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Moody’svs.MSCI

MCO vs MSCI · both in Exchanges & market data, part of the Banks, payments & capital markets value chain: The exchanges, index owners and ratings agencies that run, and price, the markets.

Moody’s is about 2.0× larger than MSCI by market cap.

Side by side

MCOMSCI
Market cap$83.2B$40.6B
Price$514.55$564.22
Today+0.3%+0.0%
Return YTD+0.4%−1.7%
Return 1Y+0.6%−1.7%
P/E29.829.9
P/S10.212.2
P/B27.5107.4

Data as of 2026-08-27 · updates daily after U.S. close

The two companies

Moody’sMCO

NYSE · USA

When a company borrows, Moody's rates the debt; it and S&P split that market between them. A faster-growing analytics arm sells risk and modelling tools to the same customers.

Credit ratingsAnalyticsDuopoly
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MSCIMSCI

NYSE · USA

ETFs and index funds track MSCI's global equity benchmarks and pay to do so. ESG, climate and portfolio-analytics data has grown quickly on top of that, sold much like a subscription.

Index providerESG & analyticsSubscription
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