Item 5. Market for Registrant’s Common Equity
ITEM 5. MARKET FOR REGISTRANT’S COMMON EQUITY, RELATED STOCKHOLDER MATTERS AND ISSUER PURCHASES OF EQUITY SECURITIES
Market Information
Our common stock is listed on the NYSE and NASDAQ under the symbol "FDS".
Holders of Record – As of October 15, 2025, we had approximately 1,896 holders of record of our common stock. However, because many of our shares of common stock are held by brokers and other institutions on behalf of stockholders, we are unable to estimate the total number of stockholders represented by these record holders.
Dividends - We paid four quarterly dividends during fiscal 2025. In the third quarter of fiscal 2025, we increased our quarterly cash dividend from $1.04 to $1.10 per share. Future cash dividend payments are subject to final determination by our Board of Directors and will depend on our earnings, capital requirements, financial condition and other relevant factors. Refer to Part II, Item 8. Note 13, Stockholders' Equity , in the Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements of this Annual Report on Form 10-K for more information on our dividends.
Recent Sales of Unregistered Securities
There were no sales of unregistered equity securities during fiscal 2025.
Issuer Purchases of Equity Securities
The following table provides a month-to-month summary of the share repurchase activity during the three months ended August 31, 2025:
(in thousands, except share and per share data)
Period Total number
of shares
purchased (1)
Average
price paid per
share (2)
Total number of shares purchased as part of
publicly announced plans or programs (3)
Approximate dollar value of shares that may yet be
purchased under the plans or programs (3)
June 2025 65,097 $ 432.58 64,775 $ 79,126
July 2025 80,850 $ 433.81 80,850 $ 44,052
August 2025 117,061 $ 381.76 114,096 $ 523
263,008 259,721
(1) Includes 259,721 shares repurchased under the stock repurchase program, as well as 3,287 shares repurchased to satisfy withholding tax obligations due upon the vesting of stock-based awards.
(2) Amount excludes any excise tax imposed on corporate stock repurchases required under the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022.
(3) We had $0.5 million that remained authorized under our share repurchase program as of August 31, 2025, all of which expired upon the conclusion of fiscal 2025 and were not available for share repurchases after that date. On June 17, 2025, our Board of Directors authorized up to $400 million for share repurchases on or after September 1, 2025 through September 30, 2026. 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. Refer to Part II, Item 7. Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations, Liquidity and Capital Resources , of this Annual Report on Form 10-K for further discussion on our share repurchase program.
Securities Authorized for Issuance under Equity Compensation Plans
Refer to Part III, Item 12. Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners and Management and Related Stockholder Matters, of this Annual Report on Form 10-K.
Stock Performance Graph
The annual changes for the five-year period shown in the graph below assume $100 had been invested in our common stock, the S&P 500 Index, the Dow Jones U.S. Financial Services Index and the S&P 500 Financial Exchange and Data Index on August 31, 2020.
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The total cumulative dollar returns shown on the graph represent the value that such investments would have had on August 31, 2025. Stockholder returns over the indicated period are based on historical data and should not be considered indicative of future stockholder returns.
2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025
FactSet Research Systems Inc. $ 100 $ 109 $ 124 $ 125 $ 121 $ 107
S&P 500 Index $ 100 $ 129 $ 113 $ 129 $ 161 $ 185
Dow Jones U.S. Financial Services Index $ 100 $ 149 $ 122 $ 126 $ 168 $ 209
S&P 500 Financial Exchanges and Data Index
$ 100 $ 124 $ 102 $ 113 $ 142 $ 157
ITEM 6. RESERVED
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