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IQV · NYSE

Iqvia Holdings Inc

Healthcare · Diagnostics & Research

$275.06

-1.43%

Close on Oct 29, 2026

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Quality

66

of 100 · stored research reading

Stored Quality research reads 66 of 100, an above-average reading in the covered universe. Some underlying measurements are stronger than others.

Quality research measures durability of the business itself from stored fundamentals: balance-sheet strength, profitability consistency and cash generation. It is a research reading, not a prediction of future returns.

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Fundamental Momentum

Middle

56

of 100 · stored research reading

Stored Fundamental Momentum research reads 56 of 100. Stored measurements classify recent reported fundamentals as middle. This describes reported financial change already disclosed, with no forward-looking claim.

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Capital Returns

Strong

76

of 100 · stored research reading

Stored Capital Returns research reads 76 of 100, recorded as strong. No dividend is recorded for this company, so the reading rests on buybacks and dilution control. Share count has been reduced at about 3.0% a year in the stored window.

Capital Returns research measures how a company has actually returned cash to shareholders: dividend record, buyback effectiveness, dilution control and how those payments were funded.

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Valuation context

Price / earnings
32.8

Stored ratios recorded at the last research date (2026-10-26). Valuation Intelligence remains research context and is not a validated allocation signal.

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What this company does

IQVIA is a leading global provider of clinical research services, commercial insights and healthcare intelligence to the life sciences and healthcare industries. IQVIA’s portfolio of solutions are powered by IQVIA Connected Intelligence to deliver actionable insights and services built on high-quality health data, Healthcare-grade AI , advanced analytics, the latest technologies and extensive domain expertise. We are committed to using artificial intelligence ("AI") responsibly, with AI-powered capabilities built on best-in-class approaches to privacy, regulatory compliance and patient safety, and delivering AI to the high standards of trust, scalability and precision demanded by the industry. With approximately 93,000 employees in over 100 countries, including experts in healthcare, life sciences, data science, technology and operational excellence, we are dedicated to accelerating the development and commercialization of innovative medical treatments to help improve patient outcomes and population health worldwide.

We are a global leader in protecting individual patient privacy. We use a wide variety of privacy-enhancing technologies and safeguards to protect individual privacy while generating and analyzing information on a scale that helps healthcare stakeholders identify disease patterns and correlate with the precise treatment path and therapy needed for better outcomes. Our insights and execution capabilities help biotech, medical device and pharmaceutical companies, medical researchers, government agencies, payers and other healthcare stakeholders tap into a deeper understanding of diseases, human behaviors and scientific advances, in an effort to advance their path toward cures.

We have one of the largest and most comprehensive collections of healthcare information in the world spanning sales, prescription, promotional and social media data, as well as medical claims, electronic medical records, and genomics data, including more than 1.2 billion comprehensive, longitudinal, unique non-identified patient records. Our scaled and growing information set contains approximately 68 petabytes of unique proprietary data sourced from approximately 150,000 data suppliers and covering over one million data feeds globally. Based on this data, we deliver information and insights on approximately 90% of the world’s pharmaceuticals, as measured by 2024 sales. We standardize, curate, structure and integrate this information by applying our sophisticated analytics and leveraging our global technology infrastructure. Longitudinal analysis across disparate datasets is enabled via internally developed fully compliant tokenization engines. This helps our clients run their organizations more efficiently and make better decisions to improve their clinical, commercial and financial performance. We have developed a comprehensive portfolio of intelligent, actionable information offerings over a period of many years through innovation, expertise and hard work that differentiates our capabilities to support customers throughout the world.

We combine our proprietary information assets with advanced analytics, transformative technology and domain expertise to develop clinical and commercial capabilities that enable us to grow our relationships with healthcare stakeholders throughout the life science’s value chain. This set of capabilities includes:

Quoted from the business section of this company’s 10-K filed February 17, 2026. Read the filing

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