MSCI Inc. (MSCI)
Financials · NYSE · US
Price as at 10 Aug 2026, 19:11 UTC. Quotes are delayed.
Fundamentals
Valuation and ratings
MSCI Inc. trades at $561.75, which is 20% below the $675.29 our fair value estimate puts on the business. On that measure alone it screens as undervalued, though a valuation model is an argument rather than a measurement, and the market is frequently right about why something is cheap.
Our moat model scores it 71 out of 100, which is a wide moat. A moat is a structural reason competitors cannot take the profits away, and it matters more to a long holding period than any single quarter's numbers do.
It changes hands at 34.5 times earnings. Be careful reading that in isolation: for a cyclical business a low P/E arrives at the top of the cycle, when profits are peaking and about to fall, which is exactly when the shares look cheapest and are not.
MSCI dividend history
Dividends per share by year
| Year | Total per share | Payments |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 (year to date) | $6.15 | 3 |
| 2025 | $7.20 | 4 |
| 2024 | $6.40 | 4 |
| 2023 | $5.52 | 4 |
| 2022 | $4.58 | 4 |
| 2021 | $3.64 | 4 |
| 2020 | $2.92 | 4 |
| 2019 | $2.52 | 4 |
| 2018 | $1.92 | 4 |
| 2017 | $1.32 | 4 |
| 2016 | $1.00 | 4 |
Split-adjusted amounts in the listing currency, grouped by the calendar year of the ex-dividend date, from the filed record. Growth and streak figures compare complete years only.
MSCI earnings and analyst estimates
Recommendation mix, 17 published ratings
Estimates are the published analyst consensus and move often. An earnings date is scheduled, not certain, and a share tends to reprice most violently on the day itself.
About MSCI Inc.
MSCI Inc., together with its subsidiaries, provides research-based data, analytics, and indexes, supported by advanced technology worldwide. The Index segment provides indexes for use in various areas of the investment process, including indexed financial products, such as ETFs, mutual funds, annuities, futures, options, structured products, and over-the-counter derivatives; performance benchmarking; portfolio construction and rebalancing; and asset allocation, as well as licenses GICS and GICS Direct. The Analytics segment offers risk management, performance attribution and portfolio management content, application, an integrated view of risk and return service, and an analysis of market, credit, liquidity, counterparty, and climate risk across asset classes; managed services, including consolidation of client portfolio data, review and reconciliation of input data and results, and customized reporting; and HedgePlatform to measure, evaluate, and monitor the risk of hedge fund investments. The Sustainability and Climate segment provides products and services that help institutional investors understand how ESG impacts the long-term risk and return of their portfolio and individual security-level investments; and data, ratings, research, and tools to assist investors navigate increasing regulation. The All Other Private Assets segment comprises private credit, real estate and infrastructure data, benchmarks, return-analytics, climate assessments and market insights; business intelligence to real estate owners, managers, developers, and brokers; and offers investment decision support tools for private capital. The Private Capital Solutions segment offers tools to help private asset investors across mission-critical workflows, such as sourcing terms and conditions, evaluating operating performance, managing risk and other activities supporting private capital investment. MSCI Inc. was incorporated in 1998 and is based in New York, New York.
Company profile, industry and headcount are as reported by our data provider and can lag a company's own filings by a reporting period. The annual report is the authority.
MSCI passes 1 of our 30 screens today
Each screen prints the exact criteria it used, and the circumstances in which it is wrong.
Super investor ownership
23 of the funds we track reported a position in their latest SEC 13F filing. Largest first:
- Andreas Halvorsen, VIKING GLOBAL INVESTORS LP$650.03M · 1.9% of book
- Baillie Gifford, BAILLIE GIFFORD & CO$445.93M · 0.4% of book
- Israel Englander, MILLENNIUM MANAGEMENT LLC$415.51M · 0.1% of book
- Arrowstreet Capital, ARROWSTREET CAPITAL, LIMITED PARTNERSHIP$405.50M · 0.2% of book
- Polen Capital, POLEN CAPITAL MANAGEMENT LLC$376.23M · 3.2% of book
A word of warning on reading these figures: a 13F reports the market value of a holding, so a fund that traded nothing at all still appears to have sold when the price fell. We found 102 companies where the standard reading gives the opposite answer. Only the share count is honest.
Common questions
Is MSCI Inc. (MSCI) undervalued?
Against our fair value estimate of $675.29, MSCI at $561.75 is 20% below fair value. That is one model's answer, not a recommendation. It is built from normalized earning power with growth capped deliberately low, which understates companies whose value is mostly future growth.
Which funds own MSCI?
23 of the institutions we track reported a position in MSCI in their most recent SEC 13F filing. A 13F is filed up to 45 days after quarter end, so it tells you what a fund held then, not what it holds now.
What is MSCI's P/E ratio?
MSCI trades at 34.5 times earnings. A low P/E is not automatically cheap: on a cyclical company it is usually a warning that earnings are at a peak.
Does MSCI Inc. (MSCI) pay a dividend?
Yes. MSCI Inc. yields 1.36% at the current share price. It has paid $7.95 per share over the trailing twelve months. It has paid a dividend in each of the last 12 complete calendar years. A dividend is declared by the board and can be cut at any time; a yield is a fact about the current price, not a promise.
Where does SteadyShares get its MSCI data?
Fundamentals for MSCI come from company filings and exchange data, as listed on NYSE; institutional ownership comes from SEC 13F filings. The share price shown was last refreshed on 10 Aug 2026, 19:11 UTC and is delayed. Metrics we do not hold are left out of the page rather than estimated.
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Data from company filings, exchange quotes and SEC EDGAR 13F disclosures. Quotes are delayed. Metrics we do not have are left out rather than estimated. Educational information, not financial advice.