Moody’s Corporation
In the published model solve dated 2026-Q2, anchored at $514.95, Moody’s Corporation (MCO) is priced for +26.5% growth. boothcheck publishes no house fair value, target price, or buy/sell rating; individual model outputs and user-controlled scenarios are analytical inputs, not Boothcheck targets. The narrative was composed July 24, 2026 from SEC EDGAR filings.
• Two companies rate most of the world's debt and Moody's is one of them, which is why a 33% jump in rated issuance turned into a 25% jump in ratings revenue to $1.260 billion in the second quarter [Source: Moody's second-quarter 2026 earnings release, 21 July 2026]. • The subscription half is the ballast and it is growing slower than the toll booth: annualised recurring revenue of $3.661 billion, up 9%, with 95% customer retention [Source: Moody's second-quarter 2026 earnings release]. • The sp
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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: 2026-08-12 (items 5.02, 7.01, 9.01); 2026-07-22 (items 2.02, 7.01, 9.01); 2026-04-22 (items 2.02, 7.01, 9.01); 2026-04-16 (items 5.07); 2026-04-15 (items 7.01, 9.01).
Item codes are the SEC's own classification of what each report discloses. Dates link to the filing on EDGAR. Nothing here is investment advice.
Model solve date: 2026-Q2
Narrative composed: July 24, 2026
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