Stocks · Financial Services · Asset Management
AllianceBernstein Holding L.P. AB
$35.00 -0.03% Close, Oct 2, 2026 · NYSE · Market cap $3.26B
High qualityWeak trend
Next earnings report: Oct 27, 2026
Scroll or pinch to zoom, drag to move. Daily prices adjusted for splits. Markers: E = earnings (green beat, red miss), S = split, D = dividend.
Three things to know
- The diluted share count fell 15.6% in a year, mainly through buybacks.
- The shares trade at 10.4× trailing earnings, lower than 86% of the company's own readings over the past five years.
- The stock is in a downtrend: below its 200-day average, with the 50-day average below the 200-day.
PromtFinance scores
Each score is a percentile within the Financial Services sector (0–100). Under each score: how the stock ranks in its sector on every component. As of Oct 5, 2026.
How fast revenue, earnings and cash flow are growing.
- Revenue growth (TTM, YoY)Bottom 7%
- EPS growth (TTM, YoY)Bottom 30%
- FCF growth (TTM, YoY)Bottom 23%
- Revenue growth, 3-year CAGRBottom 13%
- Revenue growth accelerationTop 12%
Returns on capital, margins, earnings quality and balance-sheet strength.
- Return on invested capitalTop 4%
- Gross marginTop 1%
- Operating marginTop 1%
- Cash conversion (OCF / net income)Bottom 38%
- Accruals (lower is better)Bottom 40%
- Net debt / EBITDA (lower is better)Top 29%
How cheap the shares are relative to earnings, cash flow and their own history.
- Earnings yieldTop 18%
- Free-cash-flow yieldTop 39%
- EBITDA / enterprise valueTop 26%
- Sales / enterprise valueBottom 11%
- P/E vs own 5-year history (lower is better)Top 14%
Strength and persistence of the price trend, including versus the S&P 500.
- 12-month return excluding last monthBottom 25%
- 6-month returnBottom 10%
- 1-year return vs S&P 500Bottom 26%
- Distance from 52-week highBottom 23%
- Trend checklist (0–4)Bottom 9%
Earnings surprises and analyst sentiment (estimate-revision history is being collected).
- Average EPS surprise, last 4 quartersBottom 29%
- Consecutive EPS beatsBottom 17%
- Share of analysts rating BuyBottom 49%
- Upside to consensus price targetBottom 38%
Low volatility, shallow drawdowns, low market sensitivity and modest leverage.
- Volatility, 60 days (lower is better)Top 22%
- Maximum drawdown, 3 yearsTop 25%
- Beta vs S&P 500 (lower is better)Top 43%
- Net debt / EBITDA (lower is better)Top 29%
What changed
Latest four quarters versus the same period a year earlier (growth: versus one quarter earlier).
| Measure | Before | Now | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue growth (YoY) | -25.3% | -17.2% | ↑ |
| EPS growth (YoY) | -12.2% | 0.9% | ↑ |
| Gross margin | 100.0% | 100.0% | → |
| Operating margin | 100.0% | 100.0% | → |
| FCF margin | 89.8% | 91.4% | ↑ |
Fundamental momentum
| Measure | Now (TTM) | Year / quarter before | Sector rank | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue growth (TTM, YoY) | -17.2% | -25.3% | ↑ | Bottom 7% |
| EPS growth (TTM, YoY) | 0.9% | -12.2% | ↑ | Bottom 30% |
| Gross margin | 100.0% | 100.0% | → | Top 1% |
| Operating margin | 100.0% | 100.0% | → | Top 1% |
| Net margin | 91.0% | 90.9% | ↑ | — |
| Free-cash-flow margin | 91.4% | 89.8% | ↑ | — |
| Return on invested capital | 25.1% | — | Top 4% | |
| Revenue growth, 3-year CAGR | 2.9% | — | Bottom 13% |
Quality of earnings and balance sheet
- Cash conversion (OCF / net income)Above 1× means profits are backed by cash.
- 1.00×
- Accruals (net income − OCF) / assetsLower is better; high accruals can signal weaker earnings quality.
- -0.1%
- Stock-based compensation / revenueA cost to shareholders through dilution.
- 0.0%
- Net debt / EBITDABelow 1× is conservative; above 3× is high leverage.
- 0.00×
Shareholder returns
- Dividend yield (dividends paid, TTM)
- 14.67%
- Net buyback yield (TTM)
- 0.00%
- Shareholder yield
- 14.67%
- Share count change, 1 year
- -15.6%
- Share count change, 3-year CAGR
- -6.3%
Shareholder yield = dividends + net buybacks over the last four quarters, divided by market cap.
Based on the four quarters through Jun 30, 2026 (filed Jul 31, 2026).
Earnings and expectations
Earnings momentum
- Consecutive EPS beats
- 0
- Beats in the last 8 reports
- 5 of 8
- Average EPS surprise, last 4
- -0.1%
- Average 2-day reaction, last 8
- -0.4%
- Positive 20 days after report
- 2 of 8
Analysts
- Consensus price target
- $39.25
- Target vs current price
- +12.1%
- Analysts with a rating
- 13
- Share rating Buy or Strong Buy
- 46%
- Consensus rating
- Buy
How the stock reacted to recent reports
| Report date | EPS surprise | 2 days | 5 days | 20 days | 60 days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 28, 2026 | -1.3% | -1.5% | -2.4% | -4.1% | — |
| Apr 28, 2026 | -4.6% | +0.9% | +3.5% | -1.1% | -2.4% |
| Feb 5, 2026 | +4.3% | -0.2% | -5.1% | -9.2% | -6.9% |
| Oct 23, 2025 | +1.1% | -0.1% | +1.7% | +0.2% | +1.4% |
| Jul 24, 2025 | -1.3% | +2.4% | -0.9% | -4.5% | -5.1% |
| Apr 24, 2025 | +3.0% | +3.0% | +7.3% | +8.8% | +13.0% |
| Feb 6, 2025 | +22.4% | -9.7% | -12.3% | -5.3% | +4.7% |
| Oct 24, 2024 | +6.6% | +1.9% | -1.0% | -1.3% | +7.2% |
Returns from the close before each report. Past reactions do not determine future ones.
Earnings history
| Report date | EPS | Estimate | Surprise | Revenue |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 28, 2026 | $0.82 | $0.83 | -1.3% | $887.5M |
| Apr 28, 2026 | $0.83 | $0.87 | -4.6% | $871.1M |
| Feb 5, 2026 | $0.96 | $0.92 | +4.3% | $957.3M |
| Oct 23, 2025 | $0.86 | $0.85 | +1.1% | $884.7M |
| Jul 24, 2025 | $0.76 | $0.77 | -1.3% | $844.4M |
| Apr 24, 2025 | $0.80 | $0.78 | +3.0% | $838.2M |
| Feb 6, 2025 | $1.05 | $0.86 | +22.4% | $973.3M |
| Oct 24, 2024 | $0.77 | $0.72 | +6.6% | $845.1M |
Valuation in context
| Multiple | Now | 5-year median | 5-year percentile | Sector rank (cheapness) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| P/E (trailing) | 10.4× | 12.8× | 14th | Top 18% |
| P/E (forward) | 10.1× | — | — | — |
| EV / EBITDA | 9.5× | — | — | Top 26% |
| EV / Sales | 9.49× | — | — | Bottom 11% |
| Free-cash-flow yield | 9.64% | — | — | Top 39% |
| Earnings yield | 9.66% | — | — | Top 18% |
P/E over the past five years
Range 10.0× – 15.6× since Jun 30, 2021. Each point: price on the filing date divided by trailing-twelve-month EPS known then.
What moved the stock over the past year
- Price return, 1 year
- -6.1%
- Earnings per share growth (TTM)
- +0.9%
- Change in P/E multiple
- -14.8%
Most of the move came from a change in the valuation multiple.
Technical state
Trend checklist
- ✗ Price above 20-day average
- ✗ Price above 50-day average
- ✗ Price above 200-day average
- ✗ 50-day average above 200-day
- ✗ MACD histogram positive
Trend quality
- Days above the 50-day average
- 0
- Days above the 200-day average
- 0
- 50-day average slope (20 days)
- -1.1%
- 200-day average slope (20 days)
- -1.2%
- Distance from 50-day average
- -3.9%
- Distance from 200-day average
- -7.7%
- RSI (14)
- 37.6
- Relative volume
- 0.81×
Risk and drawdowns
- Volatility, 60 days (annualized)
- 13.9%
- Volatility vs own 5-year history
- 0th percentile · Low for this stock
- Beta vs S&P 500 (2 years, weekly)
- 0.64
- Correlation with S&P 500
- 0.40
- Current drawdown from 1-year high
- -18.2%
- Maximum drawdown, 3 years
- -19.0%
Largest declines in the past six years
| From peak | To low | Decline | Length | Recovery |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 4, 2021 | Nov 13, 2023 | -54.1% | 508 days | Not yet recovered |
| Oct 15, 2020 | Oct 30, 2020 | -12.4% | 11 days | 23 days (Dec 3, 2020) |
Declines of 10% or more from a closing high, measured on daily closes.
Financial statements
- Market cap
- $3.26B
- P/E (TTM)
- 10.4
- EPS, diluted (TTM)
- $3.38
- Revenue (TTM)
- $343.4M
- Dividend yield
- 9.91%
- 52-week range
- $34.58 – $44.11
| FY 2021 | FY 2022 | FY 2023 | FY 2024 | FY 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | $416.3M | $305.5M | $299.8M | $461.9M | $332.8M |
| Gross profit | $416.3M | $305.5M | $299.8M | $461.9M | $332.8M |
| Operating income | $416.3M | $305.5M | $299.8M | $461.9M | $332.8M |
| Net income | $385.8M | $274.2M | $264.2M | $423.4M | $299.8M |
| EPS (diluted) | $3.88 | $2.69 | $2.34 | $3.71 | $2.97 |
| Q3 2024 | Q4 2024 | Q1 2025 | Q2 2025 | Q3 2025 | Q4 2025 | Q1 2026 | Q2 2026 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | $136.4M | $116.6M | $82.8M | $78.8M | $81.4M | $89.8M | $92.3M | $80.0M |
| Net income | $127.2M | $105.4M | $74.0M | $70.2M | $73.8M | $81.8M | $85.2M | $71.7M |
| EPS (diluted) | $1.12 | $0.92 | $0.67 | $0.64 | $0.79 | $0.90 | $0.92 | $0.77 |
| FY 2021 | FY 2022 | FY 2023 | FY 2024 | FY 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Operating cash flow | $355.1M | $362.6M | $294.0M | $1.41B | $352.4M |
| Capital expenditure | $0 | $0 | $0 | -$122.3M | $0 |
| Free cash flow | $355.1M | $362.6M | $294.0M | $1.28B | $352.4M |
| Dividends paid | -$357.5M | -$361.0M | -$296.1M | -$341.3M | -$352.5M |
| Net share buybacks | $5.7M | $178,000 | $2.2M | $0 | $0 |
Cash outflows are shown as negative numbers.
- Cash and short-term investments
- $0
- Total assets
- $1.25B
- Total liabilities
- $1.0M
- Total debt
- $0
- Net debt
- $0
- Shareholders’ equity
- $1.24B
As of Jun 30, 2026 (filed Jul 31, 2026).
Dividends
| Ex-date | Amount | Paid |
|---|---|---|
| Aug 12, 2026 | $0.82 | Aug 27, 2026 |
| May 8, 2026 | $0.83 | May 21, 2026 |
| Feb 20, 2026 | $0.96 | Mar 12, 2026 |
| Nov 3, 2025 | $0.86 | Nov 20, 2025 |
| Aug 4, 2025 | $0.76 | Aug 14, 2025 |
| May 5, 2025 | $0.80 | May 22, 2025 |
| Feb 18, 2025 | $1.05 | Mar 13, 2025 |
| Nov 4, 2024 | $0.77 | Nov 21, 2024 |
Short interest
- Shares sold short
- 885,796
- Days to cover
- 3.23
- Change vs previous report
- +11.5%
FINRA short interest, settlement date Sep 15, 2026.
Stock splits
- Apr 3, 1998
- 2-for-1
- Mar 16, 1993
- 2-for-1