Moody's Corporation

MCO · Financial Services

$463.17
+1.21% today

What a holder would want to know before buying MCO: where the price sits in its own history, how far it has fallen before and whether it recovered, and what the business behind it earns. All of it is arithmetic over free market data — no opinions, no recommendations.

Where the price sits
Low $412.23 · Feb 2026High $539.61 · Jan 2026

Today’s price is 13% above the lowest point of the past year and 14% below the highest.

Over the past year it was cheaper than today on 40% of days and more expensive on 60%. Over the last 10 years: cheaper on 85% of days.

1% below its average price of the last 200 trading days.

How bad does it get

Fell 20% or more 4 times in 10 years. The deepest fall was 42%; the longest took 2.5 years to get back to its peak. Every one recovered.

Now 14% below the Jan 2026 peak.

Feb 2025
−25%back in 11 months
Oct 2021
−42%back in 2.5 years
Feb 2020
−42%back in 5 months
Jul 2018
−31%back in 8 months
What you own

Moody's Corporation · Financial Services · Financial Data & Stock Exchanges · a large company worth $80.40B

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…

Is it making money?
2022
2023
2024
2025

revenue profit

Sales of $7.72B in 2025, with $2.46B of profit. Sales grew in 3 of the last 3 years.

Keeps about 34 cents of every dollar of sales as profit.

Is it healthy?
Cash
$1.50B
Debt
$7.62B
Free cash flow / yr
$2.58B

Would need about 3 years of free cash flow to repay all its debt.

Is it expensive?

You pay $29 for every $1 of last year’s profit, and $25 for every $1 of profit expected next year.

A high number means buyers expect growth; a low one means they expect little, or fear trouble. Large US companies have averaged roughly 15–20 over the decades.

Pays 0.90% a year in dividends at today’s price · next ex-dividend Aug 14.

What others are doing

24 analysts: 18 say buy, 6 hold, 0 sell. Their average 12-month target is $560.38 (range $470.00–$610.00).

Insiders made 0 purchases and 8 sales in the last 6 months. Executives routinely sell shares they were paid in; buying with their own money is the rarer signal.

Free data from Yahoo Finance, refreshed daily. This is evidence about the business and its price history, not a recommendation.

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