“Adjusted EBITDA of $232.3 million increased $44.4 million or 24% compared to the first half of 2025, primarily attributable to growth in our Americas Services and Leasing service lines, partially offset by higher occupancy costs, strategic investments and cos…”10-Q · Aug 5, 2026 ↗
Cushman & Wakefield Limited
CWK
Market read
Cushman & Wakefield Limited's move is spreading beyond its market group.
CWK accounts for 9.4% of the group's measured movement across 10.0 effective names. raw member direction is mixed; 10 of 12 session-normalized paths align to the upside. Capital-flow agreement is 12%, so confirmation is not yet clean. No verified headline preceded the measured group move.
Is this move genuinely shared?
ICLR, HIW, NMRK moved materially before CWK. CWK crossed its material path threshold at 15:50 ET, 1435 minutes after the first measured mover. CBRE followed.
- Revenue increased 11.2% versus the comparable filing period.
5 of 16 members in Real Estate Services are active. 0 of 7 disclosed connections are confirming.
- At least 11 of 16 durable members become active together.
- Capital-flow agreement rises above 55%.
- JBGS remains aligned with the group in the next market snapshot.
Invalidation: The live read weakens if participation falls to 5 of 16 members or fewer.
Research brief
The story so far
CWK accounts for 9.4% of the group's measured movement across 10.0 effective names. raw member direction is mixed; 10 of 12 session-normalized paths align to the upside. Capital-flow agreement is 12%, so confirmation is not yet clean. No verified headline preceded the measured group move.
- Revenue increased 11.2% versus the comparable filing period.
No thresholded adverse filing evidence is available yet.
- At least 11 of 16 durable members become active together.
- Capital-flow agreement rises above 55%.
- JBGS remains aligned with the group in the next market snapshot.
Company research
Understand the business, not just the ticker
Use the company’s filings to identify the few operating, demand, cost, capital and regulatory variables that determine its earnings power.
- Which operating variable is changing?
- Is that change durable, cyclical or one-off?
- What evidence would disprove the current interpretation?
- Latest annual revenue changed +8.9% year over year.
- Operating cash flow covered net income at 3.86x in the latest annual period.
- Input and raw-material costs has repeated favorable evidence across 5 filings.
- Macroeconomic conditions has repeated favorable evidence across 5 filings.
- Demand and volume has repeated favorable evidence across 4 filings.
- Restructuring and cost reductions has repeated adverse evidence across 3 filings.
- P/E is 19% above the available filing-peer median; determine whether growth and quality justify the difference.
- EV/sales is 42% below the available filing-peer median; determine whether growth and quality justify the difference.
Price as of Sep 11, 2026
12.90Reported annual revenue and per-share history. This is accounting history, not a forecast.
What management says matters
Persistent and emerging business drivers
“Adjusted EBITDA of $232.3 million increased $44.4 million or 24% compared to the first half of 2025, primarily attributable to growth in our Americas Services and Leasing service lines, partially offset by higher occupancy costs, strategic investments and cos…”10-Q · Aug 5, 2026 ↗
“These trends were partially offset by a $6.8 million increase in capital expenditures.”10-Q · Aug 5, 2026 ↗
“Adjusted EBITDA of $183.6 million increased $21.9 million or 14% compared to the three months ended June 30, 2025, attributable to the same factors impacting Net income above, with the exception of interest expense and unrealized losses on real estate investm…”10-Q · Aug 5, 2026 ↗
Valuation discipline
Descriptive valuation snapshot
Price/sales 0.3× · EV/sales 0.5×. Comparisons use only industry-matched filing peers.
Mechanical 2.0-year scenarios are available as editable assumptions, not consensus.
Price action
How the market is pricing the story
Jodie does not have enough daily observations to draw a useful short-term chart for this asset. The latest quoted price was checked 11 Sept, 15:55 GMT-4; this is a coverage limitation, not a flat-price conclusion.
Developments
No sourced recent-development timeline yet
Jodie has not returned a relevant primary source or news item for CWK. This is an evidence-coverage gap, not a conclusion that nothing material happened.
Business and financial condition
Reported financial figures are not available yet
Jodie has not returned structured SEC XBRL fundamentals for this asset. This is a coverage limitation, not an assessment of the business or its financial health.
Latest filing assessment
The latest filing presents a mixed picture
10-Q filed 2026-08-05 against the comparable filing from 2025-08-05.
Capital and cash conversion
Investment load increased
Capital spending consumed more revenue while free-cash-flow margin declined.
- Capital spending YoY
- +48.9%
- Capital spending / revenue
- +0.4%
- Free-cash-flow margin
- -4.0%
- FCF margin change
- -0.5 pts
Capex, revenue, and operating cash flow are matched to the same reported duration. Reported accounting context, not a forecast or trading recommendation.
What improved
- Revenue increased 11.2% versus the comparable filing period.
What weakened
No thresholded deterioration was identified.
Filing receipts
“Interest expense, net of interest income Interest expense, net of interest income of $59.6 million increased $6.4 million or 12% compared to the three months ended June 30, 2025, primarily due to $4.5 million of costs associated with the amendment of the Credit Agreement, as well as a $2.0 million loss on debt extinguishment from the partial redemptions of the senior secured notes due in 2028.”
“est expense, net of interest income of $59.6 million increased $6.4 million or 12% compared to the three months ended June 30, 2025, primarily due to $4.5 million of costs associated with the amendment of the Credit Agreement, as well as a $2.0 million loss on debt extinguishment from the partial redemptions of the senior secured notes due in 2028.”
“Cost of services provided to clients increased $138.7 million or 14%, primarily due to an increase in employment costs of approximately $120.0 million, including higher commissions associated with higher brokerage revenue and higher salaries as a result of higher Services revenue.”
Historical filing backfill generated after the original filing window. It is not part of Jodie's live track record.
Business ecosystem
The relationships behind CWK
Customers, suppliers, partners and competitors named in company filings—not inferred from headlines.
Depends on
CBRECBRE Group, Inc.competitorFeb 19, 2026 ▾
“We are also subject to competition from other large national and multinational firms that have similar service competencies and geographic footprints to ours, including Jones Lang LaSalle Incorporated (NYSE: JLL), CBRE Group, Inc.”
CIGIColliers International Group Inc.competitorFeb 19, 2026 ▾
“We are also subject to competition from other large national and multinational firms that have similar service competencies and geographic footprints to ours, including Jones Lang LaSalle Incorporated (NYSE: JLL), CBRE Group, Inc.”
Depended on by
NMRKNewmark Group, Inc.competitorMar 2, 2026 ▾
“We also compete with other large multinational firms that have similar or overlapping service competencies to ours, including CBRE Group, Inc., Colliers International Group Inc., Cushman & Wakefield PLC, Jones Lang LaSalle Incorporated, and Savills plc.”
Filing peers
Companies whose filings use similar operating language.
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What is moving around it
Live connections
CWK is currently a Participant in the organic co-movement group Real Estate Services. This group is discovered from market behaviour rather than assigned from an industry taxonomy. 3 filing-linked names are in the relationship map; none is currently confirmed as moving with the group.
Context history
Theme membership history
No durable theme membership has been observed for this name yet.