MSCI Inc Stock Price, News & Analysis

MSCI (NYSE:MSCI) reported strong Q2 2025 financial results with operating revenues of $772.7 million, up 9.1% year-over-year. The company achieved notable metrics including: operating margin of 55.0%, diluted EPS of $3.92 (up 16.3%), and adjusted EBITDA margin of 61.4%.

Key performance indicators showed robust growth across segments: Index revenues increased 9.5% to $434.8 million, Analytics revenues grew 7.1% to $177.7 million, and Sustainability and Climate revenues rose 11.3% to $88.9 million. The company maintained a strong retention rate of 94.4% and total Run Rate reached $3.1 billion, up 10.7%.

MSCI returned capital to shareholders through $131.2 million in share repurchases and declared a quarterly dividend of $1.80 per share.

MSCI (NYSE:MSCI) announced that assets in ETFs tracking its global equity indexes have exceeded $2 trillion, marking a 17% growth since early 2025. The company's indexes serve as benchmarks for over $17 trillion in total assets, including non-ETF products and other asset classes.

Growth has been primarily driven by investor interest in developed markets outside the U.S. and emerging markets. MSCI currently provides over 246,000 equity indexes across various categories, with more than 1,400 equity ETFs linked to their indexes.

MSCI Inc. (NYSE: MSCI) has scheduled its second quarter 2025 earnings release and conference call. The company will release its Q2 2025 results on Tuesday, July 22, 2025, before market open, followed by a management conference call at 11:00 AM Eastern Time the same day.

The earnings materials, including the release, presentation, and quarterly update, will be available on MSCI's Investor Relations website. Interested parties can access the live webcast through the events and presentations section of MSCI's IR website, while those preferring to join by phone must register in advance to receive a unique PIN.

MSCI Inc. (NYSE: MSCI) has announced its 2025 Market Classification Review results, highlighting several key market developments. Bulgaria's potential reclassification to Frontier Market status consultation has been extended to 2026 due to market accessibility concerns. For Korea, while recent FX reforms and market improvements were noted, MSCI continues to evaluate if these changes meet Developed Market standards.

Greece has shown improvements in clearing, settlement, and short-selling criteria, though it faces new size and liquidity persistency requirements. For Bangladesh, despite removal of floor prices for most securities and improved FX liquidity, special treatment measures remain due to ongoing investability concerns.

MSCI has released its 2025 Global Market Accessibility Review, evaluating market accessibility across 86 markets. The review shows more improvements than deteriorations in market accessibility ratings, with significant progress in Market Infrastructure particularly in Emerging and Frontier Markets. The assessment is based on five key criteria: foreign ownership openness, capital flow ease, operational framework efficiency, investment instrument availability, and institutional framework stability. These criteria are evaluated using 18 distinct accessibility measures that are crucial for international institutional investors. Bulgaria's assessment is notably excluded from this release and will be announced on June 24, 2025, along with its potential reclassification from Standalone to Frontier Market status. The review serves as a critical tool for market classification into Developed, Emerging, Frontier, and Standalone Markets categories.

MSCI (NYSE: MSCI), a leading provider of decision support tools and services for the global investment community, has published an investor presentation on its Investor Relations website (ir.msci.com) on May 28, 2025. The presentation may be used by the company's management during meetings with investors and analysts.

MSCI (NYSE: MSCI) and Intapp (NASDAQ: INTA) have signed a memorandum of understanding to form a strategic partnership that will integrate MSCI's private assets data into Intapp's DealCloud platform. The collaboration will provide DealCloud's 1,000+ general partners with direct access to MSCI's comprehensive private market intelligence, including private equity, private credit, real estate, and infrastructure benchmarks, along with fund, asset, and deal performance metrics.

Through intuitive dashboards and customizable reporting, users will be able to analyze MSCI's real assets data and property-level information within their daily workflows. The integration aims to enhance investment decision-making efficiency and transparency in private markets, with the datasets expected to become available on the DealCloud platform in the coming months.

Circus SE (XETRA:CA1), a leader in AI-robotics for food service, will be included in the MSCI Global Micro Cap Index effective May 30, 2025. The company is the only German firm among 157 new additions worldwide, including 84 from the US and 18 from Japan.

This milestone is expected to drive global capital inflows through ETFs and index funds tracking the MSCI index. The inclusion follows Circus SE's recent achievements, including a pilot partnership with REWE West and the launch of an AI robotics product line for defense. CFO Fabian Becker highlighted this as a validation of their technological vision and an opportunity to attract institutional investors globally.

Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) has been added to the MSCI Emerging Markets Index, effective May 30, 2025. As the largest listed company on the Dubai Financial Market with a market capitalization exceeding AED 130 billion, DEWA's inclusion marks a significant milestone in its journey as a public company. The MSCI Emerging Markets Index is a leading global benchmark covering 24 emerging markets, with approximately US$7 trillion in assets benchmarked to it and over 1,400 constituents. DEWA was among the largest additions to the index by market capitalization, positioning it among select emerging market companies attractive to international investors for their stability and growth outlook.