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Invesco Ltd. IVZ

Market cap $13.6BP/E —no earnings to divide byGross margin 67.4%Reports Tue 27 Oct, before the open
$30.58
−0.10 (−0.33%)live 11:20 ET
52-wk $20.67 – $33.66
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Orin's take
0.62conviction · moderate
Refreshed 20 Aug · take v7. A new filing or a print queues the next refresh.

Invesco remains a hold as FY2025 results — a $696M operating loss and -$1.60 diluted EPS despite $6.38B in revenue and $1.44B in free cash flow — underscore a recurring pattern of alternating profitable and loss-making years that demands evidence of sustained earnings recovery before turning constructive. The stock has rallied to $32.21, above both the 50-day ($29.34) and 200-day ($26.70) moving averages with RSI at 62.7, pricing in operational improvement not yet visible in GAAP profitability.

Balance sheet deterioration is a key concern: total debt climbed to $10.1B from $7.5B in FY2024 while stockholders' equity eroded to $12.2B from $14.6B, and insider net selling of -$20.9M over 24 months — including July 2026 dispositions by the CEO and CFO — tempers enthusiasm despite a modestly positive smart-money score of 0.0123 as of Q2 2026.

What could go wrong

  • Earnings volatility persists. FY2025 marked a return to losses (-$282M net income, -10.9% operating margin) after FY2024's $775M profit, repeating the FY2023 loss pattern; without sustained profitability the stock's run-up to $32.21 is unsupported by fundamentals.
  • Leverage rising. Total debt increased to $10.1B in FY2025 from $7.5B in FY2024 while equity fell to $12.2B from $14.6B, weakening the balance sheet and raising interest burden risk on an asset-manager franchise.
  • Insider selling pressure. Over the trailing 24 months insiders net sold $20.9M in value across 52 dispositions vs 50 acquisitions, with the CEO and CFO both disposing shares in July 2026 at $27.01.
  • Smart-money flows weakening. The smart-money score declined from 0.021 at end-2025 to 0.0123 as of Q2 2026, and fund count fell from 58 to 55 quarter-over-quarter, suggesting reduced institutional conviction.

What would change my mind

Return to GAAP profitability. Next reported quarter or full-year shows positive operating income and positive diluted EPS, breaking the alternating loss patternbullish
Debt reduction. Total debt declines meaningfully from the FY2025 $10.1B level, indicating deleveraging and balance sheet repairbullish
Continued losses or AUM outflows. Q3 2026 or FY2026 results show another operating loss or declining AUM/revenue, confirming the earnings instability is structuralbearish
Technical breakdown. Stock falls below the 50-day moving average at $29.34 on rising volume, signaling the rally has exhaustedbearish

Where this comes from: FMP annual fundamentals FY2025 · FMP annual fundamentals FY2025 + derived_metrics · FMP annual fundamentals FY2025 vs FY2024 · Technical data as of 2026-08-19. Orin's read on IVZ; not advice.

Twelve months actual closes to 2026-09-24 · actual filings

Sept 25Nov 25Jan 26Mar 26May 26Jul 26

50-day average 200-day average · volume below

Largest holders · 13F Q2 2026

Money flow
FilerPositionOf fund
Vanguard Capital Management$741.7M0.0% of fund
Vanguard Portfolio Management$487.1M0.0% of fund
State Street$443.2M0.0% of fund
Millennium Management$414.0M0.1% of fund
Aqr Capital Management$332.6M0.1% of fund
Geode Capital Management$329.4M0.0% of fund

80 filers · quarter ended Q2 2026 · positions, not flows

Insiders, last 24 months: 130 Form 4 filings, net −$29.7M. Of the 50 on hand, 0 were open-market purchases and 5 sales— the rest are grants, option exercises and tax withholding.

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Where it trades

vs its own 5y · Financial Services
MetricNowOwn medianSector
EV/EBITDA9.6×11.3×—
P/S1.97×1.42×—
P/B1.1×0.6×—

Its P/E sits 20th percentile of its own last 5 years (−0.67σ from its own mean).

What the price assumes

-2.7%

free-cash-flow growth every year for 10 years, discounted at 10%, is what today’s price implies — starting from $1.4B of trailing free cash flow. It is an assumption the market is making, not a forecast Orin is making.

What Wall Street published

28 firms · 2026-09-24
Consensus target

$33

$28 – $39 · +7% against today's price

How they rate it
  • 12 buy or overweight
  • 16 hold
  • 0 underweight or sell

The analysts’ consensus and their own ratings, not Orin’s. A target is a twelve-month opinion published by the firm that wrote it.

Against the companies it is compared to

median P/E 12.3× of 3 peers
CompanyMarket capP/EEV/EBITDAGrossNetROE
IVZInvesco Ltd.$14B—9.6×67.4%-0.9%-1%
AIZAssurant, Inc.$13B12.3×7.9×78.1%7.9%18%
BENFranklin Resources, Inc.$17B21.7×17.7×67.6%9.6%7%
GLGlobe Life Inc.$13B11.0×24.8×17.0%19.6%20%

The median is of the 3 peers listed above and nothing else — check it against the column. The peer set is the vendor’s, so a company can appear here that a person would not have chosen.

What it has traded at

P/E by fiscal year
FY14 16.9×FY24 14.8×

What its sector has traded at

Financial Services
FY14 29.6×FY26 23.8×

Two scales, drawn separately on purpose: a sector median and one company’s multiple are not the same number and putting them on one axis invites a comparison neither series supports.

Discounted cash flow

not recomputed since
ModelFair valueAgainstComputed
Standard DCF$121$27.55 · +338%2026-06-10
Levered DCF$63$27.55 · +127%2026-06-10

The vendor’s intrinsic-value models. Treat them as a low-growth anchor — for a fast grower the market routinely pays well above a DCF. These were computed against the price in the “against” column, not today’s.

Every estimate on one scale

price $30.58
52-week range$21 – $34
Analyst targets$28 – $39
Standard DCF$121 as of 2026-06-10, when it was $27.55
Levered DCF$63 as of 2026-06-10, when it was $27.55

The vertical rule is the current price. Ranges and point estimates are the backend’s, published as they were calculated; an arrow means the estimate sits beyond this scale, and its number is on the right.