Moody’s Corp (NYSE:MCO) shares, rose in value on Friday, February 14, with price down by -0.88% to the previous day’s close as strong demand from buyers drove the stock to $522.84.
Actively observing the price movement in the last trading, the stock closed the session at $527.48, falling within a range of $522.37 and $531.93. The value of beta (5-year monthly) was 1.289 whereas the PE ratio was 46.44 over 12-month period. Referring to stock’s 52-week performance, its high was $528.09, and the low was $360.05. On the whole, MCO has fluctuated by 10.92% over the past month.
With the market capitalization of Moody’s Corp currently standing at about $94.74 billion, investors are eagerly awaiting this quarter’s results, scheduled for in March. The company’s Forward Dividend Ratio is 3.40, with its dividend yield at 0.65%.
Projections by analysts suggest varying estimates for the company’s quarterly revenue. Analysts have estimated the company’s revenue for the quarter at 7.6B, with a low estimate of 1.84B and a high estimate of 1.98B. Wall Street analysts also predicted that the company’s y-o-y revenues would reach 1.91B.
Technical indicators serve as essential tools for traders, offering insights into market sentiment and potential price movements. We see that MCO’s technical picture suggests that short-term indicators denote the stock is a 100% Buy on average. However, medium-term indicators have put the stock in the category of 100% Buy while long-term indicators on average have been pointing out that it is a 100% Buy.
The stock’s technical analysis shows that the PEG ratio is about 3.69, with the price of MCO currently trading nearly 4.95% and 7.49% away from the simple moving averages for 20 and 50 days respectively. The Relative Strength Index (RSI, 14) currently indicates a reading of 67.50, while the 7-day volatility ratio is showing 2.41% which for the 30-day chart, stands at 1.82%. Furthermore, Moody’s Corp (MCO)’s beta value is 1.34, and its average true range (ATR) is 9.99.
A comparison of Moody’s Corp (MCO) with its peers suggests the former has fared considerably weaker in the market. MCO showed an intraday change of -0.88% in last session, and over the past year, it grew by 41.60%%.
Data on historical trading for Moody’s Corp (NYSE:MCO) indicates that the trading volumes over the past 10 days have averaged 0.94 and over the past 3 months, they’ve averaged 654.30K. According to company’s latest data on outstanding shares, there are 181.20 million shares outstanding.
Nearly 0.13% of Moody’s Corp’s shares belong to company insiders and institutional investors own 91.22% of the company’s shares. The data on short interest also indicates that stock shorts accounted for 1.61 million shares as on 2025-01-31, resulting in a short ratio of 2.73. According to the data, the short interest in Moody’s Corp (MCO) stood at 103.00 of shares outstanding as of 2025-01-31; the number of short shares registered in 2024-12-31 reached 1.56 million. The stock has risen by 10.45% since the beginning of the year, thereby showing the potential of a further growth. This could raise investors’ confidence to be optimistic about the MCO stock heading into the next quarter.
