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Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc.

BR · Industrials (services-business services, nec) · 10 years of annual accounts filed with the SEC · latest fiscal year ended 2026-06-30

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Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc. reported revenue of $7.5 billion in fiscal 2026, after growing 6.8% a year over the previous 9 years. Its operating margin widened from 12.8% in 2017 to 17.4%. Of the $7.9 billion its operations generated over 10 years, 55.4% went to acquisitions and 36.3% to dividends; the share count fell 3.1%. On the accounting screens, it passes 8 of 9 Piotroski tests, its Altman Z'' of 3.37 is in the safe zone and its Beneish M-score is below the -1.78 line; 1 of the six cross-checks between its statements fires.

Revenue, fiscal 2026 7.5B +6.8% a year over 9 years
Operating margin 17.4% gross margin 31.8%
Return on invested capital —  
Free cash flow after stock pay 1.2B 15.8% of revenue
Net debt ÷ EBITDA 2.0× net debt 2.9B
Piotroski F-score 8/9 tests of improvement passed

Is it growing?

Revenue and the operating income it turns into. Growth that does not reach operating income is growth bought with margin.

RevenueOperating income
Compound growth a year
3 yrs5 yrs9 yrs
Revenue+7.2%+8.4%+6.8%
Operating income+11.6%+13.9%+10.5%
Net income+21.3%+15.5%+14.7%
Earnings per share+21.9%+15.6%+15.1%
Free cash flow per share+18.3%+16.9%+13.2%
Dividend per share+10.8%+11.3%+13.0%
Shares-0.5%-0.1%-0.3%

Falling shares are buybacks: each remaining share owns more of the company.

Does it earn more than its capital costs?

Margins say how much of each sale is kept; return on invested capital says how much the business earns on the money it needs to operate. Growth only creates value when that return is above the cost of the capital.

GrossOperatingNetFree cash flow

Return on invested capital

Return on invested capital

Economic profit

Needs a cost of capital, which comes from the valuation below.

Return on equity
39.6%
Return on assets
12.6%
Asset turnover
0.84×
Overheads (SG&A)
14.4% of revenue

Is the profit cash, and where does the cash go?

Net income is an accounting opinion; free cash flow is what was left in the bank after investing. Stock-based pay does not leave the bank — shareholders pay it through dilution — so it is shown taken off as well.

Net incomeFree cash flowAfter stock-based pay

Where 10 years of operating cash went, 2017–2026

7.9B generated by the business. Each band is its share of that total.

  • Reinvested in the business 7% 563.1M
  • Acquisitions 55% 4.4B
  • Dividends 36% 2.9B
  • Share buybacks 30% 2.4B
  • More than it generated: funded with cash or new debt -29% -2.3B

Over the same years it paid 658.4M in stock. The share count fell 3.1%. 1.7B of the buybacks went beyond offsetting that dilution.

Per share

Earnings per shareFree cash flow per shareDividend per share

Shares outstanding

Diluted shares

Debt and liquidity

Debt is not bad in itself; debt the business cannot service in a bad year is. Net debt is debt minus cash, and below zero the company holds more cash than it owes.

Net debt
Net debt ÷ EBITDA
2.0×
Interest coverage
12× operating income ÷ interest
Current ratio
1.24 current assets ÷ current liabilities
Cash conversion cycle
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Three classic screens of the accounts

Each asks a different question of the same statements — is it improving, does it look like a company heading for distress, do the accounts resemble ones that were manipulated. None is a verdict; each shows what moves it.

Piotroski F-score

Is the business improving? Nine yes-or-no tests, this year against last.

8of 9 tests passed
  • ProfitableReturn on assets above zero passed
  • Cash from operationsOperating cash flow above zero passed
  • Profitability improvedReturn on assets higher than a year before passed
  • Profit backed by cashOperating cash flow above net income (low accruals) passed
  • Less long-term debtLong-term debt as a share of assets fell failed
  • More liquidCurrent ratio higher than a year before passed
  • No new sharesShare count did not grow passed
  • Better gross marginGross margin higher than a year before passed
  • Sells more per assetAsset turnover higher than a year before passed

Where it misleads: it measures change, not level. An excellent business that stood still for a year scores low; a poor one recovering from a disaster scores high.

Altman Z''-score

Does the balance sheet look like those of companies that went bankrupt?

3.37safe zone
  • Working capital ÷ assets 0.04 × 6.56+0.24
  • Retained earnings ÷ assets 0.51 × 3.26+1.66
  • Operating income ÷ assets 0.15 × 6.72+0.98
  • Equity ÷ liabilities 0.47 × 1.05+0.49

Where it misleads: buybacks. A company that returns so much cash that its equity turns small or negative sinks the last two ratios without being anywhere near bankruptcy. Banks and insurers do not fit the model at all.

Beneish M-score

Do the accounts resemble those of companies that manipulated their earnings?

-2.52below the -1.78 line
  • Receivables vs sales 1.00 (not reported, set to 1)+0.92
  • Gross margin slipping 0.98+0.52
  • Soft assets 1.02+0.41
  • Sales growth 1.09+0.97
  • Slower depreciation 0.98+0.11
  • Overheads vs sales 1.05-0.18
  • Profit not in cash -0.02-0.12
  • Leverage rising 0.97-0.32

Where it misleads: fast growth and acquisitions. Sales growth carries a heavy weight, so a company growing 50% a year scores like a suspect without having done anything. It is a screen from a 1999 study, not an accusation.

Where the statements disagree

Cross-checks between the income statement, the balance sheet and the cash flow for the latest year, each with the benign reading and the worrying one.

Capital spending (67M) is well below depreciation (138M).

Benign

Mature assets, or a business that has become less capital-intensive.

Worrying

Under-investing: today's profit is being held up by consuming tomorrow's capacity.

What is it worth, under which assumptions?

A company is worth the cash it will generate, brought back to today. This model projects revenue with growth that fades over the years, applies a free cash flow margin, and discounts the result at the cost of capital. Every assumption says where it came from, and all of them can be changed.

Revenue
M $

revenue of fiscal 2026

%

revenue grew +8.4% a year over the last 5 years; it fades to the terminal rate by the last year

yrs

ten years for growth to fade to the terminal rate

Cash from each sale
%

no cash flow lines to measure it

%

the margin in year ten; by default the business keeps today's

The long run
%

growth forever after year ten, below the risk-free rate: no company outgrows the economy forever

The discount rate
%

10-year US Treasury par yield (U.S. Treasury), 2026-09-29

not measured on this public page, which uses only public filings: 1.0 assumes it moves like the market. Sign in to measure it from prices

%

the extra return demanded for holding shares; it cannot be measured, and 4–6% is the common range

%

interest expense ÷ debt = 3.4%, kept between the risk-free rate and +8 points

%

no tax line: the US federal rate, 21%

The price
$

Type the price you see at your broker. It is used only for the reverse questions: what that price implies.

Back to the defaults

SEC from the filings Treasury the 10-year yield measured from prices assumption cannot be measured yours you changed it

The SEC accounts lack the lines needed for revenue, free cash flow or the share count, so there is no DCF for this company.

What it has filed lately

The last twelve months at the SEC, most important first: annual and quarterly reports, events, large holders and insiders.

What its own directors and officers did

Every Form 4 filed in the last twelve months, read line by line: 6 filings by 6 people. Open-market purchases and sales are counted apart from awards, option exercises and shares withheld for taxes.

Bought on the open market—none in the period
Sold on the open market—none in the period
Under pre-arranged plans—of the sales followed a 10b5-1 plan set months earlier
Other lines66 awards · 0 option exercises · 0 tax withholdings
DateWhoWhatSharesPriceValueHolds after
24 Sep 2026 Nazareth Annette L.Director Received as an award 180 — — 9,794
24 Sep 2026 Zavery AmitDirector Received as an award 180 — — 9,191
24 Sep 2026 Murray Eileen KDirector Received as an award 389 — — 6,147
24 Sep 2026 Mosconi Patricia AnnDirector Received as an award 180 — — 821
24 Sep 2026 Markus Maura A.Director Received as an award 209 — — 32,987
12 Aug 2026 Stingi Richard JohnCorporate VP and CHRO Received as an award 2,172 — — 7,681

A Form 4 says what happened, when, how many shares and at what price. It does not say why: a sale can be diversification, a tax bill or a plan fixed months earlier, and an award is pay, not a purchase. Nothing here is a reason to buy or sell anything.

Which large funds report holding it

From the Form 13F of the 28 institutions followed on this site, as of the end of their last reported quarter. A 13F is filed up to 45 days later and shows only long positions in US-listed shares.

FundSharesValueShare of the fundSince the quarter before
Norges Bank (Norway's sovereign fund) 30 Jun 2026 1.8M $242.8M 0.0% New
Tudor Investment 30 Jun 2026 444,687 $60.9M 0.3% Added to
Bridgewater Associates 30 Jun 2026 35,752 $4.9M 0.0% New

All the funds and what they reported ›

Companies like this one

Same SEC industry (services-business services, nec) first, then the rest of industrials.

Every figure, year by year

10 fiscal years · 30 measures
2017201820192020202120222023202420252026
Size
Revenue4.1B4.3B4.4B4.5B5.0B5.7B6.1B6.5B6.9B7.5B
Revenue growth—+4.5%+0.7%+3.8%+10.3%+14.3%+6.2%+7.4%+5.9%+8.5%
Operating income531.6M598.1M652.7M624.9M678.7M759.9M936.4M1.0B1.2B1.3B
Net income326.8M427.9M482.1M462.5M547.5M539.1M630.6M698.1M839.5M1.1B
Margins
Gross margin25.0%26.8%28.2%27.9%28.5%27.9%29.5%29.7%31.0%31.8%
Operating margin12.8%13.8%15.0%13.8%13.6%13.3%15.4%15.6%17.3%17.4%
Net margin7.9%9.9%11.1%10.2%11.0%9.4%10.4%10.7%12.2%15.0%
Free cash flow margin10.4%14.2%13.0%11.8%11.8%7.3%13.0%15.4%16.4%17.1%
R&D ÷ revenue——————————
SG&A ÷ revenue12.1%13.0%13.2%14.1%14.9%14.6%14.0%14.1%13.8%14.4%
Cash
Free cash flow430.5M616.9M566.4M535.5M588.2M414.5M784.9M998.8M1.1B1.3B
Stock-based pay46.1M55.1M58.4M60.8M58.6M68.4M73.1M70.6M73.4M93.9M
Free cash flow after stock pay384.4M561.8M508.0M474.7M529.6M346.1M711.8M928.2M1.1B1.2B
Free cash flow to the firm339.0M449.3M527.6M———————
Free cash flow ÷ net income1.3×1.4×1.2×1.2×1.1×0.8×1.2×1.4×1.3×1.1×
Capex ÷ revenue2.1%1.8%1.2%1.4%1.0%0.5%0.6%0.9%0.6%0.9%
Returns
Return on invested capital16.9%21.2%19.9%———————
Return on equity32.6%39.1%42.8%34.3%30.3%28.1%28.1%32.2%31.6%39.6%
Return on assets10.4%12.9%12.4%9.5%6.7%6.6%7.7%8.5%9.8%12.6%
Asset turnover1.3×1.3×1.1×0.9×0.6×0.7×0.7×0.8×0.8×0.8×
Economic profit——————————
Per share
Earnings per share$2.71$3.55$4.06$3.95$4.65$4.55$5.30$5.86$7.10$9.60
Free cash flow per share$3.56$5.12$4.77$4.58$4.99$3.50$6.60$8.39$9.53$10.92
Dividend per share$1.26$1.38$1.78$2.06$2.22$2.45$2.78$3.09$3.40$3.79
Payout ratio46.6%38.7%43.8%52.1%47.8%53.9%52.5%52.7%47.9%39.4%
Book value per share$8.62$9.41$9.86$11.70$15.58$16.36$18.97$18.58$22.67$24.92
Diluted shares120.8M120.4M118.8M117.0M117.8M118.5M119.0M119.1M118.3M117.1M
Balance sheet
Net debt831.0M789.5M1.2B1.3B3.6B3.6B3.2B3.1B2.7B2.9B
Net debt ÷ EBITDA1.4×1.2×1.6×1.9×4.8×4.2×3.1×2.7×2.0×2.0×
Interest coverage11.9×14.1×14.2×10.0×11.8×8.7×6.5×6.8×8.8×11.6×
Current ratio1.3×1.3×1.3×1.0×1.0×1.0×0.6×1.1×1.0×1.2×
Cash conversion cycle (days)——————————
Scores
Piotroski F-score—765457788
Altman Z''3.663.863.722.781.882.091.592.662.853.37
Beneish M—-2.85-2.66-2.56-2.42-2.30-2.53-2.66-2.62-2.52

Accounts from the company's own SEC filings; lines some companies do not report are shown as a dash rather than estimated. The risk-free rate is the 10-year US Treasury yield. A DCF is a way of making assumptions explicit, not a forecast: it states what the company would be worth if the assumptions held. The scores are screens that point where to look, not verdicts. Nothing here is a recommendation to buy or sell.