FactSet Research Systems 10-Q 2025-11-30

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

Form 10-Q

For the quarterly period ended November 30, 2025

OR

For the transition period from ______to ______

Commission File Number: 1-11869

FACTSET RESEARCH SYSTEMS INC.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

Registrant’s telephone number, including area code: (203) 810-1000

Former name, former address and former fiscal year, if changed since last report: None

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The number of shares outstanding of the registrant’s common stock, $.01 par value, as of December 29, 2025 was 37,099,259.

FactSet Research Systems Inc.

Form 10-Q

For the Quarter Ended November 30, 2025

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For additional information about FactSet Research Systems Inc. and access to its Annual Reports to Stockholders and Securities and Exchange Commission filings, free of charge, please visit FactSet’s website (https://investor.factset.com). Any information on or linked from the website is not incorporated by reference into this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q.

Special Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements

This report contains forward-looking statements that express management's current views concerning expectations, estimates, trends, forecasts and projections about future events, trends, contingencies, and circumstances, industries in which FactSet operates and the beliefs and assumptions of management. These statements may include projections of our future financial performance and anticipated trends in our business. In some cases, you can identify these statements by words such as "may," "might," "will," "should," "expects," "plans," "anticipates," "believes," "estimates," "intends," "projects," "indicates," "predicts," "potential," or "continue," and the negatives of those terms and similar expressions. Statements concerning our financial position, business strategy and plans or objectives for future operations are forward-looking statements.

Forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance and involve a number of known and unknown risks, uncertainties and assumptions. Factors that could cause our actual results, level of activity, performance or achievements to differ materially from those expressed or implied in forward-looking statements include, among others, the factors discussed under Part I, Item 1A. Risk Factors in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended August 31, 2025, and Part II, Item 1A. Risk Factors in this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q, that should be specifically considered. FactSet cautions readers not to place undue reliance on any forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the dates on which they are made. FactSet undertakes no obligations to update or revise any forward-looking statement to reflect results, revised expectations, events or circumstances arising after the date on which it is made, except as required by applicable law.

We intend that all forward-looking statements we make will be subject to safe harbor protection of the federal securities laws as found in Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.

PART I – FINANCIAL INFORMATION

FactSet Research Systems Inc.

Consolidated Statements of Income – Unaudited

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these Consolidated Financial Statements.

FactSet Research Systems Inc.

Consolidated Statements of Comprehensive Income – Unaudited

(1) Presented net of a tax benefit of $1,026 thousand and $1,105 thousand for the three months ended November 30, 2025 and November 30, 2024, respectively.

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these Consolidated Financial Statements.

FactSet Research Systems Inc.

Consolidated Balance Sheets – Unaudited

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these Consolidated Financial Statements.

FactSet Research Systems Inc.

Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows – Unaudited

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This Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations ("MD&A") should be read in conjunction with the Consolidated Financial Statements and related Notes included in this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q, our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended August 31, 2025, our Current Reports on Form 8-K and our other filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. This discussion contains forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties. Our actual results could differ materially from those discussed below. Factors that could cause such differences include, but are not limited to, those identified below and those discussed in Part I, Item 1A. Risk Factors in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended August 31, 2025.

Our MD&A is designed to provide a reader of our financial statements with a narrative from the perspective of our management on our financial condition, results of operations, liquidity and certain other factors that may affect our future results. Our MD&A is presented in the following sections:

• Executive Overview

• Annual Subscription Value ("ASV")

• Client and User Additions

• Employee Headcount

• Results of Operations

• Non-GAAP Financial Measures

• Liquidity and Capital Resources

• Off-Balance Sheet Arrangements

• Foreign Currency Exposure

• Critical Accounting Estimates

• New Accounting Pronouncements

Executive Overview

FactSet Research Systems Inc. and its wholly-owned subsidiaries ("we," "our," "us," the "Company" or "FactSet") is a global financial digital platform and enterprise solutions provider with open and flexible technologies that deliver financial intelligence to investment professionals worldwide.

Our platform delivers expansive data, sophisticated analytics, and flexible, artificial intelligence ("AI")-powered technologies used by global financial professionals to power their critical investment workflows. As of November 30, 2025, we had more than 9,000 clients comprised of over 239,000 investment professionals, including institutional asset managers, bankers, wealth managers, asset owners, hedge funds, corporate users, and private equity and venture capital professionals. Our revenues are primarily derived from subscriptions to our multi-asset class data and solutions powered by our connected data and technology platform. Our products and services include workstations, portfolio analytics and enterprise data solutions. We also offer managed services that operate as an extension of our clients' internal teams to support data, performance, risk and reporting workflows.

We drive our business based on a detailed understanding of our clients' workflows, which helps us to solve their most complex challenges. We provide financial data and market intelligence on securities, companies, industries and people to enable our clients to research investment ideas and analyze, monitor and manage their portfolios. Our solutions span the investment lifecycle of investment research, portfolio construction and analysis, trade execution, performance measurement, risk management and reporting. We provide open and flexible technology offerings, including a configurable desktop and mobile platform, comprehensive data feeds, cloud-based digital solutions, and application programming interfaces ("APIs"). AI is embedded across these offerings to enhance data discovery, automate routine workflows and improve the speed and accuracy of client insights. The CUSIP Global Services ("CGS") business supports security master files relied on by the investment industry for critical front, middle and back-office functions. All of our platforms and solutions are supported by our client service team.

We operate our business through three reportable segments ("segments"): the Americas, EMEA and Asia Pacific. Refer to Note 15, Segment Information, in the Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements included in Part I, Item 1. of this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for more information on our segments.

Within each segment, we offer data, products and analytical applications by firm type: Institutional Buyside, Dealmakers, Wealth, and Market Infrastructure. In fiscal 2026, we renamed "Partnerships and CGS" to "Market Infrastructure".

• "Institutional Buyside" focuses on global asset managers, asset owners, and hedge fund professionals,

• "Dealmakers" focuses on investment bankers, sell-side research analysts, corporate users, investor relations officers and private equity and venture capital professionals,

• "Wealth" focuses on wealth management clients, and

• "Market Infrastructure" focuses on partnerships that deliver solutions to firms in the financial services ecosystem including data, analytics and technology platform providers and includes CGS, the exclusive issuer of Committee on Uniform Security Identification Procedures ("CUSIP") and CUSIP International Number System ("CINS") identifiers globally.

Business Strategy

We strive to be a trusted enterprise partner and service provider to our clients across the financial services spectrum, delivering relevant intelligence, insights and execution solutions tailored to our clients' business models.

We are focused on growing our global business through three strategically aligned geographic segments: the Americas, EMEA and Asia Pacific. This approach allows us to better manage resources, target solutions and interact with clients effectively.

To execute our strategy, we are focused on three core pillars and primary areas of investment:

• Expanding our data offerings and delivery capabilities:** We continue to scale up our data ecosystem to provide a comprehensive inventory of industry, proprietary and third-party data. This includes granular data for key industry verticals, real-time market data, fund data and sustainable finance. In addition to using our growing data catalog to drive our AI-powered workstation products, we aim to continue to expand our data delivery capabilities in the cloud and through other methods to advance our position as an enterprise data provider for our clients.

• Embedding deeper in client workflows**: Through continued innovation, we aim to deepen our integration into our clients' workflows. We are focused on expanding further into the buy-side front office by leveraging our expertise in portfolio performance, analytics, and risk management. In addition, we are building on our strong presence on advisor desktops by expanding into prospecting and digital reporting workflows. We are also working to introduce next-generation automation in research, financial modeling, and pitch creation

• Innovating with AI**: We believe sustainable success in enterprise AI depends on trusted, high-quality data, secure integration with models and workflows, and deep domain expertise. We continue to advance a pragmatic, open, and flexible strategy for integrating AI and natural language processing into our clients’ workflows, aiming to boost productivity by surfacing actionable insights throughout the portfolio lifecycle and automating routine research and content processing tasks. FactSet is delivering AI embedded workflow solutions for various personas including research analysts, bankers, portfolio managers, wealth advisors and engineering teams across our clients.

Fiscal 2026 First Quarter in Review

Revenues in the first quarter of fiscal 2026 were $607.6 million, an increase of 6.9% from the comparable prior year period. The growth in revenues was driven by a 6.0% increase in organic revenues, a 0.7% increase from acquisition revenues, net of a decrease in revenues from a disposition of a business at the end of the prior fiscal year, and a net increase of 0.2% from foreign currency exchange rate fluctuations. Revenues increased in all our segments, primarily in the Americas. Revenues increased primarily from workstations, portfolio management and trading solutions, and data s

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In the normal course of business, we are exposed to foreign currency exchange risk and interest rate risk that could impact our financial position and results of operations. Current market events have not required us to materially modify our financial risk management strategies with respect to our exposures to foreign currency exchange risk or interest rate risk.

Foreign Currency

Transaction Risk

As we operate globally, we are exposed to the risk that our financial condition, results of operations and cash flows could be impacted by changes in foreign currency exchange rates. During the three months ended November 30, 2025, we maintained a series of foreign currency forward contracts to hedge a portion of our projected operating expenses in these primary currency exposures, namely the British Pound Sterling, Euro, Indian Rupee and Philippine Peso. As of November 30, 2025, the hedge maturity periods of our outstanding foreign currency forward contracts range from the second quarter of fiscal 2026 through the first quarter of fiscal 2027. Based on the operating income for the three months ended November 30, 2025, comparing the average foreign currency exchange rates for the three months ended November 30, 2025 to the respective rates for the three

months ended November 30, 2024, net of hedge activity, resulted in an increase in operating income of $0.1 million. We utilize cash flow hedges to manage risk and not for speculative or trading purposes.

We performed a sensitivity analysis to determine the effects on both the fair value of our outstanding foreign currency forward contracts and our operating income, excluding these forward contracts, of a hypothetical devaluation of the U.S. dollar by 10% as of November 30, 2025, relative to the other foreign currencies in which we transact. The sensitivity analysis indicated that a devaluation of the U.S. dollar by 10% would have increased the fair value of our outstanding forward contracts by approximately $19 million as of November 30, 2025 and decreased our operating income, excluding these forward contracts, by an estimated $12 million for three months ended November 30, 2025. This sensitivity analysis has inherent limitations as it disregards the possibility that rates of multiple foreign currencies will not always move in the same direction relative to the value of the U.S. dollar over time and does not account for our forward contracts that we utilize to mitigate fluctuations in exchange rates.

Translation Risk

We are exposed to foreign currency risk due to the translation of our results from certain international operations into U.S. Dollars, as part of the consolidation process. Fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates can create volatility in our results of operations and our financial condition.

The following table reflects the foreign currency translation adjustment gains and losses recorded in Other comprehensive income (loss):

Cash and Cash Equivalents and Investments

Interest Rate Risk

As of November 30, 2025, we had Cash and cash equivalents of $275.4 million and Investments of $17.2 million. Our Cash and cash equivalents consist of cash and highly liquid investments including demand deposits and money market funds and our Investments consist of mutual funds. We are exposed to interest rate risk through fluctuations of interest rates on these investments. As we have a restrictive investment policy, our financial exposure to fluctuations in interest rates is expected to remain low. Refer to Note 2, Summary of Significant Accounting Policies in the Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements included in Part II, Item 8. of our Annual Report on Form 10-K for more information on our Cash and cash equivalents.

Credit Risk

We are exposed to credit risk for our cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash held in financial institutions in the event of a default, to the extent that such amounts are in excess of applicable insurance limits; however, we do not believe our concentration of cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash presents a significant credit risk as the counterparties to the instruments consist of multiple high-quality, credit-worthy financial institutions.

Debt

Interest Rate Risk

As of November 30, 2025, our outstanding floating rate debt included $375.0 million under the 2025 Credit Agreement. As of November 30, 2025, the outstanding borrowings under the 2025 Credit Agreement bore interest at a rate equal to the applicable one-month Term SOFR plus a 0.975% spread (comprised of a 0.875% interest rate margin, based on a pricing grid determined by reference to our senior unsecured non-credit enhanced long-term debt rating and our total leverage ratio, plus a 0.1% credit spread adjustment).

To mitigate our exposure to interest rate volatility due to changes in SOFR, we entered into the 2025 Swap Agreement on April 24, 2025, to hedge a portion of our outstanding floating SOFR debt with a fixed interest rate of 4.086%. As of November 30, 2025, the notional amount of the 2025 Swap Agreement was $50.0 million and matures on February 28, 2026.

Our Senior Notes have a fixed interest rate and are not subject to interest rate change. As such, our interest rate exposure as of November 30, 2025 is limited to the outstanding principal balance of our floating rate debt under our 2025 Credit Facilities in excess of the 2025 Swap Agreement. As of November 30, 2025, our interest rate exposure equals the Term SOFR applied to $325.0 million, our outstanding debt, net of our 2025 Swap Agreement. Assuming the principal balance of our outstanding floating rate debt, net of the 2025 Swap Agreement, remained at $325.0 million, a hypothetical 25 basis point change (up or down) in the one-month SOFR would result in an approximate $1 million change to our annual interest expense.

Refer to Note 10, Debt in the Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements included in Part I, Item 1. of this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for more information on our outstanding borrowings and swap agreement as of November 30, 2025.

Evaluation of Disclosure Controls and Procedures

Our management, including our Principal Executive Officer and Principal Financial Officer, have evaluated the effectiveness of our disclosure controls and procedures pursuant to Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the "Exchange Act"), as of the end of the period covered by this report.

Our Principal Executive Officer and Principal Financial Officer have concluded that our disclosure controls and procedures were not effective as of November 30, 2025 due to a material weakness in internal control over financial reporting. This conclusion is due to a material weakness identified in the operation of certain key IT general controls. The material weakness is described below and represents a continuation of a sub-set of the control deficiencies which gave rise to the initial material weakness identified in management’s evaluation of our control environment as of August 31, 2024.

Continuation of Previously Reported Material Weakness

As reported in Part II, Item 9A. “Controls and Procedures” of our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended August 31, 2025, we had not yet fully remediated a material weakness, initially identified during the fiscal year ended August 31, 2024, in the design and operation of IT general controls that support our revenues, accounts receivable, and deferred revenues processes which, in the aggregate, gave rise to a material weakness in internal control over financial reporting. While we have made significant progress remediating those control deficiencies, there remains certain deficiencies related to program change management and monitoring and user access in connection with segregation of duties and restrictions to appropriate users. As a result, the automated controls and IT dependent manual business process controls that rely upon information from the affected financial applications were also deemed not effective. A material weakness is a deficiency, or a combination of deficiencies, in internal control over financial reporting, such that there is a reasonable possibility that a material misstatement of a company’s annual or interim financial statements will not be prevented or detected on a timely basis.

Remediation Efforts

Since identifying the material weakness, management has made significant progress in enhancing the Company’s IT general controls to remediate the IT general control material weakness, however this effort remains ongoing. With the oversight of the Audit Committee of our Board of Directors, we have implemented remediation efforts to address the material weakness and enhance our IT general controls that support our revenues, accounts receivable, and deferred revenues processes. Our remediation efforts included:

• Strengthening the control environment by implementing controls that increase the frequency and effectiveness of user management and change management, including improved logging and segregation of duties capabilities.

• Engaging a leading third-party accounting advisory firm, with appropriate internal control expertise and experience, to help evaluate the design of our controls as well as to assist with the documentation, remediation, and related controls testing.

• Management also worked with the accounting advisory firm to revise the Company’s IT Risk and Control Matrix and to re-design certain controls around manage change and manage access to address the design deficiencies identified in fiscal 2024.

• Hired additional key IT compliance personnel and a global head of internal audit.

• Trained relevant personnel on the design and operation of our IT general controls over financial reporting.

While these efforts have resulted in significant progress toward remediating the material weakness, certain deficiencies remain, which management is committed to remediating. Our remediation plans include:

• Enhancing the precision and documentation of the change monitoring and segregation of duties review controls through additional training and formalized standard operating procedures.

• Performing additional testing of the change monitoring and segregation of duties review controls to demonstrate the sustainability and repeatability of control operating effectiveness.

• Implementing technology solutions to enhance the control framework for supporting change monitoring, segregation of duties and access management review controls.

• Continuing to utilize an expert third-party accounting advisory firm to evaluate the design of our controls as well as to assist with the documentation, remediation and associated testing.

Additional or modified measures may also be required to remediate the material weakness. We will not be able to conclude that we have completely remediated the material weakness until the applicable controls are fully implemented and have operated for a sufficient period of time and management has concluded, through formal testing, that the remediated controls are operating effectively. We expect to complete these remediation measures as early as practicable in fiscal 2026. We will continue to monitor the design and effectiveness of these and other processes, procedures, and controls and make any further changes management deems appropriate. We regularly report to the Audit Committee on our progress and will continue to do so in fiscal 2026.

Inherent Limitations of Internal Controls over Financial Reporting

No system of controls, no matter how well designed and operated, can provide absolute assurance that the objectives of the system of controls will be met, and no evaluation of controls can provide absolute assurance that all control deficiencies or material weaknesses have been or will be detected. There is no assurance that our remediation efforts will be fully effective. If these remediation efforts do not prove effective and control deficiencies and material weaknesses persist or occur in the future, the accuracy and timing of our financial reporting may be adversely affected.

Changes in Internal Control over Financial Reporting

Other than the ongoing remediation plans described above, there were no changes in the Company’s internal control over financial reporting (as such term is defined in Rules 13a-15(f) and 15d-15(f) under the Exchange Act) during the three months ended November 30, 2025 that have materially affected, or are reasonably likely to materially affect, our internal control over financial reporting.

PART II – OTHER INFORMATION

ITEM 1. LEGAL PROCEEDINGS

The information set forth under "Contingencies" in Note 11, Commitments and Contingencies, contained in the Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements included in Part I, Item 1., to this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q is incorporated by reference in answer to this Item.

For a discussion of our risk factors, please see Part 1, Item 1A. "Risk Factors" in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended August 31, 2025.

ITEM 2. UNREGISTERED SALES OF EQUITY SECURITIES AND USE OF PROCEEDS

Items 2(a) and (b) are not applicable as there have been no unregistered sales of equity securities.

(i)Issuer Purchases of Equity Securities

The following table provides a month-to-month summary of our share repurchase activity during the three months ended November 30, 2025:

(1)Includes 478,100 shares purchased under the stock repurchase program, as well as 21,374 shares repurchased to satisfy withholding tax obligations due upon the vesting of stock-based awards.

(2)On June 17, 2025, our Board of Directors authorized up to $400 million for share repurchases on or after September 1, 2025. As of November 30, 2025, $260.1 million remained available under our share repurchase program. On December 16, 2025, our Board of Directors approved an additional $600 million in share repurchase authority, which is available immediately with no expiration date. The additional authorization also removed the expiration date from the June 17, 2025 authorization. Repurchases may be made from time-to-time in the open market or via privately negotiated transactions, subject to market conditions. There is no defined number of shares to be repurchased over a specified timeframe through the life of our share repurchase program. It is expected that share repurchases will be paid using existing and future cash generated by operations.

ITEM 3. DEFAULTS UPON SENIOR SECURITIES

None.

ITEM 4. MINE SAFETY DISCLOSURES

Not applicable.

None of our directors or officers (as defined in Section 16 of the Exchange Act), adopted or terminated a Rule 10b5-1 trading arrangement or a non-Rule 10b5-1 trading arrangement (each as defined in Item 408(a) and (c) of Regulation S-K) during the quarter ended November 30, 2025.

SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned thereunto duly authorized.