MSCI (MSCI) Stock Price, News & Analysis

15 Wall Street equities research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for MSCI in the last year. There are currently 3 sell ratings, 4 hold ratings and 8 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street equities research analysts is that investors should "hold" MSCI shares. A hold rating indicates that analysts believe investors should maintain any existing positions they have in MSCI, but not buy additional shares or sell existing shares.
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15 analysts have issued 12 month price targets for MSCI's shares. Their MSCI share price targets range from $450.00 to $700.00. On average, they expect the company's share price to reach $581.57 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 13.3% from the stock's current price.
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MSCI's stock was trading at $565.65 at the beginning of the year. Since then, MSCI stock has decreased by 9.3% and is now trading at $513.28.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Tuesday, April 23rd 2024.
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MSCI will be holding an earnings conference call on Tuesday, April 23rd at 10:00 AM Eastern. Interested parties can register for or listen to the call using this link.

MSCI Inc. (NYSE:MSCI) posted its quarterly earnings results on Tuesday, January, 30th. The technology company reported $3.68 earnings per share for the quarter, beating analysts' consensus estimates of $3.29 by $0.39. The technology company earned $690.11 million during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $662.64 million. MSCI had a net margin of 45.42% and a negative trailing twelve-month return on equity of 111.17%. MSCI's quarterly revenue was up 19.8% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period in the previous year, the business posted $2.84 earnings per share.
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MSCI declared a quarterly dividend on Monday, January 29th. Investors of record on Friday, February 16th will be given a dividend of $1.60 per share on Thursday, February 29th. This represents a $6.40 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 1.25%. The ex-dividend date is Thursday, February 15th. This is an increase from the stock's previous quarterly dividend of $1.38.
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MSCI (NYSE:MSCI) pays an annual dividend of $6.40 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 1.22%. The company has been increasing its dividend for 10 consecutive years, indicating the company has a strong committment to maintain and grow its dividend. The dividend payout ratio is 44.44%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, MSCI will have a dividend payout ratio of 37.76% next year. This indicates that the company will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.
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ETFs with the largest weight of MSCI (NYSE:MSCI) stock in their portfolio include American Century Mid Cap Growth Impact (MID), iShares U.S. Broker-Dealers & Securities Exchanges ETF (IAI), Sterling Capital Focus Equity ETF (LCG), Emerge EMPWR Sustainable Select Growth Equity ETF (EMGC), AI Quality Growth ETF (AQGX), Mohr Growth ETF (MOHR), Alpha Intelligent - Large Cap Growth ETF (AILG) and Natixis Vaughan Nelson Mid Cap ETF (VNMC).

422 employees have rated MSCI Chief Executive Officer Henry A. Fernandez on Glassdoor.com. Henry A. Fernandez has an approval rating of 94% among the company's employees. This puts Henry A. Fernandez in the top 30% of approval ratings compared to other CEOs of publicly-traded companies.

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other MSCI investors own include NVIDIA (NVDA), Mastercard (MA), Alibaba Group (BABA), Salesforce (CRM), Adobe (ADBE), Visa (V), PayPal (PYPL), Netflix (NFLX), Intel (INTC) and JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM).

MSCI's stock is owned by many different institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include Los Angeles Capital Management LLC (0.33%), Gateway Investment Advisers LLC (0.07%), Westwind Capital (0.03%), Czech National Bank (0.02%), Transform Wealth LLC (0.01%) and Gulf International Bank UK Ltd (0.01%). Insiders that own company stock include Andrew C Wiechmann, Cd Baer Pettit, Jennifer H Mak, Robert J Gutowski and Scott A Crum.
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Shares of MSCI stock can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include Charles Schwab, E*TRADE, Fidelity, and Vanguard Brokerage Services.
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