Gartner, Inc.

What does Gartner own?

Gartner owns its research brands and methodologies, including the Magic Quadrant, Hype Cycle and Peer Insights platform. It operates as a single company rather than a holding structure and does not own separate consumer brands.

Is Gartner publicly traded?

Yes. Gartner trades on the NYSE under the ticker IT and is a component of the S&P 500. It has been publicly traded since its 1993 relisting.

Who founded Gartner?

Gideon Gartner founded the company in Stamford, Connecticut in 1979, with David Stein as co-founder. Gideon Gartner left the company decades ago and founded subsequent research ventures including Giga Information Group.

Where is Gartner headquartered?

Gartner is headquartered in Stamford, Connecticut, USA. It operates offices in more than 40 locations worldwide serving clients in over 90 countries.

Who owns Gartner?

Gartner is a widely held public company with no controlling shareholder. Institutional investors hold most shares, and CEO Gene Hall leads the company.

What is Gartner's revenue?

Gartner reported $6.5 billion in revenue for fiscal 2025, with the Research segment contributing roughly $5.3 billion, Consulting about $500 million, and Conferences approximately $700 million.

What is a Magic Quadrant?

The Magic Quadrant is Gartner's proprietary research methodology that positions technology vendors in a market on two axes: completeness of vision and ability to execute. It is the most widely cited vendor evaluation in enterprise technology.

Gideon Gartner founded the company in 1979 in Stamford, Connecticut, after working as an analyst at IBM and then at Oppenheimer, where he built a reputation for technology stock research. David Stein joined as a co-founder. The premise was that enterprises and investors needed independent, structured analysis of fast-moving technology markets that vendor marketing could not provide.

The company went public in 1986, was taken private by Saatchi and Saatchi in 1988, then sold to Dun and Bradstreet, and relisted publicly in 1993, giving it an unusually complicated early ownership history. It adopted the name Gartner Group in the 1990s and expanded internationally and into adjacent research categories through organic growth and acquisitions.

Gene Hall became CEO in 2004 and led a period of sustained growth built on expanding the research subscription model beyond IT into finance, HR, legal, and marketing functions, plus growing the consulting and conferences segments. The company acquired CEB, a provider of best-practice research for corporate functions, in 2017 for approximately $3.3 billion, its largest deal, folding CEB's functional research into the Gartner model.

In recent years Gartner has extended research into AI, cybersecurity and supply chain while navigating the rise of free analyst content and AI-generated research alternatives. Fiscal 2025 revenue reached $6.5 billion with the Research segment contributing the large majority at roughly $5.3 billion.

Gartner's influence over vendor selection creates persistent tension around research objectivity. Technology vendors spend heavily on analyst relations, licensing and conference sponsorships, and critics periodically allege that paying clients receive more favorable Magic Quadrant treatment, an accusation Gartner denies and defends through documented methodology.

The company has faced litigation over Magic Quadrant placements in the past, notably the 2009 ZL Technologies lawsuit claiming the research was misleading, which courts ultimately resolved in Gartner's favor on free-speech grounds. The company has also faced criticism from vendors excluded from or poorly placed in its evaluations.