Moody's is a global integrated risk assessment firm that helps organizations and investors to make decisions. Co. reports in two segments: Moody's Investors Service (MIS) and Moody's Analytics (MA). The MIS segment publishes credit ratings and provides assessment services on a 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. The MA segment is a global provider of data and information; research and insights; and decision solutions, which help companies make decisions. We show 56 historical shares outstanding datapoints in our MCO shares outstanding history coverage, used to compute MCO market cap on those dates.
Understanding the changing numbers of shares outstanding, the changing
share price, and the resulting changing Moodys market cap history over the course of time is important for investors
interested in comparing Moodys's market cap history versus its peers.
Many "beginner" or "novice" investors will look at one stock trading at a price of $10 per share and another trading at
a price of $20 per share and think the latter company is worth twice as much. Of course, that is a completely meaningless comparison without also knowing how many shares outstanding there are for each of the two companies,
and then calculating their respective market caps. Comparing the share price of Moodys versus a peer is one thing; comparing
Moodys market cap versus a peer is a completely different story.
Furthermore, via fluctuation both in per-share price and in the number of shares outstanding (via issuance of new shares over time, the repurchase of existing shares),
the market cap for a company like Moodys can fluctuate over the course of history.
With this page we aim to empower investors researching Moodys by allowing them to research the Moodys market cap history. |
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