FAIR ISAAC CORPFICO
FAIR ISAAC CORP Segments Disclosure
Segment Information
We are organized into two reportable segments: Scores and Software. Although we sell solutions and services into a large number of end user product and industry markets, our reportable business segments reflect the primary method in which management organizes and evaluates internal financial information to make operating decisions and assess performance.
•Scores. This segment includes our business-to-business (“B2B”) scoring solutions and services which give our clients access to predictive credit and other scores that can be easily integrated into their transaction streams and decision-making processes. This segment also includes our business-to-consumer (“B2C”) scoring solutions, including our myFICO.com subscription offerings.
•Software. This segment includes pre-configured analytic and decision management solutions designed for a specific type of business need or process — such as account origination, customer management, customer engagement, fraud detection, and marketing — as well as associated professional services. This segment also includes FICO® Platform, a modular software offering designed to support advanced analytic and decision use cases, as well as stand-alone analytic and decisioning software that can be configured by our customers to address a wide variety of business use cases. These offerings are available to our customers as SaaS or as on-premises software.
Our chief operating decision maker (“CODM”), who is our Chief Executive Officer, evaluates segment financial performance based on segment revenues, segment operating expenses in total and segment operating income. Segment operating expenses consist of direct and indirect costs principally related to personnel, facilities, IT infrastructure, depreciation and amortization, consulting and travel. Indirect costs are allocated to the segments generally based on relative segment revenues, fixed rates established by management based upon estimated expense contribution levels and other assumptions that management considers reasonable. We do not allocate broad-based incentive expense, share-based compensation expense, restructuring and acquisition-related expense, amortization expense, various corporate charges and certain other income and expense measures to our segments. These income and expense items are not allocated because they are not considered in evaluating the segment’s operating performance. Our CODM does not evaluate the financial performance of each segment based on its respective assets or capital expenditures; rather, depreciation and amortization amounts are allocated to the segments from their internal cost centers as described above.
The following tables summarize segment information for fiscal 2025, 2024 and 2023:
| Year Ended September 30, 2025 | |||||||||||||||||
| Scores | Software | Total | |||||||||||||||
| (In thousands) | |||||||||||||||||
| Segment revenues: | |||||||||||||||||
| On-premises and SaaS software | $ | — | $ | 740,145 | $ | 740,145 | |||||||||||
| Professional services | — | 82,149 | 82,149 | ||||||||||||||
| Scores | 1,168,575 | — | 1,168,575 | ||||||||||||||
| Total segment revenues | 1,168,575 | 822,294 | 1,990,869 | ||||||||||||||
| Segment operating expense | (142,332) | (574,600) | (716,932) | ||||||||||||||
| Segment operating income | $ | 1,026,243 | $ | 247,694 | $ | 1,273,937 | |||||||||||
| Unallocated corporate expenses | (181,498) | ||||||||||||||||
| Unallocated share-based compensation expense | (156,667) | ||||||||||||||||
| Unallocated restructuring charges | (10,922) | ||||||||||||||||
| Operating income | 924,850 | ||||||||||||||||
| Unallocated interest expense, net | (133,647) | ||||||||||||||||
| Unallocated other income, net | 11,392 | ||||||||||||||||
| Income before income taxes | $ | 802,595 | |||||||||||||||
| Year Ended September 30, 2024 | |||||||||||||||||
| Scores | Software | Total | |||||||||||||||
| (In thousands) | |||||||||||||||||
| Segment revenues: | |||||||||||||||||
| On-premises and SaaS software | $ | — | $ | 711,340 | $ | 711,340 | |||||||||||
| Professional services | — | 86,536 | 86,536 | ||||||||||||||
| Scores | 919,650 | — | 919,650 | ||||||||||||||
| Total segment revenues | 919,650 | 797,876 | 1,717,526 | ||||||||||||||
| Segment operating expense | (106,296) | (540,347) | (646,643) | ||||||||||||||
| Segment operating income | $ | 813,354 | $ | 257,529 | 1,070,883 | ||||||||||||
| Unallocated corporate expenses | (186,898) | ||||||||||||||||
| Unallocated share-based compensation expense | (149,439) | ||||||||||||||||
| Unallocated amortization expense | (917) | ||||||||||||||||
| Operating income | 733,629 | ||||||||||||||||
| Unallocated interest expense, net | (105,638) | ||||||||||||||||
| Unallocated other income, net | 14,034 | ||||||||||||||||
| Income before income taxes | $ | 642,025 | |||||||||||||||
| Year Ended September 30, 2023 | |||||||||||||||||
| Scores | Software | Total | |||||||||||||||
| (In thousands) | |||||||||||||||||
| Segment revenues: | |||||||||||||||||
| On-premises and SaaS software | $ | — | $ | 640,182 | $ | 640,182 | |||||||||||
| Professional services | — | 99,547 | 99,547 | ||||||||||||||
| Scores | 773,828 | — | 773,828 | ||||||||||||||
| Total segment revenues | 773,828 | 739,729 | 1,513,557 | ||||||||||||||
| Segment operating expense | (92,757) | (498,538) | (591,295) | ||||||||||||||
| Segment operating income | $ | 681,071 | $ | 241,191 | 922,262 | ||||||||||||
| Unallocated corporate expenses | (156,426) | ||||||||||||||||
| Unallocated share-based compensation expense | (123,847) | ||||||||||||||||
| Unallocated amortization expense | (1,100) | ||||||||||||||||
| Unallocated gain on product line asset sale | 1,941 | ||||||||||||||||
| Operating income | 642,830 | ||||||||||||||||
| Unallocated interest expense, net | (95,546) | ||||||||||||||||
| Unallocated other income, net | 6,340 | ||||||||||||||||
| Income before income taxes | $ | 553,624 | |||||||||||||||
The following table presents depreciation and amortization on property and equipment for fiscal 2025, 2024 and 2023:
| Year Ended September 30, | |||||||||||||||||
| 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | |||||||||||||||
| (In thousands) | |||||||||||||||||
| Depreciation and amortization: | |||||||||||||||||
| Scores | $ | 512 | $ | 451 | $ | 485 | |||||||||||
| Software | 10,071 | 8,881 | 9,550 | ||||||||||||||
| Total segment depreciation and amortization | 10,583 | 9,332 | 10,035 | ||||||||||||||
| Unallocated corporate | 75 | 66 | 71 | ||||||||||||||
| Total depreciation and amortization | $ | 10,658 | $ | 9,398 | $ | 10,106 | |||||||||||
Long-lived assets held outside of the U.S. were immaterial at September 30, 2025 and 2024.
Historical Timeline
| Fiscal Year | Filed | |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Nov 7, 2025 | Showing above |
| 2024 | Nov 6, 2024 | |
| 2023 | Nov 8, 2023 | |
| 2022 | Nov 9, 2022 | |
| 2021 | Nov 10, 2021 | |
| 2020 | Nov 12, 2020 | |
| 2019 | Nov 8, 2019 | |
| 2018 | Nov 9, 2018 | |
| 2017 | Nov 9, 2017 | |
| 2016 | Nov 10, 2016 | |
| 2015 | Nov 10, 2015 | |
About Segments Disclosures
Segment disclosures break a company into its reportable operating units, revealing revenue, profit, and asset allocation that consolidated financial statements obscure. Under ASC 280, segments must match how the chief operating decision maker views the business, providing a window into internal management structure and resource allocation priorities.
Key signals: compare segment margins to identify which units drive profitability and which destroy value. Watch for changes in the number of reportable segments — segment aggregation or disaggregation often coincides with strategic shifts or attempts to obscure declining performance. Intersegment elimination patterns reveal internal pricing practices. The reconciliation between segment totals and consolidated figures exposes corporate overhead allocation and unallocated items. Geographic revenue concentration highlights regulatory and currency exposure. Compare segment-level capital expenditure against segment revenue to assess where management is investing for future growth versus harvesting existing assets.