The Bid & Ask

Quotations, Dispatches, and the Daily Tape

Friday, August 14, 2026

Subject of the day

IQV

Concerning the House

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.

United States · www.iqvia.com

The Long Run

FY 2013–2025 · 13 years

LineLatestCAGRTrend
Revenue$16.31B+10.2%
Operating income$2.18B+30.2%
Net income$1.36B+16.1%
Cash from ops$2.15B+14.0%
Quotation

$241.52

-0.19 (-0.1%)

52w hi$247.56
52w lo$156.66
Vol749.78K
As ofAug 13
The Verdict

Hold

Our score +0.07

Short-0.08
Medium+0.18
Long+0.14

computed 2026-08-13

By the Numbers

IQVIA Holdings Inc.

Healthcare · Diagnostics & Research

Market cap$39.75B
Enterprise value$54.09B
Trailing P/E30.00x
Forward P/E16.72x
EV / EBITDA17.75x
P / S (ttm)2.34x
Profit margin8.1%
Return on equity22.8%
Revenue growth+8.7%
Earnings growth-0.6%
Debt / equity257.98
Risk Metrics
Beta vs SPX1.00
Corr SPX0.41
Annual vol39.7%
Annual ret+8.7%
Sharpe0.22
Max DD-45.5%

Window: 504 trading days (504 obs)

Layer Breakdown
LayerRawContribution
Fundamental+0.17
Sector+0.12
Technical+0.00
Earnings+0.00
Sentiment+0.00

macro × 1.00 · 2026-08-13

Recent Sessions
DateOpenHighLowCloseVol
Aug 13$239.82$244.29$236.51$241.52749.78K
Aug 12$239.80$243.76$238.00$241.71854.80K
Aug 11$241.47$245.30$240.721.08M
Aug 10$237.55$243.18$235.76$241.991.16M
Aug 7$232.41$238.78$230.50$238.701.05M