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Moody's (MCO) earnings history
Moody's Corporation (MCO) quarterly earnings scorecards, market reactions, transcript intelligence, and historical context.
Earnings History
Moody's Corporation
Moody's accelerated from 8% revenue growth in Q1 to 15% in Q2, with adjusted EPS of $4.68 beating consensus by roughly 10%. The beat was driven by Moody's Investors Service, where transaction revenue surged 34% on $2 trillion in rated issuance — primarily AI data-center financing and private credit. Moody's Analytics grew ARR to $3.7 billion at approximately 9% year-over-year. Management responded by raising the full-year EPS midpoint to $16.75 and upgrading the issuance outlook to mid-single-digit growth. New strategic milestones included on-chain ratings on Solana, a re-entry into insurance-linked securities via a EUR 100 million flood catbond, and expanded AI integrations with Amazon and Microsoft. Despite the solid quarter, the stock reaction was muted — the abnormal move was essentially flat at -0.10% with subsequent drift of -1.12% — which may reflect the stock's pre-earnings…
Moody's Corporation
Moody's fiscal Q1 2026 showed durable earnings growth and resilient demand: EPS rose 13% to $4.33 on 8% revenue growth with a 53.2% operating margin, as rated issuance hit a record $2 trillion on AI infrastructure, private credit and energy transition. Management kept the full-year outlook unchanged while raising buyback guidance, signaling conviction in continued growth albeit with volatility in issuance as the main swing factor.
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The supplied analysis supports a constructive but execution-dependent view: resilient demand for decision-grade data, ratings, private-credit analytics, KYC, and insurance modeling provides a foundation for growth, while AI monetization, competition, and customer concentration are the key tests.
Moody's Corporation
The quarter strengthened the case for durable earnings growth: management cited strong issuance, private-credit expansion, AI-enabled analytics, and climate-risk demand, but the thesis still depends on sustainable issuance and successful monetization of newer solutions.
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