---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001013237-25-000084"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "FDS"
cik: "0001013237"
company_name: "FACTSET RESEARCH SYSTEMS INC"
filed_at: "2025-09-18T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-17T06:12:14.246246+00:00"
event_type: "earnings"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.75
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# FactSet Q4 revenue $596.9M (+6.2% YoY), adjusted EPS $4.05; director McGonigle to resign Dec 1

## Summary
- Q4 GAAP revenue $596.9M (+6.2% YoY); organic revenue +4.5%. GAAP diluted EPS $4.03 (+73.7%).
- Q4 adjusted diluted EPS $4.05 (+8.3%); adjusted operating margin 33.8% (down 200 bps YoY).
- Fiscal 2025 GAAP revenue $2,321.7M (+5.4%); adjusted diluted EPS $16.98 (+3.2%).
- FY2026 guidance: organic ASV growth 4%-6%, GAAP revenue $2.423B-$2.448B.
- Director James J. McGonigle resigns effective Dec 1, 2025 (no disagreement); Board amended bylaws on majority voting.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001013237-25-000084
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: FDS
- cik: 0001013237
- company_name: FACTSET RESEARCH SYSTEMS INC
- filed_at: 2025-09-18T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: earnings
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.75
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 2.02, 5.02, 5.03, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1013237/000101323725000084/0001013237-25-000084-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1013237/000101323725000084/fds-20250916.htm

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## Key facts
- Governance Changes
  FACTSET RESEARCH SYSTEMS INC: Amended and restated Bylaws to clarify procedural mechanics for majority voting in uncontested director elections and implement plurality voting for contested elections (effective 2025-09-16).
  - Change: bylaw amendment
  - Effective: 2025-09-16
  source text: On September 16, 2025, FactSet's Board amended and restated the Company's Amended and Restated By-Laws (the “Bylaws”) effective immediately. The Bylaws were updated to: • Clarify and enhance procedural mechanics in connection with the Company’s existing majority voting standard for the election of directors in uncontested elections, including that any incumbent director nominee who fails to receive the requisite majority vote at an uncontested election will continue to serve as a holdover director and shall submit his or her irrevocable offer of resignation from the Board within 90 days from the date of the election for consideration by the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee, which will recommend to the Board the action to be taken with respect to such offer of resignation; and • Implement a plurality voting standard carve out for contested director elections.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1013237/000101323725000084/0001013237-25-000084-index.htm

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