MSCI (MSCI) Stock Price, Fundamentals & Analysis

What MSCI does

MSCI (MSCI) is a US-based company in the Financial Services sector, specifically in the Financial Data & Stock Exchanges industry, headquartered in New York, United States. It provides research-based data, analytics, and indexes used across the investment industry. The Index segment supplies indexes for indexed financial products such as ETFs, mutual funds, annuities, futures, options, structured products, and over-the-counter derivatives, as well as for performance benchmarking, portfolio construction and rebalancing, and asset allocation. The Analytics segment offers risk management, performance attribution, and portfolio management content, including an integrated view of risk and return, analysis of market, credit, liquidity, counterparty, and climate risk across asset classes, managed services, and HedgePlatform for hedge fund risk measurement.

Key numbers explained

• 555.7 USD is the current price per share of MSCI stock.
• The trailing P/E ratio of 31 compares the current price to the last 12 months of earnings, showing how much investors pay per dollar of recent earnings.
• The forward P/E ratio of 24.7 uses expected future earnings, often giving a sense of how the market views the company’s growth outlook.
• 17.95 USD is the earnings per share (EPS) for the trailing 12 months, representing the portion of net income attributable to each share.
• The dividend yield of 1.49% shows the annual dividend payment as a percentage of the current share price.
• 42% of earnings are paid out as dividends, indicating the share of profit returned to shareholders.
• 1.22 is the beta, meaning the stock tends to move about 22% more than the overall market in either direction.
• 40.7% profit margin and 56.3% operating margin show how much of revenue remains as profit after costs and operating expenses.

Recent news

Recent headlines highlight a shift in the advisory landscape, with active ETFs gaining traction while mutual funds could lose relevance. Other stories question whether a leadership appointment is refining MSCI’s data narrative and whether the stock is underperforming the Nasdaq. One piece also notes a cash-producing stock worth attention alongside two that underwhelm.

What to watch

For a stock like MSCI, which is part of the S&P 500, investors typically monitor changes in index usage, asset flows into ETFs and mutual funds, and regulatory or data-licensing developments. Broader factors include market volatility, interest rate environments, and competition among data and analytics providers such as Fiserv (FISV), State Street Corporation (STT), and Morgan Stanley (MS).