PERSHING SQUARE INC.
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The asset manager behind Pershing Square.

By · Research and review process

HHH value creation · existing-fund compounding · new capital.

Evidence reviewed · 28 Oct 2026 · reporting dates shown / USD

Reported financial summary

Standalone quarterly earnings; separate from annual results, cumulative YTD results and dated AUM snapshots.

Management-fee revenue
68.029USD million · Q2 2026 · standalone quarter
Fee-related earnings
56.061USD million · Q2 2026 · standalone quarter
Distributable earnings
54.271USD million · Q2 2026 · standalone quarter
Attributable net income / loss
-42.695USD million · Q2 2026 · standalone quarter
Definitions, sources and limitations
  • Management-fee revenue FRE basis. Q2 2026 presentation, printed pp.4–6, 10–12 and 18–21. USD millions unless stated; figures converted from reported thousands. FRE basis Source disclosure
  • Fee-related earnings Non-GAAP. Q2 2026 presentation, printed pp.4–6, 10–12 and 18–21. USD millions unless stated; figures converted from reported thousands. Non-GAAP Source disclosure
  • Distributable earnings Non-GAAP. Q2 2026 presentation, printed pp.4–6, 10–12 and 18–21. USD millions unless stated; figures converted from reported thousands. Non-GAAP Source disclosure
  • Attributable net income / loss GAAP. Q2 2026 presentation, printed pp.4–6, 10–12 and 18–21. USD millions unless stated; figures converted from reported thousands. GAAP Source disclosure

Figures use the same dataset as the interactive history, displayed in the stated units with up to six decimal places. Reporting periods are not editorial review dates. Missing values are not zero. Date definitions · Published corrections

The business in one minute

How PS makes money

Pershing Square Inc. (PS) owns the asset-management business. Its economics depend on fee-paying capital, fee rates, investment performance, new capital raised and HHH advisory fees, less the costs of running the organisation. PSH and PSUS are separate investment funds; Howard Hughes (HHH) is a separately listed holding company advised by Pershing.

Fund investment gains can enlarge the fee base without new subscriptions. External fundraising can add capital. HHH contributes through its advisory agreement and, where held, through its value inside Pershing-managed funds. Each route has different contractual limits.

Each ticker is a different ownership claim. Client assets are not PS shareholder equity or PS cash. Shared management creates overlapping exposures, not identical shareholder results.

Total AUM

All capital managed, using the company’s reporting definition. This includes amounts such as PSH bond proceeds and HHH net debt that are not a uniform management-fee base.

Fee-paying capital

For recurring management fees, the relevant capital is the amount actually charged a management fee. PS’s published fee-paying AUM is a broader reporting measure: core-fund capital earning management and/or performance fees, plus HHH market capitalisation.

Total AUM and fee-paying capital are related but not interchangeable. Neither the same fee rate nor the same calculation applies to every dollar. HHH’s reported AUM measure is separate from its reference-share advisory-fee formula.

Investment performance
+ new capital raised
+ HHH effects on fund NAV
Fee-paying capital
× applicable fee rates
Management-fee revenue
PS operating economics
after costs and other claims

HHH advisory fees also feed directly into management-fee revenue, subject to contractual offsets. Eligible performance fees are an additional, variable stream.

Q2 2026 10-Q · definitions and fee mechanics ↗

Current platform snapshot · retain the reporting dates

Latest operating snapshot: approximately US$33bn total firm AUM at 30 September 2026; 98% permanent capital.

Latest operating snapshot: approximately US$13bn PSH, US$5bn PSUS and US$4bn HHH fee-paying AUM; rounded principal-vehicle subtotal only.

Total firm AUM~US$33bn30 Sep 2026 · company rounded
Why track this? · dated evidence below
What it measures
The latest reported size of the overall Pershing Square investment platform.
Why it matters
A larger asset base can support a larger fee base, but only assets subject to fee arrangements generate manager revenue.
What it can affect next
Investment performance and new permanent-capital formation can increase AUM; losses, distributions and other capital actions can reduce it.
What could mislead you
Total firm AUM is not the same as fee-paying AUM and is not PS shareholder equity. The company reports this figure on a rounded basis.
Current company snapshot ↗

01 · Value within HHH

Flywheel 1 — HHH compounds value

Better businesses, assets and capital allocation can increase HHH’s value per share. If its contractual share-price measure rises sufficiently, Pershing’s variable advisory fee can increase. Appreciation of HHH holdings can separately increase fund NAV, fee-paying capital and management fees.

Direct advisory channel

HHH per-share value creation → share-price progress relative to the contractual reference → variable advisory fees can grow.

Fund ownership channel

HHH appreciation → NAV of funds holding HHH can grow → fee-paying capital can grow → management fees can grow.

Why it matters: these are two potential channels, subject to ownership and contractual offsets. The advisory fee itself does not cause fund NAV to rise; HHH’s fee expense is also a cost to HHH.

The HHH contract · reference shares, price and offsets

The initial reference count is 59,393,938 shares, with an initial reference price of US$66.1453. The quarterly variable fee is 0.375% × the positive excess of the 15-trading-day quarter-end VWAP over the adjusted reference price × the contractual reference share count. VWAP means volume-weighted average trading price.

The base fee began at US$3.75m per quarter (US$15m annually). The base fee and reference price adjust annually for Core PCE inflation; the contract also specifies equitable adjustments for dividends and certain capital changes. Reference shares adjust for splits and similar reorganisations, not automatically for ordinary new share issuance. Issuing shares for cash, acquisitions or compensation therefore does not create an equivalent increase in the variable fee.

Dated evidence · Q2 2026: the reference price was US$67.6695 and the contractual VWAP was US$67.9560 at 30 June. Reported base fees were US$3.786m and variable fees US$0.064m, rounded, preserving the existing US$3.850m combined disclosure.

HHH fees reduce relevant fund management fees by the HHH fee multiplied by that fund’s ownership percentage of HHH attributable to fee-paying capital. Gross advisory fees and fund fee growth cannot simply be added without this reduction.

HHH Services Agreement · definitions and §7.2, 5 May 2025 ↗ · PS 10-Q · Note 4 and HHH Fees, 30 June 2026 ↗

Track these metrics · Why we track this
HHH value per share and share price versus reference
Tests per-share operating progress and the separate market-price test used for fees. No estimate of intrinsic value is supplied. Use the dated VWAP/reference comparison above, not a live-price assumption.
Base and variable advisory fees
Separates the recurring contractual base from the price-sensitive component. Preserve the Q2 base/variable split above and the fee-engine table.
Fund ownership, HHH shares outstanding and NAV contribution
Ownership determines the fund appreciation channel and fee offsets; outstanding shares show dilution. Track each fund separately and use disclosed HHH contribution to NAV where available. The contractual reference count is not shares outstanding or shares owned. No undisclosed fund ownership or contribution is estimated here.

PSH June 2026 interim · HHH holding and fee treatment ↗

Conditions that weaken this flywheel

Weak HHH capital allocation or operating results; dilution without sufficient per-share value creation; share-price performance lagging business progress; a less attractive opportunity set; and contractual fee offsets reducing PS’s net economic contribution.

02 · Growth of existing capital

Flywheel 2 — Existing funds compound

Investment returns can increase PSH, PSUS and private-fund NAV. Where that capital pays fees, a larger NAV can increase management-fee revenue and the recurring fee base for later periods, without new external money. Performance fees or allocations may also arise where the agreement permits them and loss recovery requirements have been met.

Investment returns
Fund NAV and fee-paying capital can grow
Management fees can grow
Performance fees only where applicable

PSH charges 1.5% annual management fees and a 16% performance fee subject to a high-water mark and reductions. PSUS charges 2% annual management fees and no performance fee. Private-fund classes have their own terms. Compare the existing fee arrangements →

Track these metrics · Why we track this
PSUS · NAV, fee-paying capital, fee rate and management-fee contribution
Tests whether fund assets produce the disclosed manager fees. The retained Q2 table shows US$4.593bn fee-paying capital and US$16.536m fees for a partial quarter; these are not a full-year run rate. PSUS NAV and portfolio detail →
PSH · NAV, investment performance, management fees and performance-fee structure
Tests compounding separately from fees and high-water marks. The existing PSH profile also tracks its discount to NAV; market discount changes are not themselves changes in the manager’s NAV fee base. PSH performance and NAV history →
Private funds · disclosed fee-paying capital and management/performance charges
Tracks the fee-eligible portion of each vehicle. Preserve the combined private-fund figures below; do not allocate that total to individual funds without a disclosure.
Across the platform · annual, five-year and since-inception performance
Use each fund’s own dated net/gross return series and inception date. The manager’s five-year earnings chart is not an investment-return record. A five-year PSUS fund record does not exist following its April 2026 launch.
Subscriptions, redemptions, net flows, fee-paying capital and fee revenue
Separates investment compounding from capital movements. Compare management fees with the recurring base, and performance fees/allocations with their separate recognition and ownership rules.
Conditions that weaken this flywheel

Poor investment performance, drawdowns, redemptions, shrinking fee-paying capital, fund structural issues, and AUM becoming too large relative to the investable opportunity set. Closed-ended funds do not offer ordinary investor redemptions; repurchases and distributions can still reduce their capital base.

03 · New external money

Flywheel 3 — Raise new capital

A track record and reputation can attract external investors. New subscriptions or new vehicles can add fee-paying capital and recurring management fees. Greater scale may support future fundraising, provided investment results, terms and investor demand remain supportive.

Track record and reputation
External capital and new vehicles
New fee-paying capital
can support recurring fees and platform scale

The distinction: Flywheel 2 grows capital already in the funds through investment returns. Flywheel 3 brings new external capital into the platform. Transfers between Pershing vehicles, debt issuance and secondary-market share trades are not automatically new external fee-paying capital.

Track these metrics · Why we track this
Gross capital raised, launches and fund size at launch
Shows capital formation before costs and separates a new vehicle from later subscriptions. PSUS’s April 2026 launch is retained in the historical capital and fee disclosures.
Subsequent inflows, redemptions, net subscriptions and net capital flows
Shows what is added or withdrawn after launch. Identify transfers between affiliated vehicles so the same capital is not counted as new to the platform twice.
New fee-paying capital and the fee rate it attracts
Tests the fee economics of fundraising. Lower-fee capital, exempt classes and launch timing can make fee revenue grow more slowly than headline capital raised.
Fee-paying capital as a percentage of total AUM
30 June 2026: US$22.258bn / US$32.487bn = 68.5%, calculated from the same-date reported balances. This is a reporting ratio, not an effective fee rate. Do not combine the September principal-vehicle subtotal with an exact consolidated denominator.
Conditions that weaken this flywheel

Weak investment performance reducing fundraising demand; redemptions; fee compression; new capital entering lower-fee vehicles; weaker investor demand; or fund size growing faster than the investment opportunity set.

How the flywheels reinforce each other

These are possible operating relationships, not guaranteed loops. HHH’s channels depend on ownership and contractual offsets.

Performance → existing capital

Investment performance → existing fund NAV can grow → fee-paying capital can grow → management fees can grow.

Performance → external capital

Investment performance → track record can strengthen → fundraising may become easier → new fee-paying capital → management fees can grow.

HHH → direct fees

HHH value creation → contractual share-price progress → HHH advisory fees can grow, subject to the reference mechanism.

HHH → fund capital

HHH value creation → NAV of Pershing funds holding HHH can grow → fee-paying capital can grow → management fees can grow, after relevant offsets.

From the explanation to the evidence

The five metrics that best explain PS

Read balances at their stated dates and fee revenue over its stated period. Unavailable fund-level detail remains a disclosure gap.

1 · Fee-paying capital

Tests the amount of capital actually producing recurring management fees; read the reported FPAUM definition alongside it.

Fee-paying capital~US$22bn30 Sep 2026 · three principal permanent-capital vehicles
Why track this? · dated evidence below
What it measures
The current rounded fee-paying AUM disclosed for PSH (~US$13bn), PSUS (~US$5bn) and HHH (~US$4bn). Together, these three principal permanent-capital vehicles represent about US$22bn of reported fee-paying capital. The formal reporting definition can include performance-fee-only capital; HHH uses its separately reported market capitalisation measure.
Why it matters
Management-fee revenue depends on assets that are actually subject to fee arrangements, not on total firm AUM alone.
Latest exact reconciliation
At 30 June 2026, Pershing Square reported US$22.258bn of total fee-paying AUM, including PSH, PSUS, HHH and private funds. The September company website provides rounded vehicle figures rather than a new exact consolidated fee-paying-AUM total.
What could mislead you
Do not treat the rounded September sum as an exact consolidated balance. Total firm AUM was about US$33bn at 30 September 2026 and includes assets that are not part of this three-vehicle fee-paying-capital subtotal. AUM is also not PS shareholder equity.
30 Sep 2026 company snapshot ↗ · 30 Jun 2026 exact reconciliation ↗

2 · Management-fee revenue

Tests whether fee-paying capital is translating into PS revenue.

Management-fee revenueUS$68.029mQ2 2026 · FRE basis
Why track this? · dated evidence below
What it measures
Management fees on the company’s adjusted FRE basis; retained preferred performance fees were zero this quarter.
Why it matters
Identifies the income supporting the manager.
What it can affect next
Cost growth slower than fee growth can expand earnings.
What could mislead you
GAAP management fees were US$54.176m after contra-revenue, so the two bases cannot be substituted.
Primary disclosure ↗

3 · Investment performance

Fund-specific returns

Tests the engine that compounds existing fund NAV and supports fundraising.

Why we track this

Use annual, five-year and since-inception returns from each fund’s own disclosures. Distinguish net from gross returns, cumulative from annualised figures, NAV returns from share-price returns, and partial from full periods. No blended platform investment return is estimated here.

PSH’s existing historical NAV returns →
PSUS’s own launch-to-date history →

4 · Net capital flows

Separate flows from returns

Separates externally raised capital from investment-driven AUM growth.

Why we track this

Q2 2026 reported fee-paying AUM: US$16,970m opening + US$4,879m inflows + US$785m market-value change − US$376m outflows = US$22,258m closing.

These are the company’s roll-forward categories, not a clean external net-subscription series. Q2 outflows include US$273m of private-fund withdrawals used to participate in the PSUS transactions, alongside other movements. Do not call all outflows redemptions or all market-value change a fund return. No missing five-year flow breakdown is backsolved.

Q2 presentation · printed pp.5 and 9 ↗

5 · HHH fee contribution

US$3.850mQ2 2026 · gross fees, FRE basis

Shows the contribution from PS’s advisory relationship with HHH.

Why we track this

Separate base and variable fees and the resulting fund management-fee reductions. The Q2 2026 gross split is US$3.786m base plus US$0.064m variable. It is not the net incremental contribution after offsets, contra-revenue and operating costs.

HHH contractual mechanism and sources ↑

Explore the preserved five-year charts and financial history →

From fee revenue to PS shareholder economics

A larger recurring fee base only improves shareholder economics when the resulting revenue exceeds the associated costs and other claims. The existing FRE, DE, GAAP and balance-sheet observations remain separate below.

  1. Convert fees into operating earnings

    Management fees and eligible performance-related fees become revenue to PS. Because managing a larger position does not necessarily require costs to rise in the same proportion, the model can produce operating leverage when fee revenue grows faster than the organisation’s expense base.

    Latest reported earnings period: Q2 FRE revenue US$68.029m − FRE expenses US$11.968m = US$56.061m of fee-related earnings, an 82.4% company-defined FRE margin.

  2. Measure what reaches PS shareholders

    Fee growth is not the same thing as shareholder earnings. Compensation, operating expenses, financing costs, taxes, investments held by PS and the share count determine what ultimately reaches each common share.

    Latest reported earnings period: Q2 distributable earnings were US$54.271m, or US$0.14 per share on the company’s 400m-share presentation base. GAAP net loss attributable to PS was US$42.695m.

Latest standalone earnings: Q2 2026. Quarterly, cumulative YTD and annual results are presented separately in History; AUM snapshots retain their own dates.

FREUS$56.061mQ2 2026 · company non-GAAP
Why track this? · dated evidence below
What it measures
US$68.029m FRE revenue less US$11.968m FRE expenses.
Why it matters
Shows operating fee earnings after the expenses included in the definition.
What it can affect next
The retained earnings base supports distributions and organisation spending.
What could mislead you
The 82.4% FRE margin excludes items included in GAAP. It is not a fund investment return.
Primary disclosure ↗
Distributable earningsUS$54.271mQ2 2026 · company non-GAAP
Why track this? · dated evidence below
What it measures
FRE less US$1.790m net interest expense; reported DE was US$0.14 per share.
Why it matters
Connects manager operations and financing to the ownership base.
What it can affect next
Interest costs and dilution can reduce the result per share.
What could mislead you
Reported taxes in this reconciliation were zero in Q2. Corporate conversion, future-period tax treatment and recast compensation limit historical comparability; DE is not GAAP income.
Primary disclosure ↗
GAAP net lossUS$42.695m lossQ2 2026 · attributable to PS
Why track this? · dated evidence below
What it measures
Reported loss attributable to the company, alongside its positive non-GAAP FRE.
Why it matters
Keeps the full accounting result visible.
What it can affect next
Compensation, investment marks and IPO-related changes affect the reported result.
What could mislead you
Reconcile excluded items before interpreting the adjusted margin as shareholder profit.
Primary disclosure ↗
Capital and obligationsUS$235m debt30 Jun 2026 · presentation rounded
Why track this? · dated evidence below
What it measures
US$852m cash and own investments less debt gave US$617m net cash and investments. Cash alone was US$9m.
Why it matters
Distinguishes liquid cash from investment exposure.
What it can affect next
Debt service consumes resources; investment marks can change the asset cushion.
What could mislead you
US$617m is not cash. The presentation’s US$1.54 per share uses 400m shares.
Primary disclosure ↗

The constraint to keep in view

Core operating question

Can Pershing grow fee-paying capital while maintaining investment performance as the amount of capital under management increases?

Larger fee-paying capital can increase recurring management fees, but larger funds may also reduce the number of investments large enough to materially affect fund performance. A concentrated strategy needs positions of sufficient size and liquidity. This is an operating question to track, not a bullish or bearish conclusion.