Moody’svs.Nasdaq
MCO vs NDAQ · 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 1.5× larger than Nasdaq by market cap; year to date, Nasdaq leads (−4.9% vs −10.2%).
Side by side
| MCO | NDAQ | |
|---|---|---|
| Market cap | $80B | $52.2B |
| Price | $464.23 | $93.65 |
| Today | +1.2% | +1.4% |
| Return YTD | −10.2% | −4.9% |
| Return 1Y | −6.4% | +2.8% |
| Since July 13, 2026 | −6.4% | +5.0% |
| P/E | 28.6 | 26.5 |
| P/S | 9.8 | 6.0 |
| P/B | 26.4 | 4.4 |
Data as of 2026-10-09 · updates daily after U.S. close
Since July 13, 2026: the change in the closing price from the first session with a close for both companies. Sectivia records these closes itself, starting June 26, 2026.
The two companies
Moody’sMCO
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.
Full MCO profile →NasdaqNDAQ
Running the Nasdaq stock market is now only part of it. Listings, index licensing, analytics and software that banks use to detect financial crime have turned Nasdaq into something closer to a technology and data vendor.
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