Moody’s Corporation
At today's price, Moody’s Corporation (MCO) is priced for +27.0% growth. boothcheck doesn't publish a fair value or a price target; it shows what the price assumes, so you can judge whether that bar is too high. Built from SEC EDGAR filings.
At about $451, Moody's trades near 24 times company-wide operating income, a multiple that asks for roughly 24% annual operating-profit growth sustained for five years. The near-term rate is inside what the company has recently delivered. The stretch is in how long it has to hold. Two engines, one toll road. Moody's Investors Service rates the debt that companies and governments issue, and the rules of the road require those ratings. Moody's Analytics sells the data, models, and risk tools that
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1,334 institutional managers reported holding MCO in 13F filings for the quarter ended 2026-03-31. Together they hold about 90% of the company; the top 10 hold 51%. 124 opened new positions that quarter. Held by Berkshire Hathaway, Vanguard Group, TCI Fund Management, among others. On the short side, 3.4M shares were sold short as of the 2026-06-15 count, about 2% of shares outstanding (4 days of typical volume to cover).
Quarterly 13F filings arrive up to 45 days after quarter end, so the picture is never current (filed through 2026-05-29). Nothing here is investment advice.
MCO has cut its share count 5.3% over the past five years, spending $6.13B on repurchases. It pays a dividend, and has paid one every year in our records (18 and counting), raised 17 years straight; the current rate is $3.76 a share annually. Cash returned over the past three years: $1.79B in dividends and $4.79B in repurchases.
Share counts are split-adjusted; repurchase totals are gross of share issuance. Nothing here is investment advice.
No open-market insider buys on file at MCO over the trailing three years. Absence is a fact about the company, not a signal. 18 officers and directors are on file.
Code P open-market purchases from SEC Form 4 filings, non-derivative, excluding scheduled 10b5-1 plans. Nothing here is investment advice.
MCO's recent reports: the day-one move, then what the following quarter actually did.
| report | day one | next quarter |
|---|---|---|
| 2023-07-27 | +0.7% | -9.4% |
| 2023-10-27 | +1.5% | +29.3% |
| 2024-02-15 | -8.6% | +0.4% |
| 2024-05-03 | +2.1% | +13.6% |
Day-one is the close-to-close move around the filing. Nothing here is investment advice.
MCO's latest 8-K filings: 2026-04-22 (items 2.02, 7.01, 9.01); 2026-04-16 (items 5.07); 2026-04-15 (items 7.01, 9.01); 2026-02-18 (items 2.02, 7.01, 9.01); 2026-01-12 (items 5.02, 7.01, 9.01).
Item codes are the SEC's own classification of what each report discloses. Nothing here is investment advice.
Last analyzed: June 27, 2026
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