MSCI - MSCI Stock Forecast, Price & News

9 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for MSCI in the last twelve months. There are currently 3 hold ratings and 6 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street analysts is that investors should "buy" MSCI shares.
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9 analysts have issued 1-year target prices for MSCI's stock. Their MSCI share price forecasts range from $470.00 to $553.00. On average, they predict the company's stock price to reach $517.25 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 22.5% from the stock's current price.
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MSCI's stock was trading at $612.69 on January 1st, 2022. Since then, MSCI stock has decreased by 31.1% and is now trading at $422.33.
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MSCI saw a increase in short interest in August. As of August 31st, there was short interest totaling 710,900 shares, an increase of 24.3% from the August 15th total of 571,800 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 422,100 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 1.7 days. Approximately 0.9% of the company's stock are sold short.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Tuesday, October 25th 2022.
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MSCI Inc. (NYSE:MSCI) announced its quarterly earnings data on Tuesday, July, 26th. The technology company reported $2.78 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $2.71 by $0.07. The technology company earned $551.80 million during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $560.24 million. MSCI had a negative trailing twelve-month return on equity of 151.89% and a net margin of 36.85%. The firm's quarterly revenue was up 10.8% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter in the prior year, the company earned $2.45 EPS.

MSCI declared a quarterly dividend on Tuesday, July 26th. Investors of record on Friday, August 12th will be given a dividend of $1.25 per share on Wednesday, August 31st. This represents a $5.00 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 1.18%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, August 11th. This is an increase from the stock's previous quarterly dividend of $1.04.
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MSCI (NYSE:MSCI) pays an annual dividend of $5.00 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 1.18%. The company has been increasing its dividend for 8 consecutive years, indicating the company has a new, but growing committment to grow its dividend. The dividend payout ratio is 51.44%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, MSCI will have a dividend payout ratio of 38.55% 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 many different institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include Bishop Rock Capital L.P. (4.87%), Price T Rowe Associates Inc. MD (4.24%), FMR LLC (4.13%), State Street Corp (4.10%), Massachusetts Financial Services Co. MA (3.85%) and Fiera Capital Corp (2.54%). Insiders that own company stock include Benjamin F Dupont, Cd Baer Pettit, Henry A Fernandez, Jennifer H Mak, Laurent Seyer, 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 $422.33.

MSCI (NYSE:MSCI) has a market capitalization of $34.00 billion and generates $2.04 billion in revenue each year. The technology company earns $725.98 million in net income (profit) each year or $9.72 on an earnings per share basis.

The company employs 4,303 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.