FIS® (NYSE: FIS), a global leader in financial technology, today reported its third quarter 2026 results. “Client demand remains strong, and we are continuing to invest in what our clients care abo...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla.: FIS® (NYSE: FIS), a global leader in financial technology, today reported its third quarter 2026 results.
“Client demand remains strong, and we are continuing to invest in what our clients care about most, security and innovation. These investments will build a more recurring, predictable revenue base for FIS,” said FIS CEO and President Stephanie Ferris. “The long-term payoff is significantly deeper client relationships, a stronger competitive position, and a business built for durable growth.”
Third Quarter 2026 Financial Results
On a GAAP basis, revenue increased 27% as compared to the prior-year period to approximately $3.5 billion. GAAP net earnings attributable to common stockholders were $356 million or $0.69 per diluted share.
On an adjusted basis, revenue increased 29% as compared to the prior-year period. Adjusted EBITDA increased 31% to approximately $1.5 billion and Adjusted EBITDA margin expanded by 111 basis points (bps) compared to the prior-year period to 42.9%, reflecting the acquisition of the high margin Total Issuing Solutions™ business, favorable revenue mix, and cost savings. Adjusted net earnings were $831 million, and Adjusted EPS increased by 6.6% as compared to the prior-year period to $1.61 per diluted share.
On a Pro Forma basis, revenue increased 3.7% as compared to the prior-year period, including recurring revenue growth of 2.5%. Pro Forma adjusted EBITDA increased 5.2% and Pro Forma adjusted EBITDA margin expanded by 94 bps compared to the prior-year period to 42.9%, reflecting favorable mix and cost savings.
($ millions, except per share data, unaudited) |
| Three months ended September 30, | ||||||||||||
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| % |
| Adjusted |
| Pro Forma | ||||
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| 2026 |
| 2025 |
| Change |
| Growth |
| Growth | ||||
Banking Solutions Revenue |
| 2,548 |
|
| 1,811 |
|
| 41% |
| 41% |
| 3.9% | ||
Capital Market Solutions Revenue |
| 823 |
|
| 799 |
|
| 3% |
| 3% |
| 3% | ||
Operating Segment Total Revenue |
| $ | 3,371 |
|
| $ | 2,610 |
|
| 29% |
| 29% |
| 3.7% |
Corporate and Other Revenue |
|
| 83 |
|
|
| 107 |
|
| (22)% |
| - |
| - |
Consolidated FIS Revenue |
| $ | 3,454 |
|
| $ | 2,717 |
|
| 27% |
| - |
| - |
Adjusted EBITDA |
| $ | 1,482 |
|
| $ | 1,135 |
|
| 31% |
| - |
| 5.2% |
Adjusted EBITDA Margin |
|
| 42.9 | % |
|
| 41.8 | % |
| 111 bps |
| - |
| 94 bps |
Net Earnings (Loss) (GAAP) |
| $ | 356 |
|
| $ | 264 |
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| * |
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Diluted Earnings (Loss) Per Common Share (GAAP) |
| $ | 0.69 |
|
| $ | 0.50 |
|
| * |
|
|
|
|
Adjusted Net Earnings |
| $ | 831 |
|
| $ | 789 |
|
| 5.3% |
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|
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Adjusted EPS |
| $ | 1.61 |
|
| $ | 1.51 |
|
| 6.6% |
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|
Free Cash Flow1 |
| $ | 862 |
|
| $ | 798 |
|
| 8% |
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*Indicates comparison not meaningful | ||||||||||||||
Segment Information
Balance Sheet and Cash Flows
Third quarter net cash provided by operating activities was $976 million and Free cash flow1 was $862 million, up 8.0% as compared to the prior-year period. The Company returned $248 million of capital to shareholders through $21 million of share repurchases and $227 million of dividends paid. As of September 30, 2026, debt outstanding totaled $20.8 billion.
Capital Allocation
Following the close of the Total Issuing Solutions™ business, the Company has temporarily curtailed share repurchases and paused tuck-in M&A activity to accelerate deleveraging. The Company will continue to pay quarterly dividends targeting dividend per share growth in line with Adjusted EPS growth. The Company expects to resume meaningful share repurchases once it has achieved its target gross leverage of approximately 2.8x.
Strategic Portfolio Review Update
Aligned with the Company's ongoing strategic review, on October 20th, 2026, FIS divested a non-core prepaid business within the Banking Solutions segment. This divestiture further simplifies our portfolio of assets and generated gross sale proceeds of over $100M.
Full-Year 2026 Outlook
For the full-year, the Company is updating its outlook, projecting Adjusted revenue growth of 28 - 29%, Adjusted EBITDA growth of 29 - 30% and Adjusted EPS growth of 1.2 - 2.4%. On a Pro Forma basis, revenue is projected to grow 3.1 - 3.6% and Adjusted EBITDA is projected to grow 2.9 - 3.6%2. Additionally, the Company is maintaining its target for Free Cash Flow1 of $2.15 - $2.25 billion, or growth of 33 - 39% as compared to the prior year.
($ millions, except share data) |
| FY 2026 |
Revenue |
| $13,445 - $13,505 |
Adjusted EBITDA (Non-GAAP)2 |
| $5,565 - $5,605 |
Adjusted EPS (Non-GAAP)2 |
| $5.82 - $5.89 |
1Our 2026 Free Cash Flow outlook is defined as Free cash flow excluding cash transaction taxes on business dispositions, primarily the Worldpay sale. 2The Company does not provide a reconciliation for non-GAAP estimates on a forward-looking basis where it is unable to provide a meaningful or accurate calculation or estimation of reconciling items and the information is not available without unreasonable effort. | ||
Webcast
FIS will host a live webcast of its earnings conference call with the investment community beginning at 8:30 a.m. (EST) on Wednesday, November 4, 2026. To access the webcast, go to the Investor Relations section of FIS’ homepage, www.investor.fisglobal.com. A replay will be available after the conclusion of the live webcast.
About FIS
FIS is a financial technology company providing solutions to financial institutions, businesses and developers. We unlock financial technology to the world across the money lifecycle underpinning the world's financial system. Our people are dedicated to advancing the way the world pays, banks and invests, by helping our clients to confidently run, grow and protect their businesses. Our expertise comes from decades of experience helping financial institutions and businesses of all sizes adapt to meet the needs of their customers by harnessing where reliability meets innovation in financial technology. Headquartered in Jacksonville, Florida, FIS is a member of the Fortune 500® and the Standard & Poor’s 500® Index. To learn more, visit FISglobal.com. Follow FIS on LinkedIn, Facebook and X.
FIS Use of Non-GAAP Financial Information
Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) is the term used to refer to the standard framework of guidelines for financial accounting in the United States. GAAP includes the standards, conventions, and rules accountants follow in recording and summarizing transactions and in the preparation of financial statements. In addition to reporting financial results in accordance with GAAP, we have provided certain non-GAAP financial measures.
These non-GAAP measures include constant currency revenue, Adjusted revenue growth, Adjusted EBITDA, Adjusted EBITDA margin, Adjusted net earnings, Adjusted EPS, Free cash flow and Free cash flow excluding cash transaction taxes on the Worldpay sale.
Due to the financial impact of the acquisition of the Issuer Solutions Business, FIS is also providing additional information to improve the understanding of the Company’s operating performance and has recalculated certain non-GAAP measures of the Company’s historical financial performance on an adjusted combined company basis for the periods shown herein. This information includes Pro forma combined revenue, Pro forma combined revenue growth, Adjusted pro forma combined EBITDA and Adjusted pro forma combined EBITDA margin. The Company has derived certain pro forma measures from the unaudited pro forma condensed combined financial information of FIS and the Issuer Solutions Business and notes thereto prepared in accordance with Article 11 of Regulation S-X for the year ended December 31, 2025, in Exhibit 99.2 to the Company’s Form 8-K/A filed on February 24, 2026.
We believe these non-GAAP measures help investors better understand the underlying fundamentals of our business. As further described below, the non-GAAP revenue and earnings measures presented eliminate items management believes are not indicative of FIS’ operating performance. The constant currency revenue and Adjusted revenue growth measures adjust for the effects of exchange rate fluctuations and exclude discontinued operations, while Adjusted revenue growth also excludes revenue from Corporate and Other, giving investors further insight into our performance. Finally, Free cash flow and Free cash flow excluding cash transaction taxes on the Worldpay sale provide further information about the ability of our business to generate cash. For these reasons, management also uses these non-GAAP measures in its assessment and management of FIS’ performance.
Constant currency revenue represents reported segment revenue excluding the impact of fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates in the current period.
Adjusted revenue growth reflects the percentage change in constant currency revenue for the current period as compared to the prior period. Constant currency revenue is calculated by applying prior-year period foreign currency exchange rates to current-period revenue. When referring to Adjusted revenue growth, revenue from our Corporate and Other segment is excluded.
Adjusted EBITDA reflects net earnings (loss) before interest, other income (expense), taxes, equity method investment earnings (loss), and depreciation and amortization, and excludes certain costs that do not constitute normal, recurring, cash operating expenses necessary to operate our business. These excluded costs generally include acquisition, integration and certain other costs and asset impairments. Adjusted EBITDA for the respective segments excludes the foregoing items. This measure is reported to the chief operating decision maker, the Company's Chief Executive Officer and President, who utilizes the measure for purposes of making decisions about allocating resources to the segments and assessing their performance. For this reason, Adjusted EBITDA, as it relates to our segments, is presented in conformity with FASB ASC Topic 280, Segment Reporting.
Adjusted EBITDA margin reflects Adjusted EBITDA, as defined above, divided by revenue.
Adjusted net earnings excludes the effect of purchase price amortization, as well as certain costs that do not constitute normal, recurring, cash operating expenses necessary to operate our business. For purposes of calculating Adjusted net earnings, our equity method investment earnings (loss) ("EMI") from Worldpay is also adjusted to exclude certain costs and other transactions in a similar manner.
Adjusted pro forma combined EBITDA reflects net earnings (loss) before interest, other income (expense), taxes, equity method investment earnings (loss), and depreciation and amortization, and excludes certain costs that do not constitute normal, recurring, cash operating expenses for FIS and Total Issuing Solutions™ combined for pre-acquisition periods and assumes the Issuer Solutions acquisition occurred on January 1, 2025, unless otherwise indicated. These excluded costs generally include acquisition, integration and certain other costs and asset impairments.
Adjusted pro forma combined EBITDA margin reflects Adjusted pro forma combined EBITDA, as defined above, divided by Pro forma combined revenue.
Adjusted EPS reflects Adjusted net earnings, as defined above, divided by weighted average diluted shares outstanding.
Free cash flow reflects net cash provided by operating activities from continuing operations, less capital expenditures (additions to property and equipment and additions to software from the statement of cash flows), excluding cash transaction taxes on business dispositions, primarily the Worldpay sale.
Pro forma combined revenue includes reported revenue for FIS and Total Issuing™ Solutions combined for pre-acquisition periods and assumes the Issuer Solutions acquisition occurred on January 1, 2025, unless otherwise indicated.
Pro forma combined revenue growth represents Pro forma combined revenue excluding the impact of fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates in the current period as compared to the prior period Pro forma combined revenue. When referring to Pro forma combined revenue growth, revenue from our Corporate and Other segment is excluded.
Any non-GAAP measures should be considered in context with the GAAP financial presentation and should not be considered in isolation or as a substitute for GAAP measures. Further, FIS’ non-GAAP measures may be calculated differently from similarly titled measures of other companies. Reconciliations of these non-GAAP measures to related GAAP measures, including footnotes describing the adjustments, are provided in the attached schedules and in the Investor Relations section of the FIS website, www.investor.fisglobal.com.
Forward-Looking Statements
This earnings release and today’s webcast contain “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of the U.S. federal securities laws. Statements that are not historical facts, as well as other statements about our expectations, beliefs, intentions, or strategies regarding the future, or other characterizations of future events or circumstances, are forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements include statements about anticipated financial outcomes, including any earnings outlook or projections, projected revenue or expense synergies or dis-synergies, business and market conditions, outlook, foreign currency exchange rates, deleveraging plans, expected dividends and share repurchases of the Company, the Company’s sales pipeline and anticipated profitability and growth, plans, strategies and objectives for future operations, strategic value creation, risk profile and investment strategies, any statements regarding future economic conditions or performance and any statements with respect to the future impacts of the recently completed acquisition of the Issuer Solutions Business, which has been rebranded as FIS Total Issuing™ Solutions. These statements may be identified by words such as “expect,” “anticipate,” “intend,” “plan,” “believe,” “will,” “should,” “could,” “would,” “project,” “continue,” “likely,” and similar expressions, and include statements reflecting future results or outlook, statements of outlook and various accruals and estimates. These statements relate to future events and our future results and involve a number of risks and uncertainties. Forward-looking statements are based on management’s beliefs as well as assumptions made by, and information currently available to, management.
Actual results, performance or achievement could differ materially from these forward-looking statements. The risks and uncertainties to which forward-looking statements are subject include the following, without limitation:
Other unknown or unpredictable factors also could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition, results of operations and prospects. Accordingly, readers should not place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements are inherently subject to uncertainties, risks and changes in circumstances that are difficult to predict. Except as required by applicable law or regulation, we do not undertake (and expressly disclaim) any obligation, and do not intend, to publicly update or review any of these forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.
Fidelity National Information Services, Inc. Earnings Release Supplemental Financial Information November 4, 2026 | ||
Exhibit A | Condensed Consolidated Statements of Earnings (Loss) - Unaudited for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2026 and 2025 | |
Exhibit B | Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets - Unaudited as of September 30, 2026, and December 31, 2025 | |
Exhibit C | Condensed Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows - Unaudited for the nine months ended September 30, 2026 and 2025 | |
Exhibit D | Supplemental Non-GAAP Adjusted Revenue Growth - Unaudited for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2026 and 2025 | |
Exhibit E | Supplemental Disaggregation of Revenue - Unaudited for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2026 and 2025 | |
Exhibit F | Supplemental Non-GAAP Adjusted Free Cash Flow Measures - Unaudited for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2026 and 2025 | |
Exhibit G | Supplemental GAAP to Non-GAAP Reconciliations - Unaudited for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2026 and 2025 | |
FIDELITY NATIONAL INFORMATION SERVICES, INC. CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF EARNINGS (LOSS) - UNAUDITED (In millions, except per share amounts) | |||||||||||||||
Exhibit A | |||||||||||||||
| Three months ended September 30, |
| Nine months ended September 30, | ||||||||||||
|
| 2026 |
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| 2025 |
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| 2026 |
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| 2025 |
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Revenue | $ | 3,454 |
|
| $ | 2,717 |
|
| $ | 10,126 |
|
| $ | 7,865 |
|
Cost of revenue |
| 2,175 |
|
|
| 1,689 |
|
|
| 6,566 |
|
|
| 5,006 |
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Gross profit |
| 1,279 |
|
|
| 1,028 |
|
|
| 3,560 |
|
|
| 2,859 |
|
Selling, general, and administrative expenses |
| 627 |
|
|
| 584 |
|
|
| 1,916 |
|
|
| 1,713 |
|
Asset impairments |
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