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Provides consumer and retail market-research data (point-of-sale, panel, e-commerce) that brands use to track sales and share.
Provides consumer and retail market-research data (point-of-sale, panel, e-commerce) that brands use to track sales and share.
Brands and retailers pay recurring contract fees for data on what shoppers buy and where, gathered from retailers' checkout systems and from household panels. A 2023 combination with GfK, a German consumer-research group, added consumer-technology data. The private-equity firm Advent International long owned it before its 2025 stock-market listing.
Moat: narrow (scale, switching costs, data). Long-running retailer data-sharing relationships and historical panels are hard to rebuild.
Headquarters: Chicago, Illinois, United States · Founded: 1923 · Employees: 38,760
Size NIQ Global Intelligence (NIQ) is a United States Information Technology company (Packaged Software) with a market value of $6.02B, the 1063rd largest of 3,117 United States companies the cockpit tracks. Shares closed at $11.68 on 6 Nov 2026.
Performance Over six months the shares gained 5.2%, against +11.5% for the median peer and -1.1% for the United States market (cap-weighted) — 8th lowest of 20 in its peer set.
Growth Revenue grew 8.9% over the last twelve months (peer median +12.6%); the operating margin is 7.8% (peer median 17.2%).
Valuation It trades at 17.1× forward earnings against a peer median of 21.3× (9th cheapest of 20).
Price implies For today's price to make sense, revenue must grow about 11% a year for seven years (Req g). Recent delivered growth is +15%, so the hurdle is -4 pp: the price already allows for a slowdown.
Capital Return on invested capital runs 0.3 points below its cost of capital (6.0% WACC).
Backlog Backlog (remaining performance obligations) was $1.77B at 30 Jun 2026, up 4% on a year earlier — 0.4 years of trailing revenue. Backlog detail →
Short interest Short interest is 1.7% of the free float (15 Oct 2026).
Next results Next results expected around 12 Nov 2026 (exchange calendar; dates can move).
| TTM | FY2025 | FY2024 | FY2023 | FY2022 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | $4.39B | $4.20B | $3.97B | $3.34B | $2.79B |
| Revenue growth | — | +6% | +19% | +20% | — |
| Gross profit | $1.79B | $1.70B | $1.60B | $1.37B | $1.10B |
| EBITDA | $979M | $879M | $800M | $595M | $462M |
| Net income | -$351M | -$353M | -$810M | -$467M | -$317M |
| Free cash flow | $395M | $23.9M | -$225M | -$35.1M | $13.1M |
| Capital expenditure | $158M | $275M | $299M | $273M | $306M |
| Total debt | $3.80B | $3.87B | $4.33B | $4.44B | n/a |
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| Company | Market cap | 6M return | Revenue growth | Op. margin | Forward P/E | Req g |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NIQ Global Intelligence NIQ | $6.02B | +5% | +9% | 8% | 17.1× | 10.9% |
| Ipsos IPS.PA | $1.74B | -3% | +3% | 12% | 7.0× | -10.8% |
| YouGov YOU.L | $437M | +45% | +2% | 4% | 8.4× | 16.7% |
| Similarweb SMWB | $724M | +141% | +10% | -2% | 29.0× | 28.2% |
Peer set: Industry: the same industry and sector in any market, nearest in size. This is the same default set the interactive Competitor Analysis opens with.
| Measure | NIQ | Peer median | Rank in peer set |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1-month return | +3.8% | +5.7% | 9th lowest of 21 |
| 6-month return | +5.2% | +11.5% | 8th lowest of 20 |
| Distance from 52-week high | -37.5% | -25.2% | 8th lowest of 21 |
| Revenue growth (TTM) | +8.9% | +12.6% | 7th lowest of 21 |
| Operating margin | 7.8% | 17.2% | 6th lowest of 21 |
| Forward P/E | 17.1× | 21.3× | 9th cheapest of 20 |
| Growth the price implies (Req g, 7 yrs) | 10.9% | 8.6% | 9th most demanding of 19 |
| Growth delivered (Del g) | +14.6% | +16.3% | 9th lowest of 19 |
| Hurdle (Req g minus delivered) | -3.7 pp | -4.7 pp | 10th least demanding of 19 |
| ROIC minus cost of capital | -0.3 pp | +3.5 pp | 7th lowest of 18 |
| EV / EBITDA | 9.8× | 14.9× | 2nd cheapest of 12 |
| Net debt / EBITDA | 3.5× | -0.6× | most indebted of 13 |
| Company | Market | Market cap | 6M return | Revenue growth | Op. margin | Forward P/E | Req g | Delivered g |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NIQ Global Intelligence NIQ | United States | $6.02B | +5% | +9% | 8% | 17.1× | 10.9% | +14.6% |
| Hundsun Technologies 600570.SS | China | $6.05B | -20% | -5% | 9% | 30.1× | 34.8% | +7.0% |
| ACI Worldwide ACIW | United States | $6.06B | +32% | +7% | 19% | 22.9× | 11.8% | +6.3% |
| Bilibili 9626.HK | Hong Kong | $6.06B | -36% | +11% | 4% | 14.2× | 7.3% | +19.5% |
| Dolby Laboratories DLB | United States | $6.07B | +11% | +1% | 19% | 14.3× | 10.0% | +3.0% |
| Open Text OTEX.TO | Canada | $6.07B | +9% | +1% | 23% | 6.4× | -6.2% | +10.8% |
| Shanghai Baosight Software 600845.SS | China | $5.97B | -24% | +11% | 10% | 30.3× | 6.9% | +1.4% |
| RingCentral RNG | United States | $6.09B | +58% | +5% | 9% | 13.3× | 15.2% | +16.3% |
| Klaviyo KVYO | United States | $5.90B | +36% | +29% | -2% | 19.7× | 7.0% | +37.7% |
| Topicus.com TOI.V | Canada | $6.25B | +9% | +28% | 15% | 21.3× | 0.7% | +26.5% |
| SenseTime 0020.HK | Hong Kong | $6.25B | -44% | +31% | -51% | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| Navan NAVN | United States | $6.25B | +36% | +35% | -25% | 76.3× | n/a | n/a |
| Doximity DOCS | United States | $5.79B | +25% | +11% | 31% | 23.3× | 16.3% | +25.5% |
| International Games System 3293.TWO | Taiwan | $6.27B | 0% | +15% | 59% | 14.4× | -4.0% | +21.2% |
| Varonis Systems VRNS | United States | $5.63B | +71% | +18% | -25% | 138.0× | 23.0% | +16.3% |
| Giant Network 002558.SZ | China | $5.61B | -35% | +105% | 48% | 10.0× | -2.1% | +17.9% |
| Commvault Systems CVLT | United States | $6.48B | +51% | +14% | 10% | 27.6× | 26.9% | +10.3% |
| Octave Intelligence OCTV | United States | $5.60B | n/a | +1% | 20% | 14.7× | 17.0% | +1.3% |
| Sectra SECT-B.ST | Sweden | $6.53B | +27% | +14% | 20% | 85.0× | 29.0% | +16.8% |
| Qualys QLYS | United States | $6.59B | +102% | +11% | 35% | 23.7× | 4.7% | +13.1% |
| Kingnet Network 002517.SZ | China | $5.47B | -4% | +62% | 29% | 13.7× | 6.3% | +28.1% |
NIQ Global Intelligence reported $1.77B of remaining performance obligations at 30 Jun 2026, up 4% from a year earlier and down 5% from the previous quarter. That is 0.4 years of trailing revenue already under contract. Book-to-bill last quarter: 0.92.