Stock · MCO · Financial Services
United States · Large Cap · listed since 2000 · Revenue 12 mo. $8.2B
Price as of 11/06/2026
Moody's Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, operates as an integrated risk assessment firm in the United States, the rest of the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and the Asia Pacific.
Moody's Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, operates as an integrated risk assessment firm in the United States, the rest of the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and the Asia Pacific. It operates through two segments, Moody's Analytics (MA) and Moody's Investors Service (MIS). The MA segment develops a range of products and services that support the risk management activities of institutional participants in financial markets. This segment also offers credit research, credit models and analytics, economic data and models, and structured finance solutions; data sets on companies and securities; and cloud-based SaaS subscription solutions supporting banking, insurance, and know-your-customer workflows. The MIS segment publishes credit ratings and provides assessment services on various debt obligations, programs and facilities, and entities that issue such obligations, including corporate, financial institution, and governmental obligations, as well as structured finance securities. It also provides ratings, investment research, compliance and third-party risk, supplier risk, trade credit, business intelligence sales and marketing, financial and regulatory reporting, balance sheet management, capital management, credit portfolio management, and model risk and governance solutions; Maxsight, a unified risk platform; lending suite, origination, and monitoring solutions; and property, casualty, and sustainable insurance underwriting solutions. The company serves the financial, banking, insurance, corporate, public, and asset management sectors. 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.
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Summary
55.7 of 100
Mean of the six area values. Each area value is the mean of the stock's ranks among the companies in its sector. 50 is the middle of the sector, not a share of companies beaten.
Analysis
What the price requires
If free cash flow stays at €2.3B (2025), it supports €25.7B. The remaining €50.7B of the market value assume it grows 15.2% a year for 10 years and not at all afterwards.
Required FCF growth per year
15.2%
no growth afterwards
Price to operating cash flow 26.3×, below its usual range.
Middle half of 20 quarters: 30.3× to 33.7×, median 32.1×.
Measures only against its own past, not against what the company is worth. Price as of 11/06/2026.
with respect to the priced-in expectation
with respect to the priced-in expectation
Since the last quarter
Q2 → Q3 2026
3 more unchanged: Revenue, 12 mo., EBIT margin, Net debt
Derivation
Each area value is the average of its metrics' ranks within the sector (0 to 100, 50 is the middle). For metrics where lower is better, the rank is mirrored. The overall value is the average of the area values.
Price as of 11/06/2026.
| Metric | Stock | Sector median | Position in sector |
|---|---|---|---|
| Return on equity | 60.66% | 12.46% | Rank 99 |
| Return on capital (Greenblatt) | 107.67% | 59.04% | Rank 60 |
| EBIT margin | 44.77% | 23.06% | Rank 87 |
| FCF margin | 33.36% | 19.82% | Rank 70 |
| Gross margin | 68.15% | 65.53% | Rank 54 |
| Metric | Stock | Sector median | Position in sector |
|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue growth, 1 year | 8.89% | 7.39% | Rank 55 |
| Earnings growth, 3 years per year | 22.48% | 15.20% | Rank 65 |
| Earnings growth, 5 years per year | 7.79% | 15.17% | Rank 24 |
| Sustainable growth (ROE × retained earnings) | 4.22% | 1.25% | Rank 86 |
| Metric | Stock | Sector median | Position in sector |
|---|---|---|---|
| Earnings yield | 2.70% | 6.47% | Rank 10 |
| FCF yield | 3.03% | 7.16% | Rank 24 |
| EV/saleslower is better | 11.66 | 2.82 | Rank 10 |
| EV/EBITlower is better | 26.05 | 14.24 | Rank 22 |
| Metric | Stock | Sector median | Position in sector |
|---|---|---|---|
| Share price, 1 year | −4.74% | 7.80% | Rank 28 |
| Share price, 6 months | 12.53% | 8.71% | Rank 66 |
| Share price, 3 months | 10.98% | 0.45% | Rank 84 |
| Distance from 52-week high | −6.29% | −10.68% | Rank 68 |
| Metric | Stock | Sector median | Position in sector |
|---|---|---|---|
| Accruals (Sloan)lower is better | −2.83% | 1.23% | Rank 93 |
| Change in share countlower is better | −1.53% | −0.60% | Rank 64 |
| Dividend streak in years | 24 | 5 | Rank 95 |
| Price reaction to results, market-adjusted | 0.67% | 0.00% | Rank 60 |
| Metric | Stock | Sector median | Position in sector |
|---|---|---|---|
| Equity ratio | 25.61% | 9.21% | Rank 78 |
| Net debt/EBITDAlower is better | 1.25 | 0.12 | Rank 38 |
| Debt to equitylower is better | 1.81 | 0.90 | Rank 32 |
| Volatility, 1 yearlower is better | 27.98% | 25.95% | Rank 42 |
Ten years in figures
| Year | Revenue, $B | EBIT margin | FCF | Shares | Net debt, $B |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 3.6 | 42.0% | $1.1B | 195M | 1.3 |
| 2017 | 4.2 | 43.9% | $664.0M | 194M | 4.5 |
| 2018 | 4.4 | 43.3% | $1.4B | 194M | 4.0 |
| 2019 | 4.8 | 43.0% | $1.6B | 192M | −1.3 |
| 2020 | 5.4 | 45.6% | $2.0B | 189M | −2.1 |
| 2021 | 6.2 | 45.7% | $1.9B | 188M | −1.3 |
| 2022 | 5.5 | 36.5% | $1.2B | 185M | −1.3 |
| 2023 | 5.9 | 37.5% | $1.9B | 184M | 5.3 |
| 2024 | 7.1 | 41.9% | $2.5B | 183M | 5.3 |
| 2025 | 7.7 | 44.8% | $2.6B | 180M | 5.0 |
4 of 7 StockScorer Score rules met · How the score is built
Moodys Corporation mainly meets criteria in the Profitability category. Result from 18 strategies checked.
This is how the StockScorer Score strategy, the flagship rule set, calculates the points for Moodys Corporation. It compares return and cash-flow metrics with the median of the company's own sector and checks growth and price trend.
4 of 7 rules met
6 of 11 points
The rule “Exclusion: financial and real estate stocks” applies. The stock is therefore not rated regardless of the points scored.
Detail data
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Selected fundamental metrics for Moodys Corporation.
| Metric | Stock | Sector |
|---|---|---|
| P/E ratio | 37.0 | 15.2 |
| P/B ratio | 22.4 | 1.8 |
| Return on equity (ROE) | 60.7% | 12.5% |
| Equity ratio | 25.6% | 9.2% |
| Debt-to-equity (D/E) | 1.81 | 0.90 |
| Dividend yield | 0.8% | 3.3% |
How comparable stocks in the same sector score in the StockScorer model.
| Symbol | Company | Rating |
|---|---|---|
| MCO | Moodys Corporationthis page | |
| ICE | Intercontinental Exchange Inc | Low4.5 |
| CME | CME Group Inc | Low5.5 |
| NDAQ | Nasdaq Inc | Low4.5 |
| MSCI | MSCI Inc | locked |
| COIN | Coinbase Global Inc | locked |
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