FactSet FDS
FactSet Research Systems Inc. and its wholly-owned subsidiaries ("we," "our," "us," the "Company" or "FactSet") was founded in 1978 and has been publicly traded since June 1996. 10-K, Item 1
- Employees
- 8,652
- Headquarters
- Norwalk, CT
- CEO
- Sanoke Viswanathan
- Next results
- around Dec 17, 2026
Where each dollar of revenue went, FY2026
Revenue of $2.5B through the costs to a net profit of $533.5M · income statement of the 10-K
FDS among Financials peers
Six ratios from the latest 10-K. Each corner is the share of 75 peers the company is above, not a score.
What changed
23 new risk paragraphs. 10-K filed Oct 20, 2026 against Oct 22, 2025.
Each row opens the detail with the quote and the filing. A row is a change worth reading, not a verdict.
Accounting checks
10 checks on the latest 10-K. Checks, not verdicts.
0facts worth reading about all 10 checks found nothing to note
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Receivables +10.3% vs revenue +6.7% (+3.7 pts)
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Cash from operations $822.2M vs net income $533.5M (FY ending Aug 31, 2026)
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Same auditor in both 10-Ks: Ernst & Young LLP
7 more checks with nothing to note
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No statement of substantial doubt about going concern
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No 8-K item 4.02 in the last 2 years
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No NT 10-K or NT 10-Q in the last 2 years
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No longer listed: Valuation of Acquired Software Technology. Same as last year: Measurement of income tax provision
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No sentence in the 10-K concludes that controls were not effective because of a material weakness
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No 8-K item 2.06 in the last 2 years
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No 8-K item 1.03 in the last 2 years
In their words
23 paragraphs in Risk Factors that were not in the 10-K filed Oct 22, 2025. Quoted as filed.
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Item 1A · new paragraph · not in the 10-K filed Oct 22, 2025 10-K, ITEM 1A
Cyber-attacks continue to evolve in sophistication, frequency and volume, including as threat actors exploit generative and agentic AI to discover and exploit vulnerabilities at unprecedented speed and scale, and may be difficult to detect for long periods of time. Our protective measures, and those of the third parties to which we are…
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Item 1A · new paragraph · not in the 10-K filed Oct 22, 2025 10-K, ITEM 1A
We may be unable to secure data center capacity, power and computing resources on acceptable terms to meet our future needs Our business, and in particular our growth and our increasing use of AI, depends on access to data center capacity, power and computing resources, including specialized hardware, whether provided through our own…
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Item 1A · new paragraph · not in the 10-K filed Oct 22, 2025 10-K, ITEM 1A
Advances in AI may enable our clients and other third parties to build their own solutions and may reduce demand for our products and services A significant portion of the value we provide derives from the interfaces, applications, workflows, analytics and connectivity through which we deliver data and functionality to our clients.…
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Item 1A · new paragraph · not in the 10-K filed Oct 22, 2025 10-K, ITEM 1A
We depend on third-party vendors, partners and service providers, and disruptions to or failures by these third parties could adversely affect our business We rely on third-party vendors, partners and service providers for a range of critical functions, including cloud hosting and infrastructure, data and content, software,…
New risk paragraphs, against peers
Latest 10-K of each, Financials companies closest in revenue
Paragraphs in Risk Factors with nothing like them in the company's 10-K the year before. A count of text, not of risk.
Financial performance
Last 4 fiscal years · 10-K XBRL
| Metric | FY2023 | FY2024 | FY2025 | FY2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | $2.1B | $2.2B | $2.3B | $2.5B |
| Net income | $468.2M | $537.1M | $597.0M | $533.5M |
| Operating cash flow | $645.6M | $700.3M | $726.3M | $822.2M |
| Free cash flow | $584.8M | $614.7M | $617.5M | $707.5M |
Revenue, FY2017 to FY2026
Ten fiscal years, each from its own 10-K · XBRL · USD
$2.5B ▲ 6.7% in FY2026$533.5M ▼ 10.6% in FY2026$707.5M ▲ 14.6% in FY2026
Recent filings
2 filings in the last 30 days · SEC EDGAR
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8-KNov 10, 2026Regulation FD disclosure 8-K item 7.01
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10-KOct 20, 2026Annual report (10-K) period ended Aug 31, 2026
About the company
FactSet, Norwalk, CT · from the 10-K filed Oct 20, 2026
FactSet Research Systems Inc. and its wholly-owned subsidiaries ("we," "our," "us," the "Company" or "FactSet") was founded in 1978 and has been publicly traded since June 1996. We are dual-listed on the New York Stock Exchange ("NYSE") and the Nasdaq Stock Market ("Nasdaq") under the symbol "FDS". FactSet has been a member of the S&P 500 since December 2021. FactSet is a global data and artificial intelligence ("AI") solutions provider to the financial markets with open and flexible technologies that deliver financial intelligence to finance professionals worldwide.
- Headquarters
- Norwalk, CT
- Country
- United States
- Reports in
- USD
- Listed on
- NYSE
- Fiscal year ends
- August 31
- Last results
- Sep 30, 2026
- Incorporated in
- DE
Employees, at the top of the page: "As of August 31, 2026, we had 8,652 employees located in Asia Pacific, 2,373 in the Americas and 1,419 in EMEA" (10-K). Address and exchange: SEC's company file.
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Sources
The 10-K filed Oct 20, 2026 (open at SEC), compared with the 10-K filed Oct 22, 2025. Numbers from the XBRL of the 10-Ks; filings from SEC EDGAR.
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