MOODYS CORP /DE/

Overview

Moody’s Corporation is a global financial intelligence and risk-information company. Its two principal businesses are Moody’s Analytics, which provides curated data, intelligence, and analytical tools, and Moody’s Investors Service, which provides credit ratings, research, and risk analysis [1]. The company’s stated mission is “to be the leading source of relevant insights on exponential risk” [2].

Moody’s serves customers internationally, with approximately 16,000 employees across more than 40 countries [3]. For the year ended December 31, 2025, it reported revenue of $7.718 billion [4]. [1]+3

Products & services

Moody’s Ratings provides credit ratings and research assessing the creditworthiness of organizations, obligations, and securities. Its ratings cover Corporate Finance, Structured Finance, Financial Institutions, and Public, Project & Infrastructure Finance. Structured-finance capabilities include data, analytics, cash-flow models, and workflow tools.[5][6]

Moody’s Analytics’ Decision Solutions offer cloud-based platforms and data for banking, insurance, and know-your-customer (KYC) workflows. Its Research & Insights offerings include models, scores, credit research, credit models and analytics, economic data and models, and structured-finance solutions; Data & Information provides company and securities datasets through data applications and feeds. Named products include CreditView, for portfolio, peer, and scenario analysis; CreditLens/Lending Suite, for commercial-credit origination and monitoring, including financial spreading, scoring, credit memos, and covenant monitoring; Orbis, for company and ownership data; Grid, for sanctions, watchlist, politically exposed person, and adverse-media screening and monitoring; and EDF-X, for company probability-of-default measures and early-warning analysis.[7]+6

For FY2025, Moody’s Investors Service (MIS) generated $4.119 billion in external revenue and Moody’s Analytics (MA) $3.599 billion, representing 53.4% and 46.6% of consolidated revenue, respectively. Within MA, Decision Solutions generated $1.692 billion (47.0% of MA revenue), Research & Insights $995 million (27.6%), and Data & Information $912 million (25.3%). MIS ratings revenue was $4.084 billion; its largest category was Corporate Finance at $2.132 billion, followed by Financial Institutions at $759 million, Public, Project & Infrastructure Finance at $635 million, and Structured Finance at $558 million.[14] [7]+9

Geographic presence

Moody’s operates globally, with offices in more than 40 countries. Its headquarters is at 7 World Trade Center, 250 Greenwich Street, New York, New York. At December 31, 2025, it operated from 24 U.S. offices and 99 non-U.S. office locations; the company describes its offices as geographically distributed to support worldwide operations and sales.[15]+2

For 2025, Moody’s reported revenue of $7.718 billion: $4.171 billion from the U.S. (about 54.0%), $2.376 billion from EMEA (30.8%), $699 million from Asia-Pacific (9.1%), and $472 million from the Americas region (6.1%). The Americas figure is reported separately from the U.S. In the six months ended June 30, 2026, revenue was $4.264 billion: $2.398 billion U.S. (about 56.2%), $1.265 billion EMEA (29.7%), $373 million Asia-Pacific (8.7%), and $228 million Americas (5.3%).[18][19]

At June 30, 2026, Moody’s reported 15,627 employees: 4,919 in the U.S. and 10,708 outside the U.S. Its 2025 year-end counts were 16,076 employees, including 5,043 in the U.S. and 11,033 outside the U.S.[20][21] [15]+6

Business segments

Moody’s Corporation reports two segments in its 2025 Form 10-K. Moody’s Investors Service (MIS) provides credit ratings, research and risk analysis for debt issuers and investors, covering corporate, financial-institution and governmental obligations as well as structured-finance securities. MIS generated $4.119 billion of 2025 external revenue, approximately 53% of consolidated revenue.[22]+2

Moody’s Analytics (MA) provides data, research, analytics and workflow tools used by financial-services, corporate and public-sector customers for risk assessment, business relationship management, and regulatory compliance and reporting. MA generated $3.599 billion of external revenue, approximately 47% of consolidated revenue. Its business lines are Decision Solutions, focused on banking, insurance and know-your-customer workflows; Research & Insights; and Data & Information.[23]+4

The company also disaggregates revenue below its two reportable segments: MA reports the three business lines above, while MIS presents revenue by corporate finance, structured finance, financial institutions, public, project and infrastructure finance, and other operations. These are revenue categories within the reportable segments, not additional reportable segments.[14] [22]+6

Company history

Moody’s roots date to 1900, when John Moody began publishing a manual of company and securities information. In 1909, he introduced systematic ratings of railroad bonds, extending the work from financial publishing into credit assessment; the ratings later expanded beyond railroads.[27][28]

After operating within The Dun & Bradstreet Corporation, Moody’s became an independent public company on September 30, 2000. It broadened its offerings with the 2002 acquisition of quantitative credit-risk firm KMV and the 2005 acquisition of economic research provider Economy.com; in 2007, it brought these and other non-rating businesses together under Moody’s Analytics.[29]+3

Moody’s expanded into business data, environmental, social and governance assessments, climate analysis, catastrophe risk modeling and compliance through acquisitions including Bureau van Dijk (2017), Vigeo Eiris and Four Twenty Seven (2019), RMS (2021) and kompany (2022). Raymond W. McDaniel Jr. became chairman and CEO in 2005; Robert Fauber succeeded him as CEO in 2021.[33]+6 [27]+12

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