Msci Inc.

Consumer Discretionary
Business Services
www.msci.com

Earnings Score
Safety Score

Market Cap $42.29B
Debt $4.57B
Cash $360.67M
EV $46.51B
FCF $1.46B

Earnings

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Sales & Net Margins

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Earnings	$1.14B
EBIT	$1.57B
ROA	29%
FCF	$1.46B
Equity	-$958.57M
Growth Stability	100%
PE	37.04
PEG	1.95
PB	-44.12
P/FCF	28.92
P/S	14.47
Price/Cash	0.01
Debt/Equity	-4.77
Debt/FCF	3.13
Net Margins	39%
Gross Margins	82%
Op. Margins	54%
Earnings CAGR	20%
Sales Growth YoY	10%
Sales Growth QoQ	0%
Sales CAGR	12%
FCF CAGR	19%
Equity CAGR	-0%
Earnings Stability	0.96
Earnings Growth YoY	13%

Earnings Growth QoQ	-6%
Earnings CAGR 5Y	19%
Sales CAGR 5Y	13%
FCF CAGR 5Y	15%
Earnings CAGR 3Y	12%
Sales CAGR 3Y	12%
FCF CAGR 3Y	17%
Market Cap	$42.29B
Revenue	$2.92B
Dividend Yield	1%
Payout Ratio	46%
Assets	$5.34B
Total Debt	$4.57B
Cash	$360.67M
Shares Outstanding	77.58M
EV	46.51B
Earnings Score	95%
Safety Score	66%
Working Capital	-230.79M
Current Ratio	0.84
Gross Profit	$2.40B
Shares Growth 3y	-1%
Equity Growth QoQ	2%
Equity Growth YoY	47%

Assets & ROA

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Stockholders Equity & ROE

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MSCI describes its mission as enabling investors to build better portfolios for a better world. MSCI's largest and most profitable segment is its index segment, where it provides benchmarking to asset managers and asset owners. In addition, it boasts over $1 trillion in ETF assets linked to MSCI indexes. The MSCI analytics segment provides portfolio management and risk management analytics software to asset managers and asset owners. MSCI's all other segment was broken out into ESG and climate and private assets segments in 2021. In ESG and climate, MSCI provides ESG data to the investment industry. In the private assets side, MSCI provides real restate reporting, market data, benchmarking, and analytics to investors and real estate managers.

SEC Filings

Direct access to Msci Inc. (MSCI) Annual Reports (10K) and Quarterly Reports (10Q) from the SEC website.

2025
- 10-Q Mar 31
2024
- 10-K Dec 31
- 10-Q Sep 30
- 10-Q Jun 30
- 10-Q Mar 31
2023
- 10-K Dec 31
- 10-Q Sep 30
- 10-Q Jun 30
- 10-Q Mar 31

Sector Comparison

How does Msci Inc. compare to its competitors?

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Peter Lynch's Chart

This chart shows the current pricing of Msci Inc. compared to its past. The addition of the earnings trend line provides further insights into the company's earnings power.

CAGR 20%

Stability 96%

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Msci Inc. Discounted Cash Flow

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Years

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= $54B

	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	TV
fcf	$1.5B	$1.7B	$2.1B	$2.4B	$2.9B	$3.5B	$4.1B	$4.9B	$5.8B	$6.9B	$8.2B	$82B
DCF		$1.6B	$1.7B	$1.8B	$2B	$2.1B	$2.3B	$2.5B	$2.7B	$2.9B	$3.1B	$31B
Value	$54B

Competitiveness and MOAT

High margins render the company resilient under dire circumstances, hence able to drive competitors out or acquire them. ROE and ROA measure the average flow generated by each invested dollar. Their marginal value is a forecast of future growth, and it is considered by Buffett and Munger the most important single indicator.

Years	12/2015	12/2016	12/2017	12/2018	12/2019	12/2020	12/2021	12/2022	12/2023	12/2024	TTM
Net Margins	21%	23%	24%	35%	36%	35%	36%	39%	45%	39%	39%
ROA	-	16%	18%	20%	18%	21%	19%	24%	25%	28%	29%
ROE	-	82%	76%	-305%	-735%	-136%	-444%	-86%	-155%	-118%	-

Good Net Margins (38.7%)

Net Margins are high enough to offer a good protection on the profits in case of higher costs or higher interests. Furthermore higher margins reduce earnings’ volatility.

Safety and Stability

Being debt the number one cause of investment losses and company death, the ratio Debt/FCF is of utmost importance to guarantee safety. On the other hand the Graham’s stability measures the drawdown of earnings, hence indicating the reliability of the flow generated by the company.

Years	12/2015	12/2016	12/2017	12/2018	12/2019	12/2020	12/2021	12/2022	12/2023	12/2024	TTM
Debt over FCF	-	5.16	5.6	4.42	4.51	4.27	4.51	4.21	3.75	3.09	3.13
Debt over Equity	1.75	6.53	5.18	-15.47	-40.04	-7.6	-25.46	-4.52	-6.15	-4.83	-4.77
Growth Stability	-	-	-	100%	100%	100%	100%	100%	100%	100%	100%

Neutral Debt/FCF ratio (3.13)

Net Margins are at a level that is not too high nor too low. They are not a competitive advantage but they are not a competitive disadvantage either.

Good Debt/Equity ratio (-4.77)

The company is not overleveraged and has a good balance between equity and debt.

Good Graham’s Stability (100%)

The company has a good stability in its earnings, which is a sign of a good competitive advantage.

Growth

Growth can be dangerous when forecasting, simply projecting the current growth is in general wrong. A company passes through multiple phases, from being young and unprofitable, to the first periods of profitability and high growth, until it arrives at a period of regime with limited growth. Identifying in which phase the company is in may help forecasting.

Years	12/2015	12/2016	12/2017	12/2018	12/2019	12/2020	12/2021	12/2022	12/2023	12/2024	CAGR 5Y
Revenue YoY growth	-	7%	11%	13%	9%	9%	21%	10%	12%	13%	13%
Earnings YoY growth	-	17%	17%	67%	11%	7%	21%	20%	32%	-3%	19%
Equity YoY growth	-	-65%	26%	-142%	-54%	478%	-63%	517%	-27%	27%	-
FCF YoY growth	-	52%	-8%	57%	17%	16%	17%	17%	12%	21%	15%