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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: 6,132
Fund manager confidence
Based on 2024 Q4 regulatory filings by fund managers ($100M+ AUM)
100% more first-time investments, than exits
New positions opened: 148 | Existing positions closed: 74
33% more funds holding in top 10
Funds holding in top 10: 12 [Q3] → 16 (+4) [Q4]
12% more repeat investments, than reductions
Existing positions increased: 386 | Existing positions reduced: 345
5% more capital invested
Capital invested by funds: $40.2B [Q3] → $42.4B (+$2.13B) [Q4]
3% more funds holding
Funds holding: 977 [Q3] → 1,011 (+34) [Q4]
2.97% more ownership
Funds ownership: 87.13% [Q3] → 90.1% (+2.97%) [Q4]
43% less call options, than puts
Call options by funds: $98.3M | Put options by funds: $172M
Research analyst outlook
5 Wall Street Analysts provided 1 year price targets over the past 3 months
5 analyst ratings
RBC Capital Ashish Sabadra 87% 1-year accuracy 47 / 54 met price target | 17%upside $675 | Outperform Reiterated | 30 Jan 2025 |
JP Morgan Alexander Hess 0% 1-year accuracy 0 / 2 met price target | 18%upside $680 | Overweight Maintained | 30 Jan 2025 |
Barclays Manav Patnaik 73% 1-year accuracy 30 / 41 met price target | 17%upside $675 | Overweight Maintained | 30 Jan 2025 |
Goldman Sachs George Tong 52% 1-year accuracy 14 / 27 met price target | 25%upside $723 | Buy Upgraded | 18 Dec 2024 |
Morgan Stanley Toni Kaplan 44% 1-year accuracy 12 / 27 met price target | 20%upside $695 | Overweight Maintained | 12 Dec 2024 |
Financial journalist opinion
Based on 35 articles about MSCI published over the past 30 days









