IQV
IQVIA
Health Care · Life Sciences Tools & Services · US
$183.45
Data: 2025-12-31
✗ ETHICAL FAIL

NARROW MOAT
HIGH
Data Confidence: 100.0%
Key Metrics

How this company measures up on the fundamentals that matter

Market Cap
$29.8B
Total market value of the company
22.20
Premium valuation
12.60
Based on estimated future earnings — lower means cheaper
Rev Growth
+8.4%
Year-over-year revenue change
Profit Margin
0.0%
How much profit the company keeps from each dollar of revenue
22.5%
Return on equity — how efficiently it uses shareholder money
Analyst Target
$228.60
+25% from current price — median analyst estimate
Recommendation
STRONG_BUY
Consensus view from 20 analysts covering this stock
About IQVIA

IQVIA Holdings Inc. provides clinical research services, commercial insights, and healthcare intelligence to the life sciences and healthcare industries in the Americas, Europe, Africa, and the Asia-Pacific. It operates through three segments: Technology & Analytics Solutions, Research & Development Solutions, and Contract Sales & Medical Solutions. The Technology & Analytics Solutions segment offers a range of cloud-based applications and associated implementation services; real world solutions that enable life sciences and provider customers to generate and disseminate evidence, which informs health care decision making and improves patients' outcomes; and strategic and implementation consulting services, such as advanced analytics and commercial processes outsourcing services. This segment also provides country level performance metrics related to sales of pharmaceutical products, prescribing trends, medical treatment, and promotional activity across various channels, including retail, hospital, and mail order; and measurement of sales or prescribing activity at the regional, zip code, and individual prescriber level. The Research & Development Solutions segment offers project management and clinical monitoring; clinical trial support; strategic planning and design services; and patient and site centric solutions, as well as central laboratory, genomic, bioanalytical, ADME, discovery, vaccine and biomarker laboratory services. The Contract Sales & Medical Solutions segment provides health care provider and patient engagement services, and scientific strategy and medical services. It serves pharmaceutical, biotechnology, device and diagnostic, and consumer health companies. The company has a strategic collaboration with Kexing Biopharm Co., Ltd. for biosimilar development. The company was formerly known as Quintiles IMS Holdings, Inc. and changed its name to IQVIA Holdings Inc. in November 2017. IQVIA Holdings Inc. is based in Durham, North Carolina.

https://www.iqvia.com

Country: United States Employees: 93,000 Industry: Diagnostics & Research
Ethical Screening

Five compliance checks based on AAOIFI standards — all must pass for ethical clearance

Business Activity
PASS
Core business does not involve prohibited activities
Debt Ratio
53.3% FAIL
Debt must be below 33% of total assets
Cash Ratio
1.4% PASS
Interest-bearing cash below 33% of assets
Receivables
12.2% PASS
Receivables below 49% of assets
Revenue Purity
0.3% PASS
Non-compliant revenue below 5% — any excess requires purification
Valuation
$283.00
What our model estimates this business is worth per share
35.2%
Trading below fair value — margin of safety exists
Rating
AVOID
Overall assessment combining ethics, valuation, and quality
68.4th
Ranks in the top 32% of our 13,571 screened universe
Ethical Score
10.0
Valuation Score
88.0
Quality Score
49.0
Combined
44.5

Trading at $179 against a fair value of $283, a 37% discount. Fails ethical screen (Debt ratio). Ranks better than 69% of screened stocks.

Quantitative Intelligence

Statistical analysis of price behaviour, risk, and market regime — independent of fundamental data

MARKUP
Price trending up with increasing momentum
-0.265
Returns do not compensate for the risk — negative edge
-0.0261
No positive edge detected — the data suggests staying out
-0.342
Drawdown risk outweighs the returns — higher risk profile
Annual Return
-15.6%
Historical annualised return based on price data
-45.5%
Largest peak-to-trough decline — the worst it has been
BULL
Statistical model sees bullish momentum
Days in State
2
How long the current regime has persisted — longer means more stable
Market Data

Trading characteristics and market positioning

1.18
Moves slightly more than the broader market
52W High
$247.05
26% below the year high
52W Low
$134.65
36% above the year low
Avg Volume
1,840,351
Average daily shares traded — higher means easier to buy and sell
3.5
Days it would take all short sellers to cover — higher means more crowded
Short % Float
3.4%
Low short interest — limited bearish positioning
N/A
Annual dividend as a percentage of the share price
$8.04
Earnings per share over the last 12 months
Financial Health

Balance sheet strength and cash generation — the foundation of long-term value

2.55
Heavy leverage — higher financial risk if revenues decline
0.75
Below 1 means short-term obligations exceed liquid assets — risk flag
Quick Ratio
0.66
Like current ratio but excludes inventory — stricter test
Gross Margin
33.0%
Revenue left after cost of goods — higher means pricing power
Operating Margin
13.6%
Profit from core operations before interest and tax
$2.2B
Positive — the business generates more cash than it spends
Revenue (TTM)
$16.6B
Total revenue over the last 12 months
Net Income
$1.4B
Profitable — the bottom line is positive
Analyst Coverage
Analysts
20
Target High
$287.00
Target Median
$228.60
Target Low
$195.00
Recent Insider Activity

SEC Form 4 filings — what company insiders are buying and selling

45
NEUTRAL
Mixed insider activity. 0 purchases and 0 sales in the last 90 days — no clear directional signal. Political selling noted.
Date Insider Title Type Shares Value
2026-04-23 LEONARD JOHN M Director 1,571
2026-04-23 DANHAKL JOHN G Director 1,571
2026-04-23 GOGGINS COLLEEN A Director 1,571
2026-04-23 BURT CAROL J Director 1,571
2026-02-06 SHERBET ERIC M General Counsel 6,806
2026-02-06 STAUB WALTER. RICHARD III Officer 2,722
2026-02-06 CHEROFSKY KERIANN Officer 1,087
2026-02-06 PATEL BHAVIK Officer 4,083
2026-02-06 GRENFELL ALISTAIR Officer 11,795
2026-02-06 BRUEHLMAN RONALD E Chief Financial Officer 16,335
Source: SEC Form 4 filings via public data. View all insider activity at
Insider Intelligence
Political Trading Activity

Congressional trading disclosures involving this instrument

Date Politician Party Type Amount
2026-04-13 Ro Khanna Democrat Sale 1K–15K
Source: Congressional disclosure filings. View all political trades at
Insider Intelligence
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Data sourced from public filings and market feeds. Not financial advice. Updated: 2025-12-31

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