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Morningstar, Inc. provides independent investment insights, data, research, indexes, credit ratings, and investment-management services for individual investors, financial advisors, asset managers, retirement providers, institutional clients, and market-data redistributors. News about the company commonly covers financial results, product development across the Morningstar Direct Platform, PitchBook private capital market intelligence, Morningstar Credit and Morningstar DBRS, Morningstar Indexes, and Morningstar Wealth and Retirement.
Recurring updates also include integrations that distribute Morningstar and PitchBook research through external platforms, index launches and rebrands, credit-market research tools, awards tied to manager research, completed acquisitions such as CRSP, dividend actions, and governance matters.
Morningstar (NASDAQ:MORN) shared qualitative findings from its 2026 Asset Owner Perspectives Survey, based on interviews with 25 major institutional asset owners across North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific.
Key themes include US market concentration risk, diversification into private and real assets, cautious AI use, and evolving climate and sustainability data needs. A quantitative survey will follow in July–August, with results expected in September.
Morningstar Credit Analytics (Nasdaq:MORN) launched Corporate Credit Analytics on May 20, 2026, a platform to standardize private corporate credit analysis.
It combines Data Explorer (around 80 financial and credit metrics), Data Overview visualizations, and a Credit Estimate Tool aligned with Morningstar DBRS methodologies, targeting institutional users in the $2.5 trillion private credit market.
Morningstar (Nasdaq: MORN) and PitchBook announced an integration with Perplexity on May 8, 2026 that embeds Morningstar- and PitchBook-backed research into Perplexity and Perplexity Computer via Model Context Protocol (MCP).
The integration enables citation-based, analyst-backed responses and multi-step AI research workflows for investors and financial professionals.
Morningstar (Nasdaq: MORN) reported Q1 2026 results with revenue of $644.8M (+10.8% reported, +7.6% organic) and operating income of $155.9M (+36.6%). Diluted EPS rose to $2.73 (+50.0%); adjusted diluted EPS was $3.18 (+42.6%).
The company closed the CRSP acquisition, repurchased $300M of shares, increased net debt by $640M, and reported free cash flow of $53.6M (down 8.8%).
Morningstar (NASDAQ: MORN) announced the rebrand of the CRSP Market Indexes to Morningstar Indexes, reflecting integration after Morningstar's completed acquisition of CRSP. The CRSP indexes benchmark over $3 trillion in U.S. equities and will adopt Morningstar naming with changes effective in late July.
The indexes will keep their existing methodology with no expected disruption to clients. Morningstar says it now has over $4.2 trillion in assets linked to its benchmarks across more than 370 investment products.
PitchBook LCD introduced the LCD Default Predictor, a monthly quantitative tool that estimates a six-month aggregate default rate for the Morningstar LSTA US Leveraged Loan Index (MORN). It combines real-time loan pricing, price momentum, and credit ratings to produce a forward-looking market default rate calibrated to historical patterns.
Morningstar (NASDAQ: MORN) launched the Morningstar PitchBook Europe Modern Market 50 Index, a 50-name index blending 45 large Europe-listed companies and 5 liquid, late-stage venture-backed private firms.
The index uses daily pricing, verified secondary transactions for VC-backed firms, liquidity screens, and quarterly rebalances to create an investable benchmark combining public and private European equity exposure.
Pello Companies agreed to acquire ByAllAccounts from Morningstar (Nasdaq: MORN), with the transaction expected to close in the first half of 2026 and subject to customary closing conditions. Deal terms were not disclosed.
Pello will run ByAllAccounts as a standalone company, appointing Cynthia Rojas Sejas as CEO. Morningstar will remain a committed customer and continues to report approximately $378 billion in assets under management and advisement as of Dec. 31, 2025.
Morningstar (Nasdaq: MORN) announced winners of the 2026 US Morningstar Awards for Investing Excellence on April 8, 2026. Winners include equity managers Harry Hartford and Sarah Ketterer (Causeway Capital); fixed income manager Jerome Schneider (PIMCO); allocation team Michelle Black, Samir Mathur, and Wesley Phoa (Capital Group); and Exemplary Stewardship winner PIMCO.
Morningstar will host a live webinar on April 9 at 11 a.m. CT featuring the winners. Morningstar said its manager research analysts used qualitative review and voting, with Medalist and Parent Pillar ratings as eligibility criteria.
Morningstar DBRS (Nasdaq: MORN) marks 50 years of credit ratings and research since its 1976 founding. The firm highlights global expansion, a 2025 APAC hub in Sydney, methodology modernization for cross‑asset comparability, and January 2026 integration of its ratings into BNY’s Global Collateral platform.
Morningstar DBRS emphasizes service‑oriented growth into private credit and insurance on‑balance sheet risk assessments while promoting transparent, globally consistent rating criteria for investors and issuers.