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Fidelity National Information Services, Inc.Evidence as of 2026-09-02
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Overview · Fidelity National Information Services, Inc.

Fidelity National Information Services, Inc. provides technology solutions for financial institutions and businesses worldwide. It operates through Banking Solutions, Merchant Solutions, and Capital Market Solutions segments. The Banking Solutions segment provides core processing and ancillary applications; mobile and online banking; fraud, risk management, and compliance; electronic funds transfer and network; card…

SectorTechnology
IndustryInformation Technology Services
Typeequity
ExchangeNYSE
Employees69,000
www.fisglobal.com

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Moneyta sentiment

Where the published evidence leans after the desk debated it — not a rating or a recommendation.

Mixedhigh confidence
−2 · strongly unfavorable0 · balanced+2 · strongly favorable

+0.2 on a −2 to +2 scale.

What builds the score

Fundamentals
+0.6
Filings and risk
+0.0
Market signals
−0.5
Ownership and flow
+0.5

Solid bars are analyst rubric scores; faded bars are computed directly from data. Claims dropped in debate count for nothing; weakened claims count at half weight.

News tonecontext · not scored+0.2 observed
3 favorable2 neutral2 unfavorableacross 4 outlets

Editor's note

Written after the debate settled — the rest of the page is the evidence behind it.

GoodwinAI editor

The evidence balance is Mixed (+ 0.2 of a possible + 2; was + 0.2 before debate) · confidence high. Revenue from contracts rose across the comparable fiscal quarters shown: USD 2,616,000,000 for fiscal Q2 2025 (fiscal quarter ended 2025-08-01) -> USD 2,717,000,000 for fiscal Q3 2025 (fiscal quarter ended 2025-10-31) -> USD 3,295,000,000 for fiscal Q1 2026 (fiscal quarter ended 2026-05-06) -> USD 3,377,000,000 for fiscal Q2 2026 (fiscal quarter ended 2026-07-31). Gross profit rose on the same sequence from USD 952,000,000 to USD 1,174,000,000 across those comparable periods, and net income recovered from a net loss of USD -470,000,000 in fiscal Q2 2025 to positive results of USD 231,000,000 in fiscal Q2 2026.

Operating income shows growth overall but with a mid-sequence dip: USD 408,000,000 (fiscal Q2 2025) -> USD 457,000,000 (fiscal Q3 2025) -> USD 423,000,000 (fiscal Q1 2026) -> USD 507,000,000 (fiscal Q2 2026). Balance-sheet and market facts are material: long-term debt rose from USD 10,353,000,000 as of 2025-12-31 to USD 16,948,000,000 as of 2026-06-30; the stock is roughly 51.7% below its 3-year high with a 3-year max drawdown of -56.5%; trailing twelve‑month P/E is 9.04 and P/FCF is 8.34; dividend yield (TTM) is 4.01%.

How this note was made

every stage ran before the note was written
Analystsread the evidence
Debatebull ⇄ bear ×2
Chairrules on every claim
Riskstress-tests the read
Sentimentweighs what survived
Editorwrites the note

Analyst desk

Mercer, Oakes, Nash, Ellis, Yates, Talbot and Archer. The desk: named AI agents, not people. Each reads one slice of the evidence and nothing else — no outside knowledge, no browsing — so every finding traces to a source you can open.

MercerAI fundamentals analyst
+0.0

Reads the XBRL figures companies file with the SEC — revenue, margins, income, debt and share count, quarter by quarter — and reports which way the trend is running.

Revenue from contracts rose across the last four comparable fiscal quarters shown: USD 2,616,000,000 for fiscal Q2 2025 (2025-04-01 to 2025-06-30, 3mo) -> USD 2,717,000,000 for fiscal Q3 2025 (2025-07-01 to 2025-09-30, 3mo) -> USD 3,295,000,000 for fiscal Q1 2026 (2026-01-01 to 2026-03-31, 3mo) -> USD 3,377,000,000 for fiscal Q2 2026 (2026-04-01 to 2026-06-30, 3mo).

XBRL companyfacts · 0001136893-26-000050

Gross profit increased over the same sequence of comparable quarters: USD 952,000,000 (fiscal Q2 2025, 2025-04-01 to 2025-06-30) -> USD 1,028,000,000 (fiscal Q3 2025, 2025-07-01 to 2025-09-30) -> USD 1,108,000,000 (fiscal Q1 2026, 2026-01-01 to 2026-03-31) -> USD 1,174,000,000 (fiscal Q2 2026, 2026-04-01 to 2026-06-30).

XBRL companyfacts · 0001136893-26-000050
OakesAI filings and risk analyst
+0.0

Reads the filings themselves, above all the year-over-year diff of Item 1A risk factors: which risks a company added, dropped or quietly reworded since its last annual report.

Which filings the desk reads

The desk reads the annual 10-K in full — its risk factors, and how they changed since last year. Quarterly 10-Qs and event filings (8-Ks, insider Form 4s) are listed for context but not read line by line: the 10-K is where the material risk disclosures live. A brand-new company, or one we have only just begun tracking, may have no annual report on file yet — its risk analysis fills in once that lands.

A Form 4 for the company was filed with the 4 filed 25 August 2026 on 2026-08-25.

4 filed 2026-08-25

The provided filing record shows parse_status marked as "skipped," indicating that no parsed transaction details are available in the supplied evidence.

4 filed 2026-08-25
NashAI market signals analyst
−1.0

Reads the signal panel above — momentum, volatility, drawdown, relative strength and beta — and ranks each against the whole research universe rather than judging it in isolation.

Max drawdown over the past 3 years is -56.5%, and the 3-year drawdown ranks in the 10th percentile of the 547-stock research universe (i.e., among the larger drawdowns).

Moneyta signal set · 2026-09-02

Price is 51.7% below its 3-year high (drawdown from 3y high = -51.7%).

Moneyta signal set · 2026-09-02
EllisAI ownership and flow analyst
+0.0

Reads which funds hold the name and at what weight, plus insider Form 4 filings, to show the exposure you may already carry through index funds.

As of 2026-09-02, FIS appears as a holding in the IVV ETF with a fund weight of 0.03%.

ETF constituents · market data

A Form 4 insider filing for FIS was filed on 2026-08-25 (the 4 filed 25 August 2026); the parsed record in the evidence is marked as 'skipped' and no primary document URL is provided.

Form 4 × 1 (90d window not enforced here)
YatesAI news analyst
+1.0

Reads recent headlines that are genuinely about this company, ignoring rating chatter and market-wide stories. Findings argue in the debate but never move the sentiment score.

FIS announced a collaboration with Ericsson to integrate FIS’s payments and issuing capabilities with the Ericsson Fintech Platform, framed as aimed to help organizations launch wallet-led financial services faster and with less integration complexity.

News · finance.yahoo.com · 2026-09-01

Multiple outlets ran company-focused stories that frame the Ericsson partnership as potentially important for FIS’s growth or its ability to speed wallet launches and reduce integration costs.

News · finance.yahoo.com · 2026-09-01
TalbotAI insider activity analyst
no data on file

Reads parsed Forms 3/4/5 — who bought or sold, at what size, and whether a 10b5-1 plan was involved. Flags clustered open-market officer buying; treats plan sales as routine and never counts a fund or 10%-holder as an officer.

No insider transactions on file in the trailing 180 days.

ArcherAI valuation analyst
+0.0

Reads the implied-expectations math built from the company's own filings (the growth rate today's price would justify, and the multiples beside it) and argues whether the market's bar looks high or low for this business. Never turns the math into a target.

As of 2026-09-02, the valuation model reports an implied free-cash-flow growth rate of -10.83% (the FCF growth rate today's price would justify under the stated discount and terminal assumptions).

Valuation inputs · SEC XBRL + stored EOD close

As of 2026-09-02, the price-to-free-cash-flow (P/FCF) multiple is 8.34.

Valuation inputs · SEC XBRL + stored EOD close

Debate and risk review

A bull and a bear contest the claims and the chair rules on each; the risk review stress-tests what survived.

Debate1 round · 8 claims contested

A bull and a bear argue the analysts' claims across two rounds, then a chair rules on each one. Only what survives feeds the score — the argument is shown, not hidden, so you can judge the reasoning yourself.

The bull case

Several company-specific fundamentals in the evidence jointly support a favorable read: revenue, gross profit, and operating income each rose across the four comparable quarters, and net income recovered from a sizable loss to sustained positive quarterly profit—signaling improving operating performance and margin traction. Valuation metrics in the sample are comparatively low (P/FCF 8.34, EV/EBITDA 9.07, P/E 9.04) and trailing free cash flow and operating cash flow remain positive (FCF TTM $2.59B, OCF TTM $2.75B), which together imply the market is pricing material downside or uncertainty into the equity despite improving results. The Ericsson partnership and related press coverage add a thematic growth narrative around wallet-led payment capabilities, and the 4.01% trailing dividend yield provides an income component relative to the research universe. These claims jointly counterbear the market-focused concerns by showing operating recovery, cash generation, and valuation that, when read together, present a constructive informational case.

The bear case

Chair's verdict, claim by claim

FIS announced a collaboration with Ericsson to integrate FIS’s payments and issuing capabilities with the Ericsson Fintech Platform, framed as aimed to help organizations launch wallet-led financial services faster and with less integration complexity.The press release and coverage document a collaboration with Ericsson to integrate payments/issuing capabilities.upheld
Multiple outlets ran company-focused stories that frame the Ericsson partnership as potentially important for FIS’s growth or its ability to speed wallet launches and reduce integration costs.Multiple outlets ran stories framing the Ericsson partnership as potentially important, as indicated in the cited news sample.upheld
Max drawdown over the past 3 years is -56.5%, and the 3-year drawdown ranks in the 10th percentile of the 547-stock research universe (i.e., among the larger drawdowns).The cited signal shows a 3-year max drawdown of -56.5% and the stated ranking within the research universe.upheld
Risk review

Fragility · computed, not argued

balanced0.38

31 surviving claims rest on 13 distinct sources; the heaviest analyst carries 29% of them, and 97% of what the desk raised survived the debate.

The read is moderately fragile: 31 surviving claims rest on a relatively small set of 13 distinct sources, and nearly a third of the claims are concentrated on a single analyst’s contributions. The very high debate-survival rate (97%) indicates strong internal consistency, but the source and analyst concentration mean the narrative has less independent corroboration than ideal — treat the synthesis as informative but weight it with caution.

Peer context · computed, not argued

12-1 momentum ranks 8th of 9 in Information Technology Services (as of 2026-09-02).

6-month relative strength ranks 7th of 9 in Information Technology Services (as of 2026-09-02).

90-day volatility ranks 8th of 9 in Information Technology Services (as of 2026-09-02).

dividend yield ranks 1st of 9 in Information Technology Services (as of 2026-09-02).

Disconfirming evidence · base rates · falsifiers

Context

Outside consensus, and where this name already sits in your own portfolio.

The street's viewAnalyst consensus · third-party · 2026-09-02
Buy Hold Sell Target

Third-party consensus shown for context. It never enters Moneyta sentiment — when the two diverge, the debate above is where the why lives.

What this was built from

Every figure on this page traces to one of these. The desk reads only what is listed here — no outside knowledge, no browsing — and each card shows who read it and what it contributed to the score.

10 filings· 1 cited

SEC XBRL filings

Quarterly figures as filed with the SEC, read straight from EDGAR's structured data — not retyped or estimated.

Read by Mercer+0.6 to the score

1 document

SEC filing documents

The filings themselves, including the year-over-year comparison of Item 1A risk factors.

Read by Oakes+0.0 to the score

1 signal set

Moneyta signal set

Computed from our own end-of-day price history and ranked against the whole research universe. No AI involved.

Read by Nash−0.5 to the score

2 holdings records

Fund holdings

Which funds hold this name and at what weight, plus insider Form 4 filings.

Read by Ellis+0.5 to the score

8 headlines· 2 cited

News coverage

Recent headlines about this company, rating chatter excluded and nothing published after the report date.

Read by Yatesnothing survived

1 computation

Valuation inputs

TTM cash-flow figures from the company's own XBRL filings, priced with the stored closing price. Implied growth and multiples only; no fair-value dollar figure reaches the desk, by design.

Read by Archercontext only

1 record· 0 cited

Company profile

Sector, industry and company details.

1 record· 0 cited

Analyst consensus

Third-party consensus, shown for context only — it never enters Moneyta sentiment.

Read means we pulled and handed it to an analyst; cited means a claim on this page points at it. Reading twelve quarters to state one trend is normal — the gap is shown rather than hidden.

Social sentiment

Crowd chatter as an evidence stream.

Coming soon

Aggregated tone from public social feeds will join the desk as its own evidence stream — read by its own analyst, contested in the same debate, and shown with the same sourcing as every other claim. Until it earns that bar, nothing renders here.

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Written by AI, checked against sources

The analysts, the bull–bear debate and the editor's note are AI agents reading only the evidence listed on this page. They can misread a filing or a headline, which is why every claim cites a source you can open and check yourself. The sentiment score is arithmetic over the claims that survived the debate, not a language model's opinion.

Educational analysis of published data. Moneyta does not give investment advice or make recommendations. Past patterns do not indicate future results.

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