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Lisa Westlake Insider Sell Transaction
Shareholder Lisa Westlake of Moody's Corporation (NYSE:MCO)
109.89 -0.38 -0.34%
, sold 13,675 of the public company shares having an approx. value of $1,500,011 USD with an average of $109.7 per share price. This is not her first insider trade, in the last month, she unloaded another 12,495 shares worth $1,335,613 USD. This trade was conducted on 21-05-2015. A document submitted with the Washington-based Security and Exchange Commission and freely accessible here, discloses more information for the trade. And, It’s sure Lisa’s trade isn’t going to stay a secret as she right now is having 23,971 shares – ( 0.01% of Moodys Corp’s Market Cap ).
Moodys Corp Stock Rating, Sentiment and Fundamentals
Mr. Lisa’s trade could mean only one: that she’s very negative when it comes to Moodys Corp’s future and its stock price. Furthermore, ten equity analysts, too see a cloudy future of the firm with forecasted $4.60 EPS and price-earnings ratio of 23.96. They see year-on-year earnings-per-share growth rate of not more than 13.10%.
Rating & Sentiment
PsychSignal Social:
BUY
Analysts Rating:
BUY
Hedge Funds Sentiment:
BUY
Stock Fundamentals
Earnings + FCF Trend:
BUY
Sector/Industry Macro:
BULLISH
Valuation Models:
-
Technical Analysis
ST Trend:
UP
MT Trend:
UP
LT Trend:
UP
OctaFinance Rating*:
NEUTRAL
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OctaFinance’s trend following model, coupled with Lisa Westlake’s new stock trade, gives us no choice but to rate the stock “NEUTRAL”. Over the last 200 days, Moodys Corp’s price per share has climbed 27.70% and shows a strong and smooth uptrend.
Price Chart of Moody'S Corporation NYSE:MCO Stock
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Source: RightEdgeSystems, Yahoo Split & Dividend Adjusted Data and OctaFinance Interpretations
Hedge Funds Ownership
Data gathered from 13F filings from SEC, show that 483 institutional investors own Moodys Corp. The tracked institutional investors have historically had a very high interest in the firm, and that was also the case in the last quarter. The institutional ownership was 90.22% of the stock’s outstanding shares. They decreased by 4.67 million the total shares they hold. As of that quarter these institutional and hedge funds owned 182.40 million shares. A total of 28 funds closed their positions in Moodys Corp and 165 reduced their holdings. There were 65 funds that created new positions and 157 funds that added to their positions.
As revealed by SEC’s 13F filings, 18 hedge funds hold the stock in their Top 10 stock holdings. These are: Echinus Advisors Llc, Childrens Investment Fund Management (Uk) Llp, Contravisory Investment Management Inc., Marshfield Associates, Investec Asset Management Ltd, Jericho Capital Asset Management L.P., Akre Capital Management Llc, Altarock Partners Llc, Princeton Alpha Management Lp, Madison Street Partners Llc.
Echinus Advisors Llc is the most positive institutional investor on Moodys Corp, with ownership of 431,900 shares as of Q4 2014 for 22.47% of the fund’s portfolio. Chris Hohn’s Childrens Investment Fund Management (Uk) Llp is another positive institutional investor possessing 8.90 million shares of the company or 33.39% of their stocks portfolio. Contravisory Investment Management Inc. have 3.48% of their stock portfolio invested in the stock for 179,594 shares. In addition, The Dc-based fund Marshfield Associates disclosed it had acquired a stake worth 8.75% of the fund’s stock portfolio in the company. Investec Asset Management Ltd was also a big supporter of the stock, possessing 3.37 million shares. Moodys Corp is 1.97% of the fund’s stock portfolio.
Moody's Corporation NYSE:MCO Company Profile
Moody’s Corporation (Moody’s) is a provider of credit ratings; credit, capital markets and economic related research, data and analytical tools; software solutions and related risk management services; quantitative credit risk measures, financial services training and certification services and outsourced research and analytical services to institutional customers. The Company has two segments: MIS and MA. The MIS segment consists of all credit rating activity. All of Moody’s other non-rating commercial activities are included within the MA segment. MIS publishes credit ratings on a range of debt obligations and the entities that issue such obligations in markets worldwide including corporate and governmental obligations, structured finance securities and commercial paper programs. The MA segment develops a range of products and services that support financial analysis and risk management activities of institutional participants in global financial markets.
Today its market cap is: $22.22 billion and it has 201.51 million outstanding shares. Currently the company has 92.01% shareholders and the institutional ownership stands at 92.01%. The company has 9900 employees. Moodys Corp was incorporated in Delaware on 2000-06-02. The stock closed at $109.89 yesterday and it had average 2 days volume of 209064 shares. It is down from the 30 days average shares volume of 212530. Moodys Corp has a 52 weeks low of $81.49 and a 52w high of $110.50. The current price is above the 200 days simple moving average. Moodys Corp last issued its quarterly earnings report on 05/01/2015. The company reported 1.11 EPS for the quarter, above the consensus estimate of 1.03 by 0.08. The company had a revenue of 865.60 million for 3/31/2015 and 877.50 million for 12/31/2014. Therefore, the revenue was -11,900,000 down.
* As of the last statement dated March 31 – 2015.
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