Moodys Corp
Moodys Corp (MCO) is listed on NYSE and classified in Financial Data & Stock Exchanges, part of the Financial Services sector. It is headquartered in New York, United States and has 16,076 employees. The company is worth $85.04B and trades at 31.2x its earnings of the last twelve months; the median for its sector is 13.2x. Revenue was $7.72B in fiscal 2025, up 8.9% from the year before. Net income was $2.46B. The share price is 10.2% below its 52-week high of $546.88. It pays a dividend yielding 0.84%, and has raised its annual dividend for 16 years in a row in our records. 13 of the 38 superinvestors we track held it at the end of Q3 2026. The largest position belongs to Warren Buffett (Berkshire Hathaway), at $11.17B. In that quarter, 3 of them opened or added to the position and 7 reduced it. Over the last 30 days, company insiders sold $419.97K of its stock on the open market and bought none. All of those sales were scheduled in advance under 10b5-1 plans.
Written from the data on this page: SEC filings (13F, Form 4, annual reports) and market prices.
Articles on this site that cover Moodys Corp.
Year by year, from the annual reports; dividends from the payments themselves.
Bars are year-end balances; lines are what happened during the year.
Major managers that reported this stock in their latest 13F.
▲ +24.2% over 5Y.
today you would have $1,252.48▲ +25.2%
Dividends reinvested, splits accounted for. Past prices say what happened, not what will.
The last 19 closed years, each at that year’s closing price and reported numbers.
| Indicator | Median | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010 | 2009 | 2008 | 2007 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year-end price | $510.85 | $473.37 | $390.56 | $278.62 | $390.58 | $290.24 | $237.41 | $140.04 | $147.61 | $94.27 | $100.34 | $95.81 | $78.47 | $50.32 | $33.68 | $26.54 | $26.80 |
Seven formulas applied to the reported numbers, each with its assumption next to the result. None of them predicts a price.
Square root of 22.5 × earnings × book value. Blind to intangibles, so it undervalues software and brands.
Earnings growing 7.8% a year plus a 0.8% dividend yield. Growth capped at 25%.
Median P/E of 13.2 among peers in the sector.
Median P/E of 21.8 across this company’s own years on record.
Cash flow growing 7.8% a year for 10 years, discounted at 10%, then 2.5% forever.
Sector median of 12.4x operating profit, less net debt. Banks have no EBITDA.
This formula has no meaning here — usually a loss, negative cash flow, or a missing input.
Companies of similar size in Financial Services, for comparison. The columns are the same ones above, in the same order.
| Stock | Price | P/E | P/B | Dividend yield | ROE | Market cap |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BNBROOKFIELD Corp | $38.28 | 70.9x | 2.0x | 0.73% | 2.26% | $85.45B |
| TRVTravelers Companies Inc | $405.44 | 10.7x | 2.9x | 1.23% | 27.50% | $84.56B |
| KKRKKR & Co. Inc. | $93.09 | 29.7x | 2.9x | 0.84% | 7.28% | $85.98B |
| HOODRobinhood Markets, Inc. | $96.58 |
| $20.09 |
| $35.70 |
| P/E | 21.8x | 37.4x | 42.0x | 44.7x | 37.4x | 33.2x | 30.9x | 32.0x | 20.8x | 28.7x | 69.3x | 21.7x | 20.8x | 21.8x | 16.5x | 13.5x | 12.3x | 15.9x | 10.7x | 13.8x |
| P/S | 6.1x | 11.7x | 12.0x | 12.0x | 9.3x | 11.6x | 10.1x | 9.2x | 6.1x | 6.8x | 5.0x | 5.6x | 6.2x | 5.9x | 4.1x | 3.3x | 3.0x | 3.5x | 2.8x | 4.3x |
| P/B | 27.9x | 22.3x | 23.9x | 21.5x | 20.3x | 26.5x | 34.6x | 72.7x | 59.3x | — | — | — | — | 52.0x | 29.2x | — | — | — | — | — |
| EPS | $13.67 | $11.26 | $8.73 | $7.44 | $11.78 | $9.39 | $7.42 | $6.74 | $5.15 | $1.36 | $4.63 | $4.61 | $3.60 | $3.05 | $2.49 | $2.15 | $1.69 | $1.87 | $2.58 |
| Dividend yield | 1.15% | 0.74% | 0.72% | 0.79% | 1.00% | 0.63% | 0.77% | 0.84% | 1.26% | 1.03% | 1.57% | 1.36% | 1.17% | 1.15% | 1.27% | 1.59% | 1.58% | 1.49% | 1.99% | 0.90% |
| Payout | 25.00% | 27.51% | 30.20% | 35.28% | 37.63% | 21.05% | 23.86% | 26.95% | 26.11% | 29.51% | 108.82% | 29.37% | 24.30% | 25.00% | 20.98% | 21.49% | 19.53% | 23.67% | 21.39% | 12.40% |
| Profit margin | 27.06% | 31.86% | 29.03% | 27.16% | 25.13% | 35.61% | 33.10% | 29.45% | 29.48% | 23.81% | 7.40% | 27.01% | 29.65% | 27.06% | 25.27% | 25.05% | 24.99% | 22.37% | 26.07% | 31.05% |
| ROE | 97.25% | 60.66% | 57.73% | 48.43% | 54.55% | 81.19% | 113.32% | 232.35% | 285.40% | — | — | — | — | 238.72% | 179.13% | — | — | — | — | — |
Median of the years shown; P/E years above 200x are left out.
The average of the method families that answered, not of the seven numbers: four of the seven start from the same earnings per share.
6 methods answered, across 3 families.
Room for errors in the reported numbers.
-52.5% from the average.
Models, not forecasts, and not investment advice. How each formula works →
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| 9.2x |
| 0.00% |
| 23.62% |
| $86.83B |
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