its five axes

The reading, in brief

Is it cheap

Price to earnings is 18.18x 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), 18.18x sits at the 65th percentile; the middle half of that group runs from 11.12x to 24.47x.

Is it good

Return on invested capital was 15.9% 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), 15.9% sits at the 87th percentile; the middle half of that group runs from -0.5% to 9.1%.

Is it safe

Interest coverage was 8.59x 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 Willis Towers Watson Public Limited Company's return on equity stayed above the median of the Financial Services sector, year by year. (FY2024 to FY2025, 2 fiscal years of Willis Towers Watson Public Limited Company with a comparable figure)
The direction
Which way Willis Towers Watson Public Limited Company's return on equity has moved, and how steadily. (FY2016 to FY2025, 10 filed years of Willis Towers Watson Public Limited Company)
What could explain it
What in Willis Towers Watson Public Limited Company's filed statements could explain the movements. (8 readings drawn from the statement lines Willis Towers Watson Public Limited Company filed)
What to check next
What to check next on Willis Towers Watson Public Limited Company, and where in its filings. (1 question for Willis Towers Watson Public Limited Company)
In one paragraph
One paragraph on Willis Towers Watson Public Limited Company's returns, cash, balance sheet and price. (15 of sixteen figures read for Willis Towers Watson Public Limited Company)

These are WTW’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 Feb 25, 2026, accession 0001193125-26-069307.

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Quality

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

SEC filingComputed

Willis Towers Watson Public Limited Company: returns on capital and margins, each with its source
FigureValue, source and document
Return on invested capital, after tax15.9% ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 25, 2026, 0001193125-26-069307
Return on equity20.1% ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 25, 2026, 0001193125-26-069307
Return on capital employed, pre-tax14.4% ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 25, 2026, 0001193125-26-069307
Return on assets5.4% ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 25, 2026, 0001193125-26-069307
Gross margin
Why n/a

Our archived statements for this filer carry no gross profit line, so there is nothing to compute a gross margin from and trace back to source. That may be because the filer presents no cost of revenue, or because we have not captured the concept. We do not guess which.

n/a ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 25, 2026, 0001193125-26-069307
Operating margin23.0% ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 25, 2026, 0001193125-26-069307
Net margin16.5% ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 25, 2026, 0001193125-26-069307
WTW 16.5%
AON 21.5%ERIE 13.8%MRSH 15.4%BRO 17.9%AJG 10.7%
10.7%21.5%
Net margin: WTW 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

Willis Towers Watson Public Limited Company: leverage, liquidity and distress, each with its source
FigureValue, source and document
Debt to equity0.87 ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 25, 2026, 0001193125-26-069307
Current ratio1.20 ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 25, 2026, 0001193125-26-069307
Quick ratio1.20 ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 25, 2026, 0001193125-26-069307
Interest coverage8.59x ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 25, 2026, 0001193125-26-069307
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 Feb 25, 2026, 0001193125-26-069307
Net debt3.75B ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 25, 2026, 0001193125-26-069307
Total assets 29.53BTotal liabilities 21.48BShareholders' equity 7.98BOwnsOwes, and equity
Total assets Total liabilities Shareholders’ equity
The balance sheet, line by line

Financial health

What Willis Towers Watson Public Limited Company owned and owed at the end of fiscal 2025, from the balance sheet it filed (10-K, filed Feb 25, 2026, 0001193125-26-069307).

Willis Towers Watson Public Limited Company: balance sheet position
Total assets29.53B FiledFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 25, 2026
Total liabilities21.48B FiledFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 25, 2026
Shareholders' equity7.98B FiledFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 25, 2026
Cash3.16B FiledFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 25, 2026
Total debt6.91B FiledFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 25, 2026
Net debt3.75B
Current ratio1.20
Debt to equity0.87

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

Willis Towers Watson Public Limited Company: what the market charges, each with its source
FigureValue, source and document
Price to earnings18.18x ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Feb 25, 2026, 0001193125-26-069307
P/E on trailing twelve months18.49x ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · Trailing four quarters, each as known on the day; the quarterly filings are listed under Filings
Price to book3.69x ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Feb 25, 2026, 0001193125-26-069307
Price to sales3.03x ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Feb 25, 2026, 0001193125-26-069307
Enterprise value to EBIT14.85x ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Feb 25, 2026, 0001193125-26-069307
Enterprise value to EBITDA13.49x ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Feb 25, 2026, 0001193125-26-069307
Price to earnings over growth1.12 ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Feb 25, 2026, 0001193125-26-069307
Diluted earnings per share16.26 USD FiledFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 25, 2026, 0001193125-26-069307
Graham number172.10 USD ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 25, 2026, 0001193125-26-069307

We publish no fair value or price target of our own. Value WTW 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 Willis Towers Watson Public Limited Company today, and the multiples it has carried. No value of ours: the figures are the filings’ and the market’s.

Willis Towers Watson Public Limited Company: valuation
Share price310.36 USD
Market capitalisation28.82B USD
Enterprise value to EBITDA13.49x
Graham number172.10 USD
Diluted earnings per share, FY202516.26 USD

Price to earnings on trailing twelve months, a different basis from the fiscal-year P/E above, since Oct 3, 2016: low 6.63x, median 26.45x, high 233.29x, latest 18.49x. 2,334 trading days with a meaningful ratio, 186 more on a loss and left out. Each close over the trailing twelve months of earnings as known that day: a quarter counts from the day it was filed.

Companies like Willis Towers Watson Public Limited Company

  1. Aon plc (AON)Market cap 60.84B USD
  2. Erie Indemnity Company (ERIE)Market cap 11.02B USD
  3. Marsh & McLennan Companies, Inc. (MRSH)Market cap 89.02B USD
  4. Brown & Brown, Inc. (BRO)Market cap 22.75B USD
  5. Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. (AJG)Market cap 64.11B USD

Same industry (Insurance - Brokers) 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

Willis Towers Watson Public Limited Company: 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 Feb 25, 2026, 0001193125-26-069307
Free cash flow1.55B USD ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 25, 2026, 0001193125-26-069307
Free cash flow margin15.9% ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 25, 2026, 0001193125-26-069307
Dividend yield1.3% ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Feb 25, 2026, 0001193125-26-069307
Payout ratio22.3% ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 25, 2026, 0001193125-26-069307
FY2016 Free cash flow: 715.0M USDFY2016 Net income: 420.0M USDFY2017 Free cash flow: 562.0M USDFY2017 Net income: 568.0M USDFY2018 Free cash flow: 1.02B USDFY2018 Net income: 695.0M USDFY2019 Net income: 1.04B USDFY2020 Net income: 996.0M USDFY2021 Net income: 4.22B USDFY2022 Net income: 1.01B USDFY2023 Free cash flow: 1.10B USDFY2023 Net income: 1.05B USDFY2024 Free cash flow: 1.27B USDFY2024 Net income: -98.0M USDFY2025 Free cash flow: 1.55B USDFY2025 Net income: 1.60B 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.

Willis Towers Watson Public Limited Company: the eight ratios, with the fiscal year and filing date behind each.
FigureValueYearAs of
18.18xFY2025Oct 15, 2026
3.69xFY2025Oct 15, 2026
14.85xFY2025Oct 15, 2026
5.3%FY2025Oct 15, 2026
15.9%FY2025Feb 25, 2026
1.3%FY2025Oct 15, 2026
0.87FY2025Feb 25, 2026
1.20FY2025Feb 25, 2026
3.03xFY2025Oct 15, 2026
1.12FY2025Oct 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.
-2.60FY2025Feb 25, 2026
6/9FY2025Feb 25, 2026

The figures are computed from the accounts for fiscal 2025, the newest full year on file. 18 filed fiscal years on record, FY2008 to FY2025, from SEC EDGAR. Prices as of Oct 15, 2026. Ratios recomputed Oct 14, 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 Willis Towers Watson Public Limited Company filed with the SEC. Each year names its filing. Amounts in USD, as filed.

Willis Towers Watson Public Limited Company: 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
FY20259.71B2.23B1.60B16.261.55B23.0%20.1%10-K, Feb 25, 20260001193125-26-069307
FY20249.93B627.0M-98.0M-0.961.27B6.3%-1.2%10-K, Feb 25, 20250000950170-25-026278
FY20239.48B1.36B1.05B9.951.10B14.4%11.1%10-K, Feb 22, 20240000950170-24-018575
FY20228.87B1.18B1.01B8.98n/a13.3%10.1%10-K, Feb 24, 20230000950170-23-004303
FY20219.00B2.20B4.22B32.78n/a24.5%31.8%10-K, Feb 24, 20220000950170-22-001932
FY20208.62B859.0M996.0M7.65n/a10.0%9.2%10-K, Feb 23, 20210001564590-21-007578
FY20198.37B1.05B1.04B8.02n/a12.6%10.2%10-K, Feb 26, 20200001564590-20-006736
FY20188.51B809.0M695.0M5.271.02B9.5%7.0%10-K, Feb 27, 20190001564590-19-004912
FY20178.20B516.0M568.0M4.18562.0M6.3%5.6%10-K, Feb 28, 20180001140536-18-000008
FY20167.89B348.0M420.0M3.04715.0M4.4%4.2%10-K, Mar 1, 20170001140536-17-000008
  • Revenue, compound annual growth FY2016 to FY2025: 2.3%
  • Earnings, compound annual growth FY2016 to FY2025: 16.1%
  • Earnings per share, compound annual growth FY2016 to FY2025: 20.5%
  • Free cash flow, compound annual growth FY2016 to FY2025: 8.9%

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

Willis Towers Watson Public Limited Company: accounting screens and published tests, each with its source
FigureValue, source and document
Beneish M-score-2.60 ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 25, 2026, 0001193125-26-069307
Piotroski F-score6/9 ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 25, 2026, 0001193125-26-069307
Named tests met3 of 30 Computed
Beta0.47 ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026

The named tests

Of 30 tests value investors published: 3 met, 27 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; 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; High return on tangibles; 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(4)
  • 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.
  • Gross Margin: Our archived statements for this filer carry no gross profit line, so there is nothing to compute a gross margin from and trace back to source. That may be because the filer presents no cost of revenue, or because we have not captured the concept. We do not guess which.
  • 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 Javier Sanz Alvarez: no holding in any company shown here, as of October 3, 2026.

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What this cannot tell you

  • 4 figures could not be read on this company, among them Current Ratio, Altman Z-Score, Gross Margin. Each blank in the table above names the rest, with its reason.

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