MSCIMSCI
Market Cap: $44.4B
About: MSCI has described its mission as enabling investors to build better portfolios for a better world. MSCI's largest and most profitable segment is its index segment, where it provides benchmarking to asset managers and asset owners. In addition, it boasts over $1.4 trillion in ETF assets linked to MSCI indexes. The MSCI analytics segment provides portfolio management and risk management analytics software to asset managers and asset owners. MSCI's all other segment was broken out into ESG and climate and private assets segments in 2021. In ESG and climate, MSCI provides ESG data to the investment industry. In private assets, MSCI provides real restate reporting, market data, benchmarking, and analytics to investors and real estate managers.
Employees: 5,858
Fund manager confidence
Based on 2024 Q2 SEC filings by fund managers ($100M+ AUM)
28% more repeat investments, than reductions
Existing positions increased: 378 | Existing positions reduced: 295
22% more funds holding in top 10
Funds holding in top 10: 9 [Q1] → 11 (+2) [Q2]
1% more funds holding
Funds holding: 898 [Q1] → 907 (+9) [Q2]
7% more first-time investments, than exits
New positions opened: 141 | Existing positions closed: 132
1.05% less ownership
Funds ownership: 90.72% [Q1] → 89.67% (-1.05%) [Q2]
15% less capital invested
Capital invested by funds: $40.2B [Q1] → $34.2B (-$5.96B) [Q2]
61% less call options, than puts
Call options by funds: $78M | Put options by funds: $201M
Research analyst outlook
8 Wall Street Analysts provided 1 year price targets over the past 3 months
8 analyst ratings
Wells Fargo Jason Haas 79% 1-year accuracy 11 / 14 met price target | 2%upside $570 | Equal-Weight Initiated | 12 Aug 2024 |
Argus Research John Eade 62% 1-year accuracy 16 / 26 met price target | 7%upside $600 | Buy Maintained | 26 Jul 2024 |
Barclays Manav Patnaik 74% 1-year accuracy 20 / 27 met price target | 16%upside $650 | Overweight Maintained | 24 Jul 2024 |
RBC Capital Ashish Sabadra 85% 1-year accuracy 41 / 48 met price target | 14%upside $638 | Outperform Reiterated | 24 Jul 2024 |
Goldman Sachs George Tong 74% 1-year accuracy 17 / 23 met price target | 5%upside $590 | Neutral Maintained | 24 Jul 2024 |
Financial journalist opinion
Based on 10 articles about MSCI published over the past 30 days