MSCI - MSCI Stock Forecast, Price & News

10 Wall Street research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for MSCI in the last year. There are currently 3 hold ratings and 7 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street research analysts is that investors should "buy" MSCI shares.
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10 brokers have issued 12-month price objectives for MSCI's shares. Their MSCI share price forecasts range from $498.00 to $600.00. On average, they expect the company's stock price to reach $558.10 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 2.0% from the stock's current price.
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MSCI's stock was trading at $465.17 at the beginning of the year. Since then, MSCI stock has increased by 17.6% and is now trading at $546.96.
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MSCI saw a decrease in short interest in the month of February. As of February 28th, there was short interest totaling 767,000 shares, a decrease of 21.5% from the February 13th total of 976,900 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 429,700 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 1.8 days. Currently, 1.0% of the company's shares are short sold.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Tuesday, April 25th 2023.
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MSCI Inc. (NYSE:MSCI) issued its quarterly earnings data on Tuesday, January, 31st. The technology company reported $2.84 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, topping analysts' consensus estimates of $2.71 by $0.13. The technology company had revenue of $576.20 million for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $568.53 million. MSCI had a net margin of 38.72% and a negative trailing twelve-month return on equity of 93.24%. MSCI's revenue for the quarter was up 4.8% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter in the previous year, the firm earned $2.51 earnings per share.
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MSCI declared a quarterly dividend on Monday, January 30th. Investors of record on Friday, February 17th will be paid a dividend of $1.38 per share on Tuesday, February 28th. This represents a $5.52 annualized dividend and a yield of 1.01%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, February 16th. This is a positive change from the stock's previous quarterly dividend of $1.25.
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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), Emerge EMPWR Sustainable Select Growth Equity ETF (EMGC), Sterling Capital Focus Equity ETF (LCG), Hennessy Stance ESG Large Cap ETF (STNC), Putnam Sustainable Future ETF (PFUT), AI Quality Growth ETF (AQGX), UPHOLDINGS Compound Kings ETF (KNGS) and Franklin Exponential Data ETF (XDAT).

MSCI (NYSE:MSCI) pays an annual dividend of $5.52 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 1.01%. The company has been increasing its dividend for 9 consecutive years, indicating the company has a new, but growing committment to grow its dividend. The dividend payout ratio is 51.49%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, MSCI will have a dividend payout ratio of 37.32% next year. This indicates that the company will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.
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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 trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "MSCI."

MSCI's stock is owned by a number of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include Alliancebernstein L.P. (2.98%), Price T Rowe Associates Inc. MD (2.73%), Bamco Inc. NY (2.72%), Fiera Capital Corp (2.25%), Geode Capital Management LLC (2.00%) and Durable Capital Partners LP (1.72%). 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 WeBull, Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Robinhood, Fidelity, and Charles Schwab.
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One share of MSCI stock can currently be purchased for approximately $546.96.

MSCI (NYSE:MSCI) has a market capitalization of $43.73 billion and generates $2.25 billion in revenue each year. The technology company earns $870.57 million in net income (profit) each year or $10.72 on an earnings per share basis.

The company employs 4,759 workers across the globe.

MSCI's mailing address is 7 WORLD TRADE CENTER 250 GREENWICH STREET 49TH FLOOR, NEW YORK NY, 10007. The official website for the company is www.msci.com. The technology company can be reached via phone at (212) 804-3900, via email at investor.relations@msci.com, or via fax at 212-981-7401.