Factset (FDS)

• Market cap: $17.5B
• 1 day: -0.93%
• 5 days: 0.58%
• 1 month: -0.94%
• 3 months: -4.94%
• 6 months: 11.97%
• Year to date: -3.09%
• 1 year: 1.86%
• 5 years: 54.14%
• 10 years: 192.12%
• 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 Q4 regulatory filings by fund managers ($100M+ AUM)

463% more call options, than puts

Call options by funds: $28.9M | Put options by funds: $5.14M

40% more funds holding in top 10

Funds holding in top 10: 5 [Q3] → 7 (+2) [Q4]

23% more first-time investments, than exits

New positions opened: 87 | Existing positions closed: 71

5% more capital invested

Capital invested by funds: $16.7B [Q3] → $17.6B (+$890M) [Q4]

1% less funds holding

Funds holding: 816 [Q3] → 807 (-9) [Q4]

1.45% less ownership

Funds ownership: 95.71% [Q3] → 94.26% (-1.45%) [Q4]

10% less repeat investments, than reductions

Existing positions increased: 259 | Existing positions reduced: 289

Research analyst outlook

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

• Low target: $409 11% downside
• Avg. target: $485 5% upside
• High target: $518 12% upside

5 analyst ratings

• positive: 0 0%
• neutral: 4 80%
• negative: 1 20%

Wells Fargo Jason Haas 58% 1-year accuracy 21 / 36 met price target	8% upside $500	Equal-Weight Maintained	11 Feb 2025
BMO Capital Jeffrey Silber 61% 1-year accuracy 23 / 38 met price target	12% upside $518	Market Perform Maintained	23 Dec 2024
Stifel Shlomo Rosenbaum 53% 1-year accuracy 10 / 19 met price target	7% upside $493	Hold Maintained	20 Dec 2024
RBC Capital Ashish Sabadra 87% 1-year accuracy 47 / 54 met price target	9% upside $503	Sector Perform Reiterated	20 Dec 2024
Morgan Stanley Toni Kaplan 44% 1-year accuracy 12 / 27 met price target	11% downside $409	Underweight Maintained	12 Dec 2024