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Northern Trust Corporation

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What Do They Do?

Provides asset servicing and investment management to institutional investors, and wealth management to families, individuals and businesses.

How Do They Make Money?

Clients generally pay monthly or quarterly for asset servicing, investment management and related services, with fees mainly tied to assets, transaction volume, account counts and securities-lending activity. Northern Trust also earns interest on earning assets, less interest it pays on deposits and borrowed funds.

revenue
SegmentShareRevenue
Custody and Fund Administration
Recurring

40%
FY2022: 41%
Investment Management and Advisory
Recurring

53%
FY2022: 52%
Securities Lending
Recurring
1.7%
FY2022: 1.8%
Other
Recurring
5.0%
FY2022: 5.3%

Who Are Their Customers?

Serves institutional investors such as retirement funds and fund managers, and private and business clients including families, business owners and established privately held companies. Client relationships are managed through the Bank and other subsidiaries.

Do Revenues Turn Into Profits?

Yes. It kept 21 cents of every revenue dollar as net income in FY2025 and turned 68 cents into free cash flow.

Net income, FY2025
21% of revenue
▼ −14% vs FY2024 ($2B, 24%)
Free cash flow, FY2025
68% of revenue
▲ Now profitable vs FY2024 (−$587.5M, −7%)

How Are They Changing?

Since the FY2025 annual report
Latest quarter: Q2 FY2026, the three months to Jun 30, 2026
Revenue
▲ +10%
vs $1.2B in Q2 FY2025
Net income
▲ +88%
vs $421.3M in Q2 FY2025
Investment Management and Advisory share of trust, investment and other servicing fees vs 52.8% in Q2 FY2025

Growing. Revenue grew 25% in 4 years, from $6.5B in FY2021 to $8.1B in FY2025, about 6% a year.

Revenue over time
Custody and Fund Administration Investment Management and Advisory Securities Lending Other
$10B$5B$0

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