MCO vs. MSCI, RKT, LPLA, AGM, TSLX, USA, GAB, TY, RONI, and SYBT
Should you be buying Moody's stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Moody's include MSCI (MSCI), Rocket Companies (RKT), LPL Financial (LPLA), Federal Agricultural Mortgage (AGM), Sixth Street Specialty Lending (TSLX), Liberty All-Star Equity Fund (USA), The Gabelli Equity Trust (GAB), Tri-Continental (TY), Rice Acquisition Corp. II (RONI), and Stock Yards Bancorp (SYBT).
MSCI (NYSE:MSCI) and Moody's (NYSE:MCO) are both large-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, valuation, profitability, institutional ownership, earnings, community ranking, dividends, risk and analyst recommendations.
MSCI pays an annual dividend of $6.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.4%. Moody's pays an annual dividend of $3.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.9%. MSCI pays out 43.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Moody's pays out 37.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. MSCI has increased its dividend for 10 consecutive years and Moody's has increased its dividend for 14 consecutive years.
MSCI presently has a consensus target price of $569.53, indicating a potential upside of 20.82%. Moody's has a consensus target price of $400.50, indicating a potential upside of 1.63%. Given Moody's' higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe MSCI is more favorable than Moody's.
MSCI has a net margin of 44.55% compared to MSCI's net margin of 27.01%. MSCI's return on equity of 54.50% beat Moody's' return on equity.
MSCI received 1 more outperform votes than Moody's when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.63% of users gave MSCI an outperform vote while only 59.57% of users gave Moody's an outperform vote.
90.0% of MSCI shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 92.1% of Moody's shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.2% of MSCI shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.1% of Moody's shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Moody's has higher revenue and earnings than MSCI. MSCI is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Moody's, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Moody's had 17 more articles in the media than MSCI. MarketBeat recorded 39 mentions for Moody's and 22 mentions for MSCI. Moody's' average media sentiment score of 0.79 beat MSCI's score of 0.68 indicating that MSCI is being referred to more favorably in the media.
MSCI has a beta of 1.09, indicating that its share price is 9% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Moody's has a beta of 1.26, indicating that its share price is 26% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
MSCI and Moody's tied by winning 10 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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