Moody's Corporation

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Moody's Corporation’s revenue for fiscal 2025 (year ended December 2025) was $7.7 billion, up 8.89% from fiscal 2024.

Revenue
+0.80%
EPS
+17.7%
Free cash flow
+1.52%
Total debt
−1.03%

Quarter to September 2026, against a year earlier

505.86 9.48 −1.84%
Market cap
$88.8B
P/E
31.3×
Fwd P/E
30.3×
Dividend yield
0.78%
F-score
9/9
Altman Z
n/a
Beneish M
n/a
Dividend safety
n/a

Moody's Corporation (MCO) Return on assets

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Moody's Corporation's return on assets over the twelve months to 30 September 2026 was 19.1%, up 3.4 percentage points from fiscal 2025 (15.7%). Over the past ten years it has ranged from 5.11% (fiscal 2016) to 19.3% (fiscal 2015); the current reading is higher than 82% of that period. That is above the Financial Data & Stock Exchanges industry median of 8.22% and above the Financial sector median of 1.15%.

Return on assets, annual

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Period Return on assets Change (points)
FY2025 15.7% 2.03
FY2024 13.7% 2.57
FY2023 11.1% 1.62
FY2022 9.47% (6.88)
FY2021 16.4% 0.67
FY2020 15.7% 1.31
FY2019 14.4% (0.09)
FY2018 14.5% 0.08
FY2017 14.4% 9.27
FY2016 5.11% (14.16)

Against its own ten years

Low 5.11% High 19.3%
Ten-year median 14.4%
Current reading's percentile 82

Return on assets against peers

Company Return on assets
MSCI MSCI Inc compare 25.2%
MCO Moody's Corporation 19.1%
CBOE Cboe Global Markets, Inc. compare 14.5%
SPGI S&P Global Inc. compare 9.25%
NDAQ Nasdaq, Inc. compare 7.18%
TRU TransUnion compare 6.88%
ICE Intercontinental Exchange Inc. compare 2.62%
CME CME Group Inc. compare 2.33%
COIN Coinbase Global, Inc. compare −2.39%
Financial Data & Stock Exchanges industry median 8.22%
Financial sector median 1.15%
Market median 0.00%

What Return on assets is

ROA tells an investor how much profit a company earns for shareholders from the assets it uses to run its business.

Annual: Net Income Allotted to Shareholders ÷ Average Assets; TTM: Net Income Allotted to Shareholders ÷ Average Assets (latest quarter)

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