MSCI share price today

MSCI Inc.'s share price was $674.43 at the close on 4 November 2026. It has been rising for 3 weeks. That is 17.4% above its average price over the last 200 trading days. In the last 52 weeks it traded between $523 and $674, and at that close it was at the high of that range.

A share price tends to move through four phases: moving sideways (stage 1), rising (stage 2), stalling near a high (stage 3) and falling (stage 4). Today MSCI Inc. is in stage 2. The phase helps read everything below.

Over the past 13 weeks it has done better than the S&P 500, and it has stayed ahead for 3 weeks in a row.

Over the last 10 years the share price moved +749% while the S&P 500 moved +261%, so it is ahead of the index over that whole period. The chart above shows the 13-week comparison for every week.

This page treats a rise as over when the price closes below its 200-day average on two Fridays in a row.

MSCI Inc. paid $7.95 per share over the last four reported quarters. The most recent declaration was $2.05 for Sep 2026. At today's price of $674.43 that is a yield of 1.18%, based on dividends already paid, not a forecast.

A dividend is cash paid out for each share. The 12-month total is the four most recent quarters added together.

MSCI is on one of our US lists: S&P 500 companies.

MSCI Inc. earned $351 M of net profit in the Sep 2026 quarter, +7.9% on the same quarter a year earlier. That is the 3rd quarter in a row of profit growth. Full-year FY25 profit was $1.2 B. Over 4 years profit has grown 13.4% a year on average. That is 39.3% of the quarter's revenue.

Net profit is what is left after every cost, interest and tax. Earnings per share, dividends and book value all grow from it.

The same quarter a year earlier earned $325 M.

For the full year, FY25 profit was $1.2 B (+8.4% on the year before).

Why profit moved: revenue changed +12.4% on a year earlier and the margin moved −1.7 percentage points. Sales did the work, and the margin was about flat.

On average over the last four quarters, profit changed +13.6% and revenue +12.3%. Profit and revenue are moving at about the same pace.

MSCI Inc. reported $892 M of income in the Sep 2026 quarter, +12.4% on the same quarter a year earlier. That is the 12th quarter in a row with growth on the year before. Over 4 years it has grown 11.3% a year on average. The last full year, FY25, came in at $3.1 B.

For a bank, revenue is everything it earns: interest on its loans plus fees from its businesses.

The last four reported quarters add to $3.4 B.

FY25 revenue was $3.1 B, +9.7% on the year before.

Recent pace: the last four quarters grew +12.3% on average, against 11.3% a year over the longer run, so this year is growing at about the same pace as its own long-run rate.

Is growth speeding up? Revenue over the last 12 months grew +12.3%, against +10.7% a year over the last 8 quarters (stabilising); profit over the last 12 months grew +13.1%, against +7.1% a year (accelerating).

MSCI Inc.'s net margin was 39.3% in the Sep 2026 quarter, 1.7 percentage points lower than the same quarter a year ago. Across 5 years it has been between 35.5% and 45.4%. The latest quarter is within that range.

Net margin is what the bank keeps from every $100 of revenue after every cost, provision for bad loans and tax. With big fee businesses in the mix, it is the clearest margin we can read for this bank.

Why: the net margin move is clear, but the cost details behind it are not in our data, so we show the move without guessing the reason.

MSCI Inc. does not report loan-quality figures this page can read, so this section says so rather than guess. No bad-loan figures are filed in a form this page can read, and none are guessed from the profit line. The income, margin and return sections carry what this business does report.

Gross NPA is the share of the loan book where repayments have stopped. Net NPA is what is left after the money the lender has already set aside for those loans. Falling is good; rising is a warning.

Why: loan quality drives a lender, but its details (new bad loans, recoveries, money set aside) are not in our data for this company. The sections around this one carry what we can back up.

MSCI Inc.'s revenue was $3.1 B in FY25, +9.7% on the year before, so the loan book is growing. The latest quarter was +12.4% on a year earlier. The net margin on that income is 39.3%, −1.7 percentage points on a year ago.

We read the loan book through revenue: when the book and the businesses grow, revenue grows with them. It is only a rough guide, because interest-rate changes and fee swings can move it a few points in any year.

Interest income stands in for the size of the loan book; changes in interest rates can move it a few points in any year.

In short: a lender grows well when its loan book grows, its margin stays steady and its loans stay clean. Quarterly loan-quality figures are missing here, so revenue growth and margin are the two we watch.

MSCI Inc. has no P/BV right now, because its earnings are negative. The revenue and margin sections are where a turn would show first. Measured against sales instead, the market values MSCI Inc. at 15.4× its FY25 revenue of $3.1 B. The P/BV comes back here once profit turns positive.

For a bank or lender we compare the price with book value, the net worth on its balance sheet. P/BV is how many dollars the market pays for each $1 of that net worth. Below 1× means the market values it at less than its net worth.

Why the multiple is where it is: over the past year book value grew while the price moved +15.7%. Price and book value moved together, so the multiple stayed in its range.

MSCI Inc.'s business is giving mixed signals. Growth has been steadily positive, but ROE at -45.3% is below the 12% level needed to call it steady growth. This is based on 12 quarters of 4 measures, with some gaps.

Every business is somewhere on a path of getting better or worse, and this section names where. The last 12 quarters of growth in revenue, profit and earnings per share, plus the return the business earns on its capital, are read as lines. Getting worse: the lines are falling. Turning around: a low point has just formed and the last few quarters are rising from it. Getting better: the rise from the low has lasted. Growing steadily: steady growth with healthy returns. Slowing from a peak: still high, but slowing. When the lines disagree the result is mixed; too little history means no reading. CAGR (compound annual growth rate) is the steady yearly rate that would turn the starting value into the latest one. It is the fairest way to compare growth over different periods. If the 1-year figure is much bigger than the 10-year one, recent growth is running faster than the long-run trend. A dash means there is no figure for that period, or the starting year was a loss, where a growth rate means nothing.

Why it matters: when the lines disagree, each line above matters more than any single label.

The return figures here are yearly, not quarterly. They show level and direction only; they can support the growth lines but never decide the reading alone.

This reading has some gaps: at least one line is short, or the return line is not the quarterly series, so treat it with a little more caution.

Compound annual growth rate (%)

Compound annual growth rate over each period, %. Revenue, profit and EPS come from yearly figures; the stock price row is price growth over the same periods. A dash means no figure for that period, or the starting year was a loss.

MSCI Inc. earned a return on equity of −45% in FY25. Its lowest yearly reading on file was −444% in FY21. On its assets, every $100 earned about $21.75, before the effect of borrowing. For a lender the balance sheet is the business, so the return on equity and on assets have to be read together.

Two numbers rate a bank: ROE, what it earns on shareholders’ money, and ROA, what it earns on all its assets. An ROE above about 13 to 15% is healthy; below that, net worth grows slowly.

That return is below the level a bank needs to grow its net worth quickly, which helps explain why its multiple is where it is.

Why ROE moved: profit grew 13.4% a year over 4 years while net worth grew more slowly. When earnings recover faster than net worth builds up, ROE climbs off its low.

For a bank, borrowing is the raw material of the business, not a warning sign: it borrows money in order to lend it out. Its safety is read through its returns and its loans. Its safety is read from the bad-loan figures and the return on equity instead.

For a manufacturer, debt is a claim on its profits. For a lender it is the stock it trades in, so the usual debt-to-equity test would mislead and is not used here.

2.2% of MSCI Inc.'s tradable shares are in short positions, which are bets that the price will fall, so some traders are betting against it. At normal trading volumes, closing those positions would take about 2.6 days. US companies do not publish a quarter-by-quarter list of owners, so this page uses short interest instead.

There is no quarter-by-quarter list of owners here, so we look at short interest: the share of tradable shares held in short positions, which gain if the price falls.

It is a single reading at one point in time; we do not have its history.

Why it is at this level: the figure does not say who has the short positions or why, so we show the level without guessing the story.

For MSCI Inc., the Z-score is not used, because it was built for manufacturers, not lenders. For a lender, safety is read from its capital and bad-loan figures instead.

The Z-score estimates how far a company is from balance-sheet trouble. Above about 3 is safe; below about 1.8 is the danger zone. It was built for manufacturers, so it is not used for banks and lenders.

59.0 out of 100, rank 5 of 14 in Financial Data & Stock Exchanges, with 64% of the evidence available.

MSCI Inc. scores 59.0 out of 100 against the 14 companies it is compared with in Financial Data & Stock Exchanges, ranking 5. The evidence is balanced: no factor stands out, so another reported quarter is needed before the picture is clearer.

The four parts add up to the total exactly: 21.7 + 14.5 + 9.8 + 13 = 59. This is the same number shown on the industry page; it is worked out once for the whole group and read here.

What would change it: The score would fall if ROA turns down or gross NPA rises while the share price lags its sector.

MSCI ranks 5 of 14 Financial Data & Stock Exchanges companies on the 4-Factor Sector Score, with 59.0 out of 100.

Missing figures are not scored as bad. They lower the confidence and pull the final score toward the middle. Relative strength counts only when the company has a reading for this week; with no reading, that factor is left out and its 20 points are shared across the other three in proportion. Financial companies use P/BV÷ROE and asset quality; PEG, industrial OPM and ROCE are excluded. Under relative strength, one mark per week shows the last 12 weeks: a mark is filled where the company led S&P 500 by 5% or more over the 13 weeks ending that week, which is the same test used everywhere on this site. Price stage places the company on the same six-step path the industry is placed on (basing, turning, breaking out, leader, fading, asleep), read from how many weeks running it has led S&P 500 and whether that lead is growing or shrinking. It describes where the share price stands, not the direction of earnings, and it is not a recommendation; it is left blank for a company whose weekly history is too short or too stale to read.

The figures in this ranking come from the industry comparison: results through the Sep 2026 quarter, and the P/E at that quarter's end. The sections above use the latest weekly price, so a P/E or return there can differ a little from the one here. The stage words in this ranking (such as losing its lead or breaking out) describe the lead over the index, not the price phase in the price section.

Related companies: Financial Data & Stock Exchanges, all 14 compared on one page.

MSCI is the 6th largest of 14 Financial Data & Stock Exchanges companies on Sector Alpha by market value (scores of 4 November 2026). Just above it: Intercontinental Exchange, Inc., Moody's Corporation and Nasdaq, Inc. Just below it: Coinbase Global, Inc., Cboe Global Markets, Inc. and TransUnion.

Financial Data & Stock Exchanges companies close in size

3. Intercontinental Exchange, Inc. $97.8 billion
4. Moody's Corporation $91.1 billion
5. Nasdaq, Inc. $60.9 billion
6. MSCI Inc. $48.2 billion
7. Coinbase Global, Inc. $40.1 billion
8. Cboe Global Markets, Inc. $36.1 billion
9. TransUnion $15.7 billion

All 14 Financial Data & Stock Exchanges companies, largest first

Companies close in size in other industries

332. Infosys Limited $48.3 billion · Information Technology Services
333. Vale S.A. $48.3 billion · Other Industrial Metals & Mining
334. MSCI Inc. $48.2 billion
335. Ferguson Enterprises Inc. $48.1 billion · Industrial Distribution
336. Atlassian Corporation $48 billion · Software - Application

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