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.

MSCI Stock Performance

Shares of MSCI Stock opened at $494.93 on Wednesday. The company has a market capitalization of $39.84 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 50.92 and a beta of 1.09. The company has a 50-day simple moving average of $433.54 and a 200 day simple moving average of $464.46. MSCI has a 52 week low of $376.41 and a 52 week high of $679.85.

MSCI (NYSE:MSCI - Get Rating) last announced its earnings results on Tuesday, July 26th. The technology company reported $2.78 EPS for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $2.71 by $0.07. The business had revenue of $551.80 million during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $560.24 million. MSCI had a net margin of 36.85% and a negative return on equity of 151.89%. MSCI's revenue was up 10.8% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter in the previous year, the firm posted $2.45 EPS. Sell-side analysts forecast that MSCI will post 11.38 EPS for the current year.

MSCI Increases Dividend

The business also recently announced a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Wednesday, August 31st. Investors of record on Friday, August 12th will be issued a dividend of $1.25 per share. This is an increase from MSCI's previous quarterly dividend of $1.04. The ex-dividend date is Thursday, August 11th. This represents a $5.00 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 1.01%. MSCI's payout ratio is presently 42.80%.

Wall Street Analyst Weigh In

MSCI has been the topic of several recent research reports. Oppenheimer lifted their price target on shares of MSCI to $507.00 and gave the company an "outperform" rating in a research note on Wednesday, July 27th. Raymond James lowered their price objective on shares of MSCI from $515.00 to $493.00 in a research note on Friday, July 15th. Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft lowered their price objective on shares of MSCI from $533.00 to $477.00 in a research note on Wednesday, April 27th. Redburn Partners assumed coverage on shares of MSCI in a research note on Tuesday, May 17th. They set a "buy" rating on the stock. Finally, Royal Bank of Canada lowered their price objective on shares of MSCI from $600.00 to $520.00 and set an "outperform" rating on the stock in a research note on Tuesday, June 28th. Four investment analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating and six have assigned a buy rating to the company's stock. According to data from MarketBeat.com, the stock has an average rating of "Moderate Buy" and an average target price of $509.25.