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WT, WisdomTree Inc.

We are a global financial innovator, offering a diverse suite of ETPs, models and solutions, private market investments and digital asset-related products.

Leveraging the latest financial infrastructure, we create products that emphasize access and transparency and provide an enhanced user experience.

We offer next-generation digital products and services related to tokenized real world assets and stablecoins, including tokenized mutual funds ("Digital Funds"), as well as our institutional platform, WisdomTree Connect, and blockchain-native digital wallet, WisdomTree Prime.

Latest annual: FY2025 10-K
WT · WisdomTree Inc.
I

The business

What it sells, where the money comes from, the kind of company it is.

Revenue · FY2025
$494M
+15.4% YoY · 12% 5-yr CAGR
Vital signs · TTM, with 5-yr average
Revenue $610M 5-yr avg $375M
Operating margin 38.8% 5-yr avg 28.3%
Net margin 13.3% 5-yr avg 20.1%
Return on equity 19% 5-yr avg 21%

Next report By 11/8 · the 10-Q for the quarter ended late September · due within 40 days of period end · has filed ~37 days after · the wire records it on arrival

The business in brief

read the 10-K →

What this business is and what moves its needle, from its own SEC filings.

What moves the needle
Assets under management and the fee rate on them. What decides it: net flows in or out, the market's move on the assets already there (the firm rises and falls with the indices it invests in), the drift toward cheaper passive products, and the operating leverage on a largely fixed cost base. On its own account, the filing leans hardest on pricing power & competition, set against the numbers in what the filing emphasizes, below.
Is it a good business?
Operating margin has held high for a asset manager (median 29% across the record). It earns this on little capital, so return on equity has run near 18%, the leverage of a model that needs almost no plant to grow. A high return that does not fade can mark a moat, but whether the assets stay (net flows, not last year's market) is what the flow disclosures and the 10-K settle, not the multiple.

Every line is arithmetic on the company's filings, shown in full in the sections below.

Where the money comes from

read the 10-K →

38% of revenue comes from outside the United States.

Revenue by geography, FY2025
  • United States62%$304M
  • Jersey31%$154M
  • Ireland7%$36M

From the segment footnote of the company's own 10-K. Shares are of total revenue; the profit bar shows each segment's share of segment operating profit, before unallocated corporate costs.

II

The record

Ten years of arithmetic, read across the cycle.

The record, 2014–2025

realized figures from each filing · older years to the left
2014’142015’152016’162017’172018’182021’212022’222023’232024’242025’25TTMTTMJun 2026
Income statement
$184M$299M$219M$228M$274M$304M$301M$349M$428M$494M$610MRevenueRevenue
40.0%45.9%29.0%21.5%22.4%29.3%19.9%25.1%32.1%35.3%38.8%Operating marginOp. mgn
33.2%26.8%11.9%11.9%13.4%16.4%16.8%29.4%15.6%22.1%13.3%Net marginNet mgn
$74M$137M$56M$58M$51M$57M$40M$119M$95M$142MPretax incomePretax
$61M$80M$26M$27M$37M$50M$51M$103M$67M$109M$81MNet incomeNet inc.
17%42%53%53%28%12%14%30%23%35%Effective tax rateTax rate
Cash flow & returns
$82M$154M$54M$48M$37M$75M$55M$85M$113M$148M$196MOwner earningsOwner earn.
($6M)($12M)($89M)($37M)($182M)($100M)($38M)$82M($24M)($313M)Investing cash flowInv. cash
($16M)($98M)($83M)($51M)$169M$93M($23M)($172M)($36M)$290MFinancing cash flowFin. cash
($59K)$130K($150K)$1M($1M)($955K)($3M)$1M($2M)$6MExchange-rate effectFX
$61M$45M($117M)($39M)$24M$67M($9M)($3M)$52M$131MChange in cashΔ cash
33%34%13%14%10%18%17%25%17%26%19%Return on equityROE
27%1%−9%−9%5%11%10%20%12%22%15%Retained to equityRetained/eq
Balance sheet
$221M$293M$250M$255M$938M$1.0B$1.0B$944M$1.0B$1.5B$1.6BTotal assetsAssets
$165M$210M$93M$54M$78M$141M$132M$129M$181M$312M$295MCash & investmentsCash+inv
$36M$58M$48M$62M$402M$634M$1.1BTotal liabilitiesTotal liab.
$184M$235M$201M$193M$358M$269M$306M$409M$400M$414M$419MShareholders’ equityEquity
Per share
139M139M136M136M158M161M159M170M159M145M154MShares out (diluted)Shares
$1.33$2.15$1.62$1.68$1.73$1.89$1.90$2.05$2.69$3.41$3.95Revenue / shareRev/sh
$0.44$0.58$0.19$0.20$0.23$0.31$0.32$0.60$0.42$0.75$0.52EPS (diluted)EPS
$0.59$1.11$0.40$0.35$0.24$0.47$0.35$0.50$0.71$1.02$1.27Owner earnings / shareOE/sh
$0.08$0.57$0.32$0.32$0.12$0.12$0.12$0.12$0.12$0.12$0.11Dividends / shareDiv/sh
$1.33$1.69$1.49$1.42$2.26$1.67$1.92$2.40$2.52$2.85$2.71Book value / shareBVPS
Per-share growththe realized rate an owner's share compounded
11-yr5-yr
Revenue / share+9.0%/yr+15.9%/yr (4-yr)
Owner earnings / share+5.1%/yr+21.7%/yr (4-yr)
EPS+5.0%/yr+25.0%/yr (4-yr)
Dividends / share+4.0%/yr−0.3%/yr (4-yr)
Capital spending / share−25.0%/yr−4.9%/yr (4-yr)
Book value / share+7.2%/yr+14.3%/yr (4-yr)
III

Quality & stewardship

Returns, the balance sheet, capital allocation, and pay.

Owner’s Scorecard

FY2025 10-K · source on SEC EDGAR →

Is it a good business?

  • Wide fee margin (≥30%)
    Operating income $174M ÷ revenue $494M
    Industry peers: median 25%
    What this means

    The heart of a asset manager: how much of each fee dollar survives the cost of running the business. Fees ride on assets under management, so the swing factors are net flows in or out and the market's move on the assets already there; the cost base is largely fixed, which lifts margins in a bull market and squeezes them in a bear one. A high margin held for years, through a market it does not control, is the operational mark of a real franchise.

  • Net margin 22.1%
    Wide
    Net income $109M ÷ revenue $494M
    What this means

    What reaches the owner after tax and interest. For a capital-light fee business this should be a wide share of revenue; when it is thin despite a high operating margin, debt taken on for acquisitions is usually the reason, so read it next to the balance sheet.

  • Very high (≥25%)
    Net income $109M ÷ equity $414M
    Industry peers: median 7%
    What this means

    Because the business ties up little capital, a healthy fee stream throws off a high return on the equity behind it. Read it with the buyback record: returning capital lifts this ratio honestly, but heavy debt taken to do so can flatter it.

All figures as filed; the source filing is linked above.

Current Position

as of the latest quarter, Jun 30, 2026

Can the business pay what it owes this year, off the freshest balance sheet: the quality of the assets, the debt actually coming due, and what a low ratio means here.

Current assets$423M
  • Cash & short-term investments$295M
  • Receivables$75M
  • Other current assets$54M
Current liabilities$141M
  • Accounts payable$26M
  • Other current liabilities$115M
Current ratio3.00×all current assets ÷ what's due · Graham looked for 2×
Quick ratio3.00×stricter: inventory excluded
Cash ratio2.09×strictest: cash alone against what's due
Working capital$282Mthe cushion left after near-term bills
Revenue, latest quarter vs. a year ago+57.3%the freshest read on whether the business is still growing
Current ratio, recent quarters2.9× → 3.0×
Deeper floors
Tangible book value($770M)equity stripped of goodwill & intangibles
Net current asset value($803M)Graham's net-net: current assets less all liabilities
Debt incl. operating leases$3M$3M of it operating leases

From the company's latest filing.

Acquisitions & goodwill

from the balance sheet & the 10-year cash-flow record

Goodwill grows only when a company acquires and falls only when it concedes it overpaid. The size of that bet, the cash put into buying rather than building, and how much has already been written off.

Goodwill & intangibles$978M65% of all assets; the premium carried on the balance sheet for businesses acquired
Against book equity55%goodwill is this share of book equity; the rest is the company’s own retained and paid-in capital
Cash spent acquiring$520Mover 4 years since fiscal 2014 buying other businesses, against $10M of capital spent building over the 10-year record

$43M written down across 4 years (2016, 2018, 2021, 2023): goodwill the company has already conceded it overpaid for, charged against earnings. A write-down costs no cash (the cash went out when the deal was signed), but it is management marking its own past judgment to market.

Beside that spending sits $50K of cumulative amortization of acquired intangibles charged against earnings since fiscal 2022 — the purchase price of past deals, expensed over time.

Goodwill, acquired intangibles and equity from the latest balance sheet; acquisition spend and amortization summed across the company's full tagged history, write-downs across the 10-year record, from the company's own filings.

Management, ownership & pay

read the proxy →

From the proxy: how much of the business the people running it own, and how they are paid, beside what the business earned for its owners in the same years.

Fiscal yearChief executivePay, as filed“Actually paid”Owner earnings
2021Mr. Steinberg$4.3M$4.3M$75M
2022Mr. Steinberg$5.4M$5.5M$55M
2023Mr. Steinberg$6.7M$9.9M$85M
2024Mr. Steinberg$6.7M$15.3M$113M
2025Mr. Steinberg$6.7M$9.9M$148M

Both pay figures are the company’s own, from the pay-versus-performance table its proxy statement files. “As filed” is the Summary Compensation Table total: salary, bonus, and equity awards at their value on the day of grant. “Actually paid” is the SEC’s prescribed recalculation, which re-marks those equity awards to what they became as they vested; it can swing far above or below the filed figure in either direction, and negative years occur. Owner earnings are the whole business's, from the record above, for the same fiscal years.

  • Insider ownership5%

    The stake all directors and executive officers hold together, per the 2026 proxy: skin in the game, the first thing Munger reads.

  • CEO pay ratio30:1

    What the chief earns for every dollar the median employee makes, per the 2026 proxy. A high ratio alone settles nothing; some businesses are genuinely top-heavy in scarce skill. A runaway figure is where Buffett starts asking whether the board is doing its job.

  • Stock-based compensation$22M

    The slice of the business handed to employees in shares in fiscal 2025, 4.4% of revenue, equal to 12.4% of operating profit. Buffett's oldest accounting fight: this is compensation, compensation is an expense, real whether or not the headline earnings admit it. One trap: the cash-flow statement adds SBC back, so the operating cash, and the owner earnings drawn from it, are flattered by exactly this amount; counted as the cost it is, what an owner keeps is lower.

What an owner would ask, FY2025

read the 10-K →
  • Which reported numbers are a judgment call?
    Management names Revenue recognition, Acquisitions, Contingencies as critical estimates

    each rests partly on management's judgment; the filing's note sets out the assumptionsverify →

The questions the record and the charts do not answer on their own; each carries the figure and the place to look.

Peers, Capital Markets & Asset Management

The same industry, side by side on fee margins. Each column names the period it is read over, and a median resting on fewer than three years carries that count beside it; the group median at the foot is the line to read each figure against.

CompanyRevenuelatest FY, USDOp. marginmedian over the recordNet marginmedian over the recordROEmedian over the record
OPYOppenheimer Holdings Inc.$1.6B7.3%4.0%7%
MIAXMiami International Holdings Inc.$1.4B-0.2%-2.0%-8%
FUTUFutu Holdings Limited$1.3B81.3%71.8%16%
MKTXMarketAxess$846M48.5%35.9%26%
BULLWebull Corporation$571M3.3%2y2.9%2%1y
TIGRUP FINTECH HOLDING LIMITED$539M25.0%6.0%7%
WTWisdomTree Inc.$494M29.1%16.6%18%
JSMNavient Corporation$271M1087.2%110.0%17%
Group median27.1%11.3%11%
IV

The price

What a price has to assume.

What the price implies

reverse-DCF

Type today's close and see the owner-earnings growth you'd have to believe to justify it, beside what WisdomTree Inc. has delivered.

WisdomTree Inc.’s latest year runs above its own through-cycle margin — the reported figure may flatter a peak. So the tool opens on the through-cycle base, Graham’s averaging cutting both ways; clear the toggle below to read the latest year exactly as reported.

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Through the cycle, WisdomTree Inc. earns about $122M on its 24.6% median owner-earnings margin. This year’s 29.9% margin runs above that; the reported figure may flatter a peak you'd be paying on. Normalize, below, values the price on that through-cycle figure rather than the latest year. It comes pre-checked here for that reason, the same rule that already normalizes a trough; clear it to price the year as filed.

Base

The assumptions

9.0% = the 4.71% 10-year Treasury (Aug 18, 2026) + 4.29 points of equity premium. The rate you require is yours to set.

Enter a price above to run it.

Implied by the price
Owner-earnings growth · ’21→’25+19%/yr
Owner-earnings growth · ’14→’25+1%/yr
Owner-earnings yield
P/E (3-yr earnings ’23–’25)
P/B
Graham’s price gate

Graham capped the multiple at 15×; Buffett and Munger let that rule go: a wonderful business can deserve 50× if the thesis holds. The gate marks the bargain-hunter's floor.

Against a high-grade bond: Graham’s yardstick bond yield%

Prefilled with the 10-year Treasury (4.71%, as of Aug 18, 2026). Edit it for today’s exact figure, or a AAA corporate yield.

Graham measured a stock against the bond you could own instead, the heart of his margin of safety. Enter a price above to weigh the owner-earnings yield against this bond.

Free cash flow $196M on 152M shares outstanding, per the 10-Q cover, as of 2026-08-03; net debt $763M. The base opens on the through-cycle figure (the latest year sits above the record’s own median, and Graham’s averaging cuts both ways); clear Normalize to use the year as filed. Net of stock comp treats option pay as the expense it is. Capex ($314K) runs well above depreciation ($8M), so this is a build-out; Steady-state swaps total capex for maintenance (≈ depreciation), lifting the base to about $196M, the cash it would throw off if it stopped expanding. The dials set the multiple a growth belief justifies; the price, and every dollar on this page, is yours.

Cite: Owner Scorecard, "WisdomTree Inc. (WT), the owner's record," https://ownerscorecard.com/c/WT, data as of 2026-08-17.

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