Jose A. Fernandez stepped down as Co-Chief Operating Officer effective November 11, 2026, while StepStone Group Inc. said Jason P. Ment remains President and oversees operations with Chief Executive Officer Scott W. Hart.
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StepStone Group Inc.’s Partnership owned approximately 65% of SRA, SRE and SPD after the May 29, 2026 Exchange, paying approximately $10 million cash, 972,685 Class A shares and 2,438,273 Class D units.
Stepstone Group Incorporated generated fee-related earnings of $126 million, up 61%, while raising over $11 billion during the quarter and $43 billion over the past year.
StepStone Group Inc. reported second-quarter revenue of $773,144 thousand, up 70%, and net income of $65,416 thousand. Its board declared a quarterly cash dividend of $0.33 per Class A share, payable December 15, 2026.
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Q2 FY27 earnings call · Nov 5, 2026TL;DR. StepStone delivered strong growth in fee revenues, fee-related earnings and adjusted earnings, record fundraising, higher fee-earning assets and undeployed capital, and strong private-wealth growth; it also improved its full-year cash compensation-ratio expectation and maintained a $0.33 regular dividend. Risks include a GAAP net loss, higher G&A expenses, challenging realization conditions, retention of capital that would otherwise fund the supplemental dividend, and higher compensation and seasonally elevated G&A next quarter.
- + Fee-earning assets increased $5 billion to $158 billion and undeployed fee-earning capital grew to over $42 billion. new
- + The company raised more than $11 billion during the quarter and $43 billion over the past year, its strongest 12-month fundraising period. new
- + Private-wealth subscriptions totaled $1.7 billion during the quarter, growing the platform to more than $23 billion. new
- + Net accrued carry exceeded $1 billion for the first time and increased 23% year over year. new
- − StepStone reported a GAAP net loss attributable to the company of $71 million, or $0.87 per share. new
- − General and administrative expenses increased $10 million from the prior-year quarter. new
- − The realization environment remains challenging and performance fees are episodic and vary by quarter. new
- − StepStone is retaining capital that would otherwise fund its supplemental dividend this fiscal year as it prepares for the private-wealth profits-interest buy-in. new
- − Management cautioned that the 42% FRE margin was not a run rate and that compensation will be higher next quarter while G&A is seasonally higher in the third and fourth quarters. new
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Key metrics
the company's own KPIs, from written earnings releases and filings| Metric | Latest | Period | YoY |
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| Average FEAUM growth | 20% | the three months ended June 30, 2026 filing | — |
| Average headcount growth | 16% | the three months ended June 30, 2026 filing | — |
| Effective income tax rate | 14.9% | the three months ended June 30, 2026 filing | — |
| Adjusted cash-based compensation non-GAAP | 117.16M | June 30, 2026 | — |
GAAP → non-GAAP reconciliationGAAP GAAP cash-based compensation 117.23M
-70K Adjustments
= Adjusted cash-based compensation 117.16M
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| Adjusted equity-based compensation non-GAAP | 6.63M | June 30, 2026 | — |
GAAP → non-GAAP reconciliationGAAP GAAP equity-based compensation 317.28M
-310.65M Adjustments
= Adjusted equity-based compensation 6.63M
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| Adjusted general, administrative and other non-GAAP | 41.53M | June 30, 2026 | — |
GAAP → non-GAAP reconciliationGAAP GAAP general, administrative and other 53.47M
-11.94M Adjustments
= Adjusted general, administrative and other 41.53M
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| Adjusted net income ("ANI") non-GAAP | 60.3M | FQ1'27 (three months ended June 30, 2026) | +0.0% |
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| Adjusted revenues non-GAAP | 300.6M | FQ1'27 (three months ended June 30, 2026) | — |
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GAAP → non-GAAP reconciliationGAAP Total revenues 378.89M
-43.98M Unrealized carried interest allocations
+0K Deferred incentive fees
-37.17M Legacy Greenspring carried interest allocations
+1.76M Management and advisory fee revenues for the Consolidated Funds
+1.09M Incentive fees for the Consolidated Funds
= Adjusted revenues 300.6M
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| Adjusted weighted-average shares non-GAAP | 125,893,054 | FQ1'27 (three months ended June 30, 2026) | +0.0% |
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| Advisory and other services non-GAAP | 19.48M | June 30, 2026 | — |
| ANI per share non-GAAP | $0.48 | FQ1'27 (three months ended June 30, 2026) | +0.0% |
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| Assets under advisement ("AUA") | 667.9B | FQ1'27 (three months ended June 30, 2026) | — |
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| Assets under management ("AUM") | 245.4B | FQ1'27 (three months ended June 30, 2026) | — |
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| Blended statutory rate non-GAAP | 22.6% | June 30, 2026 | — |
| Fee revenues non-GAAP | 270.93M | FQ1'27 (three months ended June 30, 2026) | — |
GAAP → non-GAAP reconciliationGAAP GAAP management and advisory fees, net 269.17M
+1.76M Adjustments
= Fee revenues 270.93M
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| Fee-earning AUM ("FEAUM") | 153.6B | FQ1'27 (three months ended June 30, 2026) | — |
| Fee-Earning AUM – Focused Commingled Funds ending balance | 70.31B | Three Months Ended June 30, 2026 | — |
| Fee-Earning AUM – Separately Managed Accounts ending balance | 83.25B | Three Months Ended June 30, 2026 | — |
| Fee-Earning AUM – Total ending balance | 153.56B | Three Months Ended June 30, 2026 | — |
| Fee-related earnings ("FRE") non-GAAP | 105.61M | FQ1'27 (three months ended June 30, 2026) | +0.0% |
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| Focused commingled funds non-GAAP | 172.48M | June 30, 2026 | — |
| FRE attributable to non-controlling interests in subsidiaries non-GAAP | 15.77M | June 30, 2026 | — |
| FRE attributable to non-controlling interests in subsidiaries and profits interests non-GAAP | 39.68M | June 30, 2026 | — |
| FRE attributable to profits interests issued in the private wealth subsidiary non-GAAP | 23.91M | June 30, 2026 | — |
| FRE margin non-GAAP | 39% | FQ1'27 (three months ended June 30, 2026) | — |
| Fund reimbursement revenues non-GAAP | 3.7M | June 30, 2026 | — |
| Gross realized performance fees non-GAAP | 29.66M | FQ1'27 (three months ended June 30, 2026) | +0.0% |
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| Income-based incentive fees non-GAAP | 7M | June 30, 2026 | — |
| Performance fee-related earnings ("PRE") non-GAAP | 15.8M | FQ1'27 (three months ended June 30, 2026) | +0.0% |
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| Performance-related earnings / other income (loss) attributable to non-controlling interests in non-GAAP | 1.91M | June 30, 2026 | — |
| Pre-tax ANI non-GAAP | 77.9M | June 30, 2026 | — |
GAAP → non-GAAP reconciliationGAAP Loss before income tax -200.25M
-41.59M Net income attributable to non-controlling interests in subsidiaries
+5.25M Net (income) loss attributable to non-controlling interests in legacy Greenspring entities
-43.98M Unrealized carried interest allocations
+44.69M Unrealized performance fee-related compensation
-9.27M Unrealized investment (income) loss
+1.91M Impact of Consolidated Funds
+0K Deferred incentive fees
+310.65M Equity-based compensation
+10.19M Amortization of intangibles
+0K Tax Receivable Agreements adjustments through earnings
+294K Non-core items
= Pre-tax ANI 77.9M
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| Separately managed accounts non-GAAP | 75.28M | June 30, 2026 | — |
| Total capital | 913B | As of June 30, 2026 | — |
| Undeployed fee-earning capital ("UFEC") | 39.3B | FQ1'27 (three months ended June 30, 2026) | — |
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Jose A. Fernandez stepped down as Co-Chief Operating Officer effective November 11, 2026, while StepStone Group Inc. said Jason P. Ment remains President and oversees operations with Chief Executive Officer Scott W. Hart.
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| 5D | 20D | 120D | MTD | YTD | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| STEP | +1.0% | +15.1% | -9.0% | +10.9% | -25.3% |
| SPY | +2.6% | -1.2% | +0.5% | -0.2% | +10.6% |
| vs SPY | -1.6% | +16.2% | -9.5% | +11.0% | -36.0% |
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