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UPDATED: Nov 9, 2025

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Northern Trust
NASDAQ:NTRS
$129.96
$1.66 |1.29%
Day Range:
$127.19 - $130.58
Market Cap:
24.58B
P/E Ratio:
14.9604
Avg Value:
$108.55
Year Range:
$81.62 - $135.48
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General Information
Northern Trust is a leading provider of wealth management, asset servicing, asset management, and banking to corporations, institutions, affluent families, and individuals.

Founded in Chicago in 1889, Northern Trust has offices in 20 states and Washington, D.C. as well as 23 locations in Canada, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia-Pacific. As of December 2024, Northern Trust had assets under custody or administration of $16.8 trillion and assets under management of $1.6 trillion.

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Northern Trust (NTRS) Stock Graph
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How We Grade Northern Trust (NTRS)

We grade stocks based on past performance, their future growth potential, intrinsic value, dividend history, and overall financial health.

The chart below shows how we grade Northern Trust (NTRS) across the board compared to its closest peers.

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Benzinga Edge Rankings

Benzinga Edge stock rankings give you four critical scores to help you identify the strongest and weakest stocks to buy and sell.

50.27

Growth measures a stock's combined historical expansion in earnings and revenue across multiple time periods, with emphasis on both long-term trends and recent performance.

Momentum measures a stock's relative strength based on its price movement patterns and volatility over multiple timeframes, ranked as a percentile against other stocks.

34.22

Quality is a composite ranking that evaluates a company's operational efficiency and financial health by analyzing historical profitability metrics and fundamental strength indicators on a percentile basis relative to peers.

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Peer Ratings

See how Northern Trust compares to its peers in these key performance metrics from Benzinga Rankings.

Top Peers
Value
Quality
Growth
Momentum
Short
Medium
Long
TROWT. Rowe Price Group
68.33
32.53
53.43
33.01
CGCarlyle Group
0
55.46
78.39
65.82
STTState Street
0
13.4
44.76
77.1
ARESAres Management
6.84
71.77
86.62
23.93
Short: price trend over the last couple of months
Medium: price trend over the last couple of quarters
Long: price trend over the past year
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Future Growth
Our estimate of future price growth is based on an aggregation of 10 analyst ratings over the past 3 months and their 12-month price targets.

Below, you can see that analysts are estimating a 12-month price target range of $125.00 - $155.00 with an average of $135.82

4.51%
Expected movement for Northern Trust (NTRS) over the next 12 months
Based on these rankings

Recent Ratings for Northern Trust (NTRS)

Keefe, Bruyette & Woods
Date:
Oct 23, 2025
Action:
Maintains
Prev. Target:
$123.00
New Target:
$125.00
TD Cowen
Date:
Oct 23, 2025
Action:
Maintains
Prev. Target:
$152.00
New Target:
$155.00
Truist Securities
Date:
Oct 23, 2025
Action:
Maintains
Prev. Target:
$142.00
New Target:
$139.00
Wells Fargo
Date:
Oct 23, 2025
Action:
Maintains
Prev. Target:
$127.00
New Target:
$131.00
Wells Fargo
Date:
Oct 3, 2025
Action:
Maintains
Prev. Target:
$120.00
New Target:
$127.00
Truist Securities
Date:
Oct 2, 2025
Action:
Maintains
Prev. Target:
$132.00
New Target:
$142.00
Evercore ISI Group
Date:
Sep 30, 2025
Action:
Maintains
Prev. Target:
$125.00
New Target:
$135.00
Morgan Stanley
Date:
Sep 29, 2025
Action:
Maintains
Prev. Target:
$110.00
New Target:
$131.00
Citigroup
Date:
Sep 5, 2025
Action:
Maintains
Prev. Target:
$110.00
New Target:
$135.00
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Valuation

Earnings History (3 years)

It is important to look at a companies earnings history to see not only if they are profitable, but if their earnings are growing.
As you can see from the chart above, NTRS's earnings have fluctuated but has increased since, this is a positive sign for the stock.
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Dividend
There are few things we like to see when evaluating the quality of a company's dividend history and future

Ideally, we would like to see a company have a long history of consistently high dividend payouts that have grown at a consistent rate. From here we want to be confident that this sort of dividend growth and consistency will persist into the future.

The chart below shows the historical trend in Northern Trust (NTRS) dividend yield on an annual basis.

-13.64%
Northern Trust (NTRS) saw a decrease in it's dividend yield since 2020
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Past Performance
How has Northern Trust (NTRS) performed over the past 5 years?

The two main factors that we consider when analyzing past performance is overall return and volatility

Using these two metrics, we can determine if this stock gave its investors enough return for the risk that they took on by owning it. This is measured by the sharpe ratio, which has been used as a primary measure of risk/reward trade-off for almost 60 years.

This ratio can be interpreted as the amount of return an investor has received for the amount of risk that they took on by owning the stock over that timeframe.

Northern Trust (NTRS) sharpe ratio over the past 5 years is 0.6738 which is considered to be below average compared to the peer average of 0.7997

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Company Financials
INCOME STATEMENT
The income statement also known as the profit and loss statement, primarily focuses on the company's revenues and expenses during a particular period.

The main purpose of an income statement is to convey details of profitability and business activities. Below, is NTRS's income statement for the previous four years along with its trailing-twelve- month profit & loss.

FISCAL YEAR (BIL.)
2021 ($)
2022 ($)
2023 ($)
2024 ($)
TTM ($)
Total Revenue
6.46
6.76
6.77
8.29
7.92
Operating Revenue
6.46
6.76
6.77
8.29
7.92
Cost Of Revenue
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
Gross Profit
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
Operating Expense
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
Selling General And Administration
2.56
2.78
2.91
2.88
2.99
Research and Development
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
Operating Income
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
Net Non-Operating Interest Income Expense
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
Other Income Expense
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
Other Non-Operating Income Expenses
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
Pre-Tax Income
2.01
1.77
1.46
2.66
2.30
Tax Provision
0.46
0.43
0.36
0.63
0.57
Net Income
1.55
1.34
1.11
2.03
1.73
Net Income Common Stockholders
1.48
1.28
1.05
1.97
1.67
Total Operating Income As Reported
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
Total Expenses
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
Net Income From Continuing And Discontinued Operation
1.55
1.34
1.11
2.03
1.73
Normalized Income
1.55
1.34
1.13
2.10
1.73
Interest Income
1.41
2.88
7.33
9.76
8.78
Interest Expense
0.02
0.99
5.34
7.59
6.44
Net Interest Income
1.38
1.89
1.98
2.18
2.33
EBIT
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
EBITDA
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
Reconciled Cost Of Revenue
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
Reconciled Depreciation
0.52
0.55
0.63
0.72
0.77
Normalized EBITDA
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
Tax Rate For Calcs
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.26
Tax Effect Of Unusual Items
0.00
0.00
-0.01
-0.02
0.00
BALANCE SHEET
The balance sheet is a snapshot of a companies financials during a particular period in time.

It breaks down what company owns (assets) and what a company owes (liabilities), in order to give investors an overview of its capital structure.

FISCAL YEAR (BIL.)
2021 ($)
2022 ($)
2023 ($)
2024 ($)
TTM ($)
Total Assets
183.89
155.04
150.78
155.51
170.26
Current Assets
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
Total Non-Current Assets
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
Total Liabilities Net Minority Interest
171.87
143.78
138.89
142.72
157.31
Current Liabilities
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
Other Non-Current Liabilities
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
Total Equity Gross Minority Interest
12.02
11.26
11.90
12.79
12.96
Stockholders Equity
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
Total Capitalization
19.25
23.64
25.30
26.16
26.48
Common Stock Equity
11.13
10.37
11.01
11.90
12.07
Net Tangible Assets
11.31
10.57
11.20
12.09
12.24
Working Capital
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
Invested Capital
18.37
22.76
24.42
25.28
25.59
Tangible Book Value
10.43
9.68
10.31
11.21
11.36
Total Debt
7.24
12.38
13.41
13.37
13.52
Net Debt
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
Share Issued
0.25
0.25
0.25
0.25
0.25
Ordinary Shares Number
0.21
0.21
0.21
0.20
0.19
CASH FLOW STATEMENTS
A companies statement of cash flows gives an investor a break down of the cash inflows and outflows from a companies operations and investment activities.
FISCAL YEAR (BIL.)
2021 ($)
2022 ($)
2023 ($)
2024 ($)
TTM ($)
Cash Flow from Continuing Operating Activities
1.36
2.39
2.63
-0.49
2.51
Net Income from Continuing Operations
1.55
1.34
1.11
2.03
1.73
Depreciation and Amortization
0.52
0.55
0.63
0.72
0.77
Deferred Tax
Deferred Income Tax
Stock-Based Compensation
Other Non-Cash Items
0.18
-0.33
0.77
-0.04
1.12
Change in Working Capital
-0.90
0.93
-0.02
-3.15
-0.91
Change in Receivables
-0.42
0.12
-0.03
0.18
0.42
Changes in Account Receivables
Change in Inventory
Change in Payables and Accrued Expense
-0.01
0.17
0.09
-0.04
Change in Payable
-0.01
0.17
0.09
-0.04
Change in Account Payable
-0.01
0.17
0.09
-0.04
Change in Other Current Assets
Change in Other Current Liabilities
Change in Other Working Capital
-0.47
0.64
-0.07
-3.29
-1.33
Cash Flow from Continuing Investing Activities
-18.60
25.93
4.78
-2.56
-15.31
Net PPE Purchase and Sale
-0.10
-0.13
-0.12
-0.10
-0.08
Net Business Purchase and Sale
Purchase of Business
Net Investment Purchase and Sale
-3.65
6.78
3.64
-1.68
-4.58
Purchase of Investment
-68.63
-37.40
-40.09
-39.53
-41.81
Sale of Investment
64.98
44.18
43.74
37.86
37.22
Net Other Investing Changes
-0.97
-0.56
-0.03
0.79
0.76
Financing Cash Flow
16.07
-26.44
-7.18
3.44
11.19
Cash Flow from Continuing Financing Activities
16.07
-26.44
-7.18
3.44
11.19
Net Issuance Payments of Debt
-1.21
5.46
0.94
-0.10
-0.36
Net Long-Term Debt Issuance
Long-Term Debt Issuance
Long-Term Debt Payments
Net Short-Term Debt Issuance
-0.43
3.97
-1.06
-0.10
-0.36
Net Common Stock Issuance
-0.27
-0.04
-0.35
-0.94
-1.16
Common Stock Issuance
Common Stock Payments
-0.27
-0.04
-0.35
-0.94
-1.16
Cash Dividends Paid
-0.63
-0.80
-0.66
-0.64
-0.63
Net Other Financing Charges
-0.01
-0.01
End Cash Position
16.64
18.05
19.47
23.42
20.82
Changes in Cash
-1.17
1.88
0.23
0.39
-1.61
Beginning Cash Position
17.97
16.45
19.33
23.54
22.34
Capital Expenditure
-0.52
-0.72
-0.68
-0.75
-0.80
Issuance of Capital Stock
Issuance of Debt
Repayment of Debt
Repurchase of Capital Stock
-0.27
-0.04
-0.35
-0.94
-1.16
Free Cash Flow
0.84
1.67
1.95
-1.23
1.71