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FACTSET RESEARCH SYSTEMS INC.: retained earnings or deficit

Retained earnings or deficit for FACTSET RESEARCH SYSTEMS INC. Inspect selected reporting periods, original units and SEC filing links; download the financial history.

All FACTSET RESEARCH SYSTEMS INC. financial histories

What this measure means

Accumulated undistributed earnings or deficit at the reporting date. This balance is not cash available for distribution.

Exact concept: us-gaap:RetainedEarningsAccumulatedDeficit. Each value is a balance at the reporting date, not a flow earned over a year. Different units remain separate; no currency conversion or interpolation is applied.

Coverage of this history

Selected reporting periods run from 2010-08-31 to 2025-08-31. The SEC response was captured on 2026-09-20.

Selected filing history

Retained earnings or deficit in original reported units, latest-filed observation per period
Period startPeriod endValueUnitFiledSource filing
At date2025-08-312,323,407,000USD2025-10-2210-K · 0001628280-25-045769
At date2024-08-311,888,504,000USD2025-10-2210-K · 0001628280-25-045769
At date2023-08-311,505,096,000USD2024-10-2910-K · 0001013237-24-000141
At date2022-08-311,179,739,000USD2023-10-2710-K · 0001013237-23-000128
At date2021-08-31912,515,000USD2022-10-2110-K · 0001013237-22-000159
At date2020-08-31633,149,000USD2021-10-2210-K · 0001013237-21-000142
At date2019-08-31373,225,000USD2020-10-2910-K · 0001013237-20-000153
At date2018-08-31122,843,000USD2019-10-3010-K · 0001437749-19-020894
At date2017-08-311,458,823,000USD2018-10-3010-K · 0001437749-18-019028
At date2016-08-311,283,927,000USD2017-10-3010-K · 0001437749-17-017840
At date2015-08-311,021,651,000USD2016-10-3110-K · 0001437749-16-040606
At date2014-08-31849,504,000USD2015-11-0210-K · 0001437749-15-019227
At date2013-08-31700,519,000USD2014-10-3010-K · 0001437749-14-019084
At date2012-08-31559,714,000USD2013-10-3010-K · 0001437749-13-013610
At date2011-08-31912,078,000USD2012-10-3010-K · 0001437749-12-010651
At date2010-08-31786,844,000USD2011-10-3110-K · 0001193125-11-288590

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Entity
FACTSET RESEARCH SYSTEMS INC. / CIK 0001013237
Captured
2026-09-20T05:12:29.125Z
SEC response SHA-256
a82da656084a714535a6e3d662af63d1c45b7560e9d9cdb4c1d7a8419bf410d1

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Latest-filed annual-report facts per unit and reporting period at capture time. Duration facts cover 300 to 400 days. This selection can include restatements and is not a point-in-time backtest dataset. Missing concepts are omitted, never zero-filled. Values retain original units and are not currency converted. Extended concepts require compatible unit shapes and at least three reporting ends with changing values within one unit. Constant or incompatible added histories are omitted.

Public company accounting reference, not market prices, returns, an investment recommendation, or ALPHAC performance. Validate a separately constructed return series with the validation API; accounting values are not returns.

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A financial period ends before its results become public. Use the filing date as a minimum availability boundary, inspect amendments, and retain the original filing vintage when testing historical signals. This latest-filed selection can contain information unavailable at the time.

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Read the published dataset with Python
import json
from urllib.request import urlopen

with urlopen("https://canlicapital.com/company-data/0001013237.json") as response:
    record = json.load(response)
print(record["fetched_at"])
print(record["policy"])
for concept in record["concepts"]:
    print(concept["tag"], next(iter(concept["observations"])))