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BENTLEY SYSTEMS INC

TechnologyPrepackaged Software
Ticker BSYEXTON, PAFiscal year ends DecemberBook value per share $3.75Diluted shares 320.4M

Bentley Systems, Incorporated (NASDAQ: BSY) is the infrastructure engineering software company, serving nearly 42,000 accounts across 189 countries worldwide. Founded in 1984 and headquartered in Exton, Pennsylvania, the company completed its initial public offering in September 2020. The company's website is… From the company’s description.

Fiscal year 2025 · ends 12-31Changes are against fiscal 2024The amber dot is the latest twelve months, to 2026-06-30
Sales & profitability
$1.50B
+11.0% year over year
Last 12 mo $1.60B
24.15%
+1.8 percentage points
Last 12 mo 23.59%
$277.79M
+18.5% year over year
Last 12 mo $289.82M
23.36%
+0.8 percentage points
Last 12 mo 24.12%
Cash & financing
$538.46M
+23.7% year over year
Last 12 mo $522.88M
$520.21M
+23.5% year over year
Last 12 mo $498.50M
1.44
Was 1.33× a year earlier
Last 12 mo 1.01
333.1M
−0.2% year over year
Last 12 mo 320.4M

Margins and return on equity change in ; everything else in percent. Fewer shares and less debt are shown plainly, not as bad news — it depends what you make of buybacks. Dotted labels explain each measure. is shown separately from the annual figures.

What BENTLEY SYSTEMS INC does

In the company’s own words

Bentley Systems, Incorporated (NASDAQ: BSY) is the infrastructure engineering software company, serving nearly 42,000 accounts across 189 countries worldwide. Founded in 1984 and headquartered in Exton, Pennsylvania, the company completed its initial public offering in September 2020. The company's website is www.bentley.com.

Bentley provides a comprehensive portfolio of integrated software offerings spanning the complete infrastructure lifecycle, from design and construction through operations and maintenance. The company serves four primary infrastructure sectors: Public Works and Utilities, which represents approximately 59 percent of sector-attributable annualized recurring revenues; Resources, representing approximately 27 percent; Industrial, representing approximately 9 percent; and Commercial and Facilities, representing approximately 5 percent.

The company's product portfolio includes Bentley Open Applications, a suite of domain-specific modeling and simulation tools such as MicroStation, OpenBridge, OpenBuildings, OpenFlows, OpenRail, and OpenRoads. Seequent applications support geoprofessional modeling and subsurface analysis. Bentley Infrastructure Cloud provides enterprise collaboration and asset management capabilities through products including ProjectWise, SYNCHRO, and AssetWise. Bentley Asset Analytics delivers AI-powered insights for infrastructure asset performance, while the Cesium and iTwin Platform enables creation of infrastructure digital twins.

The company generates revenues from both engineering and construction contracting firms, representing 52 percent of 2025 revenues, and infrastructure asset owners and operators, representing 48 percent. Bentley offers flexible commercial models including Enterprise 365 subscriptions, perpetual licenses with SELECT maintenance, and named-user subscriptions through its Virtuosity e-store. Approximately 60 percent of total annualized recurring revenues utilize Cloud Services Subscriptions by year-end 2025.

As of December 31, 2025, Bentley employed approximately 5,800 full-time colleagues globally, distributed across the Americas, Europe, Middle East and Africa, and Asia-Pacific regions. The company maintains a direct sales channel generating approximately 94 percent of revenues, supplemented by specialist channel partners. Bentley has pursued a disciplined acquisition strategy, including platform acquisitions of Seequent Holdings Limited and Power Line Systems to expand portfolio comprehensiveness across the infrastructure lifecycle.

Company details
Sector
Technology
Industry
Prepackaged Software
Headquarters
EXTON, PA
Fiscal year end
December
CIK
1031308
SIC
7372

Financial performance, year by year

Fiscal 2020–2025 · USD
$-160.20M$320.41M$801.02M$1.28B$1.76B202020212022202320242025Last 12 moLast 12 monthsLast 12 months

The full income statement, balance sheet and cash flow for each of these years — every figure traceable to its filing — is on the Financials tab with a free account.

Ownership

Who owns BENTLEY SYSTEMS INC — and what changed

Funds as of 2026Q2 · superinvestors as of 2026-06-30

353
funds hold it
0 of 35
superinvestors hold it
$1.74B
held by funds, at market
19.6%
of shares held by funds
1
bond issues held by funds

Largest fund holders · BENTLEY SYSTEMS INC’s weight in each

VANGUARD TOTAL STOCK MARKET INDEX FUND
VTI · VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS
0.01%of fund net assets
iShares Core S&P Mid-Cap ETF
IJH · iShares Trust
0.12%of fund net assets
T. Rowe Price Capital Appreciation Fund
PRWCX · T. ROWE PRICE CAPITAL APPRECIATION FUND, INC.
0.18%of fund net assets
VANGUARD SMALL-CAP INDEX FUND
VB · VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS
0.06%of fund net assets
0.06%of fund net assets

Fund ownership is a floor, not a census — pensions, insurers and people holding shares directly are not visible here.

BENTLEY SYSTEMS INC’s bonds, as funds hold them

Funds report holding 1 issues of BENTLEY SYSTEMS INC’s debt, $67.46M at market value — what funds hold, not the company’s total debt. Weighted-average coupon 0.38%, maturing 2027 to 2027.

Fund ownership counts N-PORT filers only, so it is a floor rather than a census — pensions, insurers and direct holders are not visible here, and the remainder is not “held by individuals”.

Every fund and institutional holder, quarter by quarter, is on the Ownership tab with a free account.

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