Morningstar, Inc.

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Morningstar, Inc.’s revenue for fiscal 2025 (year ended December 2025) was $2.4 billion, up 7.49% from fiscal 2024.

Revenue
+8.86%
EPS
+41.7%
Free cash flow
−2.94%
Total debt
+97.8%

Quarter to September 2026, against a year earlier

244.03 3.14 −1.27%
Market cap
$9.2B
P/E
21.5×
Fwd P/E
19.7×
Dividend yield
0.81%
F-score
6/9
Altman Z
n/a
Beneish M
n/a
Dividend safety
n/a

Morningstar, Inc. (MORN) Gross margin

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Morningstar, Inc.'s gross margin over the twelve months to 30 September 2026 was 63.1%, up 2.0 percentage points from fiscal 2025 (61.0%). Over the past ten years it has ranged from 56.9% (fiscal 2016) to 61.0% (fiscal 2025) — the current reading is the highest in ten years. That is below the Financial Data & Stock Exchanges industry median of 72.8% and below the Financial sector median of 70.1%.

Gross margin, annual

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Annual newest first

Period Gross margin Change (points)
FY2025 61.0% 0.40
FY2024 60.6% 2.01
FY2023 58.6% 0.28
FY2022 58.3% (0.56)
FY2021 58.9% (1.06)
FY2020 60.0% 0.94
FY2019 59.0% (0.67)
FY2018 59.7% 2.09
FY2017 57.6% 0.71
FY2016 56.9% (1.26)

Quarterly newest first

Period Gross margin Change (points)
Sep 2026 64.2% 0.27
Jun 2026 63.9% 0.97
Mar 2026 63.0% 1.82
Dec 2025 61.1% 0.28
43 more quarters

Against its own ten years

Low 56.9% High 61.0%
Ten-year median 58.9%
Current reading's percentile 100

Gross margin against peers

Company Gross margin
ICE Intercontinental Exchange Inc. compare 98.7%
COIN Coinbase Global, Inc. compare 85.8%
MSCI MSCI Inc compare 82.9%
MCO Moody's Corporation compare 74.6%
NDAQ Nasdaq, Inc. compare 63.2%
MORN Morningstar, Inc. 63.1%
TRU TransUnion compare 58.8%
CBOE Cboe Global Markets, Inc. compare 53.9%
FDS FactSet Research Systems Inc. compare 50.6%
Financial Data & Stock Exchanges industry median 72.8%
Financial sector median 70.1%
Market median 45.1%

What Gross margin is

Gross Margin tells an investor how much of each sale a company keeps after paying the direct costs of making or buying what it sells.

Gross Profit ÷ Revenue

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