Note 5 Segment Information

WTW has two reportable operating segments organized by business areas:

Health, Wealth & Career (‘HWC’); and
Risk & Broking (‘R&B’).

WTW’s chief operating decision maker (‘CODM’) is its chief executive officer. We determined that the operational data used by the CODM is at the segment level. Management bases strategic goals and decisions for these segments on the data presented below which is used to assess the adequacy of strategic decisions and the methods of achieving these strategies and related financial results. Management evaluates the performance of its segments and allocates resources to them based on net segment operating income performance and prospects on a pre-tax basis.

Under the segment structure and for internal and segment reporting, WTW segment revenue includes commissions and fees, interest and other income. U.S. GAAP revenue also includes amounts that were directly incurred on behalf of our clients and reimbursed by them (reimbursable expenses), which are not included in segment revenue. There is no significant segment revenue derived from transactions between the segments.

In accordance with ASU 2023-07, Segment Reporting (Topic 280): Improvements to Reportable Segment Disclosures (‘ASC 2023-07’), the Company has not presented any individual significant expense categories due to the following factors:

The CODM’s review focuses on segment operating income results in total, rather than on individual expenses to arrive at segment operating income. The CODM uses segment operating income to make decisions and allocate resources.
The CODM does not regularly review any individual significant expense categories at the segment level. Rather, the segment leaders are tasked with achieving the targeted segment operating income and have discretion to determine how to manage their respective expense categories to achieve the targets set by the CODM.
Instead, the CODM routinely reviews budgeted, forecasted and actual expense information at the consolidated level only and not at the individual segment level.

 

Segment operating income excludes certain costs, including (i) amortization of intangibles; (ii) restructuring costs; (iii) certain transaction and transformation expenses; and (iv) to the extent that the actual expense based upon which allocations are made differs from the forecast/budget amount, a reconciling item will be created between internally-allocated expenses and the actual expenses that we report for U.S. GAAP purposes. Although not reviewed individually by the CODM, amounts included in segment expenses may be determined on both a direct and allocated basis and are related to salaries and benefits, depreciation, corporate overhead charges and other operating expenses, including for occupancy, colleague travel costs, legal, marketing, technology, professional fees and professional liability costs.

The following table presents segment revenue, segment expenses and segment operating income for our reportable segments for the years ended December 31, 2025, 2024 and 2023.

 

 

 

HWC

 

 

R&B

 

 

Total

 

 

 

Years ended December 31,

 

 

Years ended December 31,

 

 

Years ended December 31,

 

 

 

2025

 

 

2024

 

 

2023

 

 

2025

 

 

2024

 

 

2023

 

 

2025

 

 

2024

 

 

2023

 

Segment revenue excluding interest income

 

$

5,225

 

 

$

5,745

 

 

$

5,557

 

 

$

4,237

 

 

$

3,926

 

 

$

3,656

 

 

$

9,462

 

 

$

9,671

 

 

$

9,213

 

Interest income

 

 

29

 

 

 

32

 

 

 

25

 

 

 

97

 

 

 

112

 

 

 

79

 

 

 

126

 

 

 

144

 

 

 

104

 

Total segment revenue

 

 

5,254

 

 

 

5,777

 

 

 

5,582

 

 

 

4,334

 

 

 

4,038

 

 

 

3,735

 

 

 

9,588

 

 

 

9,815

 

 

 

9,317

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Other segment expenses

 

 

3,443

 

 

 

3,926

 

 

 

3,891

 

 

 

3,221

 

 

 

3,035

 

 

 

2,874

 

 

 

6,664

 

 

 

6,961

 

 

 

6,765

 

Depreciation

 

 

130

 

 

 

134

 

 

 

126

 

 

 

41

 

 

 

45

 

 

 

48

 

 

 

171

 

 

 

179

 

 

 

174

 

Total segment expenses

 

 

3,573

 

 

 

4,060

 

 

 

4,017

 

 

 

3,262

 

 

 

3,080

 

 

 

2,922

 

 

 

6,835

 

 

 

7,140

 

 

 

6,939

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Segment operating income

 

$

1,681

 

 

$

1,717

 

 

$

1,565

 

 

$

1,072

 

 

$

958

 

 

$

813

 

 

$

2,753

 

 

$

2,675

 

 

$

2,378

 

 

The following table presents reconciliations of the information reported by segment to the Company’s consolidated amounts reported for the years ended December 31, 2025, 2024 and 2023.

 

 

 

Years ended December 31,

 

 

 

2025

 

 

2024

 

 

2023

 

Revenue:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total segment revenue

 

$

9,588

 

 

$

9,815

 

 

$

9,317

 

Corporate, reimbursable expenses and other

 

 

120

 

 

 

115

 

 

 

166

 

Revenue

 

$

9,708

 

 

$

9,930

 

 

$

9,483

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total segment operating income

 

$

2,753

 

 

$

2,675

 

 

$

2,378

 

Impairment (i)

 

 

 

 

 

(1,042

)

 

 

 

Amortization

 

 

(192

)

 

 

(226

)

 

 

(263

)

Restructuring costs

 

 

 

 

 

(61

)

 

 

(68

)

Transaction and transformation

 

 

(23

)

 

 

(409

)

 

 

(386

)

Unallocated, net (ii)

 

 

(304

)

 

 

(310

)

 

 

(296

)

Income from operations

 

 

2,234

 

 

 

627

 

 

 

1,365

 

Interest expense

 

 

(260

)

 

 

(263

)

 

 

(235

)

Other (loss)/income, net

 

 

(21

)

 

 

(262

)

 

 

146

 

INCOME FROM OPERATIONS BEFORE INCOME TAXES
   AND INTEREST IN EARNINGS OF ASSOCIATES

 

$

1,953

 

 

$

102

 

 

$

1,276

 

 

(i)
Represents the non-cash goodwill impairment associated with our BDO reporting unit related to the sale of our TRANZACT business (see Note 3 — Acquisitions and Divestitures for further information).
(ii)
Includes certain costs, primarily related to corporate functions which are not directly related to the segments, and certain differences between budgeted expenses determined at the beginning of the year and actual expenses that we report for U.S. GAAP purposes.

The Company does not currently provide asset information by reportable segment as it does not routinely evaluate the total asset position by segment.

None of the Company’s clients individually represented more than 10% of its consolidated revenue for the years ended December 31, 2025, 2024 and 2023.

Below are our revenue (on the basis of where the work was performed) and tangible long-lived assets for Ireland, our country of domicile, countries with significant concentrations, and all other foreign countries as of and for the years ended as indicated:

 

 

 

Revenue

 

 

Long-Lived Assets (i)

 

 

 

Years ended December 31,

 

 

December 31,

 

 

 

2025

 

 

2024

 

 

2023

 

 

2025

 

 

2024

 

Ireland

 

$

143

 

 

$

131

 

 

$

118

 

 

$

7

 

 

$

8

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

United States

 

 

4,504

 

 

 

5,128

 

 

 

5,011

 

 

 

282

 

 

 

307

 

United Kingdom

 

 

2,065

 

 

 

1,859

 

 

 

1,723

 

 

 

521

 

 

 

490

 

Rest of World

 

 

2,996

 

 

 

2,812

 

 

 

2,631

 

 

 

372

 

 

 

341

 

Total Foreign Countries

 

 

9,565

 

 

 

9,799

 

 

 

9,365

 

 

 

1,175

 

 

 

1,138

 

 

 

$

9,708

 

 

$

9,930

 

 

$

9,483

 

 

$

1,182

 

 

$

1,146

 

 

(i)
Tangible long-lived assets consist of fixed assets and ROU assets.

Historical Timeline

Fiscal YearFiled
2025Feb 25, 2026Showing above
2024Feb 25, 2025
2023Feb 22, 2024
2022Feb 24, 2023
2021Feb 24, 2022
2020Feb 23, 2021
2019Feb 26, 2020
2018Feb 27, 2019
2017Feb 28, 2018
2016Mar 1, 2017
2015Feb 29, 2016

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.