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MSCI Inc. MSCI

Services-Business Services, NEC · CIK 0001408198 · Fiscal year ends 1231

Revenue
$3.13B
Fiscal year ended 2025-12-31
Operating income
$1.71B
Fiscal year ended 2025-12-31
Free cash flow
$1.55B
Fiscal year ended 2025-12-31

Valuation, from the filing

Public float$43.15BMarket value of stock held by non-affiliates, as stated on the cover page for 2025-06-30
Float per share$587.28Float divided by shares outstanding in the same filing. A floor under the share price on that date, not the price itself.
Float / net income35.9×A lower bound on the multiple, because affiliate holdings are excluded.
Float / revenue13.8×A lower bound on the multiple, because affiliate holdings are excluded.

Every figure here is drawn from the 10-K cover page and the statements behind it, so each one traces to a filing. Public float counts only stock held by non-affiliates, which makes these floors rather than estimates: a high multiple is conclusive, a low one may mean cheap or may mean closely held. The float was measured on 2025-06-30, not today, and each multiple below it uses the figures for the fiscal year ending 2025-12-31 — the year that filing covered.

Valuation over time

35.9× earnings today, against a median of 34.0× across 10 years on record. In line with its own history.

Float measuredPublic floatFloat / net income
2025-06-30$43.15B35.9×
2024-06-30$36.73B33.1×
2023-06-30$35.98B31.3×
2022-06-30$32.17B37.0×
2021-06-30$43.43B59.8×
2020-06-30$27.13B45.1×
2019-06-30$19.63B34.8×
2018-06-30$14.37B28.3×
2017-06-30$9.09B29.9×
2016-06-30$7.08B27.1×

Each float is paired with the fiscal year the filing that stated it covers. Only years where the company reported positive net income appear, because a multiple against a loss is not a multiple.

How this compares in its industry

Percentile among the Services-Business Services, NEC filers on this site, highest value first. A high percentile means a large figure, which is good for a margin and not for leverage — the ranking says where the company sits, not whether that is where it should be.

MeasureReportedPercentile
Operating margin54.7%98th
FCF margin49.4%97th
Net margin38.4%96th
R&D / revenue5.7%30th
Effective tax rate19.5%33th
Current ratio0.90x33th
Revenue YoY growth9.7%56th
SBC / revenue3.6%53th
CapEx / revenue1.3%49th

MSCI Inc. (MSCI) reported revenue of $3.13B and net income of $1.20B for the fiscal year ended 2025-12-31. This page shows 10 annual periods of income statement, balance sheet and cash flow figures normalized from MSCI Inc.’s SEC filings, each linked to the filing it came from. It is classified by the SEC under Services-Business Services, NEC.

Income

MSCI Inc. income by fiscal year, in US dollars, normalized from SEC filings.
Metric2025-12-312024-12-312023-12-312022-12-312021-12-312020-12-312019-12-312018-12-312017-12-312016-12-31
Revenue$3.13B$2.86B$2.53B$2.25B$2.04B$1.70B$1.56B$1.43B$1.27B$1.15B
Cost of revenueUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailable$291.70M$294.96M$287.34M$273.68M$252.11M
Gross profitUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailable$1.15B$1.00B$898.56M
Operating income$1.71B$1.53B$1.38B$1.21B$1.07B$884.76M$755.70M$686.90M$579.77M$488.10M
Net income$1.20B$1.11B$1.15B$870.57M$725.98M$601.82M$563.65M$507.88M$303.97M$260.86M
Research & development$177.60M$158.65M$132.12M$107.20M$111.56M$101.05M$98.33M$81.41M$75.85M$75.20M
Weighted-average diluted sharesshares 76.64Mshares 78.96Mshares 79.84Mshares 81.22Mshares 83.48Mshares 84.52Mshares 85.54Mshares 89.70Mshares 91.91Mshares 96.54M
Pretax income$1.49B$1.36B$1.37B$1.04B$858.14M$686.22M$603.32M$629.90M$466.90M$385.94M
Income tax expense$291.95M$247.04M$220.47M$173.27M$132.15M$84.40M$39.67M$122.01M$162.93M$125.08M
Diluted EPS$15.69$14.05$14.39$10.72$8.70$7.12$6.59$5.66$3.31$2.70
Selling, general & administrative$500.04M$473.56M$430.17M$411.44M$391.08M$331.12M$329.39M$292.80M$264.88M$253.90M
General & administrative$180.22M$182.34M$153.97M$146.86M$147.89M$114.63M$110.09M$99.88M$87.76M$87.24M
Selling & marketing$319.83M$291.22M$276.20M$264.58M$243.18M$216.50M$219.30M$192.92M$177.12M$166.67M

Balance

MSCI Inc. balance by fiscal year, in US dollars, normalized from SEC filings.
Metric2025-12-312024-12-312023-12-312022-12-312021-12-312020-12-312019-12-312018-12-312017-12-312016-12-31
Cash & equivalents$515.30M$409.35M$461.69M$993.56M$1.42B$1.30B$1.51B$904.18M$889.50M$791.83M
Total assets$5.70B$5.45B$5.52B$5.00B$5.51B$4.20B$4.20B$3.39B$3.28B$3.08B
Current assets$1.64B$1.34B$1.42B$1.75B$2.14B$1.93B$2.08B$1.44B$1.27B$1.06B
Total liabilities$8.36B$6.39B$6.26B$6.01B$5.67B$4.64B$4.28B$3.55B$2.87B$2.76B
Current liabilities$1.83B$1.59B$1.52B$1.25B$1.25B$1.02B$900.79M$809.01M$607.67M$536.57M
Total equity incl. NCI-$2.65B-$940.00M-$739.76M-$1.01B-$163.47M-$443.23M-$76.71M-$166.49M$401.01M$317.60M
Temporary (mezzanine) equityUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailable
InventoryUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailable
Accounts receivable$986.70M$820.70M$839.56M$663.24M$664.51M$558.57M$499.27M$473.43M$327.60M$221.50M
Goodwill$2.92B$2.92B$2.89B$2.23B$2.24B$1.57B$1.56B$1.55B$1.56B$1.56B
Long-term debt$6.20B$4.51B$4.50B$4.50B$4.16B$3.37B$3.07B$2.58B$2.08B$2.08B
Accounts payable$15.30M$14.52M$9.81M$15.04M$13.45M$14.25M$6.50M$3.89M$1.61M$568.00K

Cash flow

MSCI Inc. cash flow by fiscal year, in US dollars, normalized from SEC filings.
Metric2025-12-312024-12-312023-12-312022-12-312021-12-312020-12-312019-12-312018-12-312017-12-312016-12-31
Operating cash flow$1.59B$1.50B$1.24B$1.10B$936.07M$811.11M$709.52M$612.76M$404.16M$442.36M
Capital expenditures$39.32M$33.76M$22.76M$13.62M$13.51M$21.83M$29.12M$30.26M$33.18M$32.28M
Investing cash flow-$130.06M-$144.26M-$819.38M-$79.34M-$1.04B-$241.79M-$71.94M$34.87M-$48.05M-$42.03M
Financing cash flow-$1.36B-$1.40B-$953.93M-$1.43B$229.50M-$779.04M-$36.67M-$626.48M-$267.54M-$372.90M
Net change in cash$105.98M-$52.34M-$531.87M-$427.88M$120.93M-$206.05M$602.39M$14.67M$97.67M$14.13M
Stock-based compensation$111.34M$95.20M$71.65M$58.09M$54.92M$51.09M$41.20M$38.90M$36.58M$32.00M
Common dividends paid$556.52M$509.11M$440.99M$372.92M$302.45M$246.44M$222.92M$170.94M$119.72M$96.19M
Common share repurchases$2.48B$885.27M$504.19M$1.40B$198.37M$778.52M$292.08M$949.89M$150.46M$774.56M
Depreciation & amortization$23.40M$16.98M$21.01M$26.89M$28.90M$29.80M$30.00M$31.35M$35.44M$34.32M

Derived

MSCI Inc. derived by fiscal year, in US dollars, normalized from SEC filings.
Metric2025-12-312024-12-312023-12-312022-12-312021-12-312020-12-312019-12-312018-12-312017-12-312016-12-31
Free cash flow$1.55B$1.47B$1.21B$1.08B$922.56M$789.28M$680.41M$582.50M$370.98M$410.08M
Gross marginUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailable80.0%78.5%78.1%
Operating margin54.7%53.5%54.8%53.7%52.5%52.2%48.5%47.9%45.5%42.4%
FCF margin49.4%51.4%48.0%48.1%45.1%46.6%43.7%40.6%29.1%35.6%
SBC / revenue3.6%3.3%2.8%2.6%2.7%3.0%2.6%2.7%2.9%2.8%
Current ratio0.90x0.85x0.93x1.40x1.71x1.88x2.31x1.77x2.09x1.97x
Revenue YoY growth9.7%12.9%12.5%10.0%20.5%8.8%8.6%12.5%10.7%Unavailable
Net margin38.4%38.8%45.4%38.7%35.5%35.5%36.2%35.4%23.9%22.7%
R&D / revenue5.7%5.6%5.2%4.8%5.5%6.0%6.3%5.7%6.0%6.5%
CapEx / revenue1.3%1.2%0.9%0.6%0.7%1.3%1.9%2.1%2.6%2.8%
Long-term debt / equityUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailable
Effective tax rate19.5%18.2%16.1%16.6%15.4%12.3%6.6%19.4%34.9%32.4%

Amounts are abbreviated; the exact reported value is carried in each cell. — means unavailable, not zero. Open MSCI in the interactive workspace to inspect any figure back to its filing.

Source filings

10-Q · Filed 2026-10-20View SEC filing
10-Q · Filed 2026-07-21View SEC filing
10-Q · Filed 2026-04-21View SEC filing
10-K · Filed 2026-02-06View SEC filing
10-Q · Filed 2025-10-28View SEC filing
10-Q · Filed 2025-07-22View SEC filing

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Reconciliation checks needing review

2 periods on this page do not reconcile under this site’s normalization. Read that as a limitation here before an observation about the company: the figures are the filer’s own, the filings linked above are authoritative, and a difference usually means the concepts this site selected do not match how this filer presents its statements. Nothing is adjusted to make a check pass.

gross profit bridgeinconsistent2020-12-31

Withheld: gross profit could not be reconciled with the rest of this filer’s statement.

gross profit bridgeinconsistent2019-12-31

Withheld: gross profit could not be reconciled with the rest of this filer’s statement.