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Consider This Before Taking a Position in Moody's (MCO)

Moody's logged a -0.8% change during today's evening session, and is now trading at a price of $317.4 per share. On average, analysts give it a target price of $369.53.

Moody's Corporation operates as an integrated risk assessment firm worldwide. The large-cap company is based in the United States. Moody's currently returns an annual dividend yield of 0.9%.

Make Sure to Consider the Following Before Buying Moody's:

  • Moody's has moved 36.0% over the last year.

  • MCO has a forward P/E ratio of 27.9 based on its EPS guidance of 11.37.

  • Over the last 6 years, earnings per share (EPS) have been growing at a compounded average rate of 6.3%.

  • The company has a price to earnings growth (PEG) ratio of 2.37.

  • Its Price to Book (P/B) ratio is 18.52

Moody's Has Irregular Cash Flows

Date Reported Cash Flow from Operations ($ k) Capital expenditures ($ k) Free Cash Flow ($ k) YoY Growth (%)
2023-02-15 1,474,000 -283,000 1,757,000 -18.05
2022-02-22 2,005,000 -139,000 2,144,000 -4.67
2021-02-22 2,146,000 -103,000 2,249,000 28.96
2020-02-24 1,675,000 -69,000 1,744,000 12.37
2019-02-25 1,461,000 -91,000 1,552,000 83.63
2018-02-27 754,600 -90,600 845,200

Moody's's free cash flows have a decent average of $1.72 Billion over the last 6 years, but they are highly variable since their coefficient of variability is 2940044557.2%. The compounded average growth rate over this period is 0.0%.

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