Moody's Corporation (MCO)

Wall Street analysts covering Moody's Corporation currently rate the stock a Buy on average, with a mean 12-month price target of $560.48 — +17.3% versus the last price of $477.84. Targets reflect analyst opinion, not a guarantee.

7 members of Congress have disclosed trading MCO — 5 purchases and 3 sales worth an estimated $64,000. Most recent disclosure: Sep 23, 2025.

MCO's own executives and directors have made 0 open-market purchases ($0) and 8 sales ($2.2M) in the last 90 days, per SEC Form 4 filings. Most recent: Aug 3, 2026.

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.

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• P/E ratio (30.2) — how many dollars you pay for each $1 of MCO's yearly profit. That's a fairly normal range.
• ROE (76.93%) — how efficiently the company turns shareholders' money into profit. Above ~20% is considered strong.
• Profit margin (34.25%) — of every $1 in sales, this is what's left as profit after all costs.
• Dividend yield (0.86%) — the cash payout you'd earn per year as a % of the share price, on top of any price gains.