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FactSet: From Quality-at-Any-Price to Moat-at-a-Reasonable-Price

Why an AI panic and a growth scare may have created a durable compounder on sale

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Jan 31, 2026
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FactSet Drawdown and Growth

FactSet (FDS) is a high‑quality, wide‑moat financial data and analytics platform that has just gone through a brutal re‑rating. From a peak near $500, the stock has fallen 50%, compressing its multiple from a quality-at-any-price premium into not quite a GARP play, because growth is lacking, but more like a MARP (moat-…

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