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NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE, INC. · Financial Services · CIK 0001408198
$604.46
+2.16% · delayed ~15 min
Last price from Oct 21, 2026
$44.47B market value
From MSCI Inc.'s FY2025 10-K, filed Feb 6, 2026 · read the filing
MSCI provides business support services. It took in $3.13B last year, which makes it a mid-sized company. Of every dollar it sells, about 38 cents is left as profit.
The financial picture is led by profitability, with growth and debt worth watching.
A conclusion from the filings, not a recommendation. Detailed figures and supporting evidence appear in their dedicated sections below.
Financial health
Generally healthy, with a few things to watch.
From MSCI Inc.'s FY2025 annual filing · share price scored separately
Largest year-over-year changes in FY2025
Long-term debt
$4.51B → $6.20B
Cash
$409.4M → $515.3M
Shares in issue
77.7M → 73.6M
Capital spending
$33.8M → $39.3M
Measured against FY2024, from the 10-K filed Feb 6, 2026
Deteriorated: +37.5%
$4.51B to $6.20BSignificant
Why it matters: Rising debt is not automatically bad — borrowing to build something that earns more than the interest is ordinary. It matters when it grows faster than the profit meant to service it.
Improved: +25.9%
$409.4M to $515.3MSignificant
Why it matters: A falling cash pile is only a warning if the company is consuming it. Paying down debt, buying back stock and paying a dividend all reduce cash by choice.
How the latest move compares (quote delayed ~15 min), and what was published around it
MSCI rose 2.16% on the latest quote. The S&P 500 moved −1.04%. That is 3.2 points above the market.
Expectations
Not from the filings — what other people are betting on, and what the price already assumes.
The growth rate someone buying today is paying for, against what the company has delivered
At today's price, the market is paying for free cash flow to grow by about 12% a year for the next 10 years. Over the last 10 years it grew by about 19% a year.
The essentials
Each answered from the filings, with the numbers behind it.
Yes. It keeps about 38 cents of every dollar of sales as profit, earning $1.20B last year.
Slowly. Sales grew 9.7% last year.
Manageable, but notable. Clearing its debt would take about 3.6 years of cash flow. For every $1 it owes, it owns $0.68 in assets.
Core operating and valuation reference metrics
Whether the dividend is covered by what the business actually earns
It pays out 46 cents of every dollar of profit and keeps the rest, which leaves the payment comfortably covered. It paid out 35% of the cash its operations generated. It has paid in each of the last 12 years.
GoodNext payment expected around , projected from how regularly it has paid before rather than from a date the company has announced.
Figures from the FY2025 annual filing
Last year it earned $1.20B and generated $1.59B of cash from operations.
Reported annual figures
As reported to the SEC, in USD. Hover or show sources to see where each figure came from.
| Income statement | FY202510-K · Feb 6, 2026Filing for FY2025 | FY202410-K · Feb 7, 2025Filing for FY2024 | FY202310-K · Feb 9, 2024Filing for FY2023 | FY202210-K · Feb 10, 2023Filing for FY2022 | FY202110-K · Feb 10, 2023Filing for FY2021 | ChangeFY2025 vs FY2024 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RevenueWhat is this? | $3.13B | $2.86B | $2.53B | $2.25B | $2.04B | +9.7% |
| Cost of revenue | $550.4M | $514.4M | $446.6M | $404.3M | $358.7M | +7.0% |
| Gross profit | $2.58B† | $2.34B† | $2.08B† | $1.84B† | $1.68B† | +10.3% |
| Gross marginGross profit ÷ revenueWhat is this? | 82.4% | 82.0% | 82.3% | 82.0% | 82.4% | +0.5 pts |
| Selling, general and administrative | $180.2M | $182.3M | $154.0M | $146.9M | $147.9M | −1.2% |
| Operating income | $1.71B | $1.53B | $1.38B | $1.21B | $1.07B | +12.1% |
| Operating marginOperating income ÷ revenueWhat is this? | 54.7% | 53.5% | 54.8% | 53.7% | 52.5% | +1.2 pts |
| Interest expense | $209.9M | $185.5M | $186.7M | $171.6M | $159.6M | +13.1% |
| Income before tax | $1.49B | $1.36B | $1.37B | $1.04B | $858.1M | +10.2% |
| Net income | $1.20B | $1.11B | $1.15B | $870.6M | $726.0M | +8.4% |
| Net marginNet income ÷ revenueWhat is this? | 38.4% | 38.8% | 45.4% | 38.7% | 35.5% | −0.5 pts |
| Earnings per shareNet income ÷ shares outstanding at the period end — close to, but not the same as, the reported EPSWhat is this? | $16.34 | $14.27 | $14.52 | $10.89 | $8.81 | +14.6% |
† calculated from other reported figures, such as total liabilities as assets minus equity.
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Officers, directors and major shareholders must report within two business days of a trade.
Sold on the open market — 450 shares at $570.00 ($256.5K)
Holds 21,644 shares after this filing.
Bought on the open market — 1,786 shares at $560.00 ($1.0M)
Holds 5,404 shares after this filing.
20 recent filings, newest first. Each is labelled from its form and item numbers, not from its wording.
Quarterly report for Q3 FY2026
Revenue +12.4% · Profit margin −1.7 pts · Long-term debt +22.0% — against Q3 FY2026
Read the filingPublished results
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Every figure above traces back to a filing in the timeline, each linked to the document itself.
The 10 subsidiaries named in its 10-K, incorporated across 6 places. A filer lists the significant ones and may leave the rest out, so this is the floor rather than the full count.
Every company's figures are checked for internal consistency: the balance sheet adding up, figures sharing one currency, cash flow and share counts within plausible ranges, and how recent the latest annual report is. Nothing here changes a figure.
Financial figures are from MSCI's 10-K for fiscal year 2025 (period ending 2025-12-31, filed Feb 6, 2026), reported under the US GAAP taxonomy. View the source filing.
3 of 4 scored areas had enough reported figures to judge
The score averages profitability, growth, debt and accounting. Accounting had too few reported figures and is left out of the average rather than counted as a weakness, so a company is never marked down for a figure it did not publish. Cash generation is shown for context and already feeds profitability. Valuation is scored separately, because a share price says nothing about whether the business is sound. 9 of the 9 Piotroski checks could be evaluated. How the score works
Each year scored only from its annual report as it was first filed
| Fiscal year | Health | F-Score | Scored from |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | 7.3 | 8/9 | 10-K, filed Feb 6, 2026 |
| FY2024 | 8.7 | 5/9 | 10-K, filed Feb 7, 2025 |
| FY2023 | 7.3 | 8/9 | 10-K, filed Feb 9, 2024 |
| FY2022 | 8.0 | 6/9 | 10-K, filed Feb 10, 2023 |
| FY2021 | 10.0 | 6/9 | 10-K, filed Feb 11, 2022 |
| FY2020 | 9.0 | 7/9 | 10-K, filed Feb 12, 2021 |
A later restatement never reaches back into an earlier year, and every year is scored without a share price, so the latest point can differ a little from the headline score, which uses today's price.
Every check behind the three models, and what each one tests
8 of 9 checks passed
Nine yes-or-no tests of whether this year's finances improved on last year's.
4.58
In the safe zone
For this model, above 2.6 is safe and below 1.1 is distress.
Distance from bankruptcy, from a model fitted on companies that did and did not go bust. It describes a balance sheet's shape today; it does not forecast a failure.
not reported — This company has not reported enough of the required figures to calculate this score.
This company has not reported enough of the required figures to calculate this score.
Screens eight accounting ratios for the pattern earnings manipulators tend to leave. A flag is a reason to read the filing closely, never evidence of wrongdoing.
Every figure above comes from the FY2025 filing as filed with the SEC.
Improved: -5.4%
77.7M to 73.6MSignificant
Why it matters: The company bought back stock, so each remaining holding owns slightly more of it. Worth checking it was not funded by borrowing.
Changed: +16.5%
$33.8M to $39.3MSignificant
Why it matters: Neither good nor bad on its own. Heavy spending is a company building capacity or a company struggling to stand still, and the two look identical in this figure.
Improved: +9.7%
$2.86B to $3.13BNotable
Why it matters: Sales are what everything else is built on. A fall can be lost customers, lower prices, or a business the company sold — the filing itself says which.
Improved: +10.3%
$2.34B to $2.58BNotable
Why it matters: What is left of sales after the direct cost of producing them. It normally moves with revenue, so a move out of step with revenue is the part worth noticing.
Improved: +12.1%
$1.53B to $1.71BNotable
Why it matters: Profit from running the business, before interest and tax. Less exposed than profit to one-off financing and tax items, so a clearer read on the business itself.
Improved: +8.4%
$1.11B to $1.20BNotable
Why it matters: Profit swings far more than sales do, and one-off items — a legal settlement, a tax charge, an asset sale — move it without the underlying business changing.
Improved: +1.1 pts
53.5% to 54.7%Notable
Why it matters: What survives each sale after running the business. A falling operating margin beside a steady gross margin points at overheads — wages, marketing, research — rather than pricing.
Improved: +5.5%
$1.47B to $1.55BNotable
Why it matters: Cash left after paying for the plant that produced it — the money genuinely available for dividends, buybacks or paying down debt. Harder to flatter than profit.
Improved: +14.6%
$14.27 to $16.34Notable
Why it matters: Profit divided by the shares in issue at the period end, so it sits close to but not on the company's own reported figure. It can rise with no growth in profit when the company buys back stock — read it beside the share count.
Changed: +9.3%
$509.1M to $556.5MNotable
Why it matters: Cash handed to shareholders. A rise can be a higher dividend or simply more shares, and a cut is a decision the company explains in its own filing — neither is rated here.
Q3 FY2026 against Q3 FY2026, from the 10-Q filed Oct 20, 2026 — read it.
Deteriorated: +22.0%
$5.51B to $6.72BSignificant
Why it matters: Rising debt is not automatically bad — borrowing to build something that earns more than the interest is ordinary. It matters when it grows faster than the profit meant to service it.
Deteriorated: -34.8%
$400.1M to $261.0MSignificant
Why it matters: A falling cash pile is only a warning if the company is consuming it. Paying down debt, buying back stock and paying a dividend all reduce cash by choice.
Improved: +12.4%
$793.4M to $892.0MNotable
Why it matters: Sales are what everything else is built on. A fall can be lost customers, lower prices, or a business the company sold — the filing itself says which.
Improved: +11.9%
$660.9M to $739.8MNotable
Why it matters: What is left of sales after the direct cost of producing them. It normally moves with revenue, so a move out of step with revenue is the part worth noticing.
Improved: +12.2%
$447.6M to $502.1MNotable
Why it matters: Profit from running the business, before interest and tax. Less exposed than profit to one-off financing and tax items, so a clearer read on the business itself.
Improved: +7.9%
$325.3M to $351.0MNotable
Why it matters: Profit swings far more than sales do, and one-off items — a legal settlement, a tax charge, an asset sale — move it without the underlying business changing.
Deteriorated: −1.7 pts
41.0% to 39.3%Notable
Why it matters: What survives to the very end of each sale. Worth reading beside revenue: growing sales on a shrinking margin means the company is buying its growth.
Improved: +13.1%
$4.33 to $4.90Notable
Why it matters: Profit divided by the shares in issue at the period end, so it sits close to but not on the company's own reported figure. It can rise with no growth in profit when the company buys back stock — read it beside the share count.
Improved: -4.6%
75.2M to 71.7MNotable
Why it matters: The company bought back stock, so each remaining holding owns slightly more of it. Worth checking it was not funded by borrowing.
Q3 FY2026 against Q2 FY2026, from the 10-Q filed Oct 20, 2026 — read it. Quarter-to-quarter moves include seasonal swings — a retailer's holiday quarter — which the year-earlier comparison removes.
Deteriorated: -26.8%
$356.4M to $261.0MSignificant
Why it matters: A falling cash pile is only a warning if the company is consuming it. Paying down debt, buying back stock and paying a dividend all reduce cash by choice.
Deteriorated: +5.3%
$6.38B to $6.72BNotable
Why it matters: Rising debt is not automatically bad — borrowing to build something that earns more than the interest is ordinary. It matters when it grows faster than the profit meant to service it.
Improved: -1.4%
72.7M to 71.7MNotable
Why it matters: The company bought back stock, so each remaining holding owns slightly more of it. Worth checking it was not funded by borrowing.
2 other measures barely moved. Figures compare the two most recent annual filings — read the latest one. Moves are graded on fixed lines — 5%, 15% and 40% for amounts, and 1, 3 and 8 points for margins — as notable, significant or critical. Nothing here reads the management commentary, which is where a company explains its own numbers.
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Discounted at 8%–10% a year, with growth settling to 2.5% after 10 years. Those rates are ordinary choices, not measurements: across that range the assumed growth works out between 10% and 14%. This describes what the price implies — it is not a forecast, and not a view on whether the price is right.
Measured on and published about a week later — this is a fortnightly snapshot, not a live position.
About 2.6% of this company's shares have been borrowed and sold by people expecting to buy them back cheaper. That is a bet the price falls. Those people can be wrong, and when a heavily shorted share rises they have to buy it back, which pushes it up further.
Collected by FINRA from broker-dealers twice a month. It counts positions, not intentions, and some of it is hedging rather than a directional bet against the company.
Nothing in this section is a figure this company reported about itself. These are expectations and positions — what the price implies, what analysts have published, what short sellers are betting, and what large funds held at the last count. WylthIQ reports them; it does not endorse them, does not forecast prices, and takes no view on whether any of them will turn out to be right.
The trailing P/E is 31.2x — a high multiple relative to the current trailing profit.
This company has not reported enough of the required figures to calculate this score.
Was granted or awarded shares — 6 shares
Holds 2,037 shares after this filing.
Was granted or awarded shares — 8 shares
Holds 20,998 shares after this filing.
Was granted or awarded shares — 2 shares
Holds 906 shares after this filing.
Notice filed ahead of a planned sale — the sale itself has not necessarily happened yet.
Filed notice to sell 2,381 shares ($1.5M) on or after .
Shares originally obtained via Performance Shares.
Filed notice to sell 450 shares ($256.5K) on or after .
Shares originally obtained via Restricted Stock.
Estimated from how often this has happened before, not a confirmed date.
Not investment advice, and not a signal to act on by itself — a filing says what happened, not why, and insiders trade for ordinary reasons having nothing to do with where they think the company is headed.
Had a director or senior officer leave or join
Quarterly report for Q2 FY2026
Revenue +12.2% · Operating margin +1.2 pts · Long-term debt +41.4% — against Q2 FY2026
Read the filingPublished results
Read the filingHeld a shareholder vote
Read the filingQuarterly report for Q1 FY2026
Revenue +14.1% · Operating margin +3.1 pts · Profit +40.7% — against Q1 FY2026
Read the filingPublished results
Read the filingHad a director or senior officer leave or join
Read the filingProxy statement for a shareholder meeting
Read the filingAnnual report for FY2025
Revenue +9.7% · Operating margin +1.1 pts · Long-term debt +37.5% — against FY2024
Read the filingSigned a material agreement
Read the filingPublished results
Read the filingHad a director or senior officer leave or join · Made a Regulation FD disclosure
Read the filingMade a Regulation FD disclosure · Reported another event
Read the filingQuarterly report for Q3 FY2026
Revenue +9.5% · Operating margin +1.0 pts · Profit +15.8% — against Q3 FY2024
Read the filingPublished results · Reported another event
Read the filingMade a Regulation FD disclosure
Read the filingSigned a material agreement · Took on a direct financial obligation
Read the filingReported another event
Read the filingSource: Exhibit 21 of the 10-K filed 2026-02-06. These are legal entities, not brands or acquisitions — a company that bought a business may hold it inside an entity named here, or inside one small enough that the rule does not require naming it at all.
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