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

506.53 8.81 −1.71%
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 invested capital

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Moody's Corporation's return on invested capital over the twelve months to 30 September 2026 was 26.2%, up 2.2 percentage points from fiscal 2025 (23.9%). Over the past ten years it has ranged from 14.1% (fiscal 2022) to 367.2% (fiscal 2016); the current reading is higher than 45% of that period. That is above the Financial Data & Stock Exchanges industry median of 10.6% and above the Financial sector median of 4.70%.

Return on invested capital, annual

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Annual newest first

Period Return on invested capital Change (points)
FY2025 23.9% 1.97
FY2024 22.0% 5.84
FY2023 16.1% 1.98
FY2022 14.1% (6.69)
FY2021 20.8% (5.90)
FY2020 26.7% (0.59)
FY2019 27.3% 1.46
FY2018 25.9% (1.82)
FY2017 27.7% (339.48)
FY2016 367.2% 254.22

Against its own ten years

Low 14.1% High 367.2%
Ten-year median 25.9%
Current reading's percentile 45

Return on invested capital against peers

Company Return on invested capital
MSCI MSCI Inc compare 34.7%
MCO Moody's Corporation 26.2%
CBOE Cboe Global Markets, Inc. compare 25.7%
SPGI S&P Global Inc. compare 15.5%
CME CME Group Inc. compare 10.4%
NDAQ Nasdaq, Inc. compare 8.56%
ICE Intercontinental Exchange Inc. compare 8.08%
TRU TransUnion compare 6.43%
COIN Coinbase Global, Inc. compare 0.77%
Financial Data & Stock Exchanges industry median 10.6%
Financial sector median 4.70%
Market median 0.00%

What Return on invested capital is

Return on Invested Capital shows how much after-tax operating profit a company earns on the money its lenders and shareholders have put in.

TTM: (Operating Income × 0.625) ÷ (Shareholders Equity (Total) (latest quarter) + Long Term Debt (Total) (latest quarter) + Current Part of Debt (latest quarter) − Cash & Short Term Investments (latest quarter)); Annual: (Operating Income × 0.625) ÷ (Shareholders Equity (Total) + Long Term Debt (Total) + Current Part of Debt − Cash & Short Term Investments)

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