Moody's Corporation MCO

Company Overview

Moody’s Corporation is a global financial services company specializing in credit ratings, research, data, and analytics. It operates primarily in the credit ratings, financial analytics, and risk assessment industries, serving capital markets participants, financial institutions, corporations, governments, and institutional investors. The company is best known for its role in assessing creditworthiness and providing independent opinions on credit risk, which are widely used in debt capital markets.

Moody’s generates revenue mainly through its two core business segments: Moody’s Investors Service and Moody’s Analytics. Its strategic advantage lies in its globally recognized brand, long operating history, extensive proprietary data, and embedded role in global debt markets. The company traces its origins to 1909, when John Moody published the first publicly available bond ratings. Moody’s evolved over the 20th century into one of the dominant global credit rating agencies and became an independent publicly traded company in 2000 following its separation from Dun & Bradstreet.