Factset (FDS)

• Market cap: $18.6B
• 1 day: -0.27%
• 5 days: 6.73%
• 1 month: -0.19%
• 3 months: 7.54%
• 6 months: 17.89%
• Year to date: 5.90%
• 1 year: 3.75%
• 5 years: 82.21%
• 10 years: 238.91%
• Sector: Information Technology
• Industry: Computer Programming, Data Processing, Etc.

About: FactSet provides financial data and portfolio analytics to the Global investment community. The company aggregates data from third-party data suppliers, news sources, exchanges, brokerages, and contributors into its workstations. In addition, it provides essential portfolio analytics that companies use to monitor portfolios and address reporting requirements. Buy-side clients (including wealth and corporate clients) account for 82% of FactSet's annual subscription value. In 2015, the company acquired Portware, a provider of trade execution software. In 2017, it acquired BISAM, a risk management and performance measurement provider. In 2022, it completed its purchase of CUSIP Global Services.

Employees: 12,398

Fund manager confidence

Based on 2024 Q3 regulatory filings by fund managers ($100M+ AUM)

100% more call options, than puts

Call options by funds: $81M | Put options by funds: $40.5M

26% more first-time investments, than exits

New positions opened: 97 | Existing positions closed: 77

7% more capital invested

Capital invested by funds: $15.4B [Q2] → $16.5B (+$1.08B) [Q3]

3% more funds holding

Funds holding: 793 [Q2] → 813 (+20) [Q3]

0% more funds holding in top 10

Funds holding in top 10: 5 [Q2] → 5 (+0) [Q3]

7% less repeat investments, than reductions

Existing positions increased: 273 | Existing positions reduced: 293

4.5% less ownership

Funds ownership: 98.91% [Q2] → 94.41% (-4.5%) [Q3]

Research analyst outlook

7 Wall Street Analysts provided 1 year price targets over the past 3 months

• Low target: $380 22% downside
• Avg. target: $471 4% downside
• High target: $525 7% upside

7 analyst ratings

• positive: 0 0%
• neutral: 5 71%
• negative: 2 29%

BMO Capital Jeffrey Silber 50% 1-year accuracy 18 / 36 met price target	6% upside $518	Market Perform Maintained	23 Dec 2024
Stifel Shlomo Rosenbaum 61% 1-year accuracy 11 / 18 met price target	1% upside $493	Hold Maintained	20 Dec 2024
RBC Capital Ashish Sabadra 65% 1-year accuracy 33 / 51 met price target	3% upside $503	Sector Perform Reiterated	20 Dec 2024
Morgan Stanley Toni Kaplan 45% 1-year accuracy 10 / 22 met price target	17% downside $409	Underweight Maintained	12 Dec 2024
UBS Alex Kramm 77% 1-year accuracy 10 / 13 met price target	7% upside $525	Neutral Maintained	15 Nov 2024