2019 ANNUAL REPORT | 01 Our Lines of Business and Global Segments
ANNUAL 2019 REPORT WWW.FACTSET.COM Driving the investment community to see more, think bigger, and do their best work. BUILDING UPON OUR WINNING STRATEGY OF INVESTING FOR GROWTH. Dear Stockholders, I am proud of our team for delivering solid growth in fiscal year 2019 in the midst of a shifting environment. Our consistent execution is grounded in our proven ability to innovate and pivot when necessary, focusing our investments on our content, technology, and people. In fiscal 2019, we continued our impressive trajectory of 39 consecutive years of top-line growth, 23 consecutive years of adjusted diluted EPS growth, and 14 consecutive years of dividend increases. We exercised prudent discretionary expense management, increased workforce productivity, and made important operational improvements to enhance our infrastructure, resulting in improved operating margins. And we successfully launched a number of new products that have garnered excitement and momentum as we head into 2020. FactSet grew globally across its regions of Americas, EMEA, and AsiaPac, with AsiaPac continuing to increase by double-digits in 2019. Our performance in 2019 saw year-over- year growth in all four of our workflow solutions: Analytics, Research, Content & Technology Solutions (CTS), and Wealth. Growth in Analytics was driven by our flagship portfolio analytics suite and our enterprise risk solutions, and we are encouraged by the ramp-up of newer products such as our APIs and Portfolio Management Platform. In Research, we launched our U.S. banks, deep sector content—the first of many in our deep sector content strategy —and expanded datasets within the workstation. 39 23 14 Consecutive years of Consecutive years Consecutive years of top-line growth of adjusted diluted dividend increases EPS growth 2019 ANNUAL REPORT | 01 Our Lines of Business and Global Segments WEALTH: $151M (10% OF ASV) GROWTH RATE: 10% CTS: $170M (12% OF ASV) GROWTH RATE: 15% ORGANIC GROWTH RATE 5.1% 1.
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