S&P Global (SPGI) Stock: Price, Trend, Options & Financials
S&P Global'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
SPGI closed at $431.29 on Aug 21, 2026. The price is +2.1% from its 50-day average and -4.5% from its 200-day average, which places it in the rules-based “split trend” regime. The relative-strength check: over three months the stock returned +3.7%, beating SPY by 0.7%. It remains 22.9% below its 52-week high.
Sources, methodology & freshnessLast updated 2026-08-21 · Open ↓Close ↑
The close is +2.1% from its 50-day average and -4.5% from its 200-day average. Over three months, SPGI returned +3.7% versus +3.1% for SPY.
- vs 50-day
- +2.1%
- vs 200-day
- -4.5%
- From 52W high
- -22.9%
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
SPGI appeared in a UOA top-30 list on 0 of 62 archived scanner sessions: 0 call-side, 0 put-side and 0 on both lists. The latest session did not place it in either top 30. Its larger composite score was 0.04, below the 1.5 “strong” threshold. No archived session has cleared the issuer-level top-30 cutoff.
| Recent flag | Call rank | Put rank |
|---|---|---|
| No issuer-level top-30 flags in the current archive. | ||
Latest chain snapshot
2026-08-21Strong-signature cutoff: 1.5. Current OTM volume/OI: 0.100 calls, 0.097 puts.
Curated-manager ownership
2 of the 20 managers in the project's curated 13F set reported a long S&P Global position in their latest filing, worth $5.7B 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 · SPGI | $5.7B | 10.87% | 14.08M | +0.3% unchanged | 2026-06-30 |
Baron Capital Group Ron Baron · SPGI | $15M | 0.02% | 36,576 | -6.6% reduced | 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 SPGI Financials →How SPGI trades — the working manual
S&P Global runs a ratings franchise alongside subscription businesses in market intelligence, indices, commodity pricing and mobility. Ratings revenue is transactional and tracks debt issuance; the rest is largely recurring. For the stock, the balance between those two engines determines how cyclical reported growth actually is.
What can move the tape
- 01Debt issuance volumes and refinancing activity feeding transaction-based ratings revenue.
- 02Subscription growth, renewal rates and pricing across market intelligence and commodity pricing.
- 03Index assets under management, ETF flows and the fees tied to them.
- 04Margin progression, portfolio reshaping and capital returns.
What can fool the read
- 01Ratings revenue is genuinely cyclical: a closed issuance window can slow growth quickly.
- 02Index revenue moves with asset levels, so a market drawdown reaches fees directly.
- 03Regulatory scrutiny of ratings agencies and index providers can change economics or add cost.
- 04A premium multiple built on recurring revenue can compress when the transactional half slows.
S&P Global triggered 2 issuer-level flags in the committed 2026-04-01–2026-08-21 archive. The latest was SPGI on 2026-07-01: 1.6× its 30-day average volume while the stock moved +4.5% that session.
Not published yet. The local archive has 1 reported SPGI 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 ↓ |
SPGI stock questions
Is SPGI stock in an uptrend?+
SPGI is classified in the “split trend” regime as of 2026-08-21: the close is +2.1% from its 50-day average and -4.5% from its 200-day average. This describes the current tape. It is not a forecast.
What does unusual options activity in SPGI mean?+
SPGI has not appeared in either issuer-level top-30 list during the current archive. A future flag would identify an OTM chain outlier relative to the scanner universe. It would identify no buyer, seller, institution or spread leg.
Are the SPGI 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 SPGI's income statement and cash flow?+
The dedicated SPGI 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 SPGI 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.