MCO Stock Summary and Trading Ideas (Moodys | NYSE:MCO)

Moody's, along with S&P Ratings, is a leading provider of credit ratings on fixed-income securities. The ratings segment, Moody's Investors Service, includes corporates, structured finance, financial institutions, and public finance ratings. MIS represents a majority of the firm's profit and often (depending on bond issuance levels) a majority of the firm's revenue. The other segment, Moody's Analytics, consists of decision solutions, research and insights, and data and information.

Moodys trades on the NYSE stock market under the symbol MCO.

As of March 6, 2026, MCO stock price climbed to $471.97 with 1,315,256 million shares trading.

MCO has a beta of 1.20, meaning it tends to be more sensitive to market movements. MCO has a correlation of 0.46 to the broad based SPY ETF.

MCO has a market cap of $83.68 billion. This is considered a Large Cap stock.

Last quarter Moodys reported $2 billion in Revenue and $3.64 earnings per share. This beat revenue expectation by $15 million and exceeded earnings estimates by $.19.

In the last 3 years, MCO traded as high as $546.88 and as low as $278.23.

The top ETF exchange traded funds that MCO belongs to (by Net Assets): VTI, VOO, IVV, VUG, SPY.

MCO has underperformed the market in the last year with a return of +1.2%, while the SPY ETF gained +18.7%. In the last 3 month period, MCO fell short of the market, returning -4.7%, while SPY returned -1.7%. However, in the most recent 2 weeks MCO has outperformed the stock market by returning +5.6%, while SPY returned -2.5%.

MCO support price is $458.68 and resistance is $481.43 (based on 1 day standard deviation move). This means that using the most recent 20 day stock volatility and applying a one standard deviation move around the stock's closing price, stastically there is a 67% probability that MCO shares will trade within this expected range on the day.