Moody's Corporation (MCO)
Moody's Corporation, operates as an integrated risk assessment firm in the United States, the rest of the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and the Asia Pacific.
Scored against other Financial Services stocks, not a fixed scale.
The quick read
Moody's reads as neutral right now, with no clear lean either way.
- What's working
- Sales and profits grew faster over the past year than at most other financial companies.
- Worth watching
- You're paying more for it than for most other financial companies, relative to what it earns.
Analyst price target
~12-month · 21 analystsPublished targets from Wall Street analysts (public data) — what analysts expect over roughly a year. This is not a StockGlow forecast and not a recommendation. Analyst targets are frequently wrong.
About Moody's Corporation
Moody's Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, operates as an integrated risk assessment firm in the United States, the rest of the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and the Asia Pacific. It operates through two segments, Moody's Analytics (MA) and Moody's Investors Service (MIS)…
- Sector
- Financial Services
- Industry
- Financial Data & Stock Exchanges
- Employees
- 16,000
- Headquarters
- New York, NY
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What’s behind the score
Valuation
P/E 30.8 — lower than 9% of Financial Services peers
P/B 27.8 — lower than 3% of Financial Services peers
P/S 10.3 — lower than 12% of Financial Services peers
EV/EBITDA 22.3 — lower than 22% of Financial Services peers
EV/Revenue 11.1 — lower than 12% of Financial Services peers
PEG 1.7 — lower than 30% of Financial Services peers
FCF yield 3.1% — higher than 25% of Financial Services peers
Profitability & quality
Operating margin 49.5% — higher than 82% of Financial Services peers
Net margin 34.3% — higher than 76% of Financial Services peers
ROE 76.9% — higher than 97% of Financial Services peers
ROA 15.6% — higher than 94% of Financial Services peers
Free cash flow is 92% of reported net income
Financial health
Debt/equity 2.4 — lower than 12% of Financial Services peers
Current ratio 1.19 — higher than 79% of Financial Services peers
Quick ratio 1.04 — higher than 79% of Financial Services peers
Cash/debt 0.20 — higher than 18% of Financial Services peers
Debt/EBITDA 1.88 — lower than 44% of Financial Services peers
Growth
Revenue growth 15.1% YoY — higher than 79% of Financial Services peers
Earnings growth 56.7% YoY — higher than 91% of Financial Services peers
Ownership & investor activity
Payout ratio 25.0% — typical for Financial Services peers
Net insider buying, +0.1% of insider shares
Institutions net sold, -16.4% of shares held
Insiders hold 14.4% of shares outstanding
1.9% of float sold short
Momentum
Above its 50- & 200-day averages
57% of the way from its 52-week low to high