Company Analysis

Getty Images Holdings, Inc. (GETY)

OTC: GETY · Services-Business Services, NEC · Seattle, WA · filing with the SEC since 2022
Grade3.8
◀ Past 2.6● Present 4.3▶ Future 4.1
1 est.

The grade of Getty Images Holdings, Inc.

Nine metrics read from its own filings, by tense
Headline grade
3.8/10
◀ Past2.625% of the headline
● Present4.335% of the headline
▶ Future4.140% of the headline

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

Of the nine metrics, 8 read as filed from the record and 1 is an SI estimate, each with its reasoning, its confidence and what would change it on its card.

◀ Past

What did they actually do?

2.6/1025% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Surviving crises

as filed
0.1/10

Has it survived what it has been through?

9 warning events since 2022; the latest 2026-11-09.

weight 22% of this tense · 0th percentile among 105 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Getty Images Holdings, Inc.'s filings since 2022 show 9 warning events of 5 kinds: a bankruptcy or receivership notice (8-K item 1.03, 2 times, the latest 2026-10-26); a debt default or acceleration notice (8-K item 2.04, the latest 2026-10-21); a notice about its exchange listing (8-K item 3.01, 3 times, the latest 2026-10-01); an auditor change (8-K item 4.01, the latest 2022-07-28); a late-report notice (Form NT 10-K or NT 10-Q, 2 times, the latest 2026-11-09) (its current reports).

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

Track record

as filed
4.6/10

What has it actually done, year after year?

+3.8% a year over 6 filed years; profitable in 3 of 6.

weight 45% of this tense · 46th percentile among 99 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Getty Images Holdings, Inc.'s 6 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $815 million in fiscal 2020 to $981 million in fiscal 2025, up 3.8% a year; it rose in 4 of 5 years; the deepest fall was 1% from fiscal 2022 to fiscal 2023; net income was positive in 3 of 6 of those years (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue growth over the filed span3.8%bottom 25% of its family
  • the share of years revenue rosebottom 48% of its family
  • the share of filed years with a profittop 49% of its family
  • the deepest fall from a revenue peak1.0%top 40% of its family

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

Shareholder treatment

as filed
1.4/10

How has it treated the people who own it?

Share count grew 14.4% a year. 0% of cash flow returned. Insiders: 35 sales, 0 purchases.

weight 33% of this tense · 14th percentile among 70 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

Over the 3 fiscal years to 2025-12-31, Getty Images Holdings, Inc.'s diluted share count grew about 14.4% a year, and dividends and buybacks returned about 0% of its operating cash flow over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 35 sales (17 under scheduled 10b5-1 plans) and 0 purchases of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-09-30 (their Form 4 filings).

What it rests on

  • the share count over the yearsbottom 18% of its family
  • cash returned against operating cash flowbottom 10% 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?

4.3/1035% of the headline grade · 2 of 3 filed, 1 estimated

Financial health

as filed
3.6/10

Is it financially healthy right now?

ROE -34%: lost 34¢ per shareholder dollar. Leverage 81%: owes 81¢ per asset dollar.

weight 33% of this tense · 36th percentile among 98 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2025-12-31, Getty Images Holdings, Inc. lost about 34 cents for every dollar of shareholders' money, and gross profitability: its products earned about 22 cents per dollar of everything the company owns (revenue less the cost of revenue). Leverage: it owed about 81 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count shrank 0.1% over the year (the filed statements).

What it rests on

  • what it owes per dollar of assetsbottom 27% of its family
  • return on equitybottom 17% of its family
  • gross profit against assetsbottom 47% of its family
  • the share count against the year beforetop 46% of its family

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

Industry position

as filed
3.4/10

How strong is its position in its industry?

bottom 34% of 101 in its family; net margin -21%.

weight 45% of this tense · 34th percentile among 101 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Getty Images Holdings, Inc.'s standing among 101 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $981 million in fiscal 2025 ranks in the bottom 48% by size; a net margin of -21% ranks in the bottom 21%; revenue growth of 1.9% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the bottom 32% (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue against the family$981Mbottom 48% of its family
  • net margin-21.0%bottom 21% of its family
  • three-year revenue growth1.9%bottom 32% of its family

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

Leadership

SI estimate
7.0/10

What are the people in charge doing?

SI estimate 7.0/10, confidence 35 of 100 (one part).

weight 22% of this tense · 70th percentile among 75 sector filers · read for its shareholders

SI estimate Inferred, not read as filed

Why it is an estimate
Read from one part only, officer and director changes on Form 8-K over three years, against the people in charge, which ranks in the top 30% of 75 in its family; the record of its people begins on 2022-07-22 (a listing, a merger or a first filing under the rules) and its chief executive and most of the people in charge have filed since then, so the record shows a floor of 4.3 years and cannot see past it; a floor under five years is not read as years in charge.
What the record cannot read
The record of its people begins on 2022-07-22 (a listing, a merger or a first filing under the rules) and its chief executive and most of the people in charge have filed since then, so the record shows a floor of 4.3 years and cannot see past it; a floor under five years is not read as years in charge.
How it was reasoned
one part: officer and director changes on Form 8-K, against the people in charge, the one part on file, ranked among 75 in its family.
Confidence
35 of 100
What would change it
A filing that carries the missing parts replaces this estimate with the filed reading.

From the record

SI estimate, not a filed reading: Getty Images Holdings, Inc.'s leadership is put at 7.0 of 10 with a confidence of 35 of 100, because read from one part only, officer and director changes on Form 8-K over three years, against the people in charge, which ranks in the top 30% of 75 in its family; the record of its people begins on 2022-07-22 (a listing, a merger or a first filing under the rules) and its chief executive and most of the people in charge have filed since then, so the record shows a floor of 4.3 years and cannot see past it; a floor under five years is not read as years in charge. A filing that carries the missing parts replaces this estimate with the filed reading.

▶ Future

What are they set up to do next?

4.1/1040% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Room to expand

as filed
4.6/10

How much room does it have to grow?

bottom 46% of 99 in its family for room to expand.

weight 33% of this tense · 46th percentile among 99 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Getty Images Holdings, Inc.'s room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2025): cash of $725 million against debt of $1.3 billion leaves -16.8% of its assets as net cash, bottom 27% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is 0.6% of revenue (bottom 29%); a gross margin of 73.4% (top 18%) (its annual report).

What it rests on

  • cash less debt against assets-16.8%bottom 27% of its family
  • cash from operations less capital spending against revenue0.6%bottom 29% of its family
  • gross margin73.4%top 18% of its family

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

Growth drivers

as filed
4.5/10

What could actually drive growth from here?

bottom 44% of 99 in its family for growth drivers.

weight 45% of this tense · 44th percentile among 99 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Getty Images Holdings, Inc.'s growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2025: revenue grew 1.9% a year over the last three filed years against 3.8% over all 6, slowing (top 44% of its family); the newest year grew 4.5% (bottom 42%); capital spending grew 0.1% a year (bottom 36%) (its annual reports). Getty Images Holdings, Inc. reported 3 product lines in fiscal 2025: Creative at $557 million (57%), Editorial at $370 million (38%), Other at $55 million (6%); 3 of 3 grew against the year before (its annual report).

What it rests on

  • three-year growth against the whole span-1.8 points a yeartop 44% of its family
  • the newest year's revenue growth4.5%bottom 42% of its family
  • three-year growth of capital spending0.1%bottom 36% 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
2.6/10

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

bottom 26% of 93 in its family for expectations against reality.

weight 22% of this tense · 26th percentile among 93 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

Getty Images Holdings, Inc.'s newest year against its own record: revenue of $981 million in fiscal 2025 came in 3.7% above the $946 million its prior three years' pace pointed to (top 34% of its family); net income of $206 million against a prior three-year average of $6 million (bottom 4%); a net margin of -21% against -0.7% before (bottom 7%) (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue against the prior three years' pace3.7%top 34% of its family
  • net income against the prior three years' averagefive times below its prior average or morebottom 4% of its family
  • net margin against its prior average-20.3 pointsbottom 7% 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

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