Dun & Bradstreet Holdings Stock Price, News & Analysis
Company Description
Dun & Bradstreet Holdings, Inc. (historically NYSE: DNB) is a global provider of business decisioning data and analytics. According to multiple company disclosures, Dun & Bradstreet’s Data Cloud delivers information and insights that help organizations improve business performance by accelerating revenue, lowering cost, mitigating risk, and transforming their operations. Companies of every size have relied on Dun & Bradstreet since 1841 to help them manage risk and reveal opportunity.
The company’s core value proposition centers on its extensive commercial data assets and analytics capabilities. Dun & Bradstreet describes its Data Cloud as one of the world’s most comprehensive sources of commercial information, with coverage of hundreds of millions of public and private businesses globally. This data underpins solutions used in areas such as finance and risk management, sales and marketing, supply chain visibility, and broader business performance improvement.
Business decisioning data and analytics
Dun & Bradstreet characterizes itself as a leading global provider of business decisioning data and analytics. Its solutions are designed to fuel client decision processes by providing information on company ownership, control, corporate structures, and other attributes that support risk assessment, opportunity identification, and operational planning. The company emphasizes that its data and analytics empower customers to make smarter, faster decisions in complex environments.
The Data Cloud is central to this model. Company materials describe it as containing data on over 600 million public and private companies in some contexts, and sales and marketing intelligence on over 320 million companies and hundreds of millions of contacts in others. These figures illustrate the breadth of data that supports Dun & Bradstreet’s offerings across finance, risk, marketing, and supply chain use cases.
Key solution areas
Dun & Bradstreet highlights several primary solution categories built on its Data Cloud:
- Finance & Risk solutions, which the company associates with helping clients manage risk, navigate uncertain environments, and address challenges such as financial crime and systemic risks. In collaboration announcements, Dun & Bradstreet notes that its trusted global data supports investigative teams in detecting and preventing financial crime risks, including fraud, money laundering, and terrorist financing, by exposing concealed relationships and undisclosed ownership control.
- Sales & Marketing solutions, which include sales and marketing intelligence platforms and datasets that help organizations identify prospects, build targeted lists, and sharpen account-level intelligence. For example, Dun & Bradstreet has introduced offerings such as D&B Hoovers and D&B Healthcare Insights, which are described as enabling users to build highly targeted lists, improve segmentation, and access detailed profiles tailored to specific sectors like healthcare.
- Supply chain and tariff risk solutions, where Dun & Bradstreet uses its linkage data and trade information to map supplier relationships and provide visibility into supply chain risk. The company reports mapping tens of billions of confirmed supplier relationships and visibility into a significant portion of global trade flows, enabling organizations to evaluate tariff impacts, identify alternative suppliers, and strengthen supply chain resilience.
Data assets and identifiers
A distinctive element of Dun & Bradstreet’s approach is its use of the D‑U‑N‑S® Number, which it describes as a unique identifier assigned to businesses around the world. The D‑U‑N‑S Number is used to validate and link businesses and to support robust business data linkage across the company’s solutions. This identifier appears across offerings in areas such as supply chain, marketing, and identity resolution.
In marketing-focused materials, Dun & Bradstreet also emphasizes its coverage of professional and consumer contacts and the ability to link business and consumer personas. For example, the company has described datasets that include large numbers of B2B professional contacts, consumer contacts, and B2B2C contacts with linkages between professional and consumer identities, all associated with business identifiers like the D‑U‑N‑S Number.
Sector-specific applications
While Dun & Bradstreet positions itself as serving companies of every size across many industries, it has highlighted specific applications in sectors such as:
- Healthcare, through D&B Healthcare Insights, an add-on to D&B Hoovers designed to help sales and marketing teams discover information about healthcare organizations and providers. The company notes that this dataset supports improved targeting, segmentation, account-level intelligence, and sales messaging in the healthcare ecosystem.
- Financial services and government investigations, through collaborations that integrate Dun & Bradstreet’s global business data into digital investigation platforms. These integrations allow users to query entities and map complex corporate networks, supporting efforts to address financial crime risks.
- Private markets and deal sourcing, where Dun & Bradstreet’s private company data is combined with partner technologies to create platforms that help investment professionals uncover proprietary opportunities and map niche markets.
Corporate status and ownership
Dun & Bradstreet Holdings, Inc. historically traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol DNB. According to a Form 8‑K filed on August 26, 2025, the company completed a merger pursuant to an Agreement and Plan of Merger dated March 23, 2025. In this transaction, a subsidiary of Denali Intermediate Holdings, Inc., an affiliate of investment funds managed by Clearlake Capital Group L.P., merged with and into Dun & Bradstreet Holdings, Inc., with Dun & Bradstreet surviving as a wholly owned subsidiary of Denali Intermediate Holdings, Inc.
The same Form 8‑K reports that, as a result of the merger, a change in control occurred and Dun & Bradstreet became a wholly owned subsidiary of the acquiring parent entity. The company notified the New York Stock Exchange that the merger had been completed and requested that the exchange suspend trading of its common stock and file a Form 25 to remove the shares from listing and registration. A Form 25 filed on August 26, 2025 confirms the removal of Dun & Bradstreet Holdings, Inc. common stock from listing on the New York Stock Exchange.
Subsequently, a Form 15 filed on September 8, 2025 certifies the termination of registration of Dun & Bradstreet Holdings, Inc. common stock under Section 12(g) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the suspension of the company’s duty to file periodic reports under Sections 13 and 15(d). These filings indicate that Dun & Bradstreet no longer has its common stock registered or listed on a national securities exchange and is operating as a privately held company.
Use cases for investors and analysts
Although Dun & Bradstreet is no longer publicly traded under the DNB ticker, its historical profile as a provider of business decisioning data and analytics remains relevant for users analyzing the company’s past public-market history or its ongoing role in private ownership. Historical disclosures show that the company reported results by geography and solution category, including North America and International segments and solution groupings such as Finance & Risk and Sales & Marketing.
Company communications also describe the use of non‑GAAP financial measures such as organic revenue, adjusted EBITDA, adjusted EBITDA margin, adjusted net income, and adjusted net earnings per diluted share. Dun & Bradstreet has explained how these measures exclude certain items like acquisition-related costs, restructuring charges, equity-based compensation, transition costs, and amortization of recognized intangible assets, and has provided reconciliations to GAAP metrics in its public filings.