The Bid & Ask

Quotations, Dispatches, and the Daily Tape

Thursday, August 13, 2026

Subject of the day

MCO

Concerning the House

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.

United States · www.moodys.com

The Long Run

FY 2009–2025 · 17 years

LineLatestCAGRTrend
Revenue$5.92B+6.2%
Operating income$2.14B+7.3%
Net income$2.06B+7.0%
Cash from ops$2.90B+7.0%
Quotation

$488.42

+10.58 (+2.2%)

52w hi$537.16
52w lo$410.36
Vol455.11K
As ofAug 13
The Verdict

Hold

Our score -0.02

Short-0.15
Medium+0.03
Long+0.14

computed 2026-08-13

By the Numbers

Moody's Corporation

Financial Services · Financial Data & Stock Exchanges

Market cap$84.59B
Enterprise value$89.02B
Trailing P/E30.97x
Forward P/E25.82x
EV / EBITDA21.96x
P / S (ttm)10.37x
Profit margin34.3%
Return on equity76.9%
Revenue growth+15.1%
Earnings growth+56.7%
Debt / equity240.68
Risk Metrics
Beta vs SPX0.90
Corr SPX0.54
Annual vol26.9%
Annual ret+6.6%
Sharpe0.25
Max DD-24.8%

Window: 504 trading days (504 obs)

Layer Breakdown
LayerRawContribution
Fundamental+0.24
Sector+0.09
Technical-0.05
Earnings+0.00
Sentiment+0.00

macro × 1.00 · 2026-08-13

Recent Sessions
DateOpenHighLowCloseVol
Aug 13$479.04$489.70$475.31$488.42455.11K
Aug 12$474.16$481.58$473.27$477.84813.80K
Aug 11$476.75$480.85$473.62$476.48846.30K
Aug 10$474.93$481.10$474.93$478.14686.60K
Aug 7$473.00$480.71$472.33$477.75696.30K