Last Updated: October 7, 2025
Analyzing Management
For hedge funds and asset managers, the quality of public company leadership plays a crucial role during both initial due diligence and continuous risk assessment. ManagementTrack offers a consistent framework that eliminates distractions, highlighting specific strengths and weaknesses, flagging potential risks and opportunities, and establishing a clear connection between CEO actions and financial outcomes.
CEO Ferris’ financial discipline and M&A record position her to lead the turnaround
Analysis of Fidelity National Information Services CEO Stephanie Ferris
With a strong record of financial discipline and M&A execution, Stephanie Ferris is a highly credible leader for the company’s post-divestiture turnaround, cost-savings plan, and necessary cultural overhaul.
ManagementTrack’s analysis focuses on Stephanie Ferris’s track record and skillset against the following key factors for FIS:
- Executing capital plan to drive buybacks and deleveraging.
- Integrating Issuer acquisition while separating from Worldpay.
- Executing cost-savings plan to deliver H2 margin expansion.
- Sustaining Core Banking growth to validate turnaround narrative.
Report Available: Proprietary Interviews & Analysis on Stephanie Ferris Answers Key Questions
ManagementTrack reports provide track record analysis, career playbooks, strengths, and weaknesses for every CEO. They allow investors to dig deeper to uncover hard-to-find data to answer the most pressing questions.
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Question Answered #1
How will Ferris apply the playbook from growing a prior division 6x to engineer a sustained turnaround in the company’s core banking growth?
Question Answered #2
How will Ferris leverage her experience with the nimble Worldpay culture to purge FIS’s toxic legacy culture and instill a new one based on accountability?
Question Answered #3
How does Ferris’s leadership style enable her to make tough cost-cutting decisions while retaining the key talent needed to drive future growth?
Why Do Investors Use ManagementTrack?
How does ManagementTrack analyze Stephanie Ferris’s leadership at FIS?
ManagementTrack leverages its proprietary career analysis and interviews with former colleagues to establish an executive’s track record, identifying key strengths and weaknesses. This profile is then measured against FIS’s most critical business challenges: executing its capital plan for buybacks and deleveraging, integrating the Issuer acquisition while completing the Worldpay separation, implementing its cost-savings program to expand margins, and sustaining Core Banking growth to prove the company’s turnaround.
What other tools does ManagementTrack use to link executive leadership to future company performance?
To draw a connection between the c-suite and subsequent company results, ManagementTrack utilizes proprietary models that identify unusual instances of executive evasion during earnings call Q&As. The service also scrutinizes all insider transactions to isolate outlier activities that may signal future over or underperformance. These insights are combined with the ManagementTrack Rating—a predictive 1-to-10 score for each executive—to provide investors with a distinct positive or negative perspective on how management’s capabilities will likely influence future outcomes.
What is the scope of ManagementTrack’s coverage?
ManagementTrack provides real-time coverage of the executive suite at every publicly traded company.
How to Learn More
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Author
Colby Howard is the co-founder and President of Paragon Intel. Paragon Intel’s ManagementTrack is the premier executive analysis platform for hedge funds, asset managers, corporations, boards, and recruiters. Our proprietary data, built over a decade of analysis, allows us to analyze each public company executive to understand their fit and ability to execute at their company. We leverage our proprietary data – key quantitative research on an executive’s career plus interviews with their former colleagues – with public documents, including SEC filings (10-K, 10-Q), investor presentations, press releases, and earnings call transcripts. to build a holistic, evidence-based view of an executive’s capabilities and playbook.
Sources
- Verified Career History by ManagementTrack for Stephanie Ferris
- Analysis of Capital Allocation, Performance, and Fundamentals across career by ManagementTrack
- Fidelity National Information Services, Inc. 10Q
- Fidelity National Information Services, Inc. 10K
- Fidelity National Information Services, Inc. Earnings Calls
- Fidelity National Information Services, Inc. Press Releases
Relevant Links
- For more information on ManagementTrack’s Data visit: https://paragonintel.com/management-track-data/
- For more information on ManagementTrack’s Interview & Analysis visit: https://paragonintel.com/management-track-reports/
- For more information on ManagementTrack’s Interview library visit: https://paragonintel.com/management-track-report-library/
- For more information on ManagementTrack’s Evasion Analysis visit: https://paragonintel.com/earnings-call-evasion/
- For more information on how ManagementTrack helps hedge funds and asset managers visit: https://paragonintel.com/
