Morningstar Stock Price, News & Analysis (NASDAQ:MORN)

Morningstar trades on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbol "MORN."

Morningstar announced a quarterly dividend on Friday, October 4th. Investors of record on Friday, October 18th will be paid a dividend of $0.28 per share on Thursday, October 31st. This represents a $1.12 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 0.73%. The ex-dividend date is Thursday, October 17th. View Morningstar's Dividend History.

Morningstar announced that its Board of Directors has initiated a share buyback program on Saturday, December 9th 2017, which permits the company to repurchase $500,000,000.00 in shares, according to EventVestor. This repurchase authorization permits the company to repurchase shares of its stock through open market purchases. Stock repurchase programs are often a sign that the company's board believes its shares are undervalued.

Morningstar, Inc. (NASDAQ:MORN) released its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, July, 25th. The business services provider reported $0.98 earnings per share for the quarter. The business services provider had revenue of $273.90 million for the quarter. Morningstar had a return on equity of 17.36% and a net margin of 16.52%. View Morningstar's Earnings History.

Morningstar is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, October 23rd 2019. View Earnings Estimates for Morningstar.

Media headlines about MORN stock have trended very negative recently, InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis reports. InfoTrie identifies positive and negative press coverage by monitoring more than six thousand blog and news sources in real time. The firm ranks coverage of companies on a scale of negative five to five, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. Morningstar earned a coverage optimism score of -3.3 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave headlines about the business services provider a news buzz of 8.0 out of 10, meaning that recent press coverage is very likely to have an impact on the company's share price in the next few days. View News Stories for Morningstar.

Morningstar saw a increase in short interest in the month of September. As of September 15th, there was short interest totalling 329,500 shares, an increase of 15.3% from the August 15th total of 285,800 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 88,600 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 3.7 days. Approximately 1.6% of the shares of the company are short sold. View Morningstar's Current Options Chain.

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Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Morningstar investors own include AT&T (T), Align Technology (ALGN), Micron Technology (MU), Opko Health (OPK), salesforce.com (CRM), Adobe (ADBE), Allied Motion Technologies (AMOT), CoStar Group (CSGP), Cognizant Technology Solutions (CTSH) and NVIDIA (NVDA).

Morningstar's stock is owned by a number of of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include Confluence Investment Management LLC (0.28%), YHB Investment Advisors Inc. (0.05%), Welch & Forbes LLC (0.05%), TrimTabs Asset Management LLC (0.02%) and North Star Investment Management Corp. (0.00%). Company insiders that own Morningstar stock include Bevin Desmond, Gail S Landis, Jack Noonan, Joseph D Mansueto, Steven N Kaplan and William M Lyons. View Institutional Ownership Trends for Morningstar.

MORN stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Confluence Investment Management LLC, TrimTabs Asset Management LLC and Welch & Forbes LLC. Company insiders that have sold Morningstar company stock in the last year include Gail S Landis, Joseph D Mansueto and William M Lyons. View Insider Buying and Selling for Morningstar.

MORN stock was bought by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including YHB Investment Advisors Inc. and North Star Investment Management Corp.. View Insider Buying and Selling for Morningstar.

Shares of MORN can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Robinhood, Fidelity and Charles Schwab.

One share of MORN stock can currently be purchased for approximately $152.75.

Morningstar has a market capitalization of $6.53 billion and generates $1.02 billion in revenue each year. Morningstar employs 5,416 workers across the globe.View Additional Information About Morningstar.

The official website for Morningstar is http://www.morningstar.com/.

Morningstar's mailing address is 22 WEST WASHINGTON STREET, CHICAGO IL, 60602. The business services provider can be reached via phone at 312-696-6000 or via email at [email protected]