MOODYS CORP DE
For the period ended Dec 31, 2024. Filed Feb 14, 2025.
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FY2024 · Filed Feb 14, 2025
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The Company
Company Overview
In a world shaped by increasingly interconnected risks, Moody's data, insights, and innovative technologies help customers develop a holistic view of their world and unlock opportunities. With a rich history of experience in global markets and a diverse workforce of approximately 16,000 across more than 40 countries, Moody's gives customers the comprehensive perspective needed to act with confidence and thrive.
Moody's is helping customers accelerate value creation in an era of exponential risk.
Moody's
We provide tools that enable Banks, Insurers, Investors, Corporations and Governments to...
| What do we do? | Issue, Originate, Select, Underwrite | Identify, Measure, Monitor & Manage Risk | Verify, Comply, Plan & Report |
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Leveraging an unrivaled set of data, analytics, & domain expertise across...
| How do we do this? | CreditCompanies | PropertiesSecurities | PeopleEconomies | ESGClimate |
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Moody’s has two reportable segments: MA and MIS.
| Moody's Analytics | Moody's Investors Service |
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| MA provides data, intelligence and analytical tools to help business and financial leaders make confident decisions. | For more than 115 years, MIS has been a leading provider of credit ratings, research, and risk analysis helping businesses, governments, and other entities around the globe. |
Financial information and operating results of these segments, including revenue, expenses and Adjusted Operating Income, are included in Part II, Item 8. Financial Statements of this annual report and are herein incorporated by reference.
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Moody's Analytics Overview
MA empowers financial services, corporate and public sector customers to anticipate risks, adapt and thrive in a new era of exponential risk. MA's combined data, analytics and cloud-based software tools deliver integrated solutions that help customers to start business relationships, monitor and manage risk, and comply and report based on global laws, rules and regulations.
MA is comprised of: i) a premier fixed income and economic research business (Research & Insights); ii) a data business powered by the world’s largest database on companies and credit (Data & Information); and iii) three cloud-based subscription businesses serving banking, insurance and KYC workflows (Decision Solutions).
MA creates a holistic view on risk provided by our vast set of proprietary data, analytics, and domain expertise across a range of areas, including credit, companies, properties, securities, people, economies, ESG, climate and more. MA's integrated and technology-enabled solutions provide unique capabilities and insights that are embedded in customer workflows.
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| MA by the Numbers | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14,800+ | 6,700+ | 800+ | ||
| MA Customers | Corporates and Professional Services | Real Estate Entities | ||
| 165+ | 2,600+ | 600+ | ||
| Countries where MA customers operate | Commercial Banks | Educational Institutions | ||
| 1,900+ | 200+ | |||
| Asset Managers · Securities Dealers and Investment Banks | ||||
| 900+ | 200+ | |||
| Government Entities · Others | ||||
| 900+ | ||||
| Insurance Companies | ||||
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Moody's Investors Service Overview
MIS is a leading global provider of credit ratings, research, and risk analysis. A rating from Moody’s enables issuers to create timely, go-to-market debt strategies with the ability to capture wider investor focus and provides investors with a comprehensive view of global debt markets through our credit ratings and research. Moody’s trusted insights can help decision-makers navigate the safest path through market turmoil and volatility.
MIS publishes credit ratings and provides assessment services on a wide range of debt obligations, programs and facilities, and the entities that issue such obligations in markets worldwide, including various corporate, financial institution and governmental obligations, and structured finance securities.
| The Benefits of a Moody's Rating | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Investors seek Moody's opinions and particularly value the knowledge of its analysts and the depth of Moody's research | |||
| Access to capital | Transparency, credit comparison and market stability | Planning and budgeting | Analytical capabilities |
| •Moody’s opinions on credit are used by institutional investors throughout the world, making an issuer’s debt potentially more attractive to a wide range of buyers. | •Signals a willingness by issuers to be transparent and provides issuers with an independent assessment against which to compare creditworthiness. | •May help issuers when formulating internal capital plans and funding strategies. | •Among ratings advisors, Moody’s has a strong position and is well-recognized for the depth and breadth of its analytical capabilities. |
| •A Moody’s rating may facilitate access to both domestic and international debt capital. | •Moody’s ratings and research reports may help maintain investor confidence, especially during periods of market stress. | ||
| MIS by the Numbers | ||||
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| $75.8+ trillion | 4,800+ | 3,300+ | ||
| Total Rated Debt Outstanding | Non-Financial Corporates | Financial Institutions | ||
| 33,300+ | 14,400+ | 8,900+ | ||
| Rated Organizations and Structured Deals | U.S. Public Finance Issuers | Structured Finance Deals | ||
| 190+ | 1,000+ | 380+ | ||
| Rating Methodologies | Infrastructure & Project Finance Issuers | Sub-Sovereigns | ||
| 140+ | 50 | |||
| Sovereigns · Supranational Institutions | ||||
MIS also generates revenue from certain non-ratings-related operations, which primarily consist of financial instruments pricing services in the Asia-Pacific region, revenue from Second Party Opinions and Net Zero Assessments and revenue from ICRA's non-ratings operations. The revenue from these operations is included in the MIS Other LOB and is not material to the results of the MIS segment.
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