MSCI - MSCI Stock Forecast, Price & News

MSCI Inc., together with its subsidiaries, provides investment decision support tools for the clients to manage their investment processes worldwide. It operates through four segments: Index, Analytics, ESG and Climate, and All Other - Private Assets. The Index segment provides indexes for use in various areas of the investment process, including indexed product creation, such as ETFs, mutual funds, annuities, futures, options, structured products, over-the-counter derivatives; performance benchmarking; portfolio construction and rebalancing; and asset allocation, as well as licenses GICS and GICS Direct. The Analytics segment offers risk management, performance attribution and portfolio management content, application, and service that provides an integrated view of risk and return, and an analysis of market, credit, liquidity, and counterparty risk across asset classes; managed services, including consolidation of client portfolio data from various sources, review and reconciliation of input data and results, and customized reporting; and HedgePlatform to measure, evaluate, and monitor the risk of hedge fund investments. The ESG and Climate segment provides products and services that help institutional investors understand how ESG factors impact the long-term risk and return of their portfolio and individual security-level investments; and data, ratings, research, and tools to help investors navigate increasing regulation. The All Other - Private Assets segment includes real estate market and transaction data, benchmarks, return-analytics, climate assessments and market insights for funds, investors, and managers; business intelligence to real estate owners, managers, developers, and brokers; and offers investment decision support tools for private capital. It serves asset owners and managers, financial intermediaries, wealth managers, real estate professionals, and corporates. MSCI Inc. was incorporated in 1998 and is headquartered in New York, New York.

Analysts Set New Price Targets

Several research firms have commented on MSCI. Barclays reduced their price objective on MSCI from $570.00 to $470.00 and set an "overweight" rating on the stock in a report on Friday, June 24th. Oppenheimer boosted their price target on shares of MSCI from $507.00 to $535.00 and gave the company an "outperform" rating in a report on Tuesday. Morgan Stanley dropped their price objective on shares of MSCI from $515.00 to $508.00 and set an "equal weight" rating on the stock in a research note on Wednesday, July 27th. Redburn Partners assumed coverage on shares of MSCI in a research note on Tuesday, May 17th. They issued a "buy" rating for the company. Finally, UBS Group increased their target price on MSCI from $514.00 to $546.00 and gave the company a "buy" rating in a research report on Friday, July 29th. Four investment analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating and six have given a buy rating to the company. According to MarketBeat, the company presently has an average rating of "Moderate Buy" and a consensus price target of $517.25.

MSCI Trading Down 0.2 %

Shares of MSCI Stock opened at $502.49 on Thursday. The company has a market cap of $40.45 billion, a PE ratio of 51.70 and a beta of 1.09. MSCI has a 12-month low of $376.41 and a 12-month high of $679.85. The business's fifty day simple moving average is $441.40 and its 200-day simple moving average is $465.01.

MSCI (NYSE:MSCI - Get Rating) last announced its earnings results on Tuesday, July 26th. The technology company reported $2.78 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $2.71 by $0.07. The company had revenue of $551.80 million for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $560.24 million. MSCI had a negative 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 period in the prior year, the company posted $2.45 EPS. On average, equities analysts forecast that MSCI will post 11.35 earnings per share for the current year.

MSCI Increases Dividend

The business also recently announced a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Wednesday, August 31st. Shareholders of record on Friday, August 12th will be given a dividend of $1.25 per share. This represents a $5.00 annualized dividend and a yield of 1.00%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, August 11th. This is an increase from MSCI's previous quarterly dividend of $1.04. MSCI's payout ratio is currently 51.44%.

Insider Buying and Selling at MSCI

In other news, insider Scott A. Crum sold 5,000 shares of MSCI stock in a transaction on Monday, August 8th. The shares were sold at an average price of $501.46, for a total transaction of $2,507,300.00. Following the completion of the sale, the insider now directly owns 27,408 shares in the company, valued at $13,744,015.68. The transaction was disclosed in a legal filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is available at this link. 3.02% of the stock is currently owned by company insiders.