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Company Profile: IQVIA Holdings Inc. (IQV)

IQV insider trades (13 months) →

$262.59 +1.61% vs. previous close · Market cap $43.27B

Today's multi-factor rank: 366 of 461 · see the ranking

Momentum
5.4/10
Value
4.4/10
Growth
4.5/10
Quality
3.8/10
Multifactor
4.5/10

Market and Valuation

Price & Market

Prev Close Price:$258.44
Open:$255.65
Day's Low:$252.38
Day's High:$263.99
Bid / Ask:-
Market Cap:43.27B
Enterprise Value:56.61B

52-Week Range

52-Week Low:$154.50
52-Week High:$284.50
Current position in 52-week range
52w Low-52w High
50-Day Avg:$266.06
200-Day Avg:$209.60

Volume

Volume Today:1,321,625
Avg Volume (3m):1,405,545
Avg Volume (10d):1,555,480
52-Week Change:+22.51%
vs S&P 500, 52 weeks:-
Beta:1.17

Valuation Multiples

P/E (trailing):31.95

Diluted EPS for the last 12 months: the four quarters ended Sep 30, 2026, from the accounts filed with the SEC on Oct 27, 2026. The P/E is the price divided by that EPS.

P/E (forward):18.49
PEG Ratio:0.95
Price / Book:6.50
Price / Sales (TTM):2.50
EV / Revenue:3.27
EV / EBITDA:18.16

Dividends

Current yield:-
Annual Dividend Rate:-
Dividend Trailing:$0.00
Yield Trailing:0.00%
5-Year Avg Yield:-
Payout Ratio:0.00%
Last Ex-Dividend Date:-

Valuation Context

P/E vs sector (indicative)

Most Recent Quarter:-
Fiscal Year (Next):-

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Financial Statements TTM (Trailing 12 Months)

Income Statement

Total Revenue (TTM):17.31B
Gross Profit:5.72B
EBITDA:3.12B
Net Income (TTM):1.39B
Rev Growth (YoY):+8.00%
Earnings Growth (YoY):+8.80%
Quarterly earnings growth (YoY):+5.70%

Margins

Gross Margin:-
EBITDA Margin:-
Operating Margin:-
Net Margin:-

Per Share

EPS Trailing (TTM):$8.22

Diluted EPS for the last 12 months: the four quarters ended Sep 30, 2026, from the accounts filed with the SEC on Oct 27, 2026. The P/E is the price divided by that EPS.

EPS Forward (Est.):$14.20
Revenue Per Share:$103.50
Cash Per Share:-
Book Value:$40.41
Last Dividend:-
Ex-Dividend Date:-
Last Split:-

Balance Sheet & Liquidity

Total cash:2.42B
Total Debt:16.31B
Net Debt (Debt - Cash):13.89B
Debt / Equity:240.23%
Current Ratio:0.83
Quick Ratio:0.74

Cash Flows

Operating Cash Flow:2.74B
Free Cash Flow (FCF):2.12B
FCF Yield (FCF / Market Cap):-
Enterprise Value:56.61B
EV / Revenue:3.27
EV / EBITDA:18.16

Profitability

ROE (Return on Equity):21.39%
ROA (Return on Assets):5.08%
P/E (trailing):31.95
P/E (forward):18.49
Price / Book:6.50
PEG Ratio:0.95
52-Week Change:+22.51%
S&P 500 change, 52 weeks:+11.37%

Historical Evolution (Last 4 Years)

Income Statement

Balance Sheet

Cash Flow

EPS and Earnings Per Share

Key EPS Metrics

EPS Trailing (TTM):$8.22

Diluted EPS for the last 12 months: the four quarters ended Sep 30, 2026, from the accounts filed with the SEC on Oct 27, 2026. The P/E is the price divided by that EPS.

EPS Forward (Est.):$14.20
P/E (forward):18.49
PEG Ratio:0.95

Growth and Margins

Earnings Growth YoY:-
Quarterly Earnings Growth YoY:-
Rev Growth YoY:-
Net Margin:-
Gross Margin:-
EBITDA Margin:-

Per Share

Revenue Per Share:$103.50
Cash Per Share:-
Book Value:$40.41

Cash Flows (TTM)

Free Cash Flow:2.12B
Operating Cash Flow:2.74B
EBITDA:3.12B
Total Revenue (TTM):17.31B
Net Income (TTM):1.39B
Fiscal Year (Last):-

EPS Surprise History - Last 4 Quarters

Actual vs. Analyst Estimates · Green = beat expectations · Red = missed

Quarter Period Actual EPS Estimated EPS Difference Surprise % Currency

Ownership Structure

Ownership Distribution

% Insiders:-
% Institutional:-
% Inst. (of Float):-
No. of Institutions:-
Visual distribution
InsidersInstitutionalFree Float

Shares & Short Interest

Shares Outstanding:164,800,000
Float (free shares):156,451,232
Short interest (shares):2,992,152
Short % of float:-
Short Ratio (days to cover):1.92
Short interest, prior month:-
Short Interest Date:-

Governance Score (1=Best, 10=Worst)

Overall risk:-
Audit Risk:-
Board risk:-
Compensation Risk:-
Shareholder rights risk:-

Top Institutional Holders

Position Change: ▲ Increased · ▼ Reduced · = Unchanged

Organization Report Date % Shares No. Shares Value (USD) Change %

Top Mutual Funds

Position Change: ▲ Increased ▼ Decreased = Unchanged

Fund Report Date % Shares No. Shares Value (USD) Change %

Recent Insider Trades

Executive / Insider Title Date Action Shares

Options Chain

CALLS

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PUTS

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IQVIA Holdings Inc. (IQV) SEC filings: 10-K, 10-Q and 8-K

Direct links to financial reports filed with the SEC.

Type Date Official link
10-Q2026-10-27View filing ↗
8-K2026-09-23View filing ↗
8-K2026-09-09View filing ↗
10-Q2026-07-28View filing ↗
8-K2026-06-11View filing ↗
8-K2026-06-04View filing ↗
8-K2026-06-03View filing ↗
8-K2026-05-07View filing ↗
10-Q2026-05-05View filing ↗
8-K2026-04-23View filing ↗

Company and Executive Profile

IQVIA Holdings Inc. provides clinical research services, commercial insights, and healthcare intelligence to the life sciences and healthcare industries in the Americas, Europe, Africa, and the Asia-Pacific. It operates through three segments: Technology & Analytics Solutions, Research & Development Solutions, and Contract Sales & Medical Solutions. The Technology & Analytics Solutions segment offers a range of cloud-based applications and associated implementation services; real world solutions that enable life sciences and provider customers to generate and disseminate evidence, which informs health care decision making and improves patients' outcomes; and strategic and implementation consulting services, such as advanced analytics and commercial processes outsourcing services. This segment also provides country level performance metrics related to sales of pharmaceutical products, prescribing trends, medical treatment, and promotional activity across various channels, including retail, hospital, and mail order; and measurement of sales or prescribing activity at the regional, zip code, and individual prescriber level. The Research & Development Solutions segment offers project management and clinical monitoring; clinical trial support; strategic planning and design services; and patient and site centric solutions, as well as central laboratory, genomic, bioanalytical, ADME, discovery, vaccine and biomarker laboratory services. The Contract Sales & Medical Solutions segment provides health care provider and patient engagement services, and scientific strategy and medical services. It serves pharmaceutical, biotechnology, device and diagnostic, and consumer health companies. The company has a strategic collaboration with Kexing Biopharm Co., Ltd. for biosimilar development. The company was formerly known as Quintiles IMS Holdings, Inc. and changed its name to IQVIA Holdings Inc. in November 2017. IQVIA Holdings Inc. is based in Durham, North Carolina.

General Information

Headquarters:United States
City:Durham
Employees:95,000
Sector:Healthcare
Industry:Diagnostics & Research
Website:-

Key Executives

NameTitleAgeTotal pay
Mr. Ari BousbibCEO & Chairman647.16M
Mr. Eric M. Sherbet J.D.Executive VP, General Counsel & Secretary611.50M
Mr. W. Richard Staub IIIPresident of Research & Development Solutions621.83M
Mr. Alistair GrenfellPresident of Commercial Solutions511.70M
Mr. Michael J. Fedock MBAExecutive VP & Chief Financial Officer49-
Mr. James G. BerkshireExecutive Vice President of Global Infrastructure & Operations51-
Ms. Keriann CherofskySenior VP, Corporate Controller & Chief Accounting Officer40-
Dr. Jeffrey A. Spaeder M.D.Chief Medical & Scientific Officer--

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IQVIA Holdings Inc. (IQV): Quantitative Analysis

IQVIA Holdings Inc. (IQV) — Healthcare — Diagnostics & Research. IQV is in the S&P 500 today. Model factor scores and market data, recalculated every trading day.

So far in 2026, IQV has returned +16.5% against +11.4% for the S&P 500 (SPY): total return, dividends included on both sides, from Dec 31, 2025 to Nov 3, 2026.

IQV ranks 366 of 461 on today's multifactor score, and 46 of the 55 Healthcare companies that score. Its strongest factor is momentum (Z 0.25, ranked 165 of 494); its weakest is quality (Z -0.70, ranked 425 of 468). Each factor ranks only the companies with data for it, and the multifactor score only those with all four: that is why the totals differ.

Factor scores

The Z-Score is how many standard deviations the company sits from the index average: 0 is average, positive is better than average, negative is worse.

FactorZ-ScoreRank
Multifactor-0.284366 of 461
Momentum0.254165 of 494 ↑17
Value-0.388327 of 489
Quality-0.702425 of 468
Growth-0.298329 of 489

Market data

MetricValue
Price$262.59
Market Cap43.27B
P/E31.95
Revenue (last 12 months)17.31B
Price / book6.50
Book value per share$40.41
52-week range$154.50 – $284.50
Dividend yield0.00%
Beta1.17
Average volume1,405,545
Shares outstanding164.80M
Short interest (% of float)2.11% (as of Oct 15, 2026)

When does IQV report earnings? 12 of its last 12, before the open →

What are IQV insiders doing? 47 transactions filed with the SEC, of them 9 sells, the last one on Sep 2, 2026 →

IQV latest SEC filings

Filing dates on EDGAR, the SEC's public registry. All IQV filings on EDGAR.

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Frequently asked questions about IQVIA (IQV)

When does IQVIA report earnings?

IQVIA has no announced date in the Nasdaq public calendar checked (Nov 3, 2026 to Dec 7, 2026). Of its last 12 earnings announcements: 12 before the open (SEC filings through Oct 27, 2026). IQV earnings dates and times, quarter by quarter →

What is IQVIA's P/E ratio?

IQVIA's P/E (price over earnings per share for the last twelve months) is 31.9 at the Nov 3, 2026 close. That EPS is the 12-month diluted figure from the SEC, the four quarters ended Sep 30, 2026. The median of the 54 Healthcare companies with a P/E is 30.5, and the S&P 500's, 23.5: IQVIA is above its sector median. Healthcare stocks, company by company →

Where does IQVIA rank on Quant500?

In the Nov 3, 2026 multi-factor ranking, IQVIA ranks 366 of 461, and 46 of the 55 Healthcare companies that score. The ranking orders S&P 500 companies by the average of four factors (momentum, value, quality and growth) and is recalculated every trading day. It is a model output, not investment advice. The full ranking → How it is calculated →

Have IQVIA insiders bought or sold shares?

SEC Form 4 shows no open-market purchase of IQVIA shares from August 2025 through Nov 3, 2026. The latest sale was on Sep 2, 2026, by an officer, for $697k. In total, from August 2025 through Nov 3, 2026: 0 purchases and 9 sales by directors, officers and large shareholders. All IQV insider trades →

What sector is IQVIA in, and which index?

IQVIA is classified in the Healthcare sector (industry: Diagnostics & Research), per the data provider's classification (similar to GICS, not identical). It is in the S&P 500 today. It is one of the 59 S&P 500 companies in that sector. Healthcare stocks →

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