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$547.42 -10.31 (-1.85%)
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MSCI vs. CSQ, MORN, NDAQ, TROW, BLK, BX, FDS, MCO, SPGI, and TYL

Should you be buying MSCI stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of MSCI include Calamos Strategic Total Return Fund (CSQ), Morningstar (MORN), Nasdaq (NDAQ), T. Rowe Price Group (TROW), BlackRock (BLK), Blackstone (BX), FactSet Research Systems (FDS), Moody's (MCO), S&P Global (SPGI), and Tyler Technologies (TYL).

MSCI vs. Its Competitors

Calamos Strategic Total Return Fund (NASDAQ:CSQ) and MSCI (NYSE:MSCI) are related companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, analyst recommendations, earnings, dividends, media sentiment, valuation, profitability and institutional ownership.

MSCI has a consensus target price of $654.73, suggesting a potential upside of 19.60%. Given MSCI's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe MSCI is more favorable than Calamos Strategic Total Return Fund.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Calamos Strategic Total Return Fund
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
0.00
MSCI
0 Sell rating(s)
3 Hold rating(s)
10 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.77

MSCI has a net margin of 39.46% compared to Calamos Strategic Total Return Fund's net margin of 0.00%. Calamos Strategic Total Return Fund's return on equity of 0.00% beat MSCI's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Calamos Strategic Total Return FundN/A N/A N/A
MSCI 39.46%-143.13%23.46%

90.0% of MSCI shares are held by institutional investors. 3.3% of MSCI shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Calamos Strategic Total Return Fund pays an annual dividend of $1.23 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.7%. MSCI pays an annual dividend of $7.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.3%. MSCI pays out 47.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. MSCI has raised its dividend for 11 consecutive years.

MSCI has higher revenue and earnings than Calamos Strategic Total Return Fund.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Calamos Strategic Total Return Fund$280.21MN/AN/AN/AN/A
MSCI$2.86B14.83$1.11B$15.1036.25

In the previous week, MSCI had 42 more articles in the media than Calamos Strategic Total Return Fund. MarketBeat recorded 43 mentions for MSCI and 1 mentions for Calamos Strategic Total Return Fund. Calamos Strategic Total Return Fund's average media sentiment score of 1.00 beat MSCI's score of 0.81 indicating that Calamos Strategic Total Return Fund is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Overall Sentiment
Calamos Strategic Total Return Fund Positive
MSCI Positive

Summary

MSCI beats Calamos Strategic Total Return Fund on 10 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.

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Media Sentiment Over Time

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MSCI vs. The Competition

MetricMSCIFIN IndustryFinance SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$43.15B$13.97B$12.11B$20.65B
Dividend Yield1.29%5.80%5.64%3.66%
P/E Ratio36.2536.7219.7429.27
Price / Sales14.836.9626.3562.32
Price / Cash30.9616.2121.3823.31
Price / Book-47.812.702.124.37
Net Income$1.11B$572.25M$1.00B$996.36M
7 Day Performance-2.43%1.18%0.32%0.59%
1 Month Performance-6.84%2.75%0.38%0.23%
1 Year Performance4.39%17.85%544.59%16.71%

MSCI Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
MSCI
MSCI
4.7351 of 5 stars
$547.42
-1.8%
$654.73
+19.6%
+4.1%$43.15B$2.86B36.256,132Trending News
CSQ
Calamos Strategic Total Return Fund
N/A$18.55
flat
N/A+14.9%$0.00$280.21M0.00N/APositive News
Dividend Announcement
MORN
Morningstar
4.3632 of 5 stars
$282.56
+1.6%
$361.67
+28.0%
-13.9%$11.94B$2.28B31.7511,085Insider Trade
NDAQ
Nasdaq
4.7408 of 5 stars
$95.14
+0.3%
$96.63
+1.6%
+45.9%$54.62B$8.11B36.599,162Positive News
Analyst Forecast
Insider Trade
TROW
T. Rowe Price Group
4.3958 of 5 stars
$106.00
-0.9%
$96.64
-8.8%
+1.5%$23.35B$7.09B12.028,158Trending News
Earnings Report
Analyst Forecast
BLK
BlackRock
4.7764 of 5 stars
$1,117.60
-0.5%
$1,151.21
+3.0%
+33.4%$173.15B$20.41B27.0221,100Trending News
Analyst Revision
BX
Blackstone
4.4628 of 5 stars
$176.82
-0.7%
$170.12
-3.8%
+30.0%$129.02B$11.58B47.534,895Trending News
Ex-Dividend
Insider Trade
FDS
FactSet Research Systems
4.5888 of 5 stars
$414.27
-1.3%
$444.25
+7.2%
-3.1%$15.66B$2.20B29.9312,398Positive News
MCO
Moody's
4.6639 of 5 stars
$507.01
-1.2%
$538.80
+6.3%
+15.3%$91.21B$7.09B43.0815,838Positive News
SPGI
S&P Global
4.3757 of 5 stars
$530.31
-0.9%
$601.07
+13.3%
+17.2%$162.65B$14.49B41.6642,350Positive News
Earnings Report
Analyst Revision
TYL
Tyler Technologies
3.8302 of 5 stars
$556.06
-0.1%
$685.09
+23.2%
+7.3%$23.98B$2.14B83.747,400Trending News
Analyst Forecast
Insider Trade
Analyst Revision
High Trading Volume

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