Investopedia: More Data, More Profits for FactSet

Individual investors may hear the occasionally quip about "paralysis by analysis," but the fact remains that institutional investors (on the whole) love their data. Feeding this endless appetite has been a boon for companies like IBM (NYSE:IBM), EMC (NYSE:EMC) and Bloomberg, as well as smaller players like FactSet (NYSE:FDS), and it does not look like the data deluge is in any danger of drying up soon.

A Solid End to the Fiscal Year, or Is It?  
FactSet closed out its fiscal year with a solid financial report relative to Wall Street expectations, but careful examination is a little more concerning. Revenue rose 14% this quarter, with 15% growth in the U.S. helping to offset 12% growth in foreign revenue. While FactSet did do a solid job of adding new clients (and getting more paying seats at existing clients), the company is not doing quite as well in terms of wringing more revenue out of each client - client count increased 6% this quarter versus last year, while the number of users increased 12%. In terms of revenue per customer, then, the company saw very modest growth of just 1.5% (to about $3,990 per customer) while revenue per client rose a bit less than 8% to just under $86,000.


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