Our offering

UBS HOLT empowers you to make informed decisions by providing a clear, objective framework for comparing and valuing companies worldwide. With over 20,000 companies in our database, you gain a unique and consistent approach to portfolio evaluation, using our powerful tools to help streamline the investment process.

Benchmark, screen, and score companies effortlessly, eliminating the need to sift through distorted global accounting data. Focus on what matters most - making strategic investment decisions.

Used by asset managers around the world, our tools and services are invaluable resources for a wide range of professional investors, including equity analysts, hedge funds, quantitative analysts, and activist investors.

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Economic returns

Analyze the real economics of a company and understand the levels and changes in stock prices worldwide.

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Global comparability

Compare stocks, sectors, and markets over time and across international borders.

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Better decisions

Use a common language for measuring company performance, forecasting, and calibrating market expectations.

Our solutions

HOLT Lens

An online platform with a suite of interactive tools to help you compare and value over 20,000 companies from around the world, and gain a clear understanding of company operations, valuation, market expectations, sustainability, and accounting quality.

These tools assist with fundamental analysis, idea generation, allocation and benchmarking, quantitative analysis, and portfolio analysis.

 

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Compare and value stocks on a global basis

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Gain insights into what is priced into stocks

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Generate and filter ideas more efficiently

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Identify portfolio risks

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Improve productivity and scale the investment process

  • Idea generation: Hundreds of proprietary and traditional financial metrics can be deployed to screen and rank companies according to specific investment criteria and themes. The universe of 20,000 stocks can be filtered to focus efforts on identifying alpha.
  • Single stock insights: Search for a company to quickly answer questions and draw conclusions such as: Is the company discounted? What are the market embedded expectations? What is the sentiment? And what are the risks? The HOLT inputs can be flexed with the user’s own forecasts to derive valuation scenarios and assess upside potential or downside risk.
  • Fundamental assessment: Modeling that allows quick insights into the key drivers of operational performance using HOLT’s proprietary CFROI metric, run peer comparisons, understand the accounting and balance sheet risk and quantify a company's embedded market expectations.
  • Portfolio analytics: Provide objective portfolio analytics using HOLT's differentiated set of factors and styles, enabling clients to analyze risk exposures in the portfolio compared with an index or benchmark.

HOLT Insights

Our global team of 40+ Sector Specialists demonstrate how to use HOLT to gain deeper insight across sectors and regions. Leverage global and regional macro insights, industry analysis and individual company highlights and concerns. 

Access to HOLT Insights is available through UBS Neo.

Latest HOLT insights

Market insights and commentary from our global thought leaders.

HOLT Data

HOLT provides access to its leading and differentiated fundamental, factor and accounting quality/resilience datasets via a wide range of channels and API functionalities. Supercharge your investment process by incorporating HOLT's high-quality data into your process and workflow in a convenient and flexible manner.

Access charts, custom valuations, and data across the HOLT product suite for integration into programming languages including Python, VB, .NET, C#, C++, and Java.

Benefit from HOLT’s economically adjusted data offerings.

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Comprehensive

  • Global Coverage – Over 20,000 firms in 70 countries
  • Standardized, ready to test data sets – company specific and aggregate level
  • Extensive Time Series – monthly from 1976, annual from 1950
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High Quality

  • Quality Control – a robust, proprietary process to find and override incorrect data
  • Sector Specialists – 40+ globally, 24 CFA, ACA, FRM and CPA qualified
  • Benefit from the HOLT Framework – economic value-based data that removes accounting distortions
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Continuous Development

  • 35 years of innovation to improve the economic understanding of businesses
  • Close monitoring of global changes in accounting standards and market behavior
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Convenient Access

  • Tiereddata files depending on client needs
  • Delivered via SFTP, Lens Data API, Factset Workstation/Terminal and Open:Factset
  • Daily / Weekly (As-Was) and Monthly (As-Was / Pro-Forma) Periodicities

HOLT in the news

Broadcast / TV

  • UBS HOLT sector specialist stresses importance of “true economic returns” — John Talbott on the technology sector’s economic outlook, April 22, 2026, Fox Business.
  • Tech’s AI bet: UBS says revenue must justify the hype — Michel Lerner on U.S. tech valuations and AI-bubble concerns, Nov. 3, 2025, CNBC.
  • HOLT: Buy defensive stocks to protect against potential AI bubble — Michel Lerner on momentum-stock risk and defensive positioning, Oct. 18, 2025, CNBC.
  • Only 2/10 value creators will make it in 20 years, UBS says — Michel Lerner on AI valuations / long-term value creators, Sept. 2, 2025, CNBC.
  • “INCREDIBLE”: Sector specialist on NVIDIA’s economic returns — syndicated clip of John Talbott’s Fox Business appearance. Fox Business / YouTube.

Written / digital media

  • Tech stocks have surpassed dotcom-era excess returns… — cites Michel Lerner, Head of HOLT at UBS, and the HOLT valuation framework, June 15, 2026, Yahoo Finance / Proactive.
  • What level of long-term growth is priced in for payments companies? — uses UBS’s HOLT valuation framework across payments / fintech names, May 29, 2026, Investing.com.
  • UBS warns AI stocks are overheating as growth expectations collide with history — references HOLT/CFROI and UBS’s AI-stock risk framework, May 15, 2026, Proactive / Yahoo Finance UK.
  • NVIDIA’s $22 Trillion Outlook Faces Supply Strain as Rival AI Chips Gain Attention — cites UBS HOLT’s Nvidia valuation framework and John Talbott, April 14, 2026, Analytics Insight.
  • Nvidia Could Be the First $22 Trillion Stock, According to 1 Top Analyst. But There’s a Big Catch — cites John Talbott and notes his comment to The Information that Nvidia’s HOLT metrics were “incredible,” April 14, 2026, Yahoo Finance / The Motley Fool and AOL / The Motley Fool.
  • UBS has a stark message for investors on Nvidia stock — John Talbott and the HOLT framework’s read on Nvidia’s CFROI / implied valuation, April 9, 2026, Yahoo Finance / TheStreet.
  • Nvidia Stock Slips. Wall Street Loved Its Earnings But This Big Concern Remains — includes UBS/Michel Lerner commentary on AI valuations closing in on dot-com levels, Aug. 29, 2025, Barron’s.
  • Geldanlage: Angst vor der KI-Blase? Die UBS nennt drei Alternativen am Aktienmarkt — listed in Newstral as a Handelsblatt item from Aug. 28, 2025, Handelsblatt.
  • UBS warns valuation of AI stocks is closing in on dotcom levels — Vahid Karaahmetovic, citing Michel Lerner and UBS HOLT, Aug. 28, 2025, Investing.com.
  • Skeptical about AI? UBS offers alternatives including Visa, BYD and the maker of Labubu dolls — cites UBS strategists led by Michel Lerner and the HOLT valuation database, Aug. 28, 2025, MarketWatch.

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