MSCI (MSCI) Hits New Lifetime High Today

Trade-Ideas LLC identified MSCI (MSCI) as a new lifetime high candidate
By TheStreet Wire ,

Trade-Ideas LLC identified

MSCI

(

MSCI

) as a new lifetime high candidate. In addition to specific proprietary factors, Trade-Ideas identified MSCI as such a stock due to the following factors:

  • MSCI has an average dollar-volume (as measured by average daily share volume multiplied by share price) of $33.1 million.
  • MSCI has traded 40,260 shares today.
  • MSCI is trading at a new lifetime high.

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More details on MSCI:

MSCI Inc., together with its subsidiaries, provides investment decision support tools worldwide. Its tools include indexes, portfolio risk and performance analytics, and multi-asset class market risk analytics products and services. The stock currently has a dividend yield of 1.4%. MSCI has a PE ratio of 36. Currently there is 1 analyst that rates MSCI a buy, 1 analyst rates it a sell, and 5 rate it a hold.

The average volume for MSCI has been 706,200 shares per day over the past 30 days. MSCI has a market cap of $6.7 billion and is part of the technology sector and telecommunications industry. The stock has a beta of 0.89 and a short float of 0.7% with 1.68 days to cover. Shares are up 38.1% year-to-date as of the close of trading on Thursday.

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TheStreetRatings.com

Analysis:

TheStreet Quant Ratings

rates MSCI as a

buy

. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its revenue growth, expanding profit margins, good cash flow from operations, solid stock price performance and impressive record of earnings per share growth. Although the company may harbor some minor weaknesses, we feel they are unlikely to have a significant impact on results.

Highlights from the ratings report include:

  • MSCI's revenue growth has slightly outpaced the industry average of 3.2%. Since the same quarter one year prior, revenues slightly increased by 6.8%. Growth in the company's revenue appears to have helped boost the earnings per share.
  • The gross profit margin for MSCI INC is currently very high, coming in at 75.60%. It has increased from the same quarter the previous year. Along with this, the net profit margin of 23.96% significantly outperformed against the industry average.
  • Net operating cash flow has increased to $133.96 million or 24.53% when compared to the same quarter last year. In addition, MSCI INC has also modestly surpassed the industry average cash flow growth rate of 15.56%.
  • Powered by its strong earnings growth of 34.09% and other important driving factors, this stock has surged by 39.76% over the past year, outperforming the rise in the S&P 500 Index during the same period. Regarding the stock's future course, although almost any stock can fall in a broad market decline, MSCI should continue to move higher despite the fact that it has already enjoyed a very nice gain in the past year.
  • MSCI INC has improved earnings per share by 34.1% in the most recent quarter compared to the same quarter a year ago. The company has demonstrated a pattern of positive earnings per share growth over the past two years. We feel that this trend should continue. During the past fiscal year, MSCI INC increased its bottom line by earning $1.70 versus $1.65 in the prior year. This year, the market expects an improvement in earnings ($2.16 versus $1.70).

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