MCO - Moody's Corp Stock Price, Fair Value and News

373.62USD-3.54 (-0.94%)Market Closed

Market Summary

USD373.62-3.54

Market Closed

-0.94%

MCO Stock Price

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MCO Valuation

Market Cap

68.2B

Price/Earnings (Trailing)

42.43

Price/Sales (Trailing)

11.53

EV/EBITDA

28.22

Price/Free Cashflow

36.27

MCO Price/Sales (Trailing)

MCO Profitability

Operating Margin

71.48%

EBT Margin

32.71%

Return on Equity

48.43%

Return on Assets

10.99%

Free Cashflow Yield

2.76%

MCO Fundamentals

MCO Revenue

Revenue (TTM)

5.9B

Rev. Growth (Yr)

14.73%

Rev. Growth (Qtr)

0.54%

MCO Earnings

Earnings (TTM)

1.6B

Earnings Growth (Yr)

38.21%

Earnings Growth (Qtr)

-12.6%

Breaking Down MCO Revenue

Last 7 days

-5.7%

Last 30 days

-2.7%

Last 90 days

-2.1%

Trailing 12 Months

23.6%

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MCO Financial Health

Current Ratio

1.74

Debt/Equity

2.11

Debt/Cashflow

0.31

MCO Investor Care

Dividend Yield

0.82%

Dividend/Share (TTM)

3.08

Buy Backs (1Y)

0.38%

Diluted EPS (TTM)

8.73

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Net sales

Year	Q1	Q2	Q3	Q4
2023	5.4B	5.5B	5.7B	5.9B
2022	6.1B	6.0B	5.7B	5.5B
2021	5.7B	5.8B	6.0B	6.2B
2020	5.0B	5.2B	5.3B	5.4B
2019	4.5B	4.5B	4.7B	4.8B
2018	4.4B	4.5B	4.5B	4.4B
2017	3.8B	3.8B	4.0B	4.2B
2016	3.4B	3.4B	3.5B	3.6B
2015	3.4B	3.5B	3.5B	3.5B
2014	3.0B	3.1B	3.2B	3.3B
2013	2.8B	2.9B	2.9B	3.0B
2012	2.4B	2.4B	2.5B	2.7B
2011	2.1B	2.3B	2.3B	2.3B
2010	1.9B	1.9B	2.0B	2.0B
2009	1.7B	1.7B	1.7B	1.8B
2008	0	2.1B	1.9B	1.8B
2007	0	0	0	2.3B

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Tracking the Latest Insider Buys and Sells of Moody's Corp

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Datesorted ascending	Name	Buy/Sell	$ Value	Avg. Price	# Shares	Title
Mar 15, 2024	forlenza vincent a	acquired	6,278	382	16.423	-
Mar 15, 2024	howell lloyd jr	acquired	2,098	382	5.49	-
Mar 15, 2024	esperdy therese	acquired	5,268	382	13.78	-
Mar 15, 2024	van saun bruce	acquired	8,896	381	23.336	-
Mar 15, 2024	bermudez jorge a.	acquired	7,334	378	19.354	-
Mar 15, 2024	minaya jose	acquired	3,336	382	8.726	-
Mar 15, 2024	seidman leslie	acquired	12,119	378	32.00	-
Mar 15, 2024	hill kathryn	acquired	2,169	382	5.674	-
Mar 04, 2024	steele richard g	sold	-116,284	382	-304	svp - general counsel
Mar 01, 2024	sullivan caroline	acquired	143,098	380	376	svp, corp contr & interim cfo

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Datesorted ascending	Fund Name	Type	% Chg	$ Change	$ Held	% Portfolio
Apr 12, 2024	CALEDONIA INVESTMENTS PLC	unchanged	-	247,096	41,664,900	5.38%
Apr 12, 2024	High Net Worth Advisory Group LLC	unchanged	-	4,307	685,444	0.22%
Apr 12, 2024	PEAK FINANCIAL ADVISORS LLC	new	-	2,893,490	2,893,490	1.76%
Apr 12, 2024	Sarasin & Partners LLP	added	10.52	14,315,200	141,876,000	1.40%
Apr 12, 2024	DNB Asset Management AS	reduced	-7.37	-1,680,110	23,068,900	0.12%
Apr 12, 2024	Riverview Trust Co	new	-	17,686	17,686	0.01%
Apr 12, 2024	Abacus Planning Group, Inc.	reduced	-2.41	-6,105	333,682	0.06%
Apr 12, 2024	Dynamic Advisor Solutions LLC	added	1.78	17,523	247,297	0.01%
Apr 12, 2024	HARBOR INVESTMENT ADVISORY, LLC	unchanged	-	39.00	6,288	-%
Apr 12, 2024	Carlson Capital Management	sold off	-100	-221,838	-	-%

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Unveiling Moody's Corp's Major ShareHolders

Date Filed	Name of Filer	Percent of Class	No. of Shares	Form Type
Feb 14, 2024	tci fund management ltd	6.58%	12,049,611	SC 13G/A
Feb 13, 2024	vanguard group inc	7.74%	14,163,962	SC 13G/A
Jan 26, 2024	blackrock inc.	7.1%	12,930,024	SC 13G/A
Dec 18, 2023	tci fund management ltd	6.54%	11,961,611	SC 13G/A
Feb 14, 2023	tci fund management ltd	5.03%	9,212,287	SC 13G
Feb 09, 2023	vanguard group inc	7.57%	13,869,993	SC 13G/A
Jan 31, 2023	blackrock inc.	7.1%	12,949,795	SC 13G/A
Feb 01, 2022	blackrock inc.	6.4%	11,818,749	SC 13G/A
Feb 10, 2021	vanguard group inc	7.29%	13,689,464	SC 13G/A
Jan 29, 2021	blackrock inc.	6.3%	11,775,000	SC 13G/A

Recent SEC filings of Moody's Corp

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Date Filed	Form Type	Document
Apr 02, 2024	3	Insider Trading
Apr 02, 2024	4	Insider Trading
Mar 18, 2024	4	Insider Trading
Mar 18, 2024	4	Insider Trading
Mar 18, 2024	4	Insider Trading
Mar 18, 2024	4	Insider Trading
Mar 18, 2024	4	Insider Trading
Mar 18, 2024	4	Insider Trading
Mar 18, 2024	4	Insider Trading
Mar 18, 2024	4	Insider Trading

Peers (Alternatives to Moody's Corp)

Name	Mkt Capsorted ascending	Revenue	Price %, 1M	Returns, 1Y	P/E	P/S	Rev 1-Yr	Inc 1-Yr
LARGE-CAP
GS	130.5B	68.5B	3.50%	18.95%	15.32	1.9	136.06%	-24.38%
ICE	74.8B	9.9B	-3.02%	21.45%	31.57	7.55	2.77%	63.76%
CME	74.0B	5.6B	-5.20%	8.25%	22.95	13.17	-0.62%	19.89%
COIN	52.7B	3.1B	-7.83%	219.53%	555.2	16.95	-2.69%	103.61%
FDS	16.2B	2.2B	-10.82%	2.53%	33.07	7.51	7.26%	9.28%
IBKR	11.5B	6.2B	1.61%	31.21%	4.08	1.84	131.94%	52.66%
MID-CAP
JEF	8.8B	8.2B	-4.95%	33.35%	33.38	1.07	17.04%	-76.58%
HLI	8.0B	1.8B	-0.33%	37.06%	30.74	4.33	0.16%	-0.33%
EVR	7.1B	2.4B	-1.85%	53.76%	27.7	2.9	-12.10%	-46.39%
FRHC	4.0B	1.4B	-10.89%	-7.66%	11.88	2.85	96.15%	398.80%
CLSK	2.9B	214.4M	-15.78%	255.45%	-35.61	13.56	75.40%	19.03%
SMALL-CAP
DFIN	1.8B	797.2M	-1.73%	39.93%	21.65	2.23	-4.37%	-19.80%
AMRK	889.3M	10.0B	40.12%	8.96%	8.05	0.09	24.24%	-27.96%
COHN	12.0M	83.0M	-17.18%	-0.22%	-2.04	0.14	15.07%	81.87%
AAMC	9.2M	5.3M	-1.09%	-94.75%	-0.28	1.74	4.05%	-104.26%

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Income Statement (Last 12 Months)

(In Millions)

(*) denotes actual numbers (not divided by Millions)
Income Statement (Quarterly)																					(In Millions)
Description	(%) Q/Q	2023Q4	2023Q3	2023Q2	2023Q1	2022Q4	2022Q3	2022Q2	2022Q1	2021Q4	2021Q3	2021Q2	2021Q1	2020Q4	2020Q3	2020Q2	2020Q1	2019Q4	2019Q3	2019Q2	2019Q1	2018Q4
Revenue	0.5%	1,480	1,472	1,494	1,470	1,290	1,275	1,381	1,522	1,539	1,526	1,553	1,600	1,290	1,356	1,435	1,290	1,233	1,240	1,214	1,142	1,060
Cost Of Revenue	2.2%	421	412	426	428	410	393	393	417	485	394	365	393	409	364	362	340	355	350	340	342	-
Costs and Expenses	4.8%	982	937	944	916	984	862	873	866	1,025	850	752	747	846	714	725	698	729	691	731	680	-
Operating Expenses	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	692	730	680	684
S&GA Expenses	6.2%	428	403	415	386	403	385	368	371	465	395	327	293	350	271	307	301	319	292	275	281	278
EBITDA Margin	2.8%	0.44*	0.43*	0.42*	0.41*	0.42*	0.43*	0.44*	0.48*	0.51*	0.51*	0.52*	0.51*	0.48*	0.46*	0.45*	0.43*	0.41*	0.39*	-	-	-
Interest Expenses	-41.4%	51.00	87.00	47.00	96.00	31.00	77.00	12.00	78.00	23.00	53.00	13.00	73.00	13.00	47.00	23.00	49.00	-	-	-	-	-
Income Taxes	13.4%	110	97.00	115	5.00	81.00	78.00	116	111	89.00	145	181	126	86.00	132	157	77.00	92.00	130	121	38.00	69.00
Earnings Before Taxes	-7.6%	450	487	492	506	327	381	443	609	516	619	758	862	400	599	666	564	453	513	432	412	323
EBT Margin	3.4%	0.33*	0.32*	0.31*	0.31*	0.32*	0.34*	0.37*	0.41*	0.44*	0.44*	0.45*	0.44*	0.42*	0.43*	0.42*	0.39*	0.37*	0.36*	-	-	-
Net Income	-12.6%	340	389	377	501	246	303	327	498	427	474	577	736	314	467	509	488	359	380	310	373	251
Net Income Margin	2.8%	0.27*	0.26*	0.26*	0.25*	0.25*	0.27*	0.29*	0.32*	0.36*	0.35*	0.36*	0.36*	0.33*	0.34*	0.33*	0.31*	0.29*	0.28*	-	-	-
Free Cashflow	3.3%	404	391	550	535	298	265	217	411	237	403	564	662	638	490	591	324	471	419	-	-	-

Balance Sheet

(In Millions)

(*) denotes actual numbers (not divided by Millions)
Balance Sheet																					(In Millions)
Description	(%) Q/Q	2023Q4	2023Q3	2023Q2	2023Q1	2022Q4	2022Q3	2022Q2	2022Q1	2021Q4	2021Q3	2021Q2	2021Q1	2020Q4	2020Q3	2020Q2	2020Q1	2019Q4	2019Q3	2019Q2	2019Q1	2018Q4
Assets	3.0%	14,622	14,191	14,691	14,719	14,349	13,939	14,315	14,739	14,680	14,414	12,552	12,500	12,409	11,672	11,298	11,306	10,265	9,478	9,592	9,518	9,526
Current Assets	7.5%	4,341	4,037	4,390	4,426	4,094	3,726	3,820	4,062	4,011	4,255	4,734	4,695	4,509	4,281	3,963	3,994	3,679	3,042	3,155	2,898	3,387
Cash Equivalents	6.2%	2,130	2,006	2,278	2,119	1,769	1,656	1,617	1,750	1,811	2,239	2,809	2,769	2,597	2,492	2,099	2,141	1,832	1,178	1,196	1,197	1,685
Net PPE	5.2%	603	573	541	525	502	472	433	381	347	301	282	269	278	282	298	285	292	292	300	319	320
Goodwill	2.1%	5,956	5,831	5,926	5,892	5,839	5,617	5,841	6,039	5,999	5,898	4,590	79.00	4,556	4,282	4,162	4,122	3,722	3,610	3,665	3,763	3,781
Liabilities	2.8%	11,146	10,839	11,379	11,661	11,660	11,509	11,836	12,157	11,764	11,795	10,172	10,275	10,646	9,979	10,061	10,501	9,428	8,775	9,017	9,193	8,870
Current Liabilities	10.2%	2,500	2,269	2,667	2,988	2,375	2,066	2,755	2,988	2,496	2,793	2,050	2,154	2,222	1,721	1,886	2,351	1,912	2,138	1,840	2,006	2,099
Long Term Debt	2.2%	7,001	6,851	6,923	6,963	7,389	7,476	7,158	7,285	7,413	6,969	6,355	6,340	6,422	6,363	6,333	6,303	5,581	4,737	5,258	5,229	5,226
LT Debt, Current	-	-	-	300	499	-	-	499	501	-	507	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	502	-	-	450
LT Debt, Non Current	2.2%	7,001	6,851	6,923	6,963	7,389	7,476	7,158	7,285	7,413	6,969	6,355	6,340	6,422	6,363	6,333	6,303	5,581	4,737	5,258	5,229	5,226
Shareholder's Equity	4.0%	3,318	3,191	3,312	3,058	2,519	2,430	2,479	2,582	2,916	2,619	2,380	2,225	1,763	1,688	1,232	799	831	697	575	325	656
Retained Earnings	1.4%	14,659	14,460	14,213	13,979	13,618	13,501	13,328	13,132	12,762	12,451	12,094	11,632	11,011	10,804	10,442	10,041	9,656	9,392	9,108	8,894	8,594
Additional Paid-In Capital	4.5%	1,228	1,175	1,124	1,068	1,054	1,013	965	826	885	832	784	739	735	699	651	616	642	608	575	436	601
Accumulated Depreciation	3.1%	1,272	1,234	1,195	1,153	1,123	1,078	1,058	1,035	1,010	988	969	946	928	907	880	853	839	817	797	835	790
Shares Outstanding	-0.1%	183	183	184	183	184	184	185	185	186	187	187	187	188	188	188	188	189	190	190	-	-
Minority Interest	-1.9%	158	161	168	167	170	175	185	188	189	189	194	195	194	191	191	217	219	225	222	202	197
Float	-	-	-	64,000	-	-	-	50,000	-	-	-	68,000	-	-	-	51,000	-	-	-	37,000	-	-

Cashflow (Last 12 Months)

(In Millions)

(*) denotes actual numbers (not divided by Millions)
Cashflow (Quarterly)																					(In Millions)
Description	(%) Q/Q	2023Q4	2023Q3	2023Q2	2023Q1	2022Q4	2022Q3	2022Q2	2022Q1	2021Q4	2021Q3	2021Q2	2021Q1	2020Q4	2020Q3	2020Q2	2020Q1	2019Q4	2019Q3	2019Q2	2019Q1	2018Q4
Cashflow From Operations	3.2%	477	462	604	608	377	336	291	470	299	436	594	676	658	511	632	345	479	441	388	367	376
Share Based Compensation	8.7%	50.00	46.00	50.00	47.00	39.00	46.00	38.00	46.00	48.00	41.00	41.00	45.00	44.00	38.00	35.00	37.00	33.00	33.00	34.00	36.00	30.00
Cashflow From Investing	40.0%	-54.00	-90.00	-40.00	-63.00	-90.00	-	-11.00	-161	-458	-1,910	-57.00	-194	-224	-30.00	-51.00	-772	186	-97.00	-46.00	-7.00	-292
Cashflow From Financing	41.8%	-353	-607	-408	-216	-251	-245	-360	-352	-257	927	-502	-290	-354	-120	-642	765	-46.00	-331	-337	-849	568
Dividend Payments	-0.7%	140	141	142	141	128	128	129	130	116	115	116	116	105	105	105	105	94.00	95.00	95.00	94.00	84.00
Buy Backs	24.7%	212	170	67.00	41.00	-	112	311	560	122	125	371	132	250	-	-	253	263	113	167	448	56.00

MCO Income Statement

2023-12-31

CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS - USD ($) shares in Millions, $ in Millions	12 Months Ended
	Dec. 31, 2023	Dec. 31, 2022	Dec. 31, 2021
Income Statement [Abstract]
Revenue	$ 5,916	$ 5,468	$ 6,218
Expenses
Operating	1,687	1,613	1,637
Selling, general and administrative	1,632	1,527	1,480
Depreciation and amortization	373	331	257
Restructuring	87	114	0
Total expenses	3,779	3,585	3,374
Operating income	2,137	1,883	2,844
Non-operating (expense) income, net
Interest expense, net	(251)	(231)	(171)
Other non-operating income, net	49	38	82
Gain on extinguishment of debt	0	70	0
Non-operating (expense) income, net	(202)	(123)	(89)
Income before provision for income taxes	1,935	1,760	2,755
Provision for income taxes	327	386	541
Net income	1,608	1,374	2,214
Less: Net income attributable to noncontrolling interests	1	0	0
Net income attributable to Moody’s	$ 1,607	$ 1,374	$ 2,214
Earnings per share
Basic (in USD per share)	$ 8.77	$ 7.47	$ 11.88
Diluted (in USD per share)	$ 8.73	$ 7.44	$ 11.78
Weighted average shares outstanding
Basic (in shares)	183.2	183.9	186.4
Diluted (in shares)	184.0	184.7	187.9

MCO Balance Sheet

2023-12-31

CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS - USD ($) $ in Millions	Dec. 31, 2023	Dec. 31, 2022
Current assets:
Cash and cash equivalents	$ 2,130	$ 1,769
Short-term investments	63	90
Accounts receivable, net of allowances for credit losses of $35 in 2023 and $40 in 2022	1,659	1,652
Other current assets	489	583
Total current assets	4,341	4,094
Property and equipment, net of accumulated depreciation of $1,272 in 2023 and $1,123 in 2022	603	502
Operating lease right-of-use assets	277	346
Goodwill	5,956	5,839
Intangible assets, net	2,049	2,210
Deferred tax assets, net	258	266
Other assets	1,138	1,092
Total assets	14,622	14,349
Current liabilities:
Accounts payable and accrued liabilities	1,076	1,011
Current portion of operating lease liabilities	108	106
Deferred revenue	1,316	1,258
Total current liabilities	2,500	2,375
Non-current portion of deferred revenue	65	75
Total long-term debt	7,001	7,389
Deferred tax liabilities, net	402	457
Uncertain tax positions	196	322
Operating lease liabilities	306	368
Other liabilities	676	674
Total liabilities	11,146	11,660
Contingencies
Shareholders’ equity:
Preferred stock, par value $.01 per share; 10,000,000 shares authorized; no shares issued and outstanding	0	0
Capital surplus	1,228	1,054
Retained earnings	14,659	13,618
Treasury stock, at cost; 160,430,754 and 159,702,362 shares of common stock at December 31, 2023 and December 31, 2022, respectively	(12,005)	(11,513)
Accumulated other comprehensive loss	(567)	(643)
Total Moody’s shareholders’ equity	3,318	2,519
Noncontrolling interests	158	170
Total shareholders’ equity	3,476	2,689
Total liabilities and shareholders’ equity	14,622	14,349
Series Common Stock
Shareholders’ equity:
Common stock	0	0
Non-Series Common Stock
Shareholders’ equity:
Common stock	$ 3	$ 3

About Moody's Corp

Moody's Corporation operates as an integrated risk assessment firm worldwide. It operates in two segments, Moody's Investors Service and Moody's Analytics. The Moody's Investors Service segment publishes credit ratings and provides assessment services on various debt obligations, programs and facilities, and entities that issue such obligations, such as various corporate, financial institution, and governmental obligations, as well as and structured finance securities. Its ratings are disseminated through press releases to the public through electronic media, including the internet and real-time information systems used by securities traders and investors. The Moody's Analytics segment develops a range of products and services that support the risk management activities of institutional participants in financial markets; and offers subscription based research, data, and analytical products comprising credit ratings, credit research, quantitative credit scores and other analytical tools, economic research and forecasts, business intelligence and company information products, commercial real estate data and analytical tools, and learning solutions. It also offers offshore research and analytic services to the global financial and corporate sectors; and risk management software solutions, as well as related risk management advisory engagements services. The company was formerly known as Dun and Bradstreet Company and changed its name to Moody's Corporation in September 2000. Moody's Corporation was founded in 1900 and is headquartered in New York, New York.

CEO	Mr. Robert Scott Fauber
WEBSITE	moodys.com
INDUSTRY	Mortgage Finance
EMPLOYEES	14635

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What is the fair value of MCO stock?

You can check MCO's fair value in chart for subscribers. The fair value of Moody's Corp is provided for various growth and macro-economic scenarios from very pessimiatic to very optimistic assumptions. These fair values are estimates from Grufity's Fair Value model based on company's past performance. However, past performance of Moody's Corp is no guarantee of future performance. These fairvalue estimates should only be used as one of the inputs in your stock analysis. We provide model's historical fair value estimates for MCO so that you know how good or bad the model has been in the past so you can discard it if needed. There are others that provide fair values of stocks such as wallmine, finbox, gurufocus and finviz. Most provide point in time estimates. We provide a history of our models fair value estimates so that you can get a sense of it's usefulness. Otherwise this data point is of little use.

Is Moody's Corp a good stock to buy?

The fair value guage provides a quick view whether MCO is over valued or under valued. Whether Moody's Corp is cheap or expensive depends on the assumptions which impact Moody's Corp's fair value. We provide several scenarios of inflation and growth to encompass these range of assumptions for MCO.

What is Moody's Corp's Price to Earnings (PE) and Price to sales (PS) ratio?

As of Mon Apr 15 2024, MCO's PE ratio (Price to Earnings) is 42.43 and Price to Sales (PS) ratio is 11.53. The price to earnings and price to sales ratio are two most important valuation metrics for any company. PE ratio tell us the number of years of earnings investors are ready to pay for owning the company. Historically, S&P500 price to earnings ratio has fallen below 12 during periods of gloom and gone past 30 during periods of euphoria. MCO PE ratio will change depending on the future growth rate expectations of investors.

What is 5 year return on Moody's Corp's stock?

In the past 10 years, Moody's Corp has provided 0.18 (multiply by 100 for percentage) rate of return.