Sentiment · FY2026 Q2
What companies say about each other on earnings calls — extracted verbatim from public transcripts. Mentions from the newest quarter are a Pro feature.
“And PRIV, our ETF with State Street, now approaches $700 million in size, and more importantly, it's among the top performers of investment-grade ETFs everywhere.”
Apollo's PRIV private-credit ETF with State Street nears $700M and is a top-performing IG ETF; the two also collaborate on DC/401(k) products.
“In infrastructure, clients such as Nationwide, State Street, and Credit Agricole are turning to AI to manage increased workloads and use z17 for its advanced AI inferencing capabilities and enhanced resiliency.”
State Street is cited as an IBM z17 mainframe client using it for AI inferencing and resiliency amid rising workloads.
“A recent example is the announcement of our expanded partnership with State Street, establishing a unified global back office for many Columbia Threadneedle funds.”
Ameriprise expanded its partnership with State Street to run a unified global back office for many Columbia Threadneedle funds, a mandate win for State Street's servicing business.
“I mean you know about how we partner with State Street on the ETFs.”
Apollo highlights its partnership with State Street on ETFs as a template for distributing private assets through traditional managers.
“We announced in May that Invesco has decided to adopt a hybrid solution by utilizing platforms from both State Street for equities and BlackRock who we currently use for fixed income.”
Invesco selected State Street as its equities technology platform provider in a hybrid outsourcing arrangement.
“Innovation can be a partnering with State Street on their ETF.”
Apollo cites its partnership with State Street on an ETF product as an example of the kind of distribution innovation fueling new demand for private assets.
“Okay. So we have two announced public partnerships, one with State Street and one with Lord Abbott.”
Apollo names State Street as one of two announced public distribution partnerships bringing private-credit products to traditional-asset-manager channels, including the State Street PRIV ETF.
“Fees paid to State Street as we transition assets to alpha will increase as future waves are executed.”
Invesco is migrating assets onto State Street's Alpha platform; platform fees paid to State Street will rise as more asset waves transition, alongside one-time implementation costs.
“On Schwab, we do not have a concrete plan yet because we have not seen the final.”
State Street is evaluating how to respond to Schwab's potential distribution-platform fees for ETFs but does not see them as a material risk to its ETF business.
“Our Galaxy product is a partnership with Galaxy.”
State Street's tokenized/on-chain Galaxy liquidity product is built in partnership with Galaxy, illustrating its make-versus-partner approach in digital assets.
| Analyst | Firm | Questions (Challenge)Percentage of questions scored as challenging — where the analyst pushed back, pressed for specifics, or questioned management's assumptions. |
|---|---|---|
| Jim Mitchell | Seaport Research Partners | 13 (0%) |
| Alex Blostein | Goldman Sachs | 11 (18%) |
| Ken Usdin | Autonomous Research |
“our State Street Bridgewater All Weather ETF surpassed $1 billion in assets under management during the quarter”
The co-branded State Street Bridgewater All Weather ETF crossed $1B AUM, a positive signpost for the Bridgewater partnership.
“our investment-grade public and private credit ETF, developed in partnership with Apollo Global Management, reach a new high watermark during January with AUM of over $800 million”
State Street's public/private credit ETF developed with Apollo Global Management reached over $800M AUM, a positive read-through for the SSGA-Apollo partnership.
“our strategic partnership with Apex Financial Solutions to build a differentiated, fully digital, and globally scalable wealth custody and clearing solution”
State Street is partnering with Apex Financial Solutions to build a digital wealth custody and clearing platform, opening a new growth avenue in wealth services.
“Fnality's work to create an ecosystem of central-bank-connected, blockchain-based payment systems”
State Street is participating in Fnality's blockchain-based, central-bank-connected payment ecosystem as part of its digital-markets strategy.
“including DTCC's tokenization efforts”
State Street is engaged in DTCC's tokenization initiatives as part of building digital-asset market infrastructure.
“that's really what motivated what we tried to do with BBH.”
Management references its prior attempted acquisition of Brown Brothers Harriman's investor services as the motivation behind its scale ambitions.
“we also announced a strategic minority investment in Grow AMC, the asset management arm of one of India's most innovative and fast-growing digital investment platforms.”
State Street announced a strategic minority investment in Groww's asset-management arm, deepening its footprint in India's digital investment market.
“we made a strategic minority investment in Collard Capital, one of the world's largest dedicated private market secondaries managers.”
State Street took a strategic minority stake in Coller Capital, a leading private-market secondaries manager, expanding its private-markets exposure.
“and partnered with Van Lanschop, Kempen Investment Management to drive further growth in Europe.”
State Street partnered with Van Lanschot Kempen Investment Management to drive investment-management growth in Europe.
“We also established a strategic relationship with Smallcase, India's largest model portfolios platform”
State Street established a strategic relationship with Smallcase, India's largest model-portfolios platform, to expand distribution in India.
| 11 (9%) |
| Glenn Schorr | Evercore ISI | 11 (9%) |
| Mike Mayo | Wells Fargo | 11 (36%) |
| Gerard Cassidy | RBC Capital Markets | 10 (0%) |
| Brennan Hawken | BMO Capital Markets | 9 (0%) |
| Vivek Juneja | JPMorgan | 8 (50%) |
| Dave Smith | Truist Securities | 7 (0%) |
| Ebrahim Poonawala | Bank of America | 6 (17%) |
| Firm | Analysts | Questions (Challenge)Percentage of questions scored as challenging — where the analyst pushed back, pressed for specifics, or questioned management's assumptions. |
|---|---|---|
| Seaport Research Partners | 1 | 13 (0%) |
| Autonomous Research | 1 | 11 (9%) |
| Evercore ISI | 1 | 11 (9%) |
| Goldman Sachs | 1 | 11 (18%) |
| Wells Fargo | 1 | 11 (36%) |
| RBC Capital Markets | 1 | 10 (0%) |
| BMO Capital Markets | 1 | 9 (0%) |
| JPMorgan | 1 | 8 (50%) |
Record quarterly revenue of $3.8 billion grew 16% excluding notable items with fee revenue surging 15% and NII breaking out at 17% growth, as State Street achieved its ninth straight quarter of operating leverage. The fee revenue guide was raised from 4-6% to 7-9% and NII guide from low single digits to 8-10%, reflecting broad-based strength including record FX volumes, SPYM becoming the world's largest asset-gathering ETF with $27 billion in inflows, and NIM expanding to 116 basis points. AI deployment scaled to over 200 use cases with agentic capabilities while the digital asset platform went live.
Revenue Growth | Credit | Competitive Dynamics | Macroeconomic | Capital Allocation | Innovation & R&D | Margin | Demand | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024Q4 | 4 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 2 | |
| 2025Q1 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2025Q2 | 7 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 2 | |
| 2025Q3 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 2 |
| 2025Q4 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 1 |
| 2026Q1 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 3 |
| 2026Q2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 6 |
| '24Q4 | '25Q1 | '25Q2 | '25Q3 | '25Q4 | '26Q1 | '26Q2 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue Growth | 4 | 4 | 7 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 2 |
| Credit | 7 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 3 | |
| Competitive Dynamics | 3 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 1 |
| Macroeconomic | 1 | 7 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
| Capital Allocation | 3 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 2 |
| Innovation & R&D | 2 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 3 | |
| Margin | 1 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 6 | ||
| Demand | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| Company | Score | Trend | Rev YoY |
|---|---|---|---|
STT State Street Corporation | 10 | +16.7% | |
| AMP Ameriprise Financial | 8 | +9.0% | |
| ARES Ares Management Corporation | 9 | +40.8% | |
| BEN Franklin Resources | 8 | +8.7% | |
| BLK BlackRock | 9 | +30.6% | |
| BNY BNY Mellon | 9 | +13.0% | |
| BX Blackstone Inc. | 8 | +39.3% | |
| IVZ Invesco | 8 | +14.1% | |
| KKR KKR | 7 | +31.0% | |
| NTRS Northern Trust | 9 | +7.8% | |
| TROW T. Rowe Price | 6 | +5.3% |