Stock · MSCI · Financial Services
United States · Large Cap · listed since 2007 · Revenue 12 mo. $3.4B
Price as of 11/06/2026
MSCI Inc., together with its subsidiaries, provides research-based data, analytics, and indexes, supported by advanced technology worldwide.
MSCI Inc., together with its subsidiaries, provides research-based data, analytics, and indexes, supported by advanced technology worldwide. The Index segment provides indexes for use in various areas of the investment process, including indexed financial products, such as ETFs, mutual funds, annuities, futures, options, structured products, and over-the-counter derivatives; performance benchmarking; portfolio construction and rebalancing; and asset allocation, as well as licenses GICS and GICS Direct. The Analytics segment offers risk management, performance attribution and portfolio management content, application, an integrated view of risk and return service, and an analysis of market, credit, liquidity, counterparty, and climate risk across asset classes; managed services, including consolidation of client portfolio data, review and reconciliation of input data and results, and customized reporting; and HedgePlatform to measure, evaluate, and monitor the risk of hedge fund investments. The Sustainability and Climate segment provides products and services that help institutional investors understand how ESG impacts the long-term risk and return of their portfolio and individual security-level investments; and data, ratings, research, and tools to assist investors navigate increasing regulation. The All Other " Private Assets segment comprises private credit, real estate and infrastructure data, benchmarks, return-analytics, climate assessments and market insights; business intelligence to real estate owners, managers, developers, and brokers; and offers investment decision support tools for private capital. The Private Capital Solutions segment offers tools to help private asset investors across mission-critical workflows, such as sourcing terms and conditions, evaluating operating performance, managing risk and other activities supporting private capital investment. MSCI Inc. was incorporated in 1998 and is based in New York, New York.
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Summary
51.2 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 €1.4B (2025), it supports €15.4B. The remaining €25.5B of the market value assume it grows 13.6% a year for 10 years and not at all afterwards.
Required FCF growth per year
13.6%
no growth afterwards
Price to operating cash flow 28.7×, below its usual range.
Middle half of 20 quarters: 28.8× to 35.1×, median 31.4×.
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
No anomaly in the stored figures.
Since the last quarter
Q2 → Q3 2026
5 more unchanged: Revenue, 12 mo., FCF, 12 mo., Gross margin, 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 | −54.14% | 12.46% | Rank 1 |
| Return on capital (Greenblatt) | 856.05% | 59.04% | Rank 97 |
| EBIT margin | 54.67% | 23.06% | Rank 91 |
| FCF margin | 49.42% | 19.82% | Rank 82 |
| Gross margin | 82.44% | 65.53% | Rank 70 |
| Metric | Stock | Sector median | Position in sector |
|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue growth, 1 year | 9.75% | 7.39% | Rank 58 |
| Earnings growth, 3 years per year | 13.54% | 15.20% | Rank 45 |
| Earnings growth, 5 years per year | 17.11% | 15.17% | Rank 57 |
| Sustainable growth (ROE × retained earnings) | 1.25% | 1.25% | Rank 51 |
| Metric | Stock | Sector median | Position in sector |
|---|---|---|---|
| Earnings yield | 2.45% | 6.47% | Rank 7 |
| FCF yield | 3.40% | 7.16% | Rank 26 |
| EV/saleslower is better | 16.40 | 2.82 | Rank 7 |
| EV/EBITlower is better | 30.00 | 14.24 | Rank 14 |
| Metric | Stock | Sector median | Position in sector |
|---|---|---|---|
| Share price, 1 year | 0.84% | 7.80% | Rank 39 |
| Share price, 6 months | 9.98% | 8.71% | Rank 56 |
| Share price, 3 months | 18.95% | 0.45% | Rank 94 |
| Distance from 52-week high | −4.94% | −10.68% | Rank 75 |
| Metric | Stock | Sector median | Position in sector |
|---|---|---|---|
| Accruals (Sloan)lower is better | −4.59% | 1.23% | Rank 96 |
| Change in share countlower is better | −2.94% | −0.60% | Rank 76 |
| Dividend streak in years | 11 | 5 | Rank 75 |
| Price reaction to results, market-adjusted | 4.64% | 0.00% | Rank 94 |
| Metric | Stock | Sector median | Position in sector |
|---|---|---|---|
| Equity ratio | −46.55% | 9.21% | Rank 0 |
| Net debt/EBITDAlower is better | 3.01 | 0.12 | Rank 27 |
| Debt to equitylower is betterdoes not count towards the rank | −2.42 | 0.90 | |
| Volatility, 1 yearlower is better | 29.13% | 25.95% | Rank 38 |
Ten years in figures
| Year | Revenue, $B | EBIT margin | FCF | Shares | Net debt, $B |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 1.2 | 42.4% | $392.1M | 96.5M | 1.3 |
| 2017 | 1.3 | 45.5% | $355.3M | 91.9M | 1.2 |
| 2018 | 1.4 | 47.9% | $563.8M | 89.7M | 1.7 |
| 2019 | 1.6 | 48.5% | $655.8M | 85.5M | 1.7 |
| 2020 | 1.7 | 52.2% | $760.1M | 84.5M | 2.2 |
| 2021 | 2.0 | 52.5% | $883.3M | 83.5M | 2.9 |
| 2022 | 2.2 | 53.7% | $1.0B | 81.2M | 3.7 |
| 2023 | 2.5 | 54.8% | $1.1B | 79.8M | 4.2 |
| 2024 | 2.9 | 53.5% | $1.5B | 79.0M | 4.3 |
| 2025 | 3.1 | 54.7% | $1.5B | 76.6M | 5.8 |
3 of 7 StockScorer Score rules met · How the score is built
MSCI Inc 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 MSCI Inc. It compares return and cash-flow metrics with the median of the company's own sector and checks growth and price trend.
3 of 7 rules met
5 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 MSCI Inc.
| Metric | Stock | Sector |
|---|---|---|
| P/E ratio | 40.9 | 15.2 |
| P/B ratio | −17.1 | 1.8 |
| Return on equity (ROE) | −54.1% | 12.5% |
| Equity ratio | −46.6% | 9.2% |
| Debt-to-equity (D/E) | −2.42 | 0.90 |
| Dividend yield | 1.2% | 3.3% |
How comparable stocks in the same sector score in the StockScorer model.
| Symbol | Company | Rating |
|---|---|---|
| MSCI | MSCI Incthis page | |
| COIN | Coinbase Global Inc | Low1.8 |
| CBOE | Cboe Global Markets Inc | Low8.2 |
| NDAQ | Nasdaq Inc | Low4.5 |
| TRU | TransUnion | locked |
| MCO | Moodys Corporation | locked |
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