Moody's Corporation (MCO)
Financials · Credit rating and financial analytics software
Global provider of credit ratings, analytics, and decision-grade data intelligence helping organizations navigate interconnected financial and operational risks.
What Moody's Corporation does
Moody's operates two primary businesses: Moody's Investors Service (MIS), a leading global credit rating agency that issues ratings on corporate, financial institution, governmental obligations and structured finance securities; and Moody's Analytics (MA), which provides curated data, intelligence, and cloud-based analytical tools to help financial services, corporate, and public sector customers anticipate risks and make confident decisions. The company leverages proprietary data and validated analytical models across credit, companies, properties, securities, people, economies, climate, and ESG domains to transform information into decision-grade intelligence embedded directly into customer workflows for lending, underwriting, KYC, compliance, and risk management.
Themes: ["Credit ratings and market transparency","Risk management and analytics","Cloud-based financial intelligence","Regulatory compliance (KYC/AML)","AI and machine learning","ESG and sustainability risk","Structured finance","Financial data and research","Cyber risk assessment"]
Fundamentals
- Price$487.02 as of 2026-07-09 close
- Market cap$84.6B as of 2026-07-10
- 1-year return-3.0% as of 2026-07-09 close
- P/E33.89 as of 2026-07-10
- Net margin+31.7% as of 2026-07-10
- Gross margin+74.4% as of 2026-07-10
- ROE+66.7% as of 2026-07-10
- Debt / equity2.33 as of 2026-07-10
- Revenue growth (YoY)+8.9% as of 2026-07-10
- Revenue CAGR (3y)+12.2% SEC XBRL
- Beta1.34 as of 2026-07-10
Dividend: yield +0.8%; 5-year non-decreasing per-share dividend streak (SEC XBRL).
Key risks (from latest filing)
["Dependence on capital markets activity and debt issuance volumes, which are subject to cyclical downturns and market disruptions","Regulatory scrutiny of credit rating agencies and potential changes to rating methodologies, pricing, or market oversight could impact revenue and operations","Competition from other rating agencies, analytics providers, and new entrants offering alternative risk assessment tools and data platforms"]
Competitors & peers
- S&P Global (SPGI)
- Fitch Ratings (part of Fitch Group)
- Bloomberg (private)
- Refinitiv (part of LSEG)
- FactSet Research Systems (FDS)
Fundamentals: Finnhub, as of 2026-07-10. Filings: SEC EDGAR. Prices are delayed daily-close data.
Last updated 2026-07-09.
Informational only — NOT financial advice. All figures are delayed daily-close data from SEC EDGAR & Finnhub, shown with their as-of date.