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MSCI
About: MSCI has described its mission as enabling investors to build better portfolios for a better world. MSCI's largest and most profitable segment is its index segment, where it provides benchmarking to asset managers and asset owners. In addition, it boasts over $1.7 trillion in ETF assets linked to MSCI indexes. The MSCI analytics segment provides portfolio management and risk management analytics software to asset managers and asset owners. MSCI's all other segment was broken out into ESG and climate and private assets segments in 2021. In ESG and climate, MSCI provides ESG data to the investment industry. In private assets, MSCI provides real restate reporting, market data, benchmarking, and analytics to investors and real estate managers.
Employees: 6,184
0
Funds holding %
of 7,312 funds
0
Analysts bullish %
of 5 analysts
Fund manager confidence
Based on 2025 Q1 regulatory disclosures by fund managers ($100M+ AUM)
193% more call options, than puts
Call options by funds: $216M | Put options by funds: $73.9M
33% more first-time investments, than exits
New positions opened: 122 | Existing positions closed: 92
7% more repeat investments, than reductions
Existing positions increased: 400 | Existing positions reduced: 374
1% more funds holding
Funds holding: 1,049 [Q4 2024] → 1,056 (+7) [Q1 2025]
0.5% less ownership
Funds ownership: 90.45% [Q4 2024] → 89.95% (-0.5%) [Q1 2025]
7% less capital invested
Capital invested by funds: $42.3B [Q4 2024] → $39.4B (-$2.88B) [Q1 2025]
13% less funds holding in top 10
Funds holding in top 10: 16 [Q4 2024] → 14 (-2) [Q1 2025]
Research analyst outlook
5 Wall Street Analysts provided 1 year price targets over the past 3 months
Low target
$578
2%
upside
Avg. target
$647
14%
upside
High target
$700
24%
upside
5 analyst ratings
4 positive
80%
1 neutral
20%
0 negative
0%
UBS Alex Kramm | 24%upside $700 | Buy Maintained | 8 Jul 2025 |
Wells Fargo Jason Haas | 2%upside $578 | Equal-Weight Maintained | 8 Jul 2025 |
Evercore ISI Group David Motemeden | 12%upside $631 | Outperform Maintained | 23 Apr 2025 |
JP Morgan Alexander Hess | 15%upside $650 | Overweight Maintained | 16 Apr 2025 |
RBC Capital Ashish Sabadra | 19%upside $675 | Outperform Reiterated | 16 Apr 2025 |
Financial journalist opinion
Based on 7 articles about MSCI published over the past 30 days
Positive
Seeking Alpha
14 hours ago
MSCI Q2 Preview: More Than An Index Franchise, Initiate With Buy Rating
MSCI Inc.'s diversified business model, strong recurring revenue, and robust index/ESG growth support my double-digit organic revenue growth forecast. The Moody's partnership enhances MSCI's ESG data capabilities, strengthening its competitive position in the fast-growing sustainability analytics market. I project steady margin expansion and free cash flow growth, justifying my fair value estimate of $647 per share and a 'buy' rating.
Positive
Zacks Investment Research
1 day ago
3 Reasons Why Growth Investors Shouldn't Overlook MSCI (MSCI)
MSCI (MSCI) possesses solid growth attributes, which could help it handily outperform the market.
Positive
Seeking Alpha
4 days ago
MSCI: Revenue Visibility Like No Other
MSCI's highly sticky, subscription-based products drive 98% recurring revenue, ensuring exceptional predictability and pricing power in the indexation market. The company's dominant brand and operational switching costs make customer churn unlikely, supporting ongoing margin expansion and steady EPS growth. Despite a premium valuation, MSCI trades below its 10-year average P/E, offering an attractive entry point for a high-quality, high-ROIC business.
Positive
Seeking Alpha
1 week ago
Top 15 High-Growth Dividend Stocks For July 2025
My Top 15 High-Growth Dividend Stocks outperformed SPY and VIG in June, gaining 6.15% versus SPY's 5.14% and VIG's 3.41%. The list's year-to-date return is 12.59%, beating SPY every month in 2025, though still a bit short of my 12% annualized target. The July 2025 Top 15 stocks offer a 1.38% average dividend yield with an 18.78% 5-year dividend growth rate and are 23% undervalued.
Neutral
Business Wire
1 week ago
MSCI Schedules Earnings Call to Review Second Quarter 2025 Results
NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--MSCI Inc. (NYSE: MSCI), a leading provider of critical decision support tools and services for the global investment community, announced today that it will release its results for the second quarter 2025 on Tuesday, July 22, 2025, before the market opens. A copy of the earnings release, as well as an earnings presentation and a quarterly update, will be made available on MSCI's Investor Relations website. MSCI's senior management will review the second quarter 2025 r.
Neutral
Business Wire
2 weeks ago
MSCI Announces Results of the MSCI 2025 Market Classification Review
NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--MSCI Inc. (NYSE: MSCI), a leading provider of critical decision support tools and services for the global investment community, announced today the results of the MSCI 2025 Market Classification Review. Select highlights of this year's review includes MSCI: Extending the consultation on a potential reclassification of Bulgaria from Standalone to Frontier Market status Continuing to monitor the implementation and market adoption of measures to enhance the accessibility.
Neutral
Business Wire
3 weeks ago
MSCI Announces the Results of the MSCI 2025 Global Market Accessibility Review
NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--MSCI Inc. (NYSE: MSCI), a leading provider of critical decision support tools and services for the global investment community, announced today the results of the MSCI 2025 Global Market Accessibility Review. The detailed report, covering market accessibility assessments for 86 markets, has been made available on www.msci.com/market-classification. Bulgaria is not included in the MSCI 2025 Global Market Accessibility Review report released today. Information for this.
Positive
Seeking Alpha
1 month ago
MSCI: Staying Buy Rated As Fundamentals Have Improved While Valuation Derated
MSCI is experiencing strong client demand recovery, with broad-based growth across hedge funds, banks, wealth managers, and asset owners. Key growth drivers include new private asset solutions, international fund flows, and expansion into active ETFs, supported by a Moody's partnership. MSCI's valuation is now more attractive at 32x forward PE, with visible EPS growth catalysts and a potential 20% upside to $672/share.
Positive
Seeking Alpha
1 month ago
Top 15 High-Growth Dividend Stocks For June 2025
My Top 15 High-Growth Dividend Stocks outperformed SPY and VIG in May, gaining 6.45% versus SPY's 6.28% and VIG's 3.61%. The list's year-to-date return is 6.07%, beating SPY every month in 2025, though still short of my 12% annualized target. The June 2025 Top 15 stocks offer a 1.34% average dividend yield with a 22.82% 5-year dividend growth rate and are 25% undervalued.
Neutral
Business Wire
1 month ago
MSCI Published an Investor Presentation
NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--MSCI Inc. (“MSCI” or the “Company”) (NYSE: MSCI), a leading provider of critical decision support tools and services for the global investment community, published an investor presentation on its Investor Relations homepage, ir.msci.com, on Wednesday, May 28, 2025. The Company's management may use this presentation during meetings with investors and analysts. About MSCI Inc. MSCI is a leading provider of critical decision support tools and services for the global inve.
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