MSCI Inc.
MSCI Inc. (MSCI) 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 6,268 employees. The company is worth $45.09B and trades at 33.9x its earnings of the last twelve months; the median for its sector is 13.2x. Revenue was $3.13B in fiscal 2025, up 9.7% from the year before. Net income was $1.2B. The share price is 3.8% below its 52-week high of $644.77. It pays a dividend yielding 1.32%, and has raised its annual dividend for 10 years in a row in our records. 9 of the 38 superinvestors we track held it at the end of Q2 2026. The largest position belongs to Andreas Halvorsen (Viking Global Investors), at $650.03M. In that quarter, 5 of them opened or added to the position and 3 reduced it. Over the last 30 days, company insiders sold $256.5K 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 MSCI Inc..
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.
▼ -9.6% over 5Y.
today you would have $906.34▼ -9.4%
Dividends reinvested, splits accounted for. Past prices say what happened, not what will.
The last 18 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year-end price | $573.73 | $600.01 | $565.65 | $465.17 | $612.69 | $446.53 | $258.18 | $147.43 | $126.54 | $78.78 | $72.13 | $47.44 | $43.72 | $30.99 | $32.93 | $38.96 | $31.80 | $17.76 |
Seven formulas applied to the reported numbers, each with its assumption next to the result. None of them predicts a price.
This formula has no meaning here — usually a loss, negative cash flow, or a missing input.
Earnings growing 17.1% a year plus a 1.3% dividend yield. Growth capped at 25%.
Median P/E of 13.2 among peers in the sector.
Median P/E of 37.4 across this company’s own years on record.
Cash flow growing 15.0% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SLFSun Life Financial Inc | $80.81 | 18.9x | 2.6x | 3.35% | 13.09% | $44.93B |
| COINCoinbase Global, Inc. | $169.09 | — | 3.4x | 0.00% | -7.85% | $44.61B |
| BBDBank Bradesco | $3.95 | 13.2x | 1.2x | 5.82% | 13.76% | $44.14B |
| STTState Street Corp | $167.84 |
| P/E | 37.4x | 36.6x | 42.7x | 39.3x | 43.4x | 70.4x | 62.7x | 39.2x | 26.0x | 38.2x | 29.2x | 35.5x | 19.5x | 23.9x | 20.9x | 23.4x | 48.1x | 39.7x | 26.9x |
| P/S | 8.0x | 13.4x | 16.3x | 17.7x | 16.5x | 24.4x | 21.7x | 14.1x | 8.7x | 8.9x | 6.2x | 6.6x | 5.3x | 5.6x | 4.5x | 4.5x | 6.7x | 7.2x | 4.1x |
| P/B | 5.2x | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 28.4x | 22.5x | 7.9x | 3.7x | 3.3x | 2.6x | 3.1x | 4.1x | 6.3x | 6.2x |
| EPS | $15.69 | $14.05 | $14.39 | $10.72 | $8.70 | $7.12 | $6.59 | $5.66 | $3.31 | $2.70 | $2.03 | $2.43 | $1.83 | $1.48 | $1.41 | $0.81 | $0.80 | $0.66 |
| Dividend yield | 1.01% | 1.25% | 1.07% | 0.98% | 0.98% | 0.59% | 0.65% | 0.98% | 1.30% | 1.04% | 1.27% | 1.11% | 0.38% | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Payout | 39.64% | 45.89% | 45.55% | 38.36% | 42.72% | 41.84% | 41.01% | 38.24% | 33.92% | 39.88% | 37.04% | 39.41% | 7.41% | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Profit margin | 26.44% | 38.36% | 38.83% | 45.42% | 38.72% | 35.53% | 35.50% | 36.18% | 35.42% | 23.86% | 22.67% | 20.80% | 28.51% | 24.37% | 22.28% | 19.25% | 13.90% | 18.47% | 15.84% |
| ROE | 17.98% | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 75.80% | 82.13% | 24.81% | 19.83% | 14.23% | 13.03% | 13.40% | 8.53% | 16.13% | 23.84% |
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.
5 methods answered, across 3 families.
Room for errors in the reported numbers.
-31.2% from the average.
Models, not forecasts, and not investment advice. How each formula works →
| 13.8x |
| 1.9x |
| 2.19% |
| 13.08% |
| $46.11B |
| AMPAmeriprise Financial Inc | $496.83 | 12.0x | 6.9x | 1.37% | 63.43% | $43.89B |
| AIGAmerican International Group Inc | $83.03 | 15.2x | 1.1x | 2.41% | 7.22% | $43.42B |