MSCI Inc (NYSE: MSCI) is 7.37% higher on its value in year-to-date trading and has touched a low of $486.73 and a high of $642.45 in the current 52-week trading range. The question becomes, what are the chances the stock will continue to grow shareholders’ wealth in the market. Here’s what analysts think will happen to its price in the coming time. The MSCI stock was last observed hovering at around $530.86 in the last trading session, with the day’s gains setting it 12.45%.
Currently trading at $543.31, the stock is -4.77% and -3.87% below its SMA20 and SMA50 respectively. However, with a daily trading volume of 1.25 million and changing 2.35% at the moment leaves the stock -5.95% off its SMA200. MSCI registered -9.45% loss for a year compared to 6-month loss of -11.37%. The firm has a 50-day simple moving average (SMA 50) of $565.1588 and a 200-day simple moving average (SMA200) of $577.66644.
The stock witnessed a -5.62% gain in the last 1 month and extending the period to 3 months gives it a 1.86%, and is -6.35% down over the last 5 days. If we measure the stock’s price variations over the week and the month, we find that the volatility rates stand at 3.46% over the week and 2.32% over the month.
MSCI Inc (MSCI) has around 6132 employees, a market worth around $42.03B and $2.99B in sales. Current P/E ratio is 36.00 and Fwd P/E is 28.36. Profit margin for the company is 39.46%. Distance from 52-week low is 11.62% and -15.43% from its 52-week high. The company has generated returns on investments over the last 12 months (31.50%).
The EPS is expected to grow by 12.11% this year
1580.0 institutions hold shares in MSCI Inc (MSCI), with institutional investors hold 97.51% of the company’s shares. The shares outstanding are 77.37M, and float is at 74.78M with Short Float at 1.53%. Institutions hold 94.28% of the Float.
The top institutional shareholder in the company is VANGUARD GROUP INC with over 8.86 million shares valued at $4.27 billion. The investor’s holdings represent 11.2037 of the MSCI Shares outstanding. As of 2024-06-30, the second largest holder is BLACKROCK INC. with 6.83 million shares valued at $3.29 billion to account for 8.6324 of the shares outstanding. The other top investors are STATE STREET CORP which holds 3.18 million shares representing 4.0223 and valued at over $1.53 billion, while BAMCO INC /NY/ holds 2.8013 of the shares totaling 2.22 million with a market value of $1.07 billion.
MSCI Inc (MSCI) Insider Activity
The most recent transaction is an insider sale by Pettit CD Baer, the company’s President & COO. SEC filings show that Pettit CD Baer sold 5,000 shares of the company’s common stock on Jun 05 ’25 at a price of $563.62 per share for a total of $2.82 million. Following the sale, the insider now owns 0.28 million shares.
Still, SEC filings show that on May 05 ’25, Pettit CD Baer (President & COO) disposed off 5,000 shares at an average price of $552.59 for $2.76 million. The insider now directly holds 289,787 shares of MSCI Inc (MSCI).
