MSCI - MSCI Stock Forecast, Price & News

10 Wall Street 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 analysts is that investors should "buy" MSCI shares.
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10 Wall Street analysts have issued 12-month price targets for MSCI's shares. Their MSCI share price forecasts range from $498.00 to $600.00. On average, they predict the company's share price to reach $558.10 in the next year. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 1.6%.
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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 22.0% and is now trading at $567.43.
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MSCI saw a decline in short interest in the month of December. As of December 30th, there was short interest totaling 639,500 shares, a decline of 27.2% from the December 15th total of 877,900 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 433,900 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 1.5 days. Approximately 0.8% 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, April 25th 2023.
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MSCI Inc. (NYSE:MSCI) released its quarterly earnings results on Tuesday, January, 31st. The technology company reported $2.84 earnings per share for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $2.71 by $0.13. The technology company earned $576.20 million during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $568.53 million. MSCI had a negative trailing twelve-month return on equity of 93.56% and a net margin of 38.72%. The firm's revenue for the quarter was up 4.8% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter in the prior year, the business posted $2.51 earnings per share.
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MSCI declared a quarterly dividend on Monday, January 30th. Stockholders 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 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 0.97%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, February 16th. This is a boost from the stock's previous quarterly dividend of $1.25.
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MSCI (NYSE:MSCI) pays an annual dividend of $5.00 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 0.88%. 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 46.64%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, MSCI will have a dividend payout ratio of 33.83% 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 retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include Sustainable Growth Advisers LP (1.56%), Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Holdings Inc. (0.28%), Fisher Asset Management LLC (0.26%), State of Michigan Retirement System (0.20%), Markel Corp (0.18%) and New York State Common Retirement Fund (0.13%). 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 $567.43.

MSCI (NYSE:MSCI) has a market capitalization of $45.37 billion and generates $2.25 billion in revenue each year. The technology company earns $725.98 million in net income (profit) each year or $10.72 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.