Key Factors to Evaluate Before Investing in MSCI

By Emilio Sanchez • Tuesday, April 23 10:11 • Permanent Link

Shares of Consumer Discretionary sector company MSCI moved -10.1% today, and are now trading at a price of $462.92. The Large-Cap stock's daily volume was 391,328 compared to its average volume of 471,706. The S&P 500 index returned a 1.0% performance.

MSCI Inc., together with its subsidiaries, provides critical decision support tools and solutions for the investment community to manage investment processes worldwide. The company is based in New York and has 5,794 full time employees. Its market capitalization is $36,674,195,456. MSCI currently offers its equity investors a dividend that yields 1.1% per year.

11 analysts are following MSCI and have set target prices ranging from $465.0 to $700.0 per share. On average, they have given the company a rating of hold. At today's prices, MSCI is trading -24.62% away from its average analyst target price of $614.09 per share.

Over the last year, MSCI's share price has increased by 9.3%, which represents a difference of -13.7% when compared to the S&P 500. The stock's 52 week high is $617.39 per share whereas its 52 week low is $451.55. With average free cash flows of $878.3 Million that have been growing at an average rate of 14.0% over the last 5 years, MSCI is in a position to continue its strong stock performance trend.

Date Reported	Cash Flow from Operations ($ k)	Capital expenditures ($ k)	Free Cash Flow ($ k)	YoY Growth (%)
2023	1,236,029	22,757	1,213,272	12.16
2022	1,095,369	13,617	1,081,752	17.26
2021	936,069	13,509	922,560	16.89
2020	811,109	21,826	789,283	16.0
2019	709,523	29,116	680,407	16.81
2018	612,762	30,257	582,505

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