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Mar. 20	Autonomous Research Adjusts Moody's Price Target to $487 From $481	MT
Mar. 14	Moody's Upgrades Greece to Investment Grade	DJ

Summary: Moody's Corporation

The company has strong fundamentals. More than 70% of companies have a lower mix of growth, profitability, debt and visibility.
The company presents an interesting fundamental situation from a short-term investment perspective.
The company has a good ESG score relative to its sector, according to MSCI.

Highlights: Moody's Corporation

The company's EBITDA/Sales ratio is relatively high and results in high margins before depreciation, amortization and taxes.
Margins returned by the company are among the highest on the stock exchange list. Its core activity clears big profits.
Over the past year, analysts have regularly revised upwards their sales forecast for the company.
Analysts have consistently raised their revenue expectations for the company, which provides good prospects for the current and next years in terms of revenue growth.
For the past year, analysts covering the stock have been revising their EPS expectations upwards in a significant manner.
For the last few months, EPS revisions have remained quite promising. Analysts now anticipate higher profitability levels than before.
The average price target of analysts who are interested in the stock has been strongly revised upwards over the last four months.
There is high visibility into the group's activities for the coming years. Outlooks on future revenues from analysts covering the equity remain similar. Such hardly dispersed estimates support highly predictable sales for the current and upcoming fiscal years.
Analysts' price targets are all relatively close, reflecting good visibility on the company's valuation.

Weaknesses: Moody's Corporation

The company's valuation in terms of earnings multiples is rather high. Indeed, the firm is getting paid 35.48 times its estimated earnings per share for the ongoing year.
The company's "enterprise value to sales" ratio is among the highest in the world.
The company appears highly valued given the size of its balance sheet.
The company is highly valued given the cash flows generated by its activity.
The company is not the most generous with respect to shareholders' compensation.

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