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Moodys Corp. MCO

19 fiscal years on record · USD · FY2025 reported · SEC filings only
8 YEARS OF DIVIDEND GROWTH
$7.7B
▲ 8.9% YoY
$2.5B
▲ 19.5% YoY
$2.6B
▲ 2.1% YoY

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In brief

What this company does

Moody's offers insights into financial stability and creditworthiness for organizations, debt instruments, and securities. It has a workforce of approximately 16,000 employees across more than 40 countries. Moody's has two reportable segments: MA and MIS. MA is comprised of a fixed income and economic research business (Research & Insights), a data business (Data & Information), and three cloud-based subscription businesses serving banking, insurance and KYC workflows (Decision Solutions). MIS publishes credit ratings and provides assessment services on a wide range of debt obligations, programs and facilities, and the entities that issue such obligations in markets worldwide, including various corporate, financial institution and governmental obligations, and structured finance securities. For more than 115 years, MIS has provided credit ratings, research, and risk analysis to businesses, governments, and other entities around the globe. Rating fees paid by debt issuers account for most of the revenue of MIS.

Written from the business description in Moody's Corporation's annual report to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, filed 18 February 2026. Every sentence was checked against that document before publication.

Growth

USD 7.7B
Revenue, FY2025 · full 19-year series below
Revenue $B Net income $B
FY2025 · Revenue 7.7 · Net income 2.5
3B6B
2007201020132016201920222025
Compound annual growth
+12.2%
+7.5%
+8.3%
+9.3%
+21.4%
+6.7%
+10.1%
+11.1%
+22.5%
+7.8%
+11.4%
+13.1%
+10.3%
+10.9%
+10.5%
+15.7%
+15.2%
+20.9%
+5.9%
+13.9%
3 yrs
5 yrs
10 yrs
15 yrs

Revenue compounded at +7.5% a year over the five years to FY2025 — but profit grew slower: net income at +6.7%, earnings per share at +7.8%.

Compound annual rates per period — left blank where that exact year isn't on file, the series crosses a loss, or (per-share rows) a split falls inside the window.

Profitability

32 cents
of every revenue dollar became profit
Operating margin Net margin
FY2025 · Operating 43.4% · Net 31.9%
20%40%
200720162025
ROE
FY2025 · ROE 64.5%
100%200%
200720162025
Three returns, three denominators.
Gross margin74.4%
Operating margin43.4%
Net margin31.9%
EBITDA·

Each USD of equity produced 65 cents of profit this year.

Cash & shareholders

USD 2.3B
returned in FY2025 · dividends + net buybacks
Free cash flow $B
FY2025 · FCF 2.6
1B2B
200720162025
Net buybacks $B Dividends $B
FY2025 · Dividends 0.7 · Net buybacks 1.6
1B2BDividendsNet buybacks
2007201020132016201920222025
Dividends paidUSD 701.0M
Net buybacksUSD 1.6B
Share of profit92.7%
Consecutive raises8 years

USD 701.0M in dividends and USD 1.6B in buybacks — 93% of the year's profit went back to shareholders.

Total assetsUSD 15.8B
EquityUSD 4.1B
CashUSD 2.4B
Gross debtUSD 7.0B
Net debtUSD 4.6B
Current ratio1.74×

Net debt stands at 114% of equity.

The 19-year record

19 fiscal years
Every figure from documents filed with the SEC · USD
row low → row highnegative—not applicable◌not available in our data
MCO, 19-year financial record
Metric 2025202420232022202120202019201820172016201520142013201220112010200920082007
Revenue $B7.77.15.95.56.25.44.84.44.23.63.53.33.02.72.32.01.81.82.3
Operating income $B3.42.92.11.92.82.42.01.91.80.71.51.41.21.10.90.80.70.71.1
EBITDA $B◌◌◌◌◌◌◌◌◌◌◌1.51.31.10.90.80.70.8◌
Income tax $B0.70.60.30.40.50.50.40.40.80.30.40.50.40.30.30.20.20.30.4
Net income $B2.52.11.61.42.21.81.41.31.00.30.91.00.80.70.60.50.40.50.7
Free cash flow $B2.62.51.91.21.92.01.61.40.71.11.10.90.90.80.70.60.60.50.8
EPS, diluted $13.6711.268.737.4411.789.397.426.745.151.364.634.613.603.052.492.151.691.872.58
Dividend / sh $3.763.403.082.802.482.242.001.761.141.491.391.180.980.680.580.420.400.40◌
Payout %293035372124272629107292425212119242112
ROE %64.559.855.152.4103.1163.0265.5—————222.8——————
Shares out B◌0.000.000.000.000.000.000.00◌◌0.010.010.010.010.000.00◌◌◌

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Provenance

Company facts, as filed

How we verify · 0 failures in 74 reconciliationsAUDITED

Reconciled in 19 of the 19 fiscal years we could check. Two checks were skipped: the balance sheet is not tagged before 2008.

EPS recomputationBalance-sheet identityGross profitBalance-sheet liquidityCurrency consistency0 failures
ActivityServices-Consumer Credit Reporting, Collection Agencies
Listed onNYSE
Incorporated inDelaware
Fiscal year endsDecember 31
Data on record since2007

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