MSCI - MSCI Stock Forecast, Price & News

9 Wall Street equities research 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 equities research analysts is that investors should "buy" MSCI shares.
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9 Wall Street analysts have issued 12-month price objectives for MSCI's stock. Their MSCI share price forecasts range from $459.00 to $600.00. On average, they predict the company's stock price to reach $521.56 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 3.4% from the stock's current price.
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MSCI's stock was trading at $612.69 at the start of the year. Since then, MSCI shares have decreased by 17.7% and is now trading at $504.49.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, January 26th 2023.
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MSCI Inc. (NYSE:MSCI) posted its quarterly earnings data on Tuesday, October, 26th. The technology company reported $2.53 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $2.43 by $0.10. The technology company earned $517.10 million during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $509.62 million. MSCI had a net margin of 38.23% and a negative trailing twelve-month return on equity of 115.88%. The firm's revenue was up 21.6% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter in the prior year, the business earned $2.20 EPS.
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MSCI declared a quarterly dividend on Monday, October 24th. Stockholders of record on Thursday, November 10th will be paid a dividend of $1.25 per share on Wednesday, November 30th. This represents a $5.00 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 0.99%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Wednesday, November 9th.
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MSCI (NYSE:MSCI) pays an annual dividend of $5.00 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 0.96%. 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 48.22%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, MSCI will have a dividend payout ratio of 39.81% 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 variety of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include Vanguard Group Inc. (10.78%), BlackRock Inc. (8.42%), State Street Corp (4.16%), Massachusetts Financial Services Co. MA (3.86%), Fiera Capital Corp (2.42%) and Price T Rowe Associates Inc. MD (2.14%). 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 $504.49.

MSCI (NYSE:MSCI) has a market capitalization of $40.34 billion and generates $2.04 billion in revenue each year. The technology company earns $725.98 million in net income (profit) each year or $10.37 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.