StepStone Group Inc. (STEP)

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StepStone Group Inc.'s filings since 2019 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).

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StepStone Group Inc.'s 8 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $256 million in fiscal 2019 to $2.0 billion in fiscal 2026, up 34% a year; it rose in 5 of 6 years; the deepest fall was 105% from fiscal 2022 to fiscal 2023; net income was positive in 3 of 8 of those years (its annual reports).

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Over the 3 fiscal years to 2026-03-31, StepStone Group Inc.'s diluted share count grew about 8.5% a year, and dividends and buybacks returned about 92% of its operating cash flow over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 22 sales (19 under scheduled 10b5-1 plans) and 5 purchases of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-10-01, buying about $6 million (their Form 4 filings).

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Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2026-03-31, StepStone Group Inc.'s shareholders' equity was below zero, so the profit on it is not read. Leverage: it owed about 106 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count grew 11.1% over the year (the filed statements).

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StepStone Group Inc.'s standing among 43 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $2.0 billion in fiscal 2026 ranks in the top 43% by size; a net margin of -26.9% ranks in the bottom 10% (its annual reports).

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StepStone Group Inc.'s leadership, from its insiders' filings and its current reports: the chief executive on the record is Hart, Scott W (Chief Executive Officer, as filed), filing under that title since 2020-09-15, 6.2 years (top 50% of its family); the 11 officers and directors filing in the last fifteen months have been on the record a median of 6.2 years (bottom 38%); 1 officer or director change was reported on Form 8-K since 2023-11-13, against the 11 people in charge now (top 4%; 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.

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StepStone Group Inc.'s room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2026): cash of $1.1 billion against no long-term debt tagged leaves 16.5% of its assets as net cash, top 26% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is 3.2% of revenue (bottom 27%) (its annual report).

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StepStone Group Inc.'s growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2026: the newest year grew 69.8% (top 4%); capital spending grew -22.5% a year (bottom 16%) (its annual reports). StepStone Group Inc. reported 5 product lines in fiscal 2026: Management and Advisory Fees Net at $926 million (47%), Carried Interest Allocation Unrealized at $540 million (27%), Incentive Fees at $220 million (11%), and 2 more; 5 of 5 grew against the year before (its annual report).

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StepStone Group Inc.'s newest year against its own record: net income of $536 million against a prior three-year average of $47 million (bottom 1%); a net margin of -26.9% against -3.6% before (bottom 4%) (its annual reports).