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Company Dossier · Real Estate

CoStar Group

CSGPNasdaqReal Estate ServicesWILMINGTON, US-DE, USLarge capWebsite ↗
  • S&P 500
  • Russell 1000

What CoStar Group is doing, read from its filings, its own words and the news, with every figure dated and sourced. Not investment advice: no ratings, no price targets.

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The latest read

Computed from the data on Oct 22, 2026. Every figure links back to its source in the sections below.

  • Revenue over the four quarters to June 30, 2026: $3.56 billion, up 22% from a year earlier.SEC EDGAR filings (XBRL)
  • Free cash flow (operating cash flow minus capital expenditure) over the four quarters to June 30, 2026: $0.28 billion, up 211% from a year earlier.SEC EDGAR filings (XBRL)
  • Capital expenditure over the four quarters to June 30, 2026: $0.22 billion, down 27% from a year earlier.SEC EDGAR filings (XBRL)
  • Share buybacks in the fiscal year to December 31, 2025: $0.50 billion.SEC EDGAR filings (10-K)
  • Latest earnings call or results release (July 28, 2026): sentiment 0.60 on a −1 to +1 scale (mixed), confidence 0.85 of 1.Palanor Discourse
  • Guidance in the last 90 days: 0 outlook figures raised, 0 lowered, 2 held.Guidance Ledger (8-K results releases)
  • Latest annual report (filed February 26, 2026): 2 risk factors added, 0 removed.Risk Factor Changes (10-K Item 1A)
  • Insiders were net buyers in Q3 2026: $2.2 million on the open market.SEC Form 4
  • 761 institutional managers reported a position at June 30, 2026 (−36 on the quarter before).SEC Form 13F
  • H-1B filings certified in Q2 2026: 9 (19 a year earlier).U.S. Department of Labor (OFLC)

Company Posture

How Company Posture is measured →

What CoStar Group is doing, on three axes, from its filings and its own words, as of 2026-10-22. A description, not a rating: Company Posture never says whether to buy.

Steady · Mixed

Expanding ↔ Retrenching

Steady

RetrenchingExpanding

Confident ↔ Hedging

Mixed

HedgingConfident

Pressure

Components only: Not yet shown as a score: in the back-test it did not add to a naive reader's forecast of impairment, debt acceleration or bankruptcy filings (8-K 2.06, 2.04, 1.03) (not enough events (17 in half 1; needs 20)).

Credit

How these are built →

CoStar Group's borrowing from its SEC filings: the bonds it priced and the debt on its latest balance sheet. A description, not a rating.

Debt on the balance sheet

$1.0B

  • Due within a year $0.0B
  • Longer term $1.0B
  • Default point $0.5B (short + ½ long)

Finance leases included · Jun 30, 2026 filing

Bonds priced, last 12 months

None

U.S. dollar tranches with a term sheet on EDGAR. Deals sold under Rule 144A file none and are not counted.

Charts

Live charts: each one redraws from today’s data and has an image link to paste into a document or slide.

Cash flow

Business

CoStar Group: free cash flow, trailing twelve months

Operating cash flow minus capital expenditure, $ billions, from SEC filings

$0.28BData to Jun 2026
ImageDataU.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, EDGAR
Business

CoStar Group: operating cash flow and capital expenditure

Trailing twelve months, $ billions, from SEC filings

Data to Jun 2026
ImageDataU.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, EDGAR
Business

CoStar Group: revenue, trailing twelve months

$ billions, from SEC filings

$3.6BData to Jun 2026
ImageDataU.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, EDGAR

Capital returned and raised

Business

CoStar Group: share buybacks by fiscal year

Cash paid to repurchase common stock, $ billions, from the 10-K

$0.50BData to Dec 2025
ImageDataU.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, EDGAR
Business

CoStar Group: debt issued and repaid by fiscal year

Long-term debt, $ billions, from the 10-K

Data to Dec 2024
ImageDataU.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, EDGAR
Business

CoStar Group: debt maturity schedule, latest annual report

Scheduled repayments of long-term debt principal by year from the fiscal year end, $ billions, from the 10-K

Data to Dec 2025
ImageDataU.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, EDGAR
Business

CoStar Group: debt due within a year and cash

At each balance-sheet date, $ billions, from SEC filings

Data to Jun 2026
ImageDataU.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, EDGAR
Business

CoStar Group: interest coverage

Operating income ÷ interest expense, trailing twelve months, from SEC filings

3.2Data to Jun 2026
ImageDataU.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, EDGAR

What the company says

Business

CoStar Group: guidance raised minus lowered

Guidance Ledger statements by quarter

2.0Data to Jun 2026
ImageDataGuidance Ledger by Palanor · source: SEC EDGAR
Business

CoStar Group: earnings call sentiment

Palanor Discourse score per call, −1 to +1

0.60Data to Jul 2026
ImageDataPalanor calculation
Business

CoStar Group: earnings call confidence

Palanor Discourse score per call, 0 to 1

0.85Data to Jul 2026
ImageDataPalanor calculation
Business

CoStar Group: risk factors added per annual report

New Item 1A risk factors in each 10-K

2.0Data to Feb 2026
ImageDataU.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, EDGAR

Hiring and ownership

Business

CoStar Group: H-1B filings certified

Labor Condition Applications by quarter received

9.0Data to Jun 2026
ImageDataU.S. Department of Labor, Office of Foreign Labor Certification disclosure data, dol.gov
Business

CoStar Group: insider net buying

Open-market purchases minus sales by officers and directors, $ millions, by quarter

$2.2MData 22 days ago
ImageDataU.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, EDGAR
Business

CoStar Group: institutional holders

Managers reporting a position on Form 13F, by quarter

761.0Data to Jun 2026
ImageDataU.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, EDGAR

In the news

Headlines that name CoStar Group, with the publisher and a link. The tone is read from each headline’s own words, never from a summary of the article.

30 days
1 headlines
0% positive · 0% negative
90 days
3 headlines
0% positive · 0% negative

Filings and records

The last two years of notable 8-Ks, offerings, annual reports, federal awards, lobbying reports, patents and other public records, newest first.

  1. Oct 20, 2026Lobbying
    Lobbying report (MILLER STRATEGIES, LLC)third_quarter 2026 · $0.2 million
  2. Oct 20, 2026Lobbying
    Lobbying report (THE ROOSEVELT GROUP)third_quarter 2026 · $0.0 million
  3. Oct 20, 2026Patent
    Patent granted: SYSTEM AND METHOD OF CAPTURING AND GENERATING PANORAMIC THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGESUS 12769007
  4. Oct 17, 2026Lobbying
    Lobbying report (PENN AVENUE PARTNERS)third_quarter 2026 · $0.1 million
  5. Oct 13, 2026Patent
    Patent granted: EMPLOYING THREE-DIMENSIONAL (3D) DATA PREDICTED FROM TWO-DIMENSIONAL (2D) IMAGES USING NEURAL NETWORKS FOR 3D MODELING APPLICATIONS AND OTHER APPLICATIONSUS 12762814
  6. Sep 22, 2026Patent
    Patent granted: UNIFORM RESOURCE IDENTIFIER ENCODINGUS 12743476
  7. Sep 15, 2026Patent
    Patent granted: UNIFORM RESOURCE IDENTIFIER ENCODINGUS 12737426
  8. Sep 3, 2026Lobbying
    Lobbying report (POLARIS GOVERNMENT RELATIONS, LLC)second_quarter 2026 · $0.1 million
  9. Jul 20, 2026Lobbying
    Lobbying report (MILLER STRATEGIES, LLC)second_quarter 2026 · $0.1 million
  10. Jul 20, 2026Lobbying
    Lobbying report (POLARIS GOVERNMENT RELATIONS, LLC)second_quarter 2026 · $0.1 million
  11. Jul 13, 20268-K
    Director or officer changeItem 5.02
  12. Jul 7, 2026Lobbying
    Lobbying report (PENN AVENUE PARTNERS)second_quarter 2026 · $0.1 million
  13. Jun 25, 20268-K
    Director or officer changeItem 5.02
  14. Jun 25, 20268-K
    Shareholder vote resultsItem 5.07
  15. Jun 24, 2026Lobbying
    Lobbying report (MILLER STRATEGIES, LLC)second_quarter 2026
  16. May 29, 20268-K
    Material agreement signedItem 1.01
  17. May 19, 2026Patent
    Patent granted: MULTI-MODAL METHOD FOR INTERACTING WITH 3D MODELSUS 12633047
  18. Mar 16, 20268-K
    Director or officer changeItem 5.02
  19. Feb 26, 202610-K
    Annual report (10-K)2 risk factors added, 0 removed
  20. Feb 13, 20268-K
    Director or officer changeItem 5.02
  21. Jan 7, 20268-K
    Director or officer changeItem 5.02
  22. Jun 27, 20258-K
    Director or officer changeItem 5.02
  23. Jun 27, 20258-K
    Shareholder vote resultsItem 5.07
  24. May 9, 20258-K
    Material agreement signedItem 1.01
  25. Apr 7, 20258-K
    Material agreement signedItem 1.01
  26. Apr 7, 20258-K
    Director or officer changeItem 5.02
  27. Feb 28, 20258-K
    Acquisition or sale completedItem 2.01
  28. Feb 20, 202510-K
    Annual report (10-K)3 risk factors added, 2 removed
  29. Feb 22, 202410-K
    Annual report (10-K)3 risk factors added, 1 removed

Peers

Companies in the same industry in the S&P 500, Russell 1000 or MidCap 400, closest in revenue first. Trailing twelve months, from SEC filings.

CompanyRevenueFree cash flowThrough
Jones Lang LaSalle JLL$27.4B—Jun 30, 2026
CBRE Group CBRE$43.1B$0.9BJun 30, 2026
BXP, Inc. BXP$3.5B—Jun 30, 2026
Vici Properties VICI$4.1B—Jun 30, 2026
Alexandria Real Estate Equities ARE$2.8B—Jun 30, 2026
Zillow (Class A) ZG$2.8B$0.3BJun 30, 2026
Public Storage PSA$4.9B—Jun 30, 2026
Americold COLD$2.6B−$0.2BJun 30, 2026

Identity

SEC CIK
1057352
LEI
984500Q1D53D08E2E698
Wikidata
Q16988748
SAM UEI
HMJLN75ES426
SAM UEI
UVJ7C98LBMY3

Built from SEC EDGAR filings (public domain), the Guidance and KPI Ledgers, Palanor Discourse, U.S. Department of Labor filings, USPTO, USAspending and Senate lobbying records, and rights-checked news headlines. Updated nightly; this page was built Oct 22, 2026. How the Dossier is built

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