MCO Moody's Corporation

Moody's has been treading water for the past six months, recording a small return of 4.1% while holding steady at $456.72. The stock also fell short of the S&P 500’s 16.6% gain during that period.

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Recent Share Performance and Business Scale Moody's (MCO) has drawn fresh attention after a period where the stock declined about 1% in the past day, 3% over the past week, and 12% over the past month. Over the past 3 months, the share price is down roughly 3%, with the year-to-date move showing a 9% decline. Over a 1 year horizon, the total return is down about 4%, while the 3 year and 5 year total returns are 51% and 34% respectively. The company last closed at US$454.82, giving it a market...

Investing.com -- Moody’s Ratings affirmed Kazakhstan’s long-term issuer ratings at Baa1 with a stable outlook, citing the sovereign’s robust balance sheet and low national debt burden as key buffers against external volatility.

Investing.com -- Moody’s Ratings has revised its credit outlook for Dave & Buster’s Entertainment (NASDAQ:PLAY) to negative from stable while affirming the company’s B3 corporate family rating. The revision signals growing credit risks tied to persistent operational weakness and execution hurdles surrounding the restaurant-entertainment chain's ongoing turnaround strategy.

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Investing.com -- Moody’s Ratings has downgraded Botswana’s long-term issuer ratings to Baa2 from Baa1, citing a sustained weakening in fiscal resilience as lower diamond revenues and persistent budget deficits drive a steady accumulation of sovereign debt. The rating agency simultaneously adjusted the credit outlook to stable from negative, signaling that risks surrounding the Southern African nation's fiscal trajectory appear balanced at the new, lower rating level.

Investing.com -- Moody's Ratings has upgraded Montenegro’s long-term foreign-currency issuer rating to Ba2 from Ba3, citing structural institutional reforms linked to the country’s European Union accession efforts. The rating agency also maintained a positive outlook, signaling that further credit rating increases remain likely as economic and judicial integration deepens.

Investing.com -- Moody’s Ratings has affirmed the European Union’s Aaa long-term issuer rating with a stable outlook, citing unwavering financial and political backing from its member states. The credit rating agency also reiterated top-tier ratings for related borrowing vehicles, including the European Atomic Energy Community and the European Coal and Steel Community.

Investing.com -- Moody's Ratings has affirmed Fiji’s local and foreign currency long-term issuer ratings at B1 while maintaining a stable outlook, balancing the island nation's heavy debt load against its reliable domestic funding base and resilient tourism sector.

Freddie Mac weekly survey of fixed 30-year mortgage rates rose to 7.03% this week—the highest level since January 2025—after the 10-year Treasury yield surged to its highest point in nearly two decades. If rates over 7% sound like déjà vu, it’s because a number of other measures, such as Bankrate and Mortgage News Daily, have measured mortgage rates at or above 7% for more than a week. Mortgage News Daily on Thursday, for example, pegged the average 30-year mortgage rate at 7.45%.

Investing.com -- Moody’s Ratings has upgraded the Corporate Family Rating of StubHub Inc (NYSE:STUB), LLC to B2 from B3, signaling confidence in the live-event ticketing marketplace’s ongoing balance-sheet deleveraging. The rating agency simultaneously raised the company’s Probability of Default Rating and senior secured bank credit facility ratings to B2 while maintaining a stable outlook.

Investing.com -- Moody's Ratings has affirmed Baidu Inc (NASDAQ:BIDU) A3 issuer and senior unsecured ratings, but revised its rating outlook to negative from stable as heavy artificial intelligence capital expenditures weigh on cash flow and leverage. The outlook adjustment reflects the Chinese tech giant's subdued top-line expansion, narrowing profit margins, and execution risks tied to monetizing AI services while simultaneously stabilizing its core search advertising business amid fierce dome

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Moody's (MCO) possesses solid growth attributes, which could help it handily outperform the market.

U.S. leveraged debt markets are growing more bifurcated, as institutional investors flock to higher-quality issuers while shutting out lower-rated borrowers, according to a new report from Moody’s Ratings.

Key Stats for Moody’s Corporation (MCO)52-Week Range: $402. 28 to $546.

More than 40% of U.S. insurers polled by the ratings firm at the end of last year said they plan to increase their exposure to private debt. It found that life and property insurers rated by Moody's hold roughly $8 billion and $2 billion respectively in data center-related assets. Moody's estimates that the overall U.S. insurance sector has as much as $20 billion of exposure to data centers.

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Let’s dig into the relative performance of Moody's (NYSE:MCO) and its peers as we unravel the now-completed Q2 financial exchanges & data earnings season.

Moody's expands its Philippine reach with a PhilRatings minority stake, strengthening local debt-market capabilities and its Asia-Pacific affiliate network.

Moody's PhilRatings deal puts Asia-Pacific expansion in focus Moody's (MCO) has agreed to acquire a minority stake in Philippine Rating Services Corporation, giving the US group a deeper foothold in the Philippines credit market and broadening its Asia-Pacific affiliate network. Set against this PhilRatings move, Moody's shares trade at US$477.93. The 90 day share price return is up 2.03%, but the year to date share price return is down 4.22%. The 3 year total shareholder return of 42.60%...

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Moody's stock has delivered a strong 55.6% return over the past three years, yet current valuation checks suggest the share price already embeds a premium to the latest intrinsic value estimates. Both the Excess Returns model and market multiples currently point to Moody's trading on the expensive side rather than as a clear bargain. The roughly 55.6% gain over three years highlights how much future growth the market may already be pricing into Moody's. The recent move to bring Moody's...

Moody’s Corporation recently made its connected intelligence available inside Google Cloud’s Gemini Enterprise for Financial Services via the Moody’s Credit Model Context Protocol server, giving users direct access to its credit ratings, research, and risk intelligence within their existing workflows. This move embeds Moody’s data at the protocol level of a major financial AI platform, potentially deepening customer reliance on its analytics and widening the reach of its risk tools without...

Moody's (MCO) is back in focus after the company reported that its connected intelligence is now integrated into Google Cloud's Gemini Enterprise for Financial Services through the Moody's Credit Model Context Protocol server. The Gemini integration follows a period of steady performance in the stock, with a 30-day share price return of 8.82% and a 90-day share price return of 13.63%. The 3-year total shareholder return of 55.64% indicates that longer term holders have seen stronger gains...

France is heading into a new season of political brinkmanship that will test investors’ patience with a showdown over the country’s towering debt.

PSP Swiss Property AG (WBO:PSPN) reports robust half-year results with 1.7% adjusted like-for-like growth, significant valuation gains, and a Moody's credit rating upgrade.

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Moody’s has underperformed the market, while analysts remain moderately bullish, supported by strong earnings growth, raised buybacks, and guidance.

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Mounting risks in private credit, especially weaker recoveries on software loans flagged by SLR Capital Partners, have pushed investors to reassess how Moody's (MCO) is exposed to credit conditions and changing expectations around default outcomes. See our latest analysis for Moody's. Moody's share price is US$478.14, with a 90 day share price return of 5.84% but a year to date share price return that is down 4.18%, while the 3 year total shareholder return of 44.64% contrasts with a 1 year...

As the private credit market enters a challenging new phase of the credit cycle marked by worsening loan performance, recoveries are likely to underperform expectations, with software hardest hit, says Michael Gross, co-founder of SLR Capital Partners. “I believe you’re going to see more and more defaults,” said Gross in an interview with LCD. “It likely won’t be anything systemic, but the one concern I have about defaults is that we’re going to need to throw the data people have used in the pas