Company Analysis

Affiliated Managers Group (AMG)

NYSE: AMG · Investment Advice · West Palm Beach, FL · filing with the SEC since 1997
Grade5.0
◀ Past 5.9● Present 5.1▶ Future 4.0

The grade of Affiliated Managers Group

Nine metrics read from its own filings, by tense
Headline grade
5.0/10
◀ Past5.930% of the headline
● Present5.140% of the headline
▶ Future4.030% of the headline

All three tenses have at least two readings, so the archetype blend applies as printed.

All nine metrics read as filed from the record.

◀ Past

What did they actually do?

5.9/1030% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Surviving crises

as filed
7.2/10

Has it survived what it has been through?

No warning events in its filings since 2017.

weight 22% of this tense · 72nd percentile among 48 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Affiliated Managers Group's filings since 2017 show no warning events in the scan: no bankruptcy or receivership notice, no debt default notice, no exchange listing notice, no restatement warning, no auditor change, no material cyber incident and no late-report notice (its current reports).

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Track record

as filed
4.0/10

What has it actually done, year after year?

-0.6% a year over 10 filed years; profitable in 10 of 10.

weight 45% of this tense · 40th percentile among 42 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Affiliated Managers Group's 10 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $2.2 billion in fiscal 2016 to $2.1 billion in fiscal 2025, down 0.6% a year; it rose in 4 of 9 years; the deepest fall was 15% from fiscal 2021 to fiscal 2024; net income was positive in 10 of 10 of those years (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue growth over the filed span-0.6%bottom 13% of its family
  • the share of years revenue rosebottom 10% of its family
  • the share of filed years with a profittop 25% of its family
  • the deepest fall from a revenue peak15.4%top 39% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Shareholder treatment

as filed
7.7/10

How has it treated the people who own it?

Share count shrank 12.3% a year. 63% of cash flow returned. Insiders: 5 sales, 2 purchases.

weight 33% of this tense · 77th percentile among 36 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

Over the 3 fiscal years to 2025-12-31, Affiliated Managers Group's diluted share count shrank about 12.3% a year, and dividends and buybacks returned about 63% of its operating cash flow over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 5 sales and 2 purchases of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-09-30, buying about $687 thousand (their Form 4 filings).

What it rests on

  • the share count over the yearstop 1% of its family
  • cash returned against operating cash flowtop 45% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

● Present

What are they doing right now?

5.1/1040% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Financial health

as filed
7.1/10

Is it financially healthy right now?

ROE 17%: 17¢ of profit per shareholder dollar. Leverage 55%: owes 55¢ per asset dollar.

weight 22% of this tense · 71st percentile among 44 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2025-12-31, Affiliated Managers Group earned about 17 cents of profit for every dollar of shareholders' money. Leverage: it owed about 55 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count shrank 8.6% over the year (the filed statements).

What it rests on

  • what it owes per dollar of assetstop 42% of its family
  • return on equitytop 43% of its family
  • the share count against the year beforetop 1% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Industry position

as filed
5.4/10

How strong is its position in its industry?

top 46% of 43 in its family; net margin 34.5%.

weight 45% of this tense · 54th percentile among 43 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Affiliated Managers Group's standing among 43 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $2.1 billion in fiscal 2025 ranks in the top 40% by size; a net margin of 34.5% ranks in the top 13%; revenue growth of -3.8% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the bottom 15% (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue against the family$2.07Btop 40% of its family
  • net margin34.5%top 13% of its family
  • three-year revenue growth-3.8%bottom 15% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Leadership

as filed
3.3/10

What are the people in charge doing?

bottom 33% of 34 in its family for leadership; chief executive since 2020.

weight 33% of this tense · 33rd percentile among 34 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

Affiliated Managers Group's leadership, from its insiders' filings and its current reports: the chief executive on the record is Horgen, Jay C. (President and CEO, as filed), filing under that title since 2020-01-03, 6.9 years (top 41% of its family); the 14 officers and directors filing in the last fifteen months have been on the record a median of 4.2 years (bottom 11%); 7 officer or director changes were reported on Form 8-K since 2023-11-13, against the 14 people in charge now (bottom 30%; fewer changes for each person reads higher) (the Form 4 record, its Form 8-K reports). Years count from a person's first filing in the SEC's data sets, which begin in 2006, so each is a floor.

What it rests on

  • officer and director changes on Form 8-K, against the people in charge7 in three years among 14 peoplebottom 30% of its family
  • the median years the people in charge have filed4.2 yearsbottom 11% of its family
  • the chief executive's years on the record6.9 yearstop 41% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

▶ Future

What are they set up to do next?

4.0/1030% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Room to expand

as filed
5.0/10

How much room does it have to grow?

bottom 50% of 42 in its family for room to expand.

weight 33% of this tense · 50th percentile among 42 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Affiliated Managers Group's room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2025): cash of $586 million against debt of $2.7 billion leaves -22.9% of its assets as net cash, bottom 12% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is 46.6% of revenue (top 13%) (its annual report).

What it rests on

  • cash less debt against assets-22.9%bottom 12% of its family
  • cash from operations less capital spending against revenue46.6%top 13% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Growth drivers

as filed
3.0/10

What could actually drive growth from here?

bottom 30% of 41 in its family for growth drivers.

weight 33% of this tense · 30th percentile among 41 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Affiliated Managers Group's growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2025: revenue grew -3.8% a year over the last three filed years against -0.6% over all 10, slowing (bottom 40% of its family); the newest year grew 1.6% (bottom 28%); capital spending grew -18.8% a year (bottom 22%) (its annual reports). Affiliated Managers Group tags no split of its revenue by line in the annual report on file, so growth by line cannot be read here; research and capital spending are on the trend.

What it rests on

  • three-year growth against the whole span-3.2 points a yearbottom 40% of its family
  • the newest year's revenue growth1.6%bottom 28% of its family
  • three-year growth of capital spending-18.8%bottom 22% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Expectations vs reality

as filed
4.0/10

Did its newest year beat what its own record pointed to?

bottom 40% of 41 in its family for expectations against reality.

weight 33% of this tense · 40th percentile among 41 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

Affiliated Managers Group's newest year against its own record: revenue of $2.1 billion in fiscal 2025 came in 8.6% above the $1.9 billion its prior three years' pace pointed to (top 24% of its family); net income of $717 million against a prior three-year average of $777 million (bottom 16%); a net margin of 34.5% against 35.7% before (bottom 28%) (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue against the prior three years' pace8.6%top 24% of its family
  • net income against the prior three years' average-8%bottom 16% of its family
  • net margin against its prior average-1.1 pointsbottom 28% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

The grade is the company against its own industry, from its filings. It is not a view on the share price. How the grade is made

SI Assistanton AMG · research, not advice