“The $4.6 million, or 15%, decrease in interest expense from the six months ended July 31, 2025 to the six months ended July 31, 2026 was primarily due to a lower average principal balance and a lower average interest rate on borrowings with variable interest…”10-Q · Aug 27, 2026 ↗
HealthEquity, Inc.
HQY
Market read
HealthEquity, Inc.'s current read is isolated; its market group is not confirming.
The latest filing evidence is available. 0 of 23 group members are active now; 0 filing-linked outsiders are moving with the group, and 0 of 3 directly disclosed connections are confirming.
- Revenue increased 7.2% versus the comparable filing period.
- Monitor the average annualized yield on HSA cash and its contribution to custodial revenue, including participation in Enhanced Rates and depository placements.
- Track interest expense on variable-rate borrowings and changes in average principal balance and average interest rate on those borrowings.
Invalidation: The isolated read changes if HQY's group or a disclosed connection begins moving with it.
Research brief
The story so far
The latest filing evidence is available. 0 of 23 group members are active now; 0 filing-linked outsiders are moving with the group, and 0 of 3 directly disclosed connections are confirming.
- Revenue increased 7.2% versus the comparable filing period.
- Operating margin improved 3.9 percentage points.
- Net income increased 28.8% versus the comparable filing period.
No thresholded adverse filing evidence is available yet.
- Monitor the average annualized yield on HSA cash and its contribution to custodial revenue, including participation in Enhanced Rates and depository placements.
- Track interest expense on variable-rate borrowings and changes in average principal balance and average interest rate on those borrowings.
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 +9.5% year over year.
- Operating margin changed +11.0 percentage points in the latest annual period.
- Net margin changed +8.3 percentage points in the latest annual period.
- Credit and interest rates has repeated adverse evidence across 5 filings.
- P/E is 18% below the available filing-peer median; determine whether growth and quality justify the difference.
- EV/sales is 149% above the available filing-peer median; determine whether growth and quality justify the difference.
Price as of Sep 11, 2026
96.23Reported annual revenue and per-share history. This is accounting history, not a forecast.
What management says matters
Persistent and emerging business drivers
“On an annual basis, relative to the fiscal year ended January 31, 2026, we expect our general and administrative expenses to increase, primarily due to the normalization of our stock-based compensation expense and additional demands on our legal, compliance,…”10-Q · May 28, 2026 ↗
“The increase in the effective tax rate for the fiscal year ended January 31, 2026 compared to the fiscal year ended January 31, 2025 was primarily due to an increase in pre-tax book income, a reduction in tax benefit from stock-based compensation expense, and…”10-K · Mar 17, 2026 ↗
“Net cash used in investing activities increased by $12.5 million from the six months ended July 31, 2025 to the six months ended July 31, 2026, due to a $7.8 million increase in cash paid to settle derivative financial instruments and a $4.7 million increase…”10-Q · Aug 27, 2026 ↗
Valuation discipline
Descriptive valuation snapshot
Price/sales 6.4× · EV/sales 6.9×. 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 HQY. 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 · baseline
Fundamentals strengthened in the latest filing
10-Q filed 2026-05-28 against the comparable filing from 2025-06-03.
What improved
- Revenue increased 7.2% versus the comparable filing period.
- Operating margin improved 3.9 percentage points.
- Net income increased 28.8% versus the comparable filing period.
What weakened
No thresholded deterioration was identified.
Filing receipts
“The $17.9 million, or 11%, increase in custodial revenue from the three months ended April 30, 2025 to the three months ended April 30, 2026 was primarily due to an increase in average annualized yield on HSA cash from 3.50% for the three months ended April 30, 2025 to 3.84% for the three months ended April 30, 2026 (due to increased participation in our Enhanced Rates offering, HSA cash placed with Depository Partners at higher yields, and a $2.4 million one-time benefit resulting from the early termination of a contract with a Depository Partner) and the $0.4 billion, or 2%, increase in average daily HSA cash, as described above, partially offset by a decrease in interest rates on the por...”
“On an annual basis, relative to the fiscal year ended January 31, 2026, we expect our cost of revenue to decrease as a percentage of our total revenue, primarily due to an increase in custodial revenue and a decrease in service costs, partially offset by costs resulting from an increase in Total Accounts.”
“The $0.9 million, or 8%, increase in custodial costs from the three months ended April 30, 2025 to the three months ended April 30, 2026 was primarily due to the $0.4 billion, or 2%, increase in average daily HSA cash, as described above, and an increase in the average annualized rate of interest retained by HSA members on HSA cash from 0.23% during the three months ended April 30, 2025 to 0.25% during the three months ended April 30, 2026.”
Retrospective baseline calibration. It was generated after the filing date and is not part of Jodie's live track record.
Business ecosystem
The relationships behind HQY
Customers, suppliers, partners and competitors named in company filings—not inferred from headlines.
Depends on
CNDTFiling-linked namesupplierMar 17, 2026 ▾
“In fiscal 2025, we acquired the BenefitWallet HSA portfolio, comprised of approximately 616,000 HSAs plus other accounts, which collectively totaled $2.7 billion of HSA Assets, from Conduent Business Services, LLC for a purchase price of $425.0 million.”
UNHUnitedHealth Group IncorporatedcompetitorMay 28, 2026 ▾
“Some of our direct competitors (including well-known retail investment companies, such as Fidelity Investments, and healthcare service companies such as UnitedHealth Group's Optum and Webster Bank ) are in a position to devote more resources to the developmen…”
Depended on by
ALITAlight, Inc.competitorFeb 24, 2026 ▾
“Our primary competitors include ADP, bswift, Businessolver, Conduent, Empower, Empyrean, Fidelity, HealthEquity, Included Health, Personify, Quantum Health, Sedgwick, Transcarent, Voya, and WTW.”
Filing peers
Companies whose filings use similar operating language.
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What is moving around it
Live connections
HQY is currently a Follower in the organic co-movement group B2B Software & Data. 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.