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MCO vs. CSQ, NDAQ, TROW, BLK, BN, EFX, MSCI, SPGI, SYF, and IBKR

Should you be buying Moody's stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Moody's include Calamos Strategic Total Return Fund (CSQ), Nasdaq (NDAQ), T. Rowe Price Group (TROW), BlackRock (BLK), Brookfield (BN), Equifax (EFX), MSCI (MSCI), S&P Global (SPGI), Synchrony Financial (SYF), and Interactive Brokers Group (IBKR).

Moody's vs. Its Competitors

Calamos Strategic Total Return Fund (NASDAQ:CSQ) and Moody's (NYSE:MCO) are related companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, earnings, analyst recommendations, risk, profitability, dividends, media sentiment and valuation.

Calamos Strategic Total Return Fund pays an annual dividend of $1.23 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.7%. Moody's pays an annual dividend of $3.76 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.7%. Moody's pays out 31.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Moody's has increased its dividend for 16 consecutive years.

Moody's has higher revenue and earnings than Calamos Strategic Total Return Fund.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Calamos Strategic Total Return Fund$280.21MN/AN/AN/AN/A
Moody's$7.31B12.61$2.06B$11.7743.72

92.1% of Moody's shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.1% of Moody's shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

In the previous week, Moody's had 37 more articles in the media than Calamos Strategic Total Return Fund. MarketBeat recorded 38 mentions for Moody's and 1 mentions for Calamos Strategic Total Return Fund. Moody's' average media sentiment score of 1.28 beat Calamos Strategic Total Return Fund's score of 1.00 indicating that Moody's is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Overall Sentiment
Calamos Strategic Total Return Fund Positive
Moody's Positive

Moody's has a net margin of 29.18% compared to Calamos Strategic Total Return Fund's net margin of 0.00%. Moody's' return on equity of 60.73% beat Calamos Strategic Total Return Fund's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Calamos Strategic Total Return FundN/A N/A N/A
Moody's 29.18%60.73%15.47%

Moody's has a consensus price target of $538.80, indicating a potential upside of 4.71%. Given Moody's' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Moody's is more favorable than Calamos Strategic Total Return Fund.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Calamos Strategic Total Return Fund
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
0.00
Moody's
1 Sell rating(s)
6 Hold rating(s)
10 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.53

Summary

Moody's beats Calamos Strategic Total Return Fund on 12 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.

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Media Sentiment Over Time

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MCO vs. The Competition

MetricMoody'sFIN IndustryFinance SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$92.63B$7.55B$12.17B$20.70B
Dividend Yield0.73%4.88%5.64%3.67%
P/E Ratio43.7218.6619.8628.65
Price / Sales12.615.0226.0657.34
Price / Cash34.6020.8221.4923.59
Price / Book22.422.592.114.32
Net Income$2.06B$310.82M$1.00B$995.66M
7 Day Performance2.65%2.39%1.01%1.91%
1 Month Performance3.05%7.42%-0.11%-0.54%
1 Year Performance11.92%33.18%543.15%14.76%

Moody's Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
MCO
Moody's
4.6686 of 5 stars
$514.58
-0.6%
$538.80
+4.7%
+14.1%$92.63B$7.31B43.7215,838Positive News
CSQ
Calamos Strategic Total Return Fund
N/A$18.55
flat
N/A+15.5%$0.00$280.21M0.00N/APositive News
Dividend Announcement
NDAQ
Nasdaq
4.7374 of 5 stars
$95.14
+0.3%
$96.63
+1.6%
+44.4%$54.62B$8.11B36.599,162Positive News
Insider Trade
TROW
T. Rowe Price Group
4.3914 of 5 stars
$106.00
-0.9%
$96.64
-8.8%
+1.2%$23.35B$7.09B12.028,158Positive News
Earnings Report
BLK
BlackRock
4.8037 of 5 stars
$1,117.60
-0.5%
$1,151.21
+3.0%
+32.6%$173.15B$20.41B27.0221,100Trending News
Analyst Revision
BN
Brookfield
3.6236 of 5 stars
$67.55
-0.1%
$66.13
-2.1%
+51.3%$111.37B$86.01B241.25250,000Trending News
Analyst Forecast
Stock Split
EFX
Equifax
4.9219 of 5 stars
$240.83
-2.2%
$285.00
+18.3%
-12.5%$29.81B$5.84B47.1314,700Positive News
Analyst Revision
MSCI
MSCI
4.7322 of 5 stars
$552.98
+1.2%
$654.73
+18.4%
+4.0%$42.78B$2.86B36.626,132Trending News
High Trading Volume
SPGI
S&P Global
4.3703 of 5 stars
$530.31
-0.9%
$601.07
+13.3%
+16.9%$162.65B$14.49B41.6642,350Trending News
SYF
Synchrony Financial
4.9158 of 5 stars
$72.87
0.0%
$74.17
+1.8%
+54.6%$27.11B$16.05B8.8420,000Trending News
Ex-Dividend
Insider Trade
Analyst Revision
IBKR
Interactive Brokers Group
3.0438 of 5 stars
$65.39
-0.2%
$59.38
-9.2%
+127.9%$110.54B$5.19B33.622,998Positive News
Analyst Revision

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