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Moody's Corporation (MCO)

Financial Services · Financial - Data & Stock Exchanges · Large-cap · updated October 16, 2026

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What this means. Moody's Corporation is a strong business by our measures, its shares look expensive compared with other stocks, and its share price trend is middling.
Value13
Quality71
Price trend56
Overall39
2380 of 2764rank among the US stocks we score (our core model buys the top 15)
14%of US stocks we score rank below it

Scores are 0 to 100 against every US stock we track; 50 is average. Recomputed after every US market close.

The business in numbers

Fiscal year to December 2025, from the company's annual filing with the SEC.

Salesyearly sales$7.7B
Sales growthchange from the year before+8.9%
Gross marginshare of sales left after the direct cost of what it sells74.4%
Operating marginshare of sales left after running the business43.4%
Net marginshare of sales kept as profit31.9%
Free-cash-flow marginspare cash generated per $100 of sales33.4%
Return on invested capitalprofit made on each $100 put into the business24.0%
Return on equityprofit vs. shareholders' accounting value60.7%
Debt / equitydebt vs. shareholders' accounting value1.73
Change in share countnegative = the company is buying back its shares-1.5%

Insider trades, last 90 days

1 insider sold $710K (all under pre-arranged plans) on the open market.

Fauber RobertPresident and CEO · DirectorSold (plan)Aug 31,467 shat $484.30 · $710K

From Form 4 filings with the SEC. Open-market trades only. "Plan" = a sale set up in advance under a 10b5-1 plan, usually routine.

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