Factset

FDS

Market cap $10.8B

NORWALK, Conn., Oct. 15, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- FactSet (NYSE: FDS | NASDAQ: FDS), a global financial digital platform and enterprise solutions provider, today announced its 2025 Buy-Side Forum—a four-city series addressing how AI-driven strategies and advanced data solutions are empowering financial professionals amid unprecedented market volatility and fast-changing regulations across the Asia-Pacific region.

It's fun to follow stocks that soared recently, and it can be sobering to see which ones have plunged -- especially if you're a shareholder. So here's a look at the worst-performing stocks in the S&P 500 index of 500 of America's biggest companies -- in September.

I track a universe of 50 high-quality dividend growth stocks to identify opportune investments based on valuation and future return potential. As of October 2, 2025, 22 stocks offer attractive future return estimates of at least 10%, with 15 appearing potentially undervalued by my Free Cash Flow model. Top-ranked stocks include MKTX, RMD, MPWR, RACE, and MSCI, each offering strong projected returns driven by yield, valuation upside, and EPS growth.

From Salesforce to Duolingo, some of the biggest AI losers of the year are quietly building powerful comeback stories. Here's why their stocks deserve a second look.

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Dividend Aristocrats, tracked by NOBL, outperformed SPY in August but lagged year-to-date, with notable dispersion among individual stock returns. Dividend growth remains robust, with 55 of 69 Aristocrats already raising payouts in 2025 at an average rate of 5.19%, nearing last year's pace. 22 Dividend Aristocrats appear both undervalued and offer a projected long-term annualized return of at least 10%, based on dividend yield theory and earnings growth.

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Dividend Aristocrats are highly sought after, as there are fewer than 70 on the market, and an even smaller portion of them pay notable dividends.

The recent sell off in Factset Research Systems Inc (NYSE:FDS) shares over AI disruption fears has been overdone, according to analysts at UBS, saying investors underappreciate the stickiness of the financial digital platform's solutions in a slow-moving industry.   As a result, they boosted their rating on the stock to ‘Buy' from ‘Neutral' but also lowered their target price to $425 per share from $480, citing the company's growth outlook, which they say has become more uncertain.

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