secwatch.observer — SEC 8-K summary
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Issuer:     FEDERATED HERMES, INC. (FHI)
CIK:        0001056288
Form:       8-K
Filed at:   2025-07-31T23:59:59+00:00
Accession:  0001056288-25-000019
Event type: earnings
Sentiment:  positive
Materiality: 0.75
Item codes: 2.02, 9.01
LLM model:  deepseek-v4-flash:cloud@v2

Federated Hermes Q2 EPS $1.16, record AUM $845.7B; declares $0.34 dividend, new buyback
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- Q2 2025 EPS $1.16 ($91.0M net income) vs $0.20 ($21.0M) in Q2 2024, which included a $66.3M impairment.
- Record AUM of $845.7B at June 30, 2025, up 8% YoY; equity AUM $89.0B (+14% YoY), money market AUM $634.4B (+8%).
- Board declared $0.34 per share dividend, payable Aug 15, 2025 to holders of record Aug 8, 2025.
- Authorized new share repurchase program for up to 5 million shares; also bought 1.55M shares for $64.5M in Q2.
- Revenue up 6% YoY; operating expenses down 15% YoY (excluding impairment comparison).

Source:
  EDGAR index:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1056288/000105628825000019/0001056288-25-000019-index.htm
  Primary doc:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1056288/000105628825000019/fhi-20250731.htm
  HTML page:      https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001056288-25-000019

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