MCO MC

MCO Moody's Corporation

Financial Services · Financial Data & Stock Exchanges

5 · Fair Momentum 5.0 · Neutral Watch 16y streak

476.48

-0.35%

About the company

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). The MA segment develops a range of products and services that support the risk management activities of institutional participants in financial markets. This segment also offers credit research, credit models and analytics, economic data and models, and structured finance solutions; data sets on companies and securities; and cloud-based SaaS subscription solutions supporting banking, insurance, and know-your-customer workflows. The MIS segment publishes credit ratings and provides assessment services on various debt obligations, programs and facilities, and entities that issue such obligations, including corporate, financial institution, and governmental obligations, as well as structured finance securities. It also provides ratings, investment research, compliance and third-party risk, supplier risk, trade credit, business intelligence sales and marketing, financial and regulatory reporting, balance sheet management, capital management, credit portfolio management, and model risk and governance solutions; Maxsight, a unified risk platform; lending suite, origination, and monitoring solutions; and property, casualty, and sustainable insurance underwriting solutions. The company serves the financial, banking, insurance, corporate, public, and asset management sectors. The company was formerly known as Dun and Bradstreet Company and changed its name to Moody's Corporation in September 2000. Moody's Corporation was founded in 1900 and is headquartered in New York, New York.

0.86%
26.11%
4.12
82.5B
30.20
15.78
471.89

52-week range

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low 402 high 547
Yield Growth Momentum Safety Value Health

Dividend deep dive

Moody's Corporation (MCO), operating in the Financial Data & Stock Exchanges industry within the Financial Services sector, currently offers a dividend yield of 0.81%. This yield is positioned within its five-year historical range, which has seen a high of 0.94% and a low of 0.72%, with an average of 0.83%. The dividend safety status for Moody's Corporation is currently designated as 'watch'. The company's profile indicates it is an equity instrument.

Dividend history

Moody's Corporation has a dividend increase streak of 16 years, classifying it as a Dividend Contender. The 3-year dividend growth rate (CAGR) stands at 10.33%, while the 5-year CAGR is 10.91%. Annual dividends per share have consistently grown: 1.12 USD (2014), 1.36 USD (2015), 1.48 USD (2016), 1.52 USD (2017), 1.76 USD (2018), 2.00 USD (2019), 2.24 USD (2020), 2.48 USD (2021), 2.80 USD (2022), and 3.08 USD (2023). Projected dividends are 3.40 USD for 2024 and 3.76 USD for 2025, paid quarterly.

Dividend safety

The dividend payout ratio for Moody's Corporation is 29.51% based on its EPS of 13.96 USD and dividend of 4.12 USD, indicating that earnings cover the dividend. The company's leverage is elevated with a debt-to-equity ratio of 235.539%.

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Price history

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Price

Dividend profile

Frequency
Quarterly
Growth (TTM)
+10.1%
CAGR 3y
+10.3%
+10.9%
16 years

(5-year)

Now 0.9%
0.7% avg 0.8% 0.9%

Payment calendar

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Dividend history

CAGR 3y +10.3% CAGR 5y +10.9% 16y streak
14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25

Per-share dividend by year

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Debt & leverage

235.5%
1.16
0.99
Debt vs cash
Debt Cash
Total debt
7.4B USD
Total cash
1.5B USD
3.8B USD

Latest reported balance-sheet figures.

Held by 1 investor

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