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NIQ Global Intelligence plc (NIQ)

NYSE: NIQ · Services-Computer Programming, Data Processing, Etc. · Chicago, IL · filing with the SEC since 2025
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Grade5.2
◀ Past 4.8● Present 5.4▶ Future 5.3
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The grade of NIQ Global Intelligence plc

Nine metrics read from its own filings, by tense
Headline grade
5.2/10
◀ Past4.825% of the headline
● Present5.435% of the headline
▶ Future5.340% of the headline

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

Of the nine metrics, 7 read as filed from the record and 2 are SI estimates, each with its reasoning, its confidence and what would change it on its card.

◀ Past

What did they actually do?

4.8/1025% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Surviving crises

as filed
7.0/10

Has it survived what it has been through?

No warning events in its filings since 2025.

weight 22% of this tense · 70th percentile among 79 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

NIQ Global Intelligence plc's filings since 2025 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
5.4/10

What has it actually done, year after year?

+12.1% a year over 3 filed years; profitable in 0 of 3.

weight 45% of this tense · 54th percentile among 70 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

NIQ Global Intelligence plc's 3 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $3.3 billion in fiscal 2023 to $4.2 billion in fiscal 2025, up 12.1% a year; it rose in 2 of 2 years; it never fell from a peak; net income was positive in 0 of 3 of those years (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue growth over the filed span12.1%bottom 44% of its family
  • the share of years revenue rosetop 21% of its family
  • the share of filed years with a profitbottom 14% of its family
  • the deepest fall from a revenue peak0.0%top 21% of its family

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

Shareholder treatment

as filed
2.5/10

How has it treated the people who own it?

Share count grew 4.4% a year. 0% of cash flow returned. Insiders: 0 sales, 1 purchases.

weight 33% of this tense · 25th percentile among 41 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

Over the 2 fiscal years to 2025-12-31, NIQ Global Intelligence plc's diluted share count grew about 4.4% 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 0 sales and 1 purchase of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-11-10, buying about $1 million (their Form 4 filings).

What it rests on

  • the share count over the yearsbottom 37% of its family
  • cash returned against operating cash flowbottom 13% 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?

5.4/1035% of the headline grade · 2 of 3 filed, 1 estimated

Financial health

as filed
3.0/10

Is it financially healthy right now?

ROE -29%: lost 29¢ per shareholder dollar. Leverage 82%: owes 82¢ per asset dollar.

weight 45% of this tense · 30th percentile among 74 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2025-12-31, NIQ Global Intelligence plc lost about 29 cents for every dollar of shareholders' money. Leverage: it owed about 82 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count grew 8.9% over the year (the filed statements).

What it rests on

  • what it owes per dollar of assetsbottom 24% of its family
  • return on equitybottom 30% of its family
  • the share count against the year beforebottom 37% of its family

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

Industry position

as filed
6.1/10

How strong is its position in its industry?

top 39% of 73 in its family; net margin -8.4%.

weight 33% of this tense · 61st percentile among 73 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

NIQ Global Intelligence plc's standing among 73 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $4.2 billion in fiscal 2025 ranks in the top 14% by size; a net margin of -8.4% ranks in the bottom 36%; revenue growth of 12.1% a year over the last 2 filed years ranks in the top 39% (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue against the family$4.20Btop 14% of its family
  • net margin-8.4%bottom 36% of its family
  • three-year revenue growth12.1%top 39% of its family

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

Leadership

SI estimate
9.0/10

What are the people in charge doing?

SI estimate 9.0/10, confidence 35 of 100 (one part).

weight 22% of this tense · 90th percentile among 47 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 10% of 47 in its family; the record of its people begins on 2025-07-23 (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 1.3 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 2025-07-23 (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 1.3 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 47 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: NIQ Global Intelligence plc's leadership is put at 9.0 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 10% of 47 in its family; the record of its people begins on 2025-07-23 (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 1.3 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?

5.3/1040% of the headline grade · 2 of 3 filed, 1 estimated

Room to expand

as filed
3.1/10

How much room does it have to grow?

bottom 31% of 71 in its family for room to expand.

weight 22% of this tense · 31st percentile among 71 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

NIQ Global Intelligence plc's room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2025): cash of $519 million against debt of $3.5 billion leaves -43.9% of its assets as net cash, bottom 11% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is 6.3% of revenue (top 48%) (its annual report).

What it rests on

  • cash less debt against assets-43.9%bottom 11% of its family
  • cash from operations less capital spending against revenue6.3%top 48% of its family

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

Growth drivers

as filed
6.3/10

What could actually drive growth from here?

top 37% of 70 in its family for growth drivers.

weight 45% of this tense · 63rd percentile among 70 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

NIQ Global Intelligence plc's growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2025: revenue grew 12.1% a year over the last three filed years against 12.1% over all 3, speeding up (top 24% of its family); the newest year grew 5.7% (bottom 44%); capital spending grew 19.7% a year (top 30%) (its annual reports). NIQ Global Intelligence plc reported 3 lines of business in fiscal 2025: EMEA at $1.9 billion (44%), Americas at $1.6 billion (39%), APAC at $702 million (17%); 3 of 3 grew against the year before (its annual report).

What it rests on

  • three-year growth against the whole span+0.0 points a yeartop 24% of its family
  • the newest year's revenue growth5.7%bottom 44% of its family
  • three-year growth of capital spending19.7%top 30% of its family

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

Expectations vs reality

SI estimate
5.4/10

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

SI estimate 5.4/10, confidence 20 of 100 (family median).

weight 33% of this tense · 50th percentile among 65 sector filers · read for its shareholders

SI estimate Inferred, not read as filed

Why it is an estimate
The record does not carry four filed years of revenue and two of the three parts: revenue against the prior pace, earnings against the prior average, the margin change, so the desk assumes the typical reading of its industry family, the median of 65 members with one.
What the record cannot read
The record does not carry four filed years of revenue and two of the three parts: revenue against the prior pace, earnings against the prior average, the margin change.
How it was reasoned
family median, 65 readings behind it.
Confidence
20 of 100
What would change it
Its next annual report on file with the inputs replaces this estimate with the filed reading.

From the record

SI estimate, not a filed reading: NIQ Global Intelligence plc's expectations vs reality is put at 5.4 of 10 with a confidence of 20 of 100, because the record does not carry four filed years of revenue and two of the three parts: revenue against the prior pace, earnings against the prior average, the margin change, so the desk assumes the typical reading of its industry family, the median of 65 members with one. Its next annual report on file with the inputs replaces this estimate with the filed reading.

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 NIQ · research, not advice