S&P Global Inc.

SPGI Financial Financial Data & Stock Exchanges

Revenue
+6.83%
EPS
+19.8%
Free cash flow
+30.0%
Total debt
+14.7%

Quarter to September 2026, against a year earlier

468.95 3.46 −0.73%
Market cap
$137.0B
P/E
27.6×
Fwd P/E
28.2×
Dividend yield
0.82%
F-score
7/9
Altman Z
n/a
Beneish M
n/a
Dividend safety
n/a

S&P Global Inc. (SPGI) Return on assets

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S&P Global Inc.'s return on assets over the twelve months to 30 September 2026 was 9.25%, up 1.9 percentage points from fiscal 2025 (7.36%). Over the past ten years it has ranged from 4.29% (fiscal 2023) to 25.0% (fiscal 2016); the current reading is higher than 27% of that period. That is above the Financial Data & Stock Exchanges industry median of 8.22% and above the Financial sector median of 1.15%.

Return on assets, annual

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Annual newest first

Period Return on assets Change (points)
FY2025 7.36% 0.98
FY2024 6.38% 2.09
FY2023 4.29% (4.17)
FY2022 8.46% (13.48)
FY2021 21.9% 2.35
FY2020 19.6% (0.83)
FY2019 20.4% (0.34)
FY2018 20.8% 4.22
FY2017 16.5% (8.45)
FY2016 25.0% 9.53

Against its own ten years

Low 4.29% High 25.0%
Ten-year median 16.5%
Current reading's percentile 27

Return on assets against peers

Company Return on assets
MSCI MSCI Inc compare 25.2%
MCO Moody's Corporation compare 19.1%
CBOE Cboe Global Markets, Inc. compare 14.5%
SPGI S&P Global Inc. 9.25%
NDAQ Nasdaq, Inc. compare 7.18%
TRU TransUnion compare 6.88%
ICE Intercontinental Exchange Inc. compare 2.62%
CME CME Group Inc. compare 2.33%
COIN Coinbase Global, Inc. compare −2.39%
Financial Data & Stock Exchanges industry median 8.22%
Financial sector median 1.15%
Market median 0.00%

What Return on assets is

ROA tells an investor how much profit a company earns for shareholders from the assets it uses to run its business.

Annual: Net Income Allotted to Shareholders ÷ Average Assets; TTM: Net Income Allotted to Shareholders ÷ Average Assets (latest quarter)

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