FactSet is a high-quality financial data franchise with a wide economic moat, strong returns, and 13.2% headroom to its resistance target — but a confirmed price downtrend, geographic and customer concentration blocks, and mixed earnings delivery create a complex setup where franchise quality and technical risk pull in opposite directions.
Thesis pillars
- Material Upside With Short Overhang↓Deteriorating
- Wide Economic Moat Quality→Stable
- Earnings Recovery Trend↓Deteriorating
- +2 more pillars — see the Why tab for full reasoning
Pillars as of Jul 3, 2026, based on the 10-K filed Oct 20, 2026· older than 90 days
FactSet Research Systems Inc. (FDS) Stock Analysis
Breakout setup
Financial Services · Financial Data & Stock Exchanges
Hold if already holding. Not a fresh buy at $342.19, but acceptable to hold if already in. Reasons: Single-region cliff: 65% exposure to Americas segment revenues (≥60% threshold). Regional macroeconomic shock = idiosyncratic terminal risk.; Concentration risk — Geographic: Americas segment revenues (65.0%).
FactSet Research Systems provides financial data, analytics and AI-powered workflow tools to asset managers, bankers, wealth managers and other finance professionals in over 80 countries. Revenue comes mainly from subscriptions to its Hosted Platform (workstations, portfolio... Read more
Hold if already holding. Not a fresh buy at $342.19, but acceptable to hold if already in. Reasons: Single-region cliff: 65% exposure to Americas segment revenues (≥60% threshold). Regional macroeconomic shock = idiosyncratic terminal risk.; Concentration risk — Geographic: Americas segment revenues (65.0%). Chart setup: Golden cross, above all MAs, RSI 68, MACD bullish. Downgraded from BUY WAIT — price $342.19 vs the analyst target $254.53: -25.6% upside; No upside left. Score 5.5/10, moderate confidence.
Passes 5/8 gates (positive momentum, clean insider activity, earnings proximity 42d clear, semi cycle peak clear, materials cycle peak clear). Fails on favorable risk/reward ratio and finsvc regional cliff hard block. Suitability: moderate.
About FactSet Research Systems Inc.
About FactSet Research Systems Inc.
FactSet Research Systems reports three geographic segments, with the Americas contributing 65% of total revenues in fiscal 2026, EMEA 24% and Asia Pacific 11%. The company served 9,258 clients and 260,671 professionals at August 31, 2026, and employed 12,444 people across 33 offices in 19 countries, about 70% of them in Asia Pacific. Its P.A.N. Securities, LP subsidiary is a FINRA member and registered broker-dealer under SEC oversight.
FactSet earns most of its revenue from subscriptions to a Hosted Platform that bundles workstations, portfolio analytics, enterprise data solutions and AI agents for institutional asset managers, bankers, wealth managers, hedge funds and private equity firms. Annual Subscription Value, defined as forward-looking revenue for the next 12 months from recurring services, serves as the company's key indicator, and annual ASV retention was greater than 95% in fiscal 2026, or 90% when expressed as a percentage of clients. Management is moving client contracts toward longer enterprise platform agreements that pair subscription minimums with consumption-based pricing. Content is collected from third-party data suppliers, exchanges and brokers into managed databases, and the company seeks at least two providers for each major type of financial data. The filing names Bloomberg, S&P, London Stock Exchange Group, BlackRock, MSCI and Morningstar as the most notable competitors, alongside clients building in-house solutions.
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Supplier dependence offers a distinct angle on the business. The filing states that one supplier provides the majority of cloud computing support, and the company has limited control over that provider's performance, so an outage or loss of service could impair operations and might lead clients to seek alternative data suppliers. Certain data sets rely on a limited number of suppliers, and two content suppliers each represented more than 10% of total third-party content costs in fiscal 2026, even though the company states it is not dependent on any one content supplier. Capacity constraints may compound the exposure, since AI-driven demand has contributed to constrained availability and rising costs for data center capacity, power and computing resources.
See also: Financial Services · Financial Data & Stock Exchanges
From FactSet Research Systems Inc.'s most recent 10-K filing, extracted October 25, 2026.
Recent developments
updated Oct 28, 2026Recent Developments — FactSet Research Systems Inc.
Latest news
- NEWS How Investors Are Reacting To FactSet (FDS) Earnings Beat - Simply Wall St — Simply Wall St Oct 28, 2026 positive
- NEWS FDSFactSet Research Systems (FDS) Rises on Subscription Growth and Expanding AI Offerings, Ariel Focus Fund Says - Yahoo — Yahoo Finance Oct 28, 2026 positive
- NEWS FactSet: Another 22% Run-Up, But It's Still Undervalued (NYSE:FDS) - Seeking Alpha — Seeking Alpha Oct 28, 2026 positive
- NEWS FactSet Research Systems Drops 5.3% Amid Sector-Wide Selling - AlphaStreet — AlphaStreet Oct 28, 2026 negative
- NEWS Learn Why The Bull Case For FactSet Stock Could Change Following Scotia Wealth Expansion - Simply Wall Street — Simply Wall Street Oct 21, 2026 positive
Latest item Oct 28, 2026 · Generated 2026-11-05T11:49:09Z.
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Concentration Risks(10-K Item 1A)
- HIGHGeographicAmericas segment revenues65%10-K Item 1: 'Revenues from the Americas represented 65% of total revenues during fiscal 2026.'
- MEDIUMSupplierone supplier provides majority of cloud computing support10-K Item 1A: 'one supplier provides the majority of our cloud computing support'
Material Events(8-K, last 90d)
- 2026-09-25Item 5.02LOWBoard appointed Marcel Prins as a director on September 23, 2026; he will join the existing non-employee director compensation program. Board appointment only; no departure and no related-party transactions.SEC filing →
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Hold if already holding. Not a fresh buy at $342.19, but acceptable to hold if already in. Reasons: Single-region cliff: 65% exposure to Americas segment revenues (≥60% threshold). Regional macroeconomic shock = idiosyncratic terminal risk.; Concentration risk — Geographic: Americas segment revenues (65.0%). Chart setup: Golden cross, above all MAs, RSI 68, MACD bullish. Downgraded from BUY WAIT — price $342.19 vs the analyst target $254.53: -25.6% upside; No upside left. Analyst target $254.53 reached (−25.6%), stop $306.13 (−11.8%), A.R:R -1.7:1. Score 5.5/10, moderate confidence.
Analyst target $254.53 reached (−25.6% from $342.19); no take-profit level is published. Analyst target $254.53 reached (−25.6%), stop $306.13 (−11.8%), A.R:R -1.7:1. Stop-loss: $306.13.
Single-region cliff: 65% exposure to Americas segment revenues (≥60% threshold). Regional macroeconomic shock = idiosyncratic terminal risk.; Concentration risk — Geographic: Americas segment revenues (65.0%); Analyst target reached - limited upside remaining.
FactSet Research Systems Inc. trades at a P/E of 23.5 (forward 15.7). TrendMatrix value score: 5.5/10. Verdict: Hold.
27 analysts rate FDS, with a consensus score of 2.7/5. 16 analysts publish price targets averaging $283.
What does FactSet Research Systems Inc. do?FactSet Research Systems provides financial data, analytics and AI-powered workflow tools to asset managers, bankers,...
FactSet Research Systems provides financial data, analytics and AI-powered workflow tools to asset managers, bankers, wealth managers and other finance professionals in over 80 countries. Revenue comes mainly from subscriptions to its Hosted Platform (workstations, portfolio analytics, enterprise data and AI solutions), serving 9,258 clients and 260,671 professionals. Annual ASV retention exceeded 95% in fiscal 2026, and its CUSIP Global Services unit is the exclusive issuer of CUSIP identifiers.