Northern Trust Corporation (NTRS) — chart, structure and Closelook read

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Company snapshot — Northern Trust Corporation

NTRS in five paragraphs: what it makes and sells, where it sits in the Closelook stack, who it is priced against, why we track it, what we watch. Research diary, not advice.

What it does
Northern Trust runs two main businesses: asset servicing, where it holds and administers securities for pension funds, insurers and other large institutional investors, and wealth management, where it handles trusts, investment management and private banking for wealthy families and individuals. It also runs an asset-management arm that builds equity, fixed-income and multi-asset portfolios sold through funds and managed accounts. It is based in Chicago and has been listed since 1990.
Where it sits in the stack
Northern Trust carries no seat in our AI-linked index, so it is read as part of the Financial Services sector, sitting in the Asset Management sleeve of our wider coverage rather than any layer of the build-out stack.
Who it is priced against
The diary has no peer group set for it in our data; the name the market usually places beside it is State Street, another custody and asset-servicing bank of similar scale.
Why Closelook tracks it
Northern Trust is an S&P 500 constituent but the diary has not assigned it a Closelook score, and it has drawn no quotes across our editions so far.
What the diary watches
Whether the stock's slide below its 50-day trend, still running after three lower sessions, turns into a break of its longer 200-day trend or steadies first.

Northern Trust Corporation (NTRS) trades on US exchanges.

Written from the company’s public profile and Closelook’s own readings, 2026-09-17. Descriptive, refreshed with the registry; corrections welcome via the imprint. closelook.net is an investment research diary — market structure, index membership and scores are our own readings, not investment advice. Related: index compare · sector dispersion · scanner.

Signals for this name

Every Closelook reading that exists for NTRS, from the same nightly bakes the boards use. Research diary readings, not advice.

Who it is priced against Asset Management · United States · 8 names with week and year-to-date

Peer group

Asset Management · United States

This name carries no Closelook score, so its cohort ranks on trend state — distance to the 50- and 200-day averages — never on a score it does not have.

Compared against NTRS on the nightly bakes; the Peers tab ranks the cohort on the Closelook scores where it exists.

Dividends and capital return trailing yield 1.85%, quarterly · last 0.88 USD on 2026-09-04

Dividends and capital return

What NTRS pays out and buys back — distributions read from the price series, money terms from the filings.

  • Trailing 12 months 3.28 USD per share · a 1.85% yield on the 2026-09-17 close 4 distributions, paid quarterly 2026-09-17
  • Change on the year +7.5% against the prior twelve months prior twelve months 3.05 USD per share
  • Last distribution 0.88 USD per share as the price series records it, within days of the ex-date 2026-09-04
  • By calendar year 2023: 0.75 USD (partial) · 2024: 3.00 USD · 2025: 3.10 USD · 2026: 2.48 USD to date first distribution recorded in the three-year window: 2023-12-07

Per-share amounts are derived from the adjusted price series in the listing currency, so dates sit within days of the ex-date; filing figures come from the fundamentals feed for the last reported fiscal year. An investment diary, not a recommendation.

Weather around the name 3 macro readings: Money Temperature, Factor regime, Sovereign pressure

The weather around this name

Macro readings that apply by membership — the regime, the factor tape, the sector cell, the funding backdrop.

  • Money Temperature Composite 55/100 · S&P 500 fund at 58, above its 50- and 200-day averagesEight instruments scored on position, momentum, volume, volatility and fragility — the regime every name trades inside. Temperature lab → 2026-09-17
  • Factor regime Momentum leading — risk appetite buildingMomentum against low volatility (SPMO / SPLV): above its 50-day trend, 94th percentile of the window, +2.7% over 20 sessions. Factor regime → 2026-09-17
  • Sovereign pressure Index 0.00 · down 0.41 over 21 sessionsG7 long-end yields, 10s30s and the slope — the funding weather for every balance sheet on this site. Sovereign pressure → 2026-09-17

FAQ · from the current data · as of 2026-09-18

Quick answers

What is Northern Trust Corporation (NTRS)?

Northern Trust Corporation trades as NTRS on the US exchange (United States) in the Closelook research universe, as of the registry build of 2026-09-18.

Is NTRS in a Closelook index?

Not currently — Northern Trust Corporation is tracked in the Closelook research universe but is not a constituent of a Closelook functional index as of 2026-09-18.

Where does NTRS trade against its moving averages?

Pullback inside an uptrend stack: Trades -4.1% vs the 50-day and +10.7% vs the 200-day average, 9.6% below the 52-week high and +48.5% off the 52-week low. Computed from daily closes. As of 2026-09-17 — a technical state from the nightly Closelook bake, not advice. The Technical tab carries the full row.

What does Northern Trust Corporation do?

Northern Trust runs two main businesses: asset servicing, where it holds and administers securities for pension funds, insurers and other large institutional investors, and wealth management, where it handles trusts, investment management and private banking for wealthy families and individuals. It also runs an asset-management arm that builds equity, fixed-income and multi-asset portfolios sold through funds and managed accounts. It is based in Chicago and has been listed since 1990. The diary has no peer group set for it in our data; the name the market usually places beside it is State Street, another custody and asset-servicing bank of similar scale.

Where does Northern Trust Corporation sit in the AI build-out?

Northern Trust carries no seat in our AI-linked index, so it is read as part of the Financial Services sector, sitting in the Asset Management sleeve of our wider coverage rather than any layer of the build-out stack. Northern Trust is an S&P 500 constituent but the diary has not assigned it a Closelook score, and it has drawn no quotes across our editions so far.

Does Northern Trust Corporation pay a dividend?

Northern Trust Corporation has paid 3.28 USD per share over the last twelve months, paid quarterly, a trailing yield of 1.85% on the 2026-09-17 close; the last distribution recorded in the price series was 0.88 USD on 2026-09-04. The "Dividends and capital return" block on this page carries the lines.

What does this page show?

A live price chart with SMA overlays and drawing tools for NTRS, performance metrics, index-membership context and the Closelook structure read — an investment research diary view, not investment advice.

Related in the Closelook universe

then Asset Management. Scored names rank on their Closelook score; names without one rank on trend state — above or below their 50- and 200-day averages — never on a score they do not carry.