Quality
Return on invested capital, after tax
From the FY2025 filing
ValueScreener company report
NYSE / Financial Services / Financial - Data & Stock Exchanges
Share price
462.77 USD Market dataClose of Oct 14, 2026Market capitalisation
80.15B USD Market dataClose of Oct 14, 20261 of 10
What the business is, what it costs, and how it reads on four questions.
Market dataSEC filingComputed
Return on invested capital, after tax
From the FY2025 filing
Debt to equity
From the FY2025 filing
Price to earnings
FY2025 accounts, priced at the latest close
Free cash flow yield
FY2025 accounts, priced at the latest close
Price to earnings is 33.71x at the close of 2026-10-14 on FY2025 figures; the lines are 15.00x (Graham's defensive ceiling) and, by market convention, 10.00x, 25.00x and 40.00x, and this sits between 25.00x and 40.00x.
Today, against the Financial Services sector (655 companies), 33.71x sits at the 80th percentile; the middle half of that group runs from 11.12x to 24.47x.
Return on invested capital was 29.2% in FY2025, in the band labelled "Exceptional" (20.0% and above), on lines anchored on Damodaran's cost-of-capital data, suggesting returns on the capital in the business well above the usual cost of that capital.
Today, against the Financial Services sector (75 companies), 29.2% sits at the 93rd percentile; the middle half of that group runs from -0.5% to 9.1%.
Interest coverage was 13.35x in FY2025, in the band labelled "Comfortable" (6.00x and above), on lines anchored on Damodaran's interest-coverage table, suggesting an interest bill operating profit covers many times over.
These are MCO’s filed figures. The research desk says what they mean, against peers and its own years, with what to check next.
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The newest filing, what it moved, and when the next one is due.
SEC filingCompany statement
The newest accounts on file are the FY2025 annual report: 10-K, filed Feb 18, 2026, accession 0001628280-26-009136.
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The returns the business earns on its capital, and the margins behind them.
SEC filingComputed
| Figure | Value, source and document |
|---|---|
| Return on invested capital, after tax | 29.2% ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 18, 2026, 0001628280-26-009136 |
| Return on equity | 60.7% ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 18, 2026, 0001628280-26-009136 |
| Return on capital employed, pre-tax | 26.1% ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 18, 2026, 0001628280-26-009136 |
| Return on assets | 15.5% ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 18, 2026, 0001628280-26-009136 |
| Gross margin | 74.4% ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 18, 2026, 0001628280-26-009136 |
| Operating margin | 43.4% ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 18, 2026, 0001628280-26-009136 |
| Net margin | 31.9% ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 18, 2026, 0001628280-26-009136 |
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What it owes against what it owns, and whether it can meet what falls due.
SEC filingComputedCompany statement
| Figure | Value, source and document |
|---|---|
| Debt to equity | 1.81 ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 18, 2026, 0001628280-26-009136 |
| Current ratio | 1.74 ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 18, 2026, 0001628280-26-009136 |
| Quick ratio | 1.74 ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 18, 2026, 0001628280-26-009136 |
| Interest coverage | 13.35x ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 18, 2026, 0001628280-26-009136 |
Altman Z-scoreWhy n/mAltman's Z-Score was estimated on manufacturers and explicitly excludes financial firms. A financial company scores in the distress zone by construction, so the number would be wrong rather than alarming. Not applicable to financials. | n/m ComputedClose of Oct 14, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Feb 18, 2026, 0001628280-26-009136 |
| Net debt | 4.90B ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 18, 2026, 0001628280-26-009136 |
What Moody's Corporation owned and owed at the end of fiscal 2025, from the balance sheet it filed (10-K, filed Feb 18, 2026, 0001628280-26-009136).
| Total assets | 15.83B FiledFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 18, 2026 |
|---|---|
| Total liabilities | 11.63B FiledFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 18, 2026 |
| Shareholders' equity | 4.05B FiledFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 18, 2026 |
| Cash | 2.45B FiledFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 18, 2026 |
| Total debt | 7.35B FiledFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 18, 2026 |
| Net debt | 4.90B |
| Current ratio | 1.74 |
| Debt to equity | 1.81 |
Read from the filed balance sheet for each year, with the income statement of the same year supplying operating profit where a ratio needs it. Nothing here is a view on whether this company is sound.
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What the market charges for it, against its own record and companies like it.
Market dataSEC filingComputed
| Figure | Value, source and document |
|---|---|
| Price to earnings | 33.71x ComputedClose of Oct 14, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Feb 18, 2026, 0001628280-26-009136 |
| P/E on trailing twelve months | 29.85x ComputedClose of Oct 14, 2026 · Trailing four quarters, each as known on the day; the quarterly filings are listed under Filings |
| Price to book | 20.54x ComputedClose of Oct 14, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Feb 18, 2026, 0001628280-26-009136 |
| Price to sales | 10.79x ComputedClose of Oct 14, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Feb 18, 2026, 0001628280-26-009136 |
| Enterprise value to EBIT | 26.33x ComputedClose of Oct 14, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Feb 18, 2026, 0001628280-26-009136 |
| Enterprise value to EBITDA | 23.03x ComputedClose of Oct 14, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Feb 18, 2026, 0001628280-26-009136 |
| Price to earnings over growth | 4.38 ComputedClose of Oct 14, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Feb 18, 2026, 0001628280-26-009136 |
| Diluted earnings per share | 13.67 USD FiledFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 18, 2026, 0001628280-26-009136 |
| Graham number | 83.44 USD ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 18, 2026, 0001628280-26-009136 |
We publish no fair value or price target of our own. Value MCO on your own assumptions in the DCF workbench, starting from the filed figures.
What the market charges for Moody's Corporation today, and the multiples it has carried. No value of ours: the figures are the filings’ and the market’s.
| Share price | 462.77 USD |
|---|---|
| Market capitalisation | 80.15B USD |
| Enterprise value to EBITDA | 23.03x |
| Graham number | 83.44 USD |
| Diluted earnings per share, FY2025 | 13.67 USD |
Price to earnings on trailing twelve months, a different basis from the fiscal-year P/E above, since Jul 27, 2017: low 21.15x, median 33.24x, high 49.79x, latest 29.85x. 2,315 trading days with a meaningful ratio. Each close over the trailing twelve months of earnings as known that day: a quarter counts from the day it was filed.
Same industry (Financial - Data & Stock Exchanges) and size band (Large, 10B to 200B), nearest in market value, net margin and current ratio. Each of those counts equally, by how many of the companies considered sit between the two on it. Closest first: the order is likeness and nothing else.
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Whether profit arrives as cash, and what is paid back to shareholders.
SEC filingComputed
| Figure | Value, source and document |
|---|---|
| Free cash flow yield | 3.1% ComputedClose of Oct 14, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Feb 18, 2026, 0001628280-26-009136 |
| Free cash flow | 2.58B USD ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 18, 2026, 0001628280-26-009136 |
| Free cash flow margin | 33.4% ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 18, 2026, 0001628280-26-009136 |
| Dividend yield | 0.9% ComputedClose of Oct 14, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Feb 18, 2026, 0001628280-26-009136 |
| Payout ratio | 28.5% ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 18, 2026, 0001628280-26-009136 |
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Every figure, the year it is for and the document it was read from.
SEC filingMarket data
Computed from the accounts this company filed with the SEC and, in a ratio with a price in it, the last close, dated on this page. Every filed figure below carries the fiscal year and the filing date its accounts were read from, and every blank carries the reason it is blank. Nothing here is a view on this company.
| Figure | Value | Year | As of |
|---|---|---|---|
| 33.71x | FY2025 | Oct 14, 2026 | |
FormulaShare price / earnings per share. Where the filing states no earnings per share this listing can be priced on, which is every 20-F and 40-F filer because theirs is stated per ordinary share, it is market capitalisation / net income: the same multiple, undiluted. As ofThe close on Oct 14, 2026, over the filed figures of FY2025: a price is in this figure, and it moved after the filing. Form10-KFiledFeb 18, 2026PeriodFY2025Accession0001628280-26-009136What we read from itIncome statementFY2025Open on SEC.gov, accession 0001628280-26-009136, leaves this page and opens in a new tab | |||
| 20.54x | FY2025 | Oct 14, 2026 | |
FormulaMarket capitalisation / shareholders equity As ofThe close on Oct 14, 2026, over the filed figures of FY2025: a price is in this figure, and it moved after the filing. Form10-KFiledFeb 18, 2026PeriodFY2025Accession0001628280-26-009136What we read from itBalance sheetFY2025Open on SEC.gov, accession 0001628280-26-009136, leaves this page and opens in a new tab | |||
| 26.33x | FY2025 | Oct 14, 2026 | |
Formula(Market capitalisation + total debt - cash) / operating income, or over the filing's own EBIT (income before tax + interest expense) where the filer tags no operating line, as Johnson & Johnson does not in any of its ten filed years. As ofThe close on Oct 14, 2026, over the filed figures of FY2025: a price is in this figure, and it moved after the filing. Form10-KFiledFeb 18, 2026PeriodFY2025Accession0001628280-26-009136What we read from itIncome statementFY2025Open on SEC.gov, accession 0001628280-26-009136, leaves this page and opens in a new tabForm10-KFiledFeb 18, 2026PeriodFY2025Accession0001628280-26-009136What we read from itBalance sheetFY2025Open on SEC.gov, accession 0001628280-26-009136, leaves this page and opens in a new tab | |||
| 3.1% | FY2025 | Oct 14, 2026 | |
FormulaFree cash flow per share / share price x 100 As ofThe close on Oct 14, 2026, over the filed figures of FY2025: a price is in this figure, and it moved after the filing. Form10-KFiledFeb 18, 2026PeriodFY2025Accession0001628280-26-009136What we read from itCash flow statementFY2025Open on SEC.gov, accession 0001628280-26-009136, leaves this page and opens in a new tab | |||
| 29.2% | FY2025 | Feb 18, 2026 | |
FormulaVendor trailing-twelve-month return on invested capital where one is published, which uses after-tax operating profit over total assets less current liabilities. Otherwise our own recompute: NOPAT / (shareholders equity + total debt - cash) x 100, where NOPAT is the filed operating profit after tax, or the filing's own EBIT after tax where the filer tags no operating line. As ofThe filing date of the statements below, for FY2025. Form10-KFiledFeb 18, 2026PeriodFY2025Accession0001628280-26-009136What we read from itIncome statementFY2025Open on SEC.gov, accession 0001628280-26-009136, leaves this page and opens in a new tabForm10-KFiledFeb 18, 2026PeriodFY2025Accession0001628280-26-009136What we read from itBalance sheetFY2025Open on SEC.gov, accession 0001628280-26-009136, leaves this page and opens in a new tab | |||
| 0.9% | FY2025 | Oct 14, 2026 | |
FormulaCommon dividends paid in the latest filed year / market capitalisation x 100. n/a where the filing cannot support it: a special or first-year payment, a total that mixes preferred dividends, or a cash-flow statement over 15 months old. As ofThe close on Oct 14, 2026, over the filed figures of FY2025: a price is in this figure, and it moved after the filing. Form10-KFiledFeb 18, 2026PeriodFY2025Accession0001628280-26-009136What we read from itCash flow statementFY2025Open on SEC.gov, accession 0001628280-26-009136, leaves this page and opens in a new tab | |||
| 1.81 | FY2025 | Feb 18, 2026 | |
FormulaTotal debt / shareholders equity As ofThe filing date of the statements below, for FY2025. Form10-KFiledFeb 18, 2026PeriodFY2025Accession0001628280-26-009136What we read from itBalance sheetFY2025Open on SEC.gov, accession 0001628280-26-009136, leaves this page and opens in a new tab | |||
| 1.74 | FY2025 | Feb 18, 2026 | |
FormulaCurrent assets / current liabilities As ofThe filing date of the statements below, for FY2025. Form10-KFiledFeb 18, 2026PeriodFY2025Accession0001628280-26-009136What we read from itBalance sheetFY2025Open on SEC.gov, accession 0001628280-26-009136, leaves this page and opens in a new tab | |||
| 10.79x | FY2025 | Oct 14, 2026 | |
FormulaMarket capitalisation / revenue As ofThe close on Oct 14, 2026, over the filed figures of FY2025: a price is in this figure, and it moved after the filing. Form10-KFiledFeb 18, 2026PeriodFY2025Accession0001628280-26-009136What we read from itIncome statementFY2025Open on SEC.gov, accession 0001628280-26-009136, leaves this page and opens in a new tab | |||
| 4.38 | FY2025 | Oct 14, 2026 | |
FormulaPrice to earnings / the annual earnings growth rate, in percentage points As ofThe close on Oct 14, 2026, over the filed figures of FY2025: a price is in this figure, and it moved after the filing. Form10-KFiledFeb 18, 2026PeriodFY2025Accession0001628280-26-009136What we read from itIncome statementFY2025Open on SEC.gov, accession 0001628280-26-009136, leaves this page and opens in a new tab | |||
| n/m | FY2025 | Oct 14, 2026 | |
| n/m Not meaningful for this company, such as a P/E on negative earnings or a bank's EV/EBIT. | |||
Formula1.2 x working capital/assets + 1.4 x retained earnings/assets + 3.3 x EBIT/assets + 0.6 x market value of equity/total liabilities + 1.0 x revenue/assets As ofThe close on Oct 14, 2026, over the filed figures of FY2025: a price is in this figure, and it moved after the filing. Form10-KFiledFeb 18, 2026PeriodFY2025Accession0001628280-26-009136What we read from itIncome statementFY2025Open on SEC.gov, accession 0001628280-26-009136, leaves this page and opens in a new tabForm10-KFiledFeb 18, 2026PeriodFY2025Accession0001628280-26-009136What we read from itBalance sheetFY2025Open on SEC.gov, accession 0001628280-26-009136, leaves this page and opens in a new tab | |||
| -2.34 | FY2025 | Feb 18, 2026 | |
FormulaAn eight-variable index of year-on-year changes in receivables, gross margin, asset quality, revenue, depreciation, overheads, leverage and accruals As ofThe filing date of the statements below, for FY2025. Form10-KFiledFeb 18, 2026PeriodFY2025Accession0001628280-26-009136What we read from itIncome statementFY2025Open on SEC.gov, accession 0001628280-26-009136, leaves this page and opens in a new tabForm10-KFiledFeb 18, 2026PeriodFY2025Accession0001628280-26-009136What we read from itBalance sheetFY2025Open on SEC.gov, accession 0001628280-26-009136, leaves this page and opens in a new tabForm10-KFiledFeb 18, 2026PeriodFY2025Accession0001628280-26-009136What we read from itCash flow statementFY2025Open on SEC.gov, accession 0001628280-26-009136, leaves this page and opens in a new tab | |||
| 8/9 | FY2025 | Feb 18, 2026 | |
FormulaOne point each for: positive return on assets, positive operating cash flow, rising return on assets, operating cash flow above net income, falling leverage, rising current ratio, no new shares issued, rising gross margin, rising asset turnover. As ofThe filing date of the statements below, for FY2025. Form10-KFiledFeb 18, 2026PeriodFY2025Accession0001628280-26-009136What we read from itIncome statementFY2025Open on SEC.gov, accession 0001628280-26-009136, leaves this page and opens in a new tabForm10-KFiledFeb 18, 2026PeriodFY2025Accession0001628280-26-009136What we read from itBalance sheetFY2025Open on SEC.gov, accession 0001628280-26-009136, leaves this page and opens in a new tabForm10-KFiledFeb 18, 2026PeriodFY2025Accession0001628280-26-009136What we read from itCash flow statementFY2025Open on SEC.gov, accession 0001628280-26-009136, leaves this page and opens in a new tab | |||
The figures are computed from the accounts for fiscal 2025, the newest full year on file. 10 filed fiscal years on record, FY2016 to FY2025, from SEC EDGAR. Prices as of Oct 14, 2026. Ratios recomputed Oct 14, 2026. Two facts, because a recompute is not a fresh quote.
The year and the filing date name the statement each figure’s accounts are read from, and they stand even where the figure itself could not be computed: the line beneath a blank says what that statement did not carry. A figure’s name opens its formula and the filings behind it; a statement that names no SEC filing has no filing date, and reads n/a.
10 filed fiscal years, FY2016 to FY2025, read from the annual reports Moody's Corporation filed with the SEC. Each year names its filing. Amounts in USD, as filed.
| Year | Revenue | Operating income | Net income | EPS, diluted | Free cash flow | Operating margin | Return on equity | Filing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | 7.72B | 3.35B | 2.46B | 13.67 | 2.58B | 43.4% | 60.7% | 10-K, Feb 18, 20260001628280-26-009136 |
| FY2024 | 7.09B | 2.88B | 2.06B | 11.26 | 2.52B | 40.6% | 57.7% | 10-K, Feb 14, 20250001059556-25-000025 |
| FY2023 | 5.92B | 2.14B | 1.61B | 8.73 | 1.88B | 36.1% | 48.4% | 10-K, Feb 14, 20240001059556-24-000017 |
| FY2022 | 5.47B | 1.88B | 1.37B | 7.44 | 1.19B | 34.4% | 54.5% | 10-K, Feb 15, 20230001059556-23-000016 |
| FY2021 | 6.22B | 2.84B | 2.21B | 11.78 | 1.87B | 45.7% | 81.2% | 10-K, Feb 22, 20220001059556-22-000012 |
| FY2020 | 5.37B | 2.39B | 1.78B | 9.39 | 2.04B | 44.5% | 113.3% | 10-K, Feb 22, 20210001059556-21-000010 |
| FY2019 | 4.83B | 2.00B | 1.42B | 7.42 | 1.61B | 41.4% | 232.3% | 10-K, Feb 24, 20200001059556-20-000005 |
| FY2018 | 4.44B | 1.87B | 1.31B | 6.74 | 1.37B | 42.0% | 285.4% | 10-K, Feb 25, 20190001193125-19-048576 |
| FY2017 | 4.20B | 1.82B | 1.00B | 5.15 | 664.0M | 43.3% | n/m | 10-K, Feb 27, 20180001193125-18-058986 |
| FY2016 | 3.60B | 650.9M | 266.6M | 1.36 | 1.14B | 18.1% | n/m | 10-K, Feb 24, 20170001193125-17-054522 |
Every figure in this section is a line of a filed annual statement or a ratio of two of them. Nothing here is estimated or smoothed. Earnings per share filed before a share split are put on today's share count, and say so. Nothing here is a verdict on the company.
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The accounting screens, the published tests, and the lines you can set to be told.
ComputedCompany statement
| Figure | Value, source and document |
|---|---|
| Beneish M-score | -2.34 ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 18, 2026, 0001628280-26-009136 |
| Piotroski F-score | 8/9 ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 18, 2026, 0001628280-26-009136 |
| Named tests met | 3 of 30 Computed |
| Beta | 1.11 ComputedClose of Oct 14, 2026 |
Of 30 tests value investors published: 3 met, 26 not met, 1 we could not complete. Counts, never a score: a single figure would have to decide that meeting one investor’s criteria and meeting another’s are worth the same.
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Whether anybody here owns this company.
Positions declared by Javier Sanz Alvarez: no holding in any company shown here, as of October 3, 2026.
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What to do with what you have read.
A thesis is your reason for owning it, in your words, with the figures that must stay true. Checking those figures every night against the newest filed accounts, and telling you once when one breaks, is what the subscription adds.
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