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FactSet

Sector unknown·FDS · USA (SEC 10-K)·Fiscal year to 31/08/2025

Cybersecurity (products and services)Artificial intelligenceIT operations and cloudLabour and wagesGeopolitical uncertainty

Business Overview 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 August 31, 2025, we had approximately 9,000 clients comprised of over 237,000 investment professionals, including institutional asset managers, bankers, wealth managers, asset owners, partners, hedge funds, corporate users, and private equity and venture capital professionals.

Exposure profile

Raw materials and inputsMacroTechnologyRegulationEnd marketsGeography
Raw materials and inputs IT operations and cloud, Labour and wages, Electricity
Macro Geopolitical uncertainty, Climate change and extreme weather, Pandemics and outbreaks, Hybrid work and office use
Technology Cybersecurity (products and services), Artificial intelligence, Digitalisation, Data centres
Regulation Financial regulation
End markets not mentioned
Geography Europe, Asia and emerging markets, United States, Latin America

Derived from what the company itself writes. Empty directions mean the report doesn't mention themes of that type.

In their own words

Grouped by theme, from the management review in the annual report. A · The company itself is a verbatim quote, B · From the report is without a verified quote.

Artificial intelligence

Technology

DriverNegative impact: weakens

“Our use of AI technologies may not be successful and may present business, compliance, and reputational risks We use, and are expanding our use of, machine learning and AI technologies in our products and processes. If we fail to keep pace with rapidly evolving AI technological developments, or fail to launch products that are competitive, our competitive position and business results may be negatively impacted.”

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DriverNegative impact: weakens

“In addition, third parties may be able to use AI to create technology that could reduce demand for our products and services.”

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DriverNegative impact: weakens

“AI technologies used in our products and processes may use or incorporate data from third-party sources, including information they input into the AI tools, which may expose us to risks associated with data rights and protection.”

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DriverNegative impact: weakens

“The rapid pace of technological change, including advances in AI, cloud computing, and machine learning, along with evolving client demands, could cause our products and services to become outdated or less competitive. If we fail to keep pace with innovation, invest in developing new technology or data products, or successfully respond to disruptive competitors and emerging industry standards, our market position, revenues and operating results could be adversely affected.”

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DriverNegative impact: weakens

“Increased accessibility to free or relatively inexpensive information sources may reduce demand for our products and services Each year, an increasing amount of free or relatively inexpensive information becomes available, particularly through the internet, and this trend is likely to continue, especially with the deployment of AI tools. The availability of free or relatively inexpensive information may reduce demand for our products and services.”

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InputNegative impact: weakens

“Additionally, we use AI technologies from third party suppliers, which may include open-source software. If we are unable to maintain rights to use these AI technologies on commercially reasonable terms, we may be forced to acquire or develop alternate AI technologies.”

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StrategyPositive impact: strengthens

“AI is embedded across these offerings to enhance data discovery, automate routine workflows and improve the speed and accuracy of client insights.”

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StrategyPositive impact: strengthens

“Partnerships and CGS Partnerships delivers solutions such as data and technology solutions, workstations, and digital or analytics solutions to firms in the financial services ecosystem including data, analytics and technology platform providers. This includes curated datasets and turnkey APIs to enable technologists and developers to power new AI-based workflows with programmatic access to FactSet’s high-quality, connected content.”

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StrategyPositive impact: strengthens

“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.”

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StrategyPositive impact: strengthens

“Table of Contents •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.”

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StrategyPositive impact: strengthens

“We are also working to introduce next-generation automation in research, financial modeling, and pitch creation. •Innovating with AI: Our AI roadmap, driven by our FactSet AI Blueprint, is resonating with our clients, and FactSet's AI solutions are generating usage, demand and commercial transactions. 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.”

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StrategyPositive impact: strengthens

“Key initiatives include: •Strategic Hiring: Recruitment in critical roles, including data solutions, AI, machine learning, product management, and client-facing positions. •Future-Ready Skills: In fiscal 2025, 94% of employees participated in learning programs, completing 339,000 hours globally. Programs include mentorship, leadership development, department-specific training, and the EXCEL program. •AI Capabilities: A major focus in fiscal 2025 was enhancing our AI capabilities that were aligned with our innovation and AI monetization goals. Employees advanced skills in prompt engineering, coding, vector databases, and data querying, enabling teams to embed AI across product design, client solutions, and internal efficiency initiatives. •Career Pathways: To encourage employees to apply their skills toward long-term careers at FactSet, we refreshed our job architecture, offering transparent career pathways and consistent role expectations across functions.”

Annual report 2025A · The company itself

StrategyPositive impact: strengthens

“Research and Product Development Costs We do not have a separate research and product development department, but rather we rely on collaboration across departments, with costs primarily consisting of employee compensation costs, such as salaries and related benefits for our product development, software engineering and technical support departments, as well as certain third party costs. These teams collaborate with our strategists, product and content managers, technologists, sales and other team members to develop new products and process innovations and enhance existing products.”

Annual report 2025A · The company itself

Market

“Business Overview 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 August 31, 2025, we had approximately 9,000 clients comprised of over 237,000 investment professionals, including institutional asset managers, bankers, wealth managers, asset owners, partners, hedge funds, corporate users, and private equity and venture capital professionals.”

Annual report 2025A · The company itself

Chains out: this strengthens Data centres, strengthens Semiconductors and electronic components, strengthens Semiconductor industry

IT operations and cloud

Raw materials and inputs

DriverNegative impact: weakens

“Table of Contents A prolonged or recurring outage and other business continuity disruptions could result in a reduced or total loss of service; the loss of clients and adverse impact on our reputation Our clients rely on us for the delivery of time-sensitive, accurate, complete and up-to-date data and applications. Our business is dependent on our ability to process substantial volumes of data and transactions rapidly and efficiently on our computer-based networks, database storage facilities, and other network infrastructure, which are located across multiple facilities globally.”

Annual report 2025A · The company itself

DriverNegative impact: weakens

“As previously disclosed in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended August 31, 2024, we identified a material weakness in our internal control over financial reporting related to the design and operation of our information technology (“IT”) general controls that support our revenues, accounts receivable, and deferred revenues processes. We are still in the process of enhancing our internal controls related to the design and operation of our IT general controls that support our revenues, accounts receivable, and deferred revenues processes and expect to complete these remediation measures in fiscal 2026.”

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InputNegative impact: weakens

“Our global technology infrastructure supports our operations and is designed to facilitate reliable and efficient processing and delivery of data and analytics to our clients. As part of our hybrid cloud strategy, we operate two fully redundant, physically separated data centers in the U.S. that provide client services, while also using market-leading cloud providers to run products and services to best benefit from the cloud's elasticity, resiliency, security, and regionalization. We currently use several cloud providers; however, one supplier provided the majority of our cloud computing support for fiscal 2025.”

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InputNegative impact: weakens

“We also currently use multiple providers of cloud services; however, one supplier provides the majority of our cloud computing support. While we believe this provider to be reliable, we have limited control over its performance, and a disruption or loss of service from this provider could impair our system's operation and our ability to operate for a period of time.”

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InputNegative impact: weakens

“Table of Contents Concentrations of Cloud Providers Our clients rely on us for the delivery of time-sensitive, up-to-date data and applications. Our business is dependent on our ability to process substantial volumes of data and transactions rapidly and efficiently. We currently use multiple providers of cloud services; however, one supplier provided the majority of our cloud computing support for fiscal 2025.”

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InputNegative impact: weakens

“As of August 31, 2025 and 2024, we had total purchase obligations with suppliers and vendors of approximately $352 million and $383 million, respectively. Our total purchase obligations as of August 31, 2025 and 2024 primarily related to hosting services, acquisition of data and, to a lesser extent, third-party software providers.”

Annual report 2025A · The company itself

Market

“Business Overview 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 August 31, 2025, we had approximately 9,000 clients comprised of over 237,000 investment professionals, including institutional asset managers, bankers, wealth managers, asset owners, partners, hedge funds, corporate users, and private equity and venture capital professionals.”

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Labour and wages

Raw materials and inputs

InputNegative impact: weakens

“Our Employees As of August 31, 2025, we had 35 offices in 19 countries with 12,800 employees, representing an increase of 3.2% compared with August 31, 2024. Of our total employees, 8,854 (69%) were located in Asia Pacific, 2,510 (20%) in the Americas and 1,436 (11%) in EMEA. To support sustainable growth, we continue to invest in our global centers of excellence ("COEs"), primarily located in India and the Philippines, which accounted for approximately 68% of our employees.”

Annual report 2025A · The company itself

InputNegative impact: weakens

“Key initiatives and outcomes include: •Engagement and Feedback: We conduct an annual confidential employee engagement survey to assess satisfaction, gather feedback, and identify opportunities for improvement. In fiscal 2025, our engagement survey achieved an 88% response rate, significantly outpacing typical third-party benchmark response rates, reflecting strong employee engagement in the process. The survey results indicated employees are closely aligned with the Company's purpose and confident that their work contributes meaningful value to the organization. •Corporate Responsibility and Purpose: We foster a culture of service that enriches our communities and enhances the employee experience.”

Annual report 2025A · The company itself

InputNegative impact: weakens

“In addition, approximately 80% of our employees are located in offices outside the U.S., including India and the Philippines.”

Annual report 2025A · The company itself

InputNegative impact: weakens

“Key management transitions, such as our recent change in Chief Executive Officer, involve inherent risk, and such transition periods can be disruptive and may result in a loss of personnel with deep institutional or technical knowledge. If we are unsuccessful in our recruiting efforts, or if we are unable to retain key employees or offer competitive compensation and benefit packages and career structures, or if we are unable to navigate key management transitions, our ability to develop and deliver successful products and services or achieve strategic goals may be adversely affected, which could have a material adverse effect on our business and results of operations.”

Annual report 2025A · The company itself

StrategyPositive impact: strengthens

“Key initiatives include: •Strategic Hiring: Recruitment in critical roles, including data solutions, AI, machine learning, product management, and client-facing positions. •Future-Ready Skills: In fiscal 2025, 94% of employees participated in learning programs, completing 339,000 hours globally. Programs include mentorship, leadership development, department-specific training, and the EXCEL program. •AI Capabilities: A major focus in fiscal 2025 was enhancing our AI capabilities that were aligned with our innovation and AI monetization goals. Employees advanced skills in prompt engineering, coding, vector databases, and data querying, enabling teams to embed AI across product design, client solutions, and internal efficiency initiatives. •Career Pathways: To encourage employees to apply their skills toward long-term careers at FactSet, we refreshed our job architecture, offering transparent career pathways and consistent role expectations across functions.”

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Banks and insurance

End markets

Market

“Table of Contents Firm Types Institutional Buyside Institutional Buyside focuses on multi-asset class solutions, including AI-powered workflows and insights, for global asset managers, asset owners and hedge fund professionals across the investment portfolio lifecycle. This firm type includes workflows for research analysts, portfolio managers, and traders in the front office, as well as performance analysts, risk managers, and client service and marketing professionals in the middle office. Our front office on-platform solutions are designed for research management, order management, portfolio construction, and trade execution capabilities. Our middle office on-platform solutions are designed for performance measurement, attribution, reporting and risk management capabilities, and are complemented by our middle office managed services.”

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Market

“Buy-side Buy-side clients continue to shift toward multi-asset class investment strategies and investing in their front- and middle office solutions, where we are well-positioned to be a partner of choice. We are able to compete for greater market share given our ability to provide enterprise-wide solutions to our clients by leveraging their portfolio data for multiple asset classes. Buy-side clients primarily include institutional asset managers, wealth managers, asset owners, partners, hedge funds and corporate clients.”

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Market

“Uncertainty or downturns in the global economy and consolidation in the financial services industry may cause us to lose clients and users Many of our clients are asset and wealth managers, investment and commercial bankers, hedge funds, private equity and venture capital professionals, and other financial services entities.”

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Business cycle and GDP growth

Macro

DriverNegative impact: weakens

“Our costs and the demand for our products and services may be impacted by domestic and international factors that are beyond our control. Negative conditions in the general economy in either the U.S. or abroad, including conditions resulting from financial and credit market fluctuations, changes in economic policy, inflation rate fluctuations and trade uncertainty, including changes in tariffs, sanctions, international treaties and other trade restrictions, or other geopolitical events, such as the ongoing military conflicts between Russia and Ukraine and in the Middle East, natural and man-made disasters and public health crises (e.g., pandemics) could result in an increase in our costs and/or a reduction in demand for our products and services, which could have an adverse effect on our results of operations and financial condition.”

Annual report 2025A · The company itself

Market

“Uncertainty or downturns in the global economy and consolidation in the financial services industry may cause us to lose clients and users Many of our clients are asset and wealth managers, investment and commercial bankers, hedge funds, private equity and venture capital professionals, and other financial services entities. Uncertainty or downturns in the global economy or a lack of confidence in the global financial system could negatively impact our clients, which could cause a corresponding negative impact on our business results.”

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Chains out: this strengthens Global trade volumes, strengthens Construction

Data centres

Technology

InputNegative impact: weakens

“Our global technology infrastructure supports our operations and is designed to facilitate reliable and efficient processing and delivery of data and analytics to our clients. As part of our hybrid cloud strategy, we operate two fully redundant, physically separated data centers in the U.S. that provide client services, while also using market-leading cloud providers to run products and services to best benefit from the cloud's elasticity, resiliency, security, and regionalization. We currently use several cloud providers; however, one supplier provided the majority of our cloud computing support for fiscal 2025.”

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StrategyPositive impact: strengthens

“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.”

Annual report 2025A · The company itself

Chains in: Artificial intelligence strengthens
Chains out: this strengthens Electricity, strengthens Copper

Defence industry

End markets

Market

“Dealmakers Dealmakers focuses on workflow solutions for investment bankers, sell-side research analysts, corporate users, investor relations officers, and private equity and venture capital professionals. We provide comprehensive solutions to our clients including workstations, mobile solutions, data feeds, APIs, proprietary and third-party data, and productivity tools for Microsoft® Office. We also deliver firm type tailored solutions for client relationship management ("CRM") and AI-powered solutions to bring automation to time-consuming and manual aspects of our clients’ daily workflows.”

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Market

“Sell-side We deliver comprehensive solutions to sell-side clients including workstations, data feeds, web and mobile solutions, APIs, proprietary and third-party content, and productivity tools for Microsoft® Office. Our focus remains on expanding the depth of content offered and increasing workflow efficiency for sell-side firms. These firms primarily include broker-dealers, banking and advisory firms, and private equity and venture capital firms.”

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Chains in: Defence budgets strengthens

Digital payments and fintech

Technology

Market

“Revenue Recognition The majority of our revenues are derived from client access to our multi-asset solutions powered by our platform of connected data and technology that is available over the contractual term (referred to as the "Hosted Platform"). The Hosted Platform is a subscription-based service that provides client access to various combinations of products and services including workstations, portfolio analytics and enterprise solutions.”

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Market

“LiquidityBook provides cloud-native trading solutions to hedge fund, asset and wealth management, outsourced trading, and sell-side middle office clients. LiquidityBook operates a proprietary FIX network that enables streamlined connectivity to over 200 brokers and order routing to more than 1,600 destinations across 80 markets globally. This acquisition adds technology-forward order management and investment book of record capabilities and enhances FactSet’s ability to serve the integrated workflow needs of clients across the portfolio life cycle.”

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Equity and capital markets

Macro

Market

“Revenue Recognition The majority of our revenues are derived from client access to our multi-asset solutions powered by our platform of connected data and technology that is available over the contractual term (referred to as the "Hosted Platform"). The Hosted Platform is a subscription-based service that provides client access to various combinations of products and services including workstations, portfolio analytics and enterprise solutions.”

Annual report 2025A · The company itself

Market

“Irwin is a leading investor relations and capital markets platform for public companies and their advisors. This acquisition builds on a recent successful partnership between FactSet and Irwin, and expands our ability to address the holistic workflow needs of investor relations professionals with an integrated, modern solution.”

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Consumer spending

Macro

Market

“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.”

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Chains in: Inflation weakens
Chains out: this strengthens Retail, strengthens Hospitality and leisure, strengthens Premium consumers, strengthens Grocery retail and private label

E-commerce

Technology

Market

“Failure to enter into, renew or comply with contracts supplying new and existing content sets or products on competitive terms We collect and aggregate third-party content from data suppliers, news sources, exchanges, brokers and contributors into our own dedicated managed databases, which clients access to perform their analyses. These databases are important to our operations as they provide clients with key information.”

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Premium consumers

End markets

Market

“As of August 31, 2025, we had approximately 9,000 clients comprised of over 237,000 investment professionals, including institutional asset managers, bankers, wealth managers, asset owners, partners, hedge funds, corporate users, and private equity and venture capital professionals.”

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Chains in: Consumer spending strengthens

Retail

End markets

Market

“Wealth Wealth focuses on comprehensive solutions to wealth management clients including our web-based workstation, book-of-business dashboards for advisors, data feeds, APIs, proprietary and third-party data, and productivity tools for Microsoft® Office. We also offer AI-powered prospecting, monitoring and proposal generation tools that enable financial advisors to grow and enhance existing client relationships.”

Annual report 2025A · The company itself

Chains in: Consumer spending strengthens

Cybersecurity (products and services)

Technology

DriverNegative impact: weakens

“Cybersecurity, Technology and Data Security Risks Unauthorized access to confidential data including client data, other cyber-attacks, and the failure of our cyber-security systems and procedures Many of our products, as well as our internal systems and processes, involve the collection, retrieval, processing, storage and transmission of our own, as well as supplier and client, proprietary information and sensitive or confidential data through a variety of media channels. We rely on, and continuously invest in, internal processes, controls, policies, procedures and employee training programs designed to protect confidential data received in the ordinary course of business, including information from client portfolios and strategies. However, these measures do not guarantee security, and improper access to or release of confidential information may still occur—whether due to employee error or malfeasance, system error, inadvertent release, failure to properly purge or protect data, or through cyber-attacks.”

Annual report 2025A · The company itself

DriverNegative impact: weakens

“Our size, scale and role in the financial markets increases our risk for cyber-attacks and our exposure to other cyber-security risks. We use third-party service providers for certain critical functions. We and our third-party service providers are subject to the risks of system failures, security breaches and cyber-attacks, such as those sponsored by nation-states, terrorist organizations, or global corporations seeking to illicitly obtain technology or other intellectual property, including through the use of generative AI, agentic AI, phishing scams, hacking, viruses, denial of service attacks, tampering, intrusions, physical break-ins, ransomware and malware, employee errors or malfeasance.”

Annual report 2025A · The company itself

DriverNegative impact: weakens

“While significant effort is placed on addressing information technology security issues with respect to the companies we acquire, we may inherit such risks when these acquisitions are integrated into our infrastructure. Although we conduct due diligence during acquisition processes, acquired businesses may not have invested as heavily in security measures and technology, and this may introduce additional security risk.”

Annual report 2025A · The company itself

Chains in: Cyber attacks and IT security risk strengthens
Chains out: this strengthens Digitalisation

Geopolitical uncertainty

Macro

DriverNegative impact: weakens

“Our size, scale and role in the financial markets increases our risk for cyber-attacks and our exposure to other cyber-security risks. We use third-party service providers for certain critical functions. We and our third-party service providers are subject to the risks of system failures, security breaches and cyber-attacks, such as those sponsored by nation-states, terrorist organizations, or global corporations seeking to illicitly obtain technology or other intellectual property, including through the use of generative AI, agentic AI, phishing scams, hacking, viruses, denial of service attacks, tampering, intrusions, physical break-ins, ransomware and malware, employee errors or malfeasance.”

Annual report 2025A · The company itself

DriverNegative impact: weakens

“Our computer operations, as well as our other business centers, and those of our suppliers and clients, may be vulnerable to interruption by fire, natural disaster, public health crisis (e.g., pandemics), extreme weather or climate conditions, power loss, telecommunication failures, terrorist attacks, acts of war or civil unrest, internet failures, computer viruses, security breaches, employee or systems errors, and other events beyond our reasonable control.”

Annual report 2025A · The company itself

DriverNegative impact: weakens

“Our costs and the demand for our products and services may be impacted by domestic and international factors that are beyond our control. Negative conditions in the general economy in either the U.S. or abroad, including conditions resulting from financial and credit market fluctuations, changes in economic policy, inflation rate fluctuations and trade uncertainty, including changes in tariffs, sanctions, international treaties and other trade restrictions, or other geopolitical events, such as the ongoing military conflicts between Russia and Ukraine and in the Middle East, natural and man-made disasters and public health crises (e.g., pandemics) could result in an increase in our costs and/or a reduction in demand for our products and services, which could have an adverse effect on our results of operations and financial condition.”

Annual report 2025A · The company itself

Chains out: this strengthens Defence budgets, strengthens Energy security, strengthens Tariffs and trade policy, weakens Global trade volumes, strengthens Sea freight and freight rates, weakens Reconstruction of Ukraine

Digitalisation

Technology

DriverNegative impact: weakens

“The rapid pace of technological change, including advances in AI, cloud computing, and machine learning, along with evolving client demands, could cause our products and services to become outdated or less competitive. If we fail to keep pace with innovation, invest in developing new technology or data products, or successfully respond to disruptive competitors and emerging industry standards, our market position, revenues and operating results could be adversely affected.”

Annual report 2025A · The company itself

Chains in: Cybersecurity (products and services) strengthens, Public investment and infrastructure strengthens
Chains out: this strengthens IT consulting and public-sector IT

Climate change and extreme weather

Macro

DriverNegative impact: weakens

“Our computer operations, as well as our other business centers, and those of our suppliers and clients, may be vulnerable to interruption by fire, natural disaster, public health crisis (e.g., pandemics), extreme weather or climate conditions, power loss, telecommunication failures, terrorist attacks, acts of war or civil unrest, internet failures, computer viruses, security breaches, employee or systems errors, and other events beyond our reasonable control.”

Annual report 2025A · The company itself

Chains out: this weakens Agriculture and food production

Electricity

Raw materials and inputs

InputNegative impact: weakens

“Additionally, we may face significant increases in our use of power and data storage and may experience a shortage of capacity and increased costs associated with such usage.”

Annual report 2025A · The company itself

Chains in: Data centres strengthens, Electrification strengthens
Chains out: this strengthens Power grid expansion

Financial regulation

Regulation

DriverNegative impact: weakens

“Clients are seeking additional contractual protections that may create additional liabilities for us Clients are increasingly looking to pass on contractual obligations to us, which may include service level, information and cyber-security requirements and audit rights. Many of our clients in the financial services sector are also subject to regulations and requirements to adopt risk management processes commensurate with the level of risk and complexity of their third-party relationships (including as required under the European Union ("EU") Digital Operational Resilience Acts ("DORA")), and provide rigorous oversight of relationships that involve certain "critical activities," some of which may be deemed to be provided by us.”

Annual report 2025A · The company itself

Hybrid work and office use

Macro

DriverNegative impact: weakens

“In addition, in remote work environments, the daily activities and productivity of our workforce is now more closely tied to key vendors consistently delivering their services without material disruption. Our ability to deliver information using the internet and to operate in a remote working environment may be impaired because of infrastructure failures, service outages at third-party internet providers, malicious attacks, or other factors.”

Annual report 2025A · The company itself

Chains out: this weakens Office and commercial property

Inflation

Macro

DriverNegative impact: weakens

“Our costs and the demand for our products and services may be impacted by domestic and international factors that are beyond our control. Negative conditions in the general economy in either the U.S. or abroad, including conditions resulting from financial and credit market fluctuations, changes in economic policy, inflation rate fluctuations and trade uncertainty, including changes in tariffs, sanctions, international treaties and other trade restrictions, or other geopolitical events, such as the ongoing military conflicts between Russia and Ukraine and in the Middle East, natural and man-made disasters and public health crises (e.g., pandemics) could result in an increase in our costs and/or a reduction in demand for our products and services, which could have an adverse effect on our results of operations and financial condition.”

Annual report 2025A · The company itself

Chains out: this weakens Consumer spending, strengthens Interest rates

Interest rates

Macro

DriverNegative impact: weakens

“Certain of our borrowings are based upon variable interest rates, and although we leverage interest rate swap agreements to manage a portion of our floating interest rate exposure, in the event of increases in interest rates, this could result in higher interest expense.”

Annual report 2025A · The company itself

Chains in: Public debt and fiscal policy strengthens, Inflation strengthens
Chains out: this weakens Construction, weakens Real estate, weakens Wind power, weakens Housing market, weakens Office and commercial property, weakens Residential rental, weakens Residential construction

M&A and consolidation

Macro

DriverNegative impact: weakens

“Mergers, consolidation or contraction of our clients in the financial services industry also could directly impact the number of clients, prospective clients and users of our products and services. If our clients merge with or are acquired by other entities that are not our clients, or that use fewer of our products and services, they may discontinue or reduce their use of our products and services.”

Annual report 2025A · The company itself

Pandemics and outbreaks

Macro

DriverNegative impact: weakens

“Our computer operations, as well as our other business centers, and those of our suppliers and clients, may be vulnerable to interruption by fire, natural disaster, public health crisis (e.g., pandemics), extreme weather or climate conditions, power loss, telecommunication failures, terrorist attacks, acts of war or civil unrest, internet failures, computer viruses, security breaches, employee or systems errors, and other events beyond our reasonable control.”

Annual report 2025A · The company itself

Chains out: this weakens Aviation and travel, strengthens Vaccines (travel health and preparedness)

United States

Geography

Geography

“Table of Contents Operational Risks Operations outside the U.S. involve additional requirements and burdens that we may not be able to control or manage successfully In fiscal 2025, approximately 39% of our revenues related to operations located outside the U.S. In addition, approximately 80% of our employees are located in offices outside the U.S., including India and the Philippines.”

Annual report 2025A · The company itself

Geography

“The Americas segment primarily sells to clients throughout North, Central, and South America.”

Annual report 2025A · The company itself

Geography

“Geographic Revenues The following table sets forth revenues by geography, attributed to countries based on the location of the client: (in thousands) Years ended August 31, 2025 2024 2023 Revenues United States $ 1,415,864 $ 1,340,350 $ 1,265,002 United Kingdom 231,009 221,850 223,809 Other European Countries 349,275 341,278 316,034 All Other Countries 325,600 299,578 280,663 Total revenues $ 2,321,748 $ 2,203,056 $ 2,085,508 Geographic Long-Lived Assets The following table sets forth long-lived assets by geographic area.”

Annual report 2025A · The company itself

Chains in: USD vs DKK/EUR mixed effect

Asia and emerging markets

Geography

Geography

“•Asia Pacific: The Asia Pacific segment primarily sells to clients in Asia and Australasia via office locations in Australia, China, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region ("SAR") of China, India, Japan, the Philippines and Singapore. Revenues from Asia Pacific represented 10% of total revenues during fiscal 2025.”

Annual report 2025A · The company itself

Geography

“Table of Contents Operational Risks Operations outside the U.S. involve additional requirements and burdens that we may not be able to control or manage successfully In fiscal 2025, approximately 39% of our revenues related to operations located outside the U.S. In addition, approximately 80% of our employees are located in offices outside the U.S., including India and the Philippines.”

Annual report 2025A · The company itself

China

Geography

DriverNegative impact: weakens

“For example, in China, there is an evolving regulatory environment and complex data security and data transfer regulations.”

Annual report 2025A · The company itself

Europe

Geography

Geography

“Revenues from the Americas represented 65% of total revenues during fiscal 2025. •EMEA: The EMEA segment primarily sells to clients in Europe, the Middle East and Africa via offices in Bulgaria, England, France, Germany, Italy, Latvia, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Sweden and the United Arab Emirates.”

Annual report 2025A · The company itself

Latin America

Geography

Geography

“The Americas segment primarily sells to clients throughout North, Central, and South America.”

Annual report 2025A · The company itself

Competitors mentioned in the report

No named competitors in the report.

Financial figures

Revenue
latest fiscal year
2.32 bn USD
Revenue growth
vs. the year before, same method
5.4 %
EBITDA
reported by the company
0.91 bn USD
Net debt
debt incl. leasing minus cash
1.22 bn USD
Diluted EPS
per share
15.55 USD

Source: 10-K (SEC) A. See the report

Criteria

Profit✓
Growing✓
Healthy balance sheet✓

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