Moody’s Corp (NYSE: MCO) on Friday, plunged -9.03% from the previous trading day, before settling in for the closing price of $442.39. Within the past 52 weeks, MCO’s price has moved between $360.05 and $531.93.
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Annual sales at Financial sector company grew by 8.59% over the past five years. The company achieved an average annual earnings per share of 12.67%. With a float of $179.69 million, this company’s outstanding shares have now reached $180.31 million.
Let’s look at the performance matrix of the company that is accounted for 15838 employees. In terms of profitability, gross margin is 68.0%, operating margin of 40.8%, and the pretax margin is 38.08%.
Moody’s Corp (MCO) Insider Updates
Observing investor behavior towards Financial Data & Stock Exchanges industry stocks is more important than anything else. The insider ownership of Moody’s Corp is 0.11%, while institutional ownership is 92.61%. The most recent insider transaction that took place on Apr 01 ’25, was worth 192,178. In this transaction President and CEO of this company sold 415 shares at a rate of $463.08, taking the stock ownership to the 62,824 shares. Before that another transaction happened on Apr 01 ’25, when Company’s Officer proposed sale 415 for $463.08, making the entire transaction worth $192,178.
Moody’s Corp (MCO) Performance Highlights and Predictions
Wall Street market experts anticipate that the next fiscal year will bring earnings of 3.71 per share during the current fiscal year.
According to the Wall Street analysts, stocks earnings will be around 12.67% per share during the next fiscal year. For the long-term projections, market analysts anticipate that the company’s EPS will surge by 12.49% during the next five years compared to 8.70% growth over the previous five years of trading.
Moody’s Corp (NYSE: MCO) Trading Performance Indicators
Moody’s Corp (MCO) is currently performing well based on its current performance indicators. A quick ratio of 1.43 was reported for the most recent quarter. In addition, a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for the trailing twelve months stands at 10.21. Likewise, its price to free cash flow for the trailing twelve months is 28.72.
For the trailing twelve months, Company’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) is 11.26, a number that is poised to hit 3.56 in the next quarter and is forecasted to reach 15.80 in one year’s time.
Technical Analysis of Moody’s Corp (MCO)
Moody’s Corp (NYSE: MCO) saw its 5-day average volume 1.13 million, a positive change from its year-to-date volume of 0.85 million. As of the previous 9 days, the stock’s Stochastic %D was 22.82%. Additionally, its Average True Range was 13.95.
During the past 100 days, Moody’s Corp’s (MCO) raw stochastic average was set at 1.41%, which indicates a significant decrease from 2.30% during the past two weeks. Based on volatility metrics of the stock, it showed a historical volatility of 49.50% in the past 14 days, which was higher than the 28.75% volatility it showed in the past 100 days.
At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average is $481.58, while its 200-day Moving Average is $471.39. Nevertheless, the first resistance level for the watch stands at $422.11 in the near term. At $441.80, the stock is likely to face the second major resistance level. The third major resistance level sits at $452.56. If the price goes on to break the first support level at $391.66, it is likely to go to the next support level at $380.90. Assuming the price breaks the second support level, the third support level stands at $361.21.
Moody’s Corp (NYSE: MCO) Key Stats
Market capitalization of the company is 72.39 billion based on 179,889K outstanding shares. Right now, sales total 7,088 M and income totals 2,058 M. The company made 1,672 M in profit during its latest quarter, and 395,000 K in sales during its previous quarter.