Moody's (MCO) Stock: Price, Trend, Options & Financials
Moody's's price regime, relative strength, unusual-options and unusual-volume history, curated-manager ownership and filed fundamentals — joined into one dated stock intelligence page.
What the evidence says now
MCO closed at $503.33 on Aug 21, 2026. The price is +5.3% from its 50-day average and +6.6% from its 200-day average, which places it in the rules-based “established uptrend” regime. The relative-strength check: over three months the stock returned +13.0%, beating SPY by 9.9%. It remains 8.0% below its 52-week high.
Sources, methodology & freshnessLast updated 2026-08-21 · Open ↓Close ↑
The close is +5.3% from its 50-day average and +6.6% from its 200-day average. Over three months, MCO returned +13.0% versus +3.1% for SPY.
- vs 50-day
- +5.3%
- vs 200-day
- +6.6%
- From 52W high
- -8.0%
Descriptive, not predictive. “Uptrend” is a rules-based reading of the close and moving averages; it is not a rating, price target or recommendation.
Price & regime
One year of daily price and volume
252 split-adjusted sessions · candles above, share volume below
Unusual options — attention, not intent
MCO appeared in a UOA top-30 list on 1 of 62 archived scanner sessions: 1 call-side, 0 put-side and 0 on both lists. The latest session did not place it in either top 30. No eligible current chain row was available, so the page does not manufacture a latest composite score.
| Recent flag | Call rank | Put rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-08-10 | #22 | — |
Latest chain snapshot
2026-08-21Strong-signature cutoff: 1.5. The current scanner did not supply an eligible row for this issuer.
Curated-manager ownership
3 of the 20 managers in the project's curated 13F set reported a long Moody's position in their latest filing, worth $17.7B in aggregate at each filing's reported value. This is a focused manager panel, not the complete institutional holder list.
| Fund / manager | Position value | Portfolio | Shares | Quarter change | Report date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
TCI Fund Management Chris Hohn · MCO | $6.5B | 12.30% | 14.33M | 0.0% unchanged | 2026-06-30 |
Berkshire Hathaway Warren Buffett · MCO | $11.2B | 3.73% | 24.67M | 0.0% unchanged | 2026-06-30 |
Baron Capital Group Ron Baron · MCO | $16M | 0.02% | 36,429 | +0.5% unchanged | 2026-06-30 |
Filed fundamentals — latest snapshot
Go deeper into the filings
The dedicated Financials dashboard carries the complete quarterly and annual income statement, balance sheet and cash-flow history, with derived figures flagged and every XBRL concept disclosed.
Open MCO Financials →How MCO trades — the working manual
Moody's pairs a ratings agency whose revenue rises and falls with debt issuance against an analytics business sold largely by subscription. The two halves behave differently through a cycle, and the mix is the main thing that determines how much of a slow issuance year actually reaches earnings.
What can move the tape
- 01Corporate and structured debt issuance, refinancing walls and first-time mandates.
- 02Analytics subscription growth, retention and pricing across risk and data products.
- 03Margin differences between ratings and analytics, and operating leverage in each.
- 04Capital allocation between acquisitions, buybacks and dividends.
What can fool the read
- 01Issuance can stall with rate volatility, and ratings revenue follows quickly.
- 02Regulatory and litigation exposure is structural for a ratings agency.
- 03Analytics growth may not fully offset a weak ratings year despite its recurring profile.
- 04A high-multiple compounder is sensitive to any sustained slowdown in issuance.
No MCO flags in the committed 2026-04-01–2026-08-21 archive. That means no session cleared this project's anomaly threshold; it does not mean trading volume was literally constant.
Not published yet. The local archive has 1 reported MCO events—too few for a defensible gap-and-drift study. This missing block is an explicit indexing blocker.
Source map & freshness
| Block | What it uses | Vintage | Raw data |
|---|---|---|---|
| Identity | SEC issuer + primary security mapping | 2026-08-23 | JSON ↓ |
| Price & trend | Split-adjusted daily OHLCV + SPY comparison | 2026-08-21 | CSV ↓ |
| Options | End-of-day chain anomaly ranks | 2026-08-21 | Premium → |
| Ownership | Latest filings from 20 curated 13F managers | 2026-08-21 | Tool → |
| Financials | SEC EDGAR XBRL company facts | 2026-08-23 | JSON ↓ |
| Joined profile | The exact contract rendered by this page | 2026-08-23 | JSON ↓ |
MCO stock questions
Is MCO stock in an uptrend?+
MCO is classified in the “established uptrend” regime as of 2026-08-21: the close is +5.3% from its 50-day average and +6.6% from its 200-day average. This describes the current tape. It is not a forecast.
What does unusual options activity in MCO mean?+
Moody's's OTM option chain produced an outlier relative to the scanner universe on at least one archived session. Call-side and put-side labels identify which book produced the signature; end-of-day chain data does not identify buyers, sellers, institutions or spread legs.
Are the MCO 13F holdings current?+
No. 13F filings are delayed quarter-end snapshots and cover only the curated managers in this project. They are useful for documented ownership changes, not real-time positioning or complete institutional ownership.
Where are MCO's income statement and cash flow?+
The dedicated MCO Financials page contains the full quarterly and annual income statement, balance sheet and cash-flow history parsed from SEC EDGAR XBRL. This stock page carries only the latest filed snapshot.
Why is there no MCO earnings-move base rate yet?+
The committed earnings archive does not yet contain enough reported events for a defensible company-level reaction study. The page leaves that block unpublished instead of presenting a tiny sample as a reliable base rate.