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

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 Intercontinental Exchange (ICE).

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 investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, profitability, media sentiment, institutional ownership, risk, analyst recommendations, earnings and valuation.

In the previous week, Moody's had 39 more articles in the media than Calamos Strategic Total Return Fund. MarketBeat recorded 40 mentions for Moody's and 1 mentions for Calamos Strategic Total Return Fund. Moody's' average media sentiment score of 1.07 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

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

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 32.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Moody's has raised its dividend for 16 consecutive years.

Moody's has a net margin of 29.15% compared to Calamos Strategic Total Return Fund's net margin of 0.00%. Moody's' return on equity of 60.37% 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 29.15%60.37%15.33%

Moody's has a consensus price target of $519.07, indicating a potential upside of 3.42%. 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

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$7.09B12.74$2.06B$11.5843.34

Summary

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

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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time

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Media Sentiment Over Time

This chart shows the average media sentiment of NYSE and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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MCO vs. The Competition

MetricMoody'sFIN IndustryFinance SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$90.22B$7.52B$11.92B$20.52B
Dividend Yield0.75%4.82%5.56%3.78%
P/E Ratio43.3117.9719.9827.79
Price / Sales12.745.1625.3240.34
Price / Cash33.5921.7221.4422.26
Price / Book24.402.692.264.58
Net Income$2.06B$306.40M$990.08M$982.91M
7 Day Performance0.87%1.58%0.22%0.41%
1 Month Performance3.33%8.80%2.87%3.59%
1 Year Performance15.13%28.16%541.16%14.47%

Moody's Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
MCO
Moody's
4.4261 of 5 stars
$501.63
+0.5%
$519.07
+3.5%
+15.4%$90.26B$7.09B43.3315,838Trending News
Analyst Forecast
CSQ
Calamos Strategic Total Return Fund
N/A$18.24
+0.5%
N/A+5.8%$0.00$863.77M0.00N/A
NDAQ
Nasdaq
4.7406 of 5 stars
$89.42
+0.4%
$87.19
-2.5%
+46.6%$51.34B$7.40B40.656,380
TROW
T. Rowe Price Group
4.5475 of 5 stars
$96.50
+0.4%
$94.09
-2.5%
-13.0%$21.26B$7.09B10.947,870Positive News
BLK
BlackRock
4.5015 of 5 stars
$1,050.53
+0.3%
$1,102.08
+4.9%
+36.1%$162.76B$20.41B25.5221,100Trending News
Upcoming Earnings
Analyst Forecast
BN
Brookfield
3.5508 of 5 stars
$61.88
+0.5%
$66.13
+6.9%
+47.1%$101.98B$86.01B221.00250,000Positive News
EFX
Equifax
4.905 of 5 stars
$259.62
+1.4%
$294.94
+13.6%
+9.5%$32.24B$5.73B53.0914,000Positive News
Upcoming Earnings
Analyst Forecast
MSCI
MSCI
4.8949 of 5 stars
$575.80
-0.1%
$645.36
+12.1%
+18.1%$44.55B$2.86B39.574,760Trending News
Analyst Forecast
SPGI
S&P Global
4.9103 of 5 stars
$527.99
+2.0%
$592.71
+12.3%
+15.4%$161.93B$14.49B41.4842,350Trending News
Analyst Forecast
SYF
Synchrony Financial
4.911 of 5 stars
$66.80
+0.9%
$64.78
-3.0%
+45.4%$25.43B$16.11B9.1618,500Positive News
Analyst Forecast
ICE
Intercontinental Exchange
4.2209 of 5 stars
$183.64
+1.0%
$188.46
+2.6%
+28.1%$105.34B$11.76B38.0212,920Positive News
Analyst Forecast

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This page (NYSE:MCO) was last updated on 7/9/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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