Organic growth accelerates to 6%, triple prior year rate
Management expressed strong confidence, citing record bookings, accelerating organic growth, and raising full-year guidance across all metrics.
IQVIA reported a very strong Q2 2026, beating on all metrics and raising full-year guidance. The company highlighted accelerating growth in both segments, a record backlog, and significant traction in AI-enabled solutions. Management painted a bullish picture of the demand environment, especially driven by emerging biopharma strength. Revenue grew 8.7% reported / 8.5% constant currency, with both R&D Solutions and Commercial Solutions accelerating.
IQVIA reported a very strong Q2 2026, beating on all metrics and raising full-year guidance. The company highlighted accelerating growth in both segments, a record backlog, and significant traction in AI-enabled solutions. Management painted a bullish picture of the demand environment, especially driven by emerging biopharma strength. Revenue grew 8.7% reported / 8.5% constant currency, with both R&D Solutions and Commercial Solutions accelerating.
Management expressed strong confidence, citing record bookings, accelerating organic growth, and raising full-year guidance across all metrics.
Organic growth accelerates to 6%, triple prior year rate. Management expressed strong confidence, citing record bookings, accelerating organic growth, and raising full-year guidance across all metrics.
Raised full-year 2026 revenue guidance to $17.275-$17.475B (up from $17.1-$17.3B) and EPS to $12.80-$13.00.
Management highlighted that AI is increasingly differentiating their offerings, improving study design, accelerating timelines, and reducing operational risk, and noted that clients are moving beyond pilots to deploy AI agents more broadly, contributing to top-line growth and…
Management highlighted that AI is increasingly differentiating their offerings, improving study design, accelerating timelines, and reducing operational risk, and noted that clients are moving beyond pilots to deploy AI agents more broadly, contributing to top-line growth and win rates.
Organic growth accelerates to 6%, triple prior year rate. Management expressed strong confidence, citing record bookings, accelerating organic growth, and raising full-year guidance across all metrics.
Management expressed strong confidence, citing record bookings, accelerating organic growth, and raising full-year guidance across all metrics.
“I guess you can see that based on publicly available information, it is apparent that we have more revenue in the EVP segment than any of our CRO peers.”
“But if there is an adjustment to our backlog for inactive trials, it's in the ballpark of 5%, not this 15% metric that was out there by competitor.”
“Some of our large-former clients are predicting they will double their study portfolio. And so they're asking us literally to ask thousands of FCEs in anticipation of those studies.”
| Показатель | Период | Диапазон | Середина | Статус |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| EPS | FY2026 | $12.80–$13.00 | $12.90 | RAISED |
| EPS | FY2026 Q3 | $3.19–$3.29 | $3.24 | GUIDED |
| Revenue | FY2026 | $17.275B–$17.475B | $17.375B | RAISED |
| Revenue | FY2026 Q3 | $4.315B–$4.39B | $4.3525B | GUIDED |
| Дата прогноза | Показатель | Целевой период | Прогноз | Факт | Результат |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FY2026 Q1 | EPS | FY2026 Q2 | $2.98–$3.08 | $3.15 | Met / beat |
| FY2026 Q1 | Revenue | FY2026 Q2 | $4.28B–$4.34B | $4.368B | Met / beat |
| FY2025 Q4 | Revenue | FY2026 Q1 | $4.15B–$4.5B | $4.151B | Met / beat |
IQVIA disclosed a new customer segment breakdown, with EVP (emerging biopharma) being a much larger part of revenue (35%) than previously disclosed, positioning them as the largest EVP provider. — Signals potential re-rating of IQVIA's growth vs. peers, as EVP segment is growing 2-3x faster than large pharma, suggesting structural advantage over other CROs.
“we completed the Acquisition of the Charles Weaver assets in the hold.”
Hi, good morning. Thanks for taking my question. I wanted to ask a clarification and then more of a content question. So the clarification, I think, Mike, you quantified 2.5% of acquisition contribution. I was wondering if you could break that out between segments. And then Ari, You seem in the mood to talk about the expanse of the business. The company has kind of quietly started to build some discovery capabilities. You're talking a lot about AI. I wondered if you might expand the discussion to talk about what your thoughts are in investing in and building out capabilities in the early part of the development supply chain and how you see that folding into your broader strategy leading…
Well, Dave, it sounds like you've been listening in in our highly secretive strategy session. I wish. I wish. All I can say is that yes, we are working on those things and I can leave it at that. And again, you would expect us to do that simply because we have great relationships with our clients and we are expanding upwards and downwards the set of capabilities you saw us buy discovery assets. In fact, we completed the Acquisition of the Charles Weaver assets in the hold. I guess that was the first part of the question to you, Mike. You want to make it say what? And that's basically what normally our acquisitions, we have guided to a point and a half for the year. But now that we did, it's going to add what? About 75, 80 million? Yeah. Like this year's revenue?
IQVIA disclosed a new customer segment breakdown, with EVP (emerging biopharma) being a much larger part of revenue (35%) than previously disclosed, positioning them as the largest EVP provider. — Signals potential re-rating of IQVIA's growth vs. peers, as EVP segment is growing 2-3x faster than large pharma, suggesting structural advantage over other CROs.
… From now on, we are going to define large pharma by the top 20 companies by RX sales, mid-size companies will be the next 60 pharma companies by RX sales, and EVPs, everyone else. I want to give you the breakdown of our R&DS revenue by customer segments as I just defined them. Large Pharma represents approximately 50% of our R&DS revenue. Mid-size, approximately 15% of our R&DS revenue. And EVP represents 35% of our R&DS revenue. I guess you can see that based on publicly available information, it is apparent that we have more revenue in the EVP segment than any of our CRO peers. And this is extremely important because emerging biopharma continues to be where much of the industry's innovation is coming from. A decade ago, EVPs represented about 45% of all clinical trials starts globally. Today, EVPs represent about 70% of all clinical trials starts globally. EVP R&D spend is also expected to grow at two to three times the rate of large pharma R&D spend. And of course, EVP trials are full service outsourcing. All of this creates a meaningful opportunity for IQVIA given we are the largest EVP provider. At the same time, large pharma continues to be a significant segment for …
IQVIA management called out that its inactive trial backlog is only ~5%, directly disputing a competitor's report that roughly 15-16% of active trials are inactive.
Hi, guys. Congrats on the nice quarter, and thanks so much for the question. If we think about the guidance, particularly the revenue increase, How would you sort of allocate that between the improving demand environment that you're seeing in R&DS and CS and anything to call out sort of either like interest expense or tax rate or anything that changed versus what you were saying last quarter? Thank you.
Yeah, I think the team is looking at it and will finalize it in the third quarters. But if there is an adjustment to our backlog for inactive trials, it's in the ballpark of 5%, not this 15% metric that was out there by competitor. And I think that it's important to note that if we do make an adjustment, It will have zero impact on any historical financial results, guidance, the next 12-month revenue from backlog, which is recorded zero. So again, it's something that we're looking into, and if we do something, we will talk about it in our third quarter call.
IQVIA is redeploying 1,000+ FCEs at large pharma clients in anticipation of AI-driven study portfolio expansion, with clients expecting to double their study portfolios.
Hi, good morning, everyone. Ari, in your prepared remarks, you talked about outsourcing penetration potentially increasing over the interim. Is that comment broad-based, more focused on some of the conversations you've been having with your large and mid-sized pharma customers? Just any more color there would be helpful.
Sure. Thank you. Okay, so as you know, the EBP segment is 100% outsourced by definition. And again, as I want to reiterate, we are the largest CRO provider to the EBP segment. I think it's very clear from the numbers now. So that clearly is all outsourced. Mid-size, pretty much similar, except for some of the larger ones that Large Pharma is really where you've had that debate, insourcing, outsourcing, etc. Look, I want to tell you that large pharma clients are already telling us that because of the increasing extensive use of AI, and by the way, use of AI by large pharma is not starting on July 28 with a press release. It's been going on for more than two or three years. So the use of AI in discovery will only increase demand for CRO services. And our clients are actually telling us and asking us to gear up capacity as additional molecules will enter development. Some of our large-former clients are predicting they will double their study portfolio. And so they're asking us literally to ask thousands of FCEs in anticipation of those studies. So the additional demand with CROs is simply because, again, the dynamics of outsourcing remain the same. Some of these new molecules are identified through use of AI are in adjacent therapies where the client may not have all the therapeutic expertise. The additional capacity required, you know, no one is interested in adding more headcounts for specific trials. It's always more cost effective to use a CRO. And then the global footprint helps. The domain expertise, the regulatory and internal knowledge for study design, the site relationships and the network, the broad therapeutic coverage, the expensive data to land on the best design and successfully recruit more specialist patient populations, all of that lends itself to more outsourcing. So the current outsourcing for large pharma You know, we continue to increase as we look at our conversations with our clients and we model it out.