Sentiment · FY2026 Q1
What companies say about each other on earnings calls — extracted verbatim from public transcripts. Mentions from the newest quarter are a Pro feature.
“utilizing GitHub and other types of, of AI, we're seeing you know, I'm gonna call it about 20% improvement in the the programming”
Northern Trust cites roughly 20% developer-productivity gains from Microsoft's GitHub Copilot, a positive read-through for Microsoft's AI coding tools.
“Our early investments, inclusive of providing all employees with access to Copilot, are already generating measurable results.”
Northern Trust rolled out Microsoft Copilot to all employees with measurable productivity results, a positive enterprise-adoption read-through for Microsoft.
“A great example in the second quarter is our work with Timeline, one of the U.K.'s fastest-growing discretionary fund managers. As Timeline evolved its business model to launch a proprietary fund-to-funds range, Northern Trust Asset Management and Asset Servicing partner to deliver a fully integrated solution. Together, we provided investment management, fund infrastructure and operational support, enabling Timeline to scale its offering with speed and confidence.”
Northern Trust's Asset Management and Asset Servicing businesses jointly delivered investment management, fund infrastructure, and operational support to help Timeline, a fast-growing UK discretionary fund manager, launch a proprietary fund-to-funds range.
“So areas where we're using GitHub, for example, for IT or software development automation, which, again, we're getting I'll say, very good results on that front, but it's in the very early days.”
Northern Trust is using Microsoft's GitHub for IT and software development automation as part of its early-stage generative AI productivity push.
“So on the balance sheet, Gerard, it said zero. So it has not been, you know, marked up, if you will. And at this point, I would consider it, you know, restricted. If Visa does create the opportunity to liquidate an additional portion of that.”
Northern Trust still holds a Visa equity stake carried at zero on its balance sheet, restricted, with an estimated $1.1 billion pretax unrealized gain, after liquidating half its position previously.
“Expanding upon our longstanding relationship with private equity firm Alchemy Partners, we were awarded the asset servicing business for a new $1 billion special opportunities fund launch.”
Northern Trust expanded its longstanding relationship with private equity firm Alchemy Partners, winning asset-servicing business for a new $1 billion fund.
“we were selected as the global outsourced private capital administration provider for Ignio Infrastructure Partners, a $20 billion alternatives manager specializing in global infrastructure investments”
Northern Trust won a new asset-servicing mandate as global outsourced private capital administrator for Ignio Infrastructure Partners, a $20 billion alternatives manager.
| Analyst | Firm | Questions (Challenge)Percentage of questions scored as challenging — where the analyst pushed back, pressed for specifics, or questioned management's assumptions. |
|---|---|---|
| Ebrahim Poonawala | Bank of America | 12 (0%) |
| Dave Smith | Truist Securities | 11 (0%) |
| Glenn Schorr | Evercore ISI | 10 (0%) |
| Brennan Hawken | BMO Capital Markets | 10 (30%) |
| Gerard Cassidy | RBC Capital Markets | 10 (0%) |
| Betsy Graseck | Morgan Stanley | 9 (0%) |
| Alex Blostein | Goldman Sachs | 8 (0%) |
| Mike Mayo | Wells Fargo | 8 (50%) |
| Ken Usdin | Autonomous Research | 8 (0%) |
| Steve Chubak | Wolfe Research | 6 (33%) |
| Firm | Analysts | Questions (Challenge)Percentage of questions scored as challenging — where the analyst pushed back, pressed for specifics, or questioned management's assumptions. |
|---|---|---|
| Bank of America | 1 | 12 (0%) |
| RBC Capital Markets | 2 | 12 (0%) |
| Morgan Stanley | 2 | 11 (0%) |
| Truist Securities |
| 1 |
| 11 (0%) |
| Autonomous Research | 2 | 10 (0%) |
| BMO Capital Markets | 1 | 10 (30%) |
| Evercore ISI | 1 | 10 (0%) |
| Goldman Sachs | 1 | 8 (0%) |
Northern Trust capped the year with its sixth consecutive quarter of positive operating leverage, reporting record NII of $654 million, up 14% year-over-year, and EPS of $2.42. The company returned a record $1.9 billion to shareholders including $1.3 billion in buybacks. Medium-term targets were raised significantly, and FY2026 NII guidance was introduced at low-to-mid single digit growth with 100+ basis points of operating leverage. AI productivity savings reached 4% of the expense base, and asset servicing margin expanded to 25.5%.
Demand | Margin | Revenue Growth | Competitive Dynamics | Cost Pressure | Capital Allocation | Credit | Macroeconomic | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024Q4 | 4 | 7 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 2 | |
| 2025Q1 | 7 | 3 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 2 | |
| 2025Q2 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 2 | ||
| 2025Q3 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 1 | |
| 2025Q4 | 3 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
| 2026Q1 | 7 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 2 |
| '24Q4 | '25Q1 | '25Q2 | '25Q3 | '25Q4 | '26Q1 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Demand | 4 | 7 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 7 |
| Margin | 7 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 4 |
| Revenue Growth | 4 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 4 |
| Competitive Dynamics | 4 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 2 | 2 |
| Cost Pressure | 3 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 2 | |
| Capital Allocation | 2 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 2 | |
| Credit | 2 | 4 | 2 | 4 | ||
| Macroeconomic | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Company | Score | Trend | Rev YoY |
|---|---|---|---|
NTRS Northern Trust | 9 | +7.8% | |
| AMP Ameriprise Financial | 8 | +9.0% | |
| ARES Ares Management Corporation | 9 | +40.8% | |
| BEN Franklin Resources | 8 | +8.7% | |
| BLK BlackRock | 9 | +26.9% | |
| BNY BNY Mellon | 9 | +2.2% | |
| BX Blackstone Inc. | 8 | +39.3% | |
| IVZ Invesco | 8 | +14.1% | |
| KKR KKR | 7 | +31.0% | |
| STT State Street Corporation | 9 | +2.2% | |
| TROW T. Rowe Price | 6 | +5.3% |