MSCI Inc. Class A (MSCI)

MSCI's stock price experienced a decline of 6.40% between October 2, 2024, and October 1, 2025. On July 22, 2025, MSCI announced its Q2 earnings, reporting $4.17 earnings per share, surpassing the consensus estimate of $4.12, with revenue for the quarter at $772.68 million, also exceeding estimates. In September 2025, JPMorgan Chase & Co. increased its price target for MSCI from $625.00 to $655.00, maintaining an "overweight" rating, while Wells Fargo & Company reduced its price target from $578.00 to $533.00 in July 2025, setting an "equal weight" rating; Weiss Ratings reaffirmed a "buy (b-)" rating in September 2025. Over the three months leading up to October 6, 2025, insiders purchased 12,400 shares of company stock valued at $6,731,599. MSCI declared a quarterly dividend of $1.80, which was paid on August 29, 2025, to stockholders of record on August 15, 2025.

MSCI's business model is characterized by a high proportion of recurring subscription fees, which account for 73% to 74% of its revenues. This revenue structure makes the company's financial performance less susceptible to significant seasonal fluctuations. There is no indication of strong seasonality in the demand for MSCI's own products and services. The company has demonstrated consistent annual revenue growth, with a 9.14% increase in the quarter ending June 30, 2025, and a 12.94% annual revenue growth in 2024.

MSCI Inc. is a global provider of investment decision support tools and services, operating within the financial exchanges and data industry. Its core business revolves around providing investment decision support tools and services. The company offers global equity, fixed income, and real estate indices, such as the MSCI World, MSCI Emerging Markets, and MSCI All Country World (ACWI) indices, which serve as benchmarks for performance measurement and management. MSCI provides advanced tools like Barra Portfolio Manager and RiskMetrics for risk management, performance attribution, stress testing, and scenario analysis. MSCI integrates Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) factors into investment decisions, offering ESG Ratings, Climate Value-at-Risk (Climate VaR), and sustainable investing tools. The company provides specialized indexes and analytics for real estate investments, including real estate indexes and property-level data analytics. MSCI offers data, indexes, and analytics for private capital, covering private equity, real estate, debt, infrastructure, and natural resources.

MSCI has a significant global presence, serving clients in over 85 countries and maintaining offices in more than 32 cities across 23 countries. The MSCI World Index tracks approximately 1,300 large and mid-cap companies across 23 developed countries, including Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

MSCI has received significant recognition for its offerings in the past year. In 2025, MSCI GeoSpatial Asset Intelligence won the Green Fintech Competition for accelerating climate risk modeling and analytics, and the company also won "Best ESG Index Product" at the InsuranceAsia News Institutional Asset Management Awards 2025. In 2023, MSCI ESG Ratings and MSCI Net-Zero Tracker won at the ESG Investing Awards, and MSCI was named "Best Index Provider" at the InsuranceAsia News Institutional Asset Management Awards. MSCI also received multiple "Best Index Provider" awards at the ETF Express European Awards for equity, ESG, and emerging markets ETFs, and "Best Smart Beta Index Provider" at the SRP Europe 2023 Awards. In January 2024, Spruce Point Capital Management issued a "strong sell" opinion on MSCI, raising concerns about the accuracy of accounting choices, financial reporting, and the durability of growth prospects.

MSCI's ownership structure is primarily composed of institutional investors, who hold approximately 56.70% to 79.95% of the company's stock. Insiders own about 3.32% to 4.71%, while public companies and individual investors hold the remaining shares. Major institutional owners include Vanguard Group Inc., BlackRock, Inc., State Street Corp, Bamco Inc /ny/, Edgewood Management Llc, Geode Capital Management, Llc, Polen Capital Management Llc and Principal Financial Group Inc. Henry A. Fernandez, the CEO, is noted as an insider who has recently bought shares.