Moody’s Corp (MCO) concluded trading on Thursday at a closing price of $505.06, with 0.49 million shares of worth about $245.04 million changed hands on the day. Half year performance of the stock remained positive as price took a surge of 6.66% during that period and on July 03, 2025 the price saw a gain of about 1.60%. Currently the company’s common shares owned by public are about 179.94M shares, out of which, 179.70M shares are available for trading.
Stock saw a price change of 4.88% in past 5 days and over the past one month there was a price change of 4.77%. Year-to-date (YTD), MCO shares are showing a performance of 19.83% which increased to 6.69% when we look at its performance for past 12 months. Over the period of past 52 weeks, stock dropped to lowest price of $378.71 but also hit the highest price of $531.93 during that period. The average intraday trading volume for Moody’s Corp shares is 794.90K. The stock is currently trading 4.19% above its 20-day simple moving average (SMA20), while that difference is up 6.16% for SMA50 and it goes to 6.36% higher than SMA200.
Moody’s Corp (NYSE: MCO) currently have 179.94M outstanding shares and institutions hold larger chunk of about 93.59% of that.
The stock has a current market capitalization of $90.86B and its 3Y-monthly beta is at 1.40. PE ratio of stock for trailing 12 months is 43.63, while it has posted earnings per share of $11.58 in the same period. Its PEG reads 3.79 and has Quick Ratio of 1.52 while making debt-to-equity ratio of 1.93. Volatility of a stock is a metric used to know how much the price of that stock is under influence and for MCO, volatility over the week remained 2.07% while standing at 1.62% over the month.
Stock’s fiscal year EPS is expected to rise by 9.35% while it is estimated to increase by 12.96% in next year. EPS is likely to grow at an annualized rate of 11.52% for next 5-years, compared to annual growth of 8.70% made by the stock over the past 5-years.
Digging deeper we find that several firms have released their research notes about the support levels of the stock. Most recent of them is a note released by BofA Securities on April 10, 2025 offering a Buy rating for the stock and assigned a target price of $530 to it. Coverage by Mizuho stated Moody’s Corp (MCO) stock as a Neutral in their note to investors on March 12, 2025, suggesting a price target of $504 for the stock. On December 20, 2024, Citigroup Initiated their recommendations, while on October 02, 2024, Evercore ISI Initiated their ratings for the stock with a price target of $521. Stock get an Underperform rating from Raymond James on September 23, 2024.
