FIS US S&P 500Russell 1000 Earnings call · transcribed from the recording
Fidelity National Information Services (FIS) · Q2 2026 results and valuation
Share price: $30.21 · 2026-11-11
Results Q2 2026 vs Q1 2026 · previous quarter · published 4 Aug 2026 and 8 May 2026
Net income down 90.2% on the previous quarter, guidance cut. Management sounded upbeat, though noticeably less so answering analysts.
Only a basic analysis is available for this company at the moment.
1 · Numbers
−90.2%
Net income vs Q1 2026
Guidance cut
Net income 231.0M vs 2.37B
Revenue +2.5%
2 · How management spoke
Upbeat
More upbeat than 79% of company calls
Answers to analysts: typical, but clearly less so than the script.
Similar to last call.
3 · What stood out
Key theme
Adjusted EBITDA margins expanded and free cash flow more than tripled year-over-year.
Valuation
Is Fidelity National Information Services undervalued?
Reverse DCF. Free cash flow from the last full fiscal year (2025-12-31), grown for 10 years, discounted back, plus a terminal value. “Implied growth” is the rate the current price assumes.
At 3.2% growth a year (3-year revenue growth), the model's fair value is $43.91 a share — the stock trades 31% below it. Today's price assumes 0.1% growth a year.
Current price
$30.21
close of 2026-11-11
Market implies growth of iThe yearly free-cash-flow growth, for the next 10 years, that today’s share price already assumes. If you believe the company grows faster than this, the stock is cheap under this model; slower, and it is expensive.
+0.1% for 10 yrs
Fair value / share
$43.91
Buy below
$32.93
Price vs fair value
Undervalued 31%
Price vs buy-below price
Undervalued 8%
Read between the lines
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Guidance ↓
Fidelity National Information Services has reduced the EBITDA outlook to reflect the lower revenue projections for Capital Markets, and it now anticipates full year margin expansion of 85 to 105 basis...
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Guidance
Quarter interest rate pressures weighed on lending volumes, and Fidelity National Information Services now expects growth to be tempered, creating a modest drag on the segment recurring revenue growth.
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Figure
Fidelity National Information Services delivered revenue of $3.4 billion, up 5.3% on a pro forma basis.
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Dropped
Actual use case for them that makes a ton of sense
Source quote
“And it's a use case that the banks care about. It is an actual use case for them that makes a ton... ...see a humongous demand from clients in terms of specific use cases, but what we're focused on here with them is really bringing them together around tokenized deposits as the first use case, which steps them into digital asset capabilities. It is an actual use case for them that makes a ton of sense.”
Tone
How upbeat the language was, compared with other companiesiTone counts positive minus negative finance words, adjusted for length. Executives mostly speak positively, so the labels compare each call with every company's latest call: “typical” is the middle third, “very upbeat” the top tenth, “cautious” the bottom tenth.. Dot: Q2 2026. Ring: Q1 2026.
Management sounded noticeably less positive answering analysts than in its prepared script — a bigger drop than in 84% of calls. Scripts are polished in advance; a drop under questioning often marks the topics analysts pressed on, so the answers deserve a closer read than the script.
Sentences that drove the tone
“Adjusted EBITDA grew 7.4%, margins expanded 113 basis points and adjusted EPS grew 9% toward the high end of the range, reflecting stronger execution across the business.”
“Banking grew 6.1% at the high end of our outlook, driven by continued momentum in both Banking and Payments.”
“Banking grew at the high end of our range with continued strength across Banking and Payments.”
Full figures
USD · SEC EDGAR XBRL (10-Q, period end 2026-06-30)
| Metric | Q2 2026period end 2026-06-30 | Q1 2026period end 2026-03-31 | Change | Q2 2025 | YoY |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | 3.38B | 3.29B | +2.5% | 2.62B | +29.1% |
| Gross profit | 1.17B | 1.11B | +6.0% | 952.0M | +23.3% |
| Operating income | 507.0M | 423.0M | +19.9% | 408.0M | +24.3% |
| Net income | 231.0M | 2.37B | −90.2% | -470.0M | Turned profit |
| EPS | 0.45 | 4.58 | −90.2% | -0.90 | Turned profit |
| P/E today 4.3 | 6.0 | 9.1 | −3.1 | 428.5 | −422.5 |
Topics
Most discussed now
- New Several years ago, Fidelity National Information Services laid out a bold multiyear plan to reposition FIS.
- That platform serves the same set of financial institutions FIS has built its business around.
- These are important financial performance measures for the company, but they are not financial measures as defined by GAAP.
- Fidelity National Information Services committed to reaccelerating growth in its banking business, improving its margins and driving…
- Within as I talked about broadly, just taking a step back, Capital Markets is primarily serves large financial institutions.
Faded since Q1 2026
- Fading Fidelity National Information Services has a digital asset platform, Lyriq, that is tried and true and...
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