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Quintiles Transnational Holdings IncEvidence as of 2026-09-03Moneyta sentiment
Where the published evidence leans after the desk debated it — not a rating or a recommendation.
+0.2 on a −2 to +2 scale.
What builds the score
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.
Editor's note
Written after the debate settled — the rest of the page is the evidence behind it.
Evidence balance is Mixed (+0.2 of a possible +2; was +0.2 before debate) · confidence high. Revenue increased from $1,315,000,000 in Q1 2026 (fiscal quarter ended 2026-05-08) to $1,429,000,000 in Q2 2026 (fiscal quarter ended 2026-07-31), a quarter-over-quarter rise of $114,000,000 (≈ 8.7%). Diluted EPS fell from $0.72 in Q1 2026 to $0.59 in Q2 2026 while research and development expense rose from $94,000,000 to $98,000,000 across those same quarters.
Reported cash and cash equivalents increased from $857,000,000 as of 2026-03-31 to $961,000,000 as of 2026-06-30, reported common shares outstanding declined modestly from 209,658,907 (as of 2026-02-24) to 209,208,543 (as of 2026-07-31), and the share price on the observation date was 117.69 with a reported market capitalization of 24,621,753,426 and enterprise value of 27,760,753,426. Market signals are mixed: three-month momentum is -24.1%, six-month momentum -1.9% (34th percentile), price sits 14.3% below the 50-day simple moving average and 2.9% below the 200-day SMA, three-year drawdown is -34.2% (current -33.0%), 90-day volatility is elevated at +59.3% (81st percentile), and reported P/E (TTM) is 36.55 based on EPS (TTM) of 3.22.
How this note was made
every stage ran before the note was writtenAnalyst 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.
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 was $1,315,000,000 for the fiscal Q1 2026 quarter (2026-01-01 to 2026-03-31, 3mo) and rose to $1,429,000,000 for the fiscal Q2 2026 quarter (2026-04-01 to 2026-06-30, 3mo), an increase of $114,000,000 (≈8.7%) quarter-over-quarter.
XBRL companyfacts · 0002058873-26-000015Diluted earnings per share decreased from $0.72 in the fiscal Q1 2026 quarter (2026-01-01 to 2026-03-31, 3mo) to $0.59 in the fiscal Q2 2026 quarter (2026-04-01 to 2026-06-30, 3mo).
XBRL companyfacts · 0002058873-26-000030Reads 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.
On August 21, 2026 the company announced Ken Rizvi will be appointed Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer effective October 1, 2026, and Michael Goss will cease serving as Interim Chief Financial Officer on that date and will serve as Vice President, Finance & Controllership and Principal Accounting Officer.
8-K filed 2026-08-21The filing states Mr. Rizvi’s prior roles include Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer at Synaptics (since July 2024) and prior CFO roles at Penguin Solutions, UTAC Holdings Ltd., Isola Group, and senior leadership roles at Micron Technology and ON Semiconductor (as described in the 8-K filed August 21, 2026).
8-K filed 2026-08-21Reads 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.
As of 2026-09-02, the 3-month momentum is -24.1% and the 6-month momentum is -1.9%, with the 6-month momentum ranked at the 34th percentile of the 547-stock research universe.
Moneyta signal set · 2026-09-02Price is below the 50-day simple moving average by -14.3% and slightly below the 200-day simple moving average by -2.9%; the computed golden cross flag is true.
Moneyta signal set · 2026-09-02Reads 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 2026-09-02T13:45:47.228469+00:00 the company is held in the IVV ETF at a weight of 0.05% of the fund.
ETF constituents · market dataA 0.05% weight in IVV indicates the company is a small constituent position within that major index fund as of 2026-09-02T13:45:47.228469+00:00.
ETF constituents · market dataReads 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.
A finance.yahoo.com headline on 2026-09-01 highlights Qnity Electronics introducing the Stackplane™ CMP slurry platform aimed at advanced packaging for AI and high-performance computing.
News · finance.yahoo.com · 2026-09-01A simplywall.st headline on 2026-09-01 frames Qnity Electronics' Stackplane slurry product family as linked to AI demand and raises the company back into coverage discussion.
News · simplywall.st · 2026-09-01Reads 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 SEC identity on file for this symbol — insider filings cannot be looked up.
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.
The share price on the observation date is 117.69 (price_date 2026-09-02).
Valuation inputs · SEC XBRL + stored EOD closeReported market capitalization is 24,621,753,426 and enterprise value is 27,760,753,426.
Valuation inputs · SEC XBRL + stored EOD closeDebate and risk review
A bull and a bear contest the claims and the chair rules on each; the risk review stress-tests what survived.
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.
Several company-specific data points jointly support a favorable read: sequential revenue growth of ~8.7% (fundamentals-0) accompanied by a rising cash balance (fundamentals-4) and a modest reduction in shares outstanding (fundamentals-3) indicate improving top-line momentum with strengthening liquidity and slight share count consolidation. The rise in R&D spend (fundamentals-2) and recent product headlines tying the Stackplane slurry to AI/high-performance computing demand (news-0, news-1) reinforce that the revenue gain is paired with targeted investment in growth areas. The announced CFO hire with multi-company CFO experience (filings-0, filings-1) increases the evidentiary weight on corporate financial stewardship. In rebuttal to bearish points, the EPS decline (fundamentals-1) coincides with higher R&D and other investments reflected in the filings, so the EPS move is supported by contemporaneous investment activity rather than solely operational erosion; large disclosed executive compensation and incentive awards (filings-2, filings-4) are explicitly documented in the 8‑K and include vesting arrangements (filings-3), and the sell-side buy consensus shown in the context data adds independent coverage weight behind the constructive narrative.
Chair's verdict, claim by claim
Fragility · computed, not argued
balanced0.36
29 surviving claims rest on 12 distinct sources; the heaviest analyst carries 21% of them, and 100% of what the desk raised survived the debate.
The surviving read is built from a modestly diverse set of sources (12 distinct documents) but still concentrates a meaningful share of claims with the single heaviest analyst contributing about one-fifth of the items. Complete survivorship through debate (100%) means the desk did not discard any challenged points, which raises the chance that some weaker or correlated claims remain; use these findings as informational inputs rather than definitive conclusions.
Disconfirming evidence · base rates · falsifiers
Context
Outside consensus, and where this name already sits in your own portfolio.
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
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4 filings· 2 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
2 documents
SEC filing documents
The filings themselves, including the year-over-year comparison of Item 1A risk factors.
Read by Oakes+0.2 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−0.6 to the score
1 holdings record
Fund holdings
Which funds hold this name and at what weight, plus insider Form 4 filings.
Read by Ellis+0.5 to the score
5 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.
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.
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