GARTNER INC (IT)

Gartner, Inc. (NYSE: IT) provides business and technology insights intended to help executives and their teams make better decisions on mission-critical priorities. It describes itself as a trusted advisor and objective resource for more than 13,000 enterprises in approximately 90 countries and territories, across every major function, geography, industry and sector. Its business model rests on creating proprietary, expert-led, practitioner-sourced and data-driven content and distributing it as broadly as possible through published reports, interactive tools, peer networking, briefings, conferences and consulting.

The company reports three segments. Insights (renamed in 2025 from Research) sells subscription services that give on-demand access to published content, data and benchmarks, and direct access to more than 2,400 business and technology experts. Within Insights, Global Technology Sales serves users and providers of technology, while Global Business Sales serves other functional leaders such as human resources, supply chain, finance and marketing. Most subscriptions run at least twelve months, and 77% of contracts were multi-year at December 31, 2025. Conferences runs the Gartner Symposium/Xpo series and role-specific events and peer sessions; in 2025 it held 53 in-person conferences with more than 83,000 attendees, including 12 Symposiums/Xpos. Consulting, with 920 consultants, serves CIOs and senior executives leading technology-driven initiatives, offering custom analysis, benchmarking and on-the-ground support on topics such as IT cost optimization, digital transformation and IT sourcing. Gartner Digital Markets was reclassified into "Other" in the third quarter of 2025 and sold on February 5, 2026 for approximately $110.0 million before customary adjustments.

Customers are executives and their teams across all major functions, enterprise sizes, industries and sectors, including IT leaders, CIOs and other senior decision makers, with clients on six continents. A substantial portion of revenue comes from outside the United States. The company also has U.S. federal, state, local and foreign government contracts, which depend on appropriations and funding approvals, and some can be terminated without cause or penalty.

Gartner had 20,244 employees at December 31, 2025, with 9,994 outside the U.S., working in 40 countries and territories; its experts are located in more than 30 countries and territories. It protects its intellectual property through patent, copyright, trademark, trade secret and contractual provisions. It competes with independent providers of information products and services, and indirectly with consulting firms, data and information providers, electronic and print media, and free internet sources. It expects more competition as AI services are adopted and notes limited barriers to entry. It cites its content, brand (more than 40 years), global footprint and expert network as differentiators.