Moody’s Investors Service is the bond credit rating business of Moody’s Corporation. The company is one of the Big Three credit rating agencies, along with Standard & Poor’s and Fitch Group and provides financial research on bonds that are issued by the government and commercial bonds.
Moody’s was founded in 1900 by John Moody to produce manuals of statistics on bond ratings, bonds, and stocks named Moody’s Manual of Industrial and Miscellaneous Securities.
The company was owned by Dun & Bradstreet until it was spun-off in 2000. At that time Moody’s Corporation was established as a holding company for Moody’s Investors Service.
Today Moody’s Corporation has two primary operating segments: Moody’s Investors Service published credit ratings on 108,000 government and commercial entities, and Moody’s Anayltics, which provides training services for financial institutions, portfolio management, and credit risk management tools.
Moody’s Corporation is traded publicly on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol MCO, is a member of the S&P 500, is #731 in the Fortune 1000, has 9,900 employees, and had $3.33 billion in revenue in 2014.
Moody's Investors Service
Moody’s Investors Service is the bond credit rating business of Moody’s Corporation. The company is one of the Big Three credit rating agencies, along with Standard & Poor’s and Fitch Group and provides financial research on bonds that are issued by the government and commercial bonds.
Moody’s was founded in 1900 by John Moody to produce manuals of statistics on bond ratings, bonds, and stocks named Moody’s Manual of Industrial and Miscellaneous Securities.
The company was owned by Dun & Bradstreet until it was spun-off in 2000. At that time Moody’s Corporation was established as a holding company for Moody’s Investors Service.
History
Today Moody’s Corporation has two primary operating segments: Moody’s Investors Service published credit ratings on 108,000 government and commercial entities, and Moody’s Anayltics, which provides training services for financial institutions, portfolio management, and credit risk management tools.
Moody’s Corporation is traded publicly on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol MCO, is a member of the S&P 500, is #731 in the Fortune 1000, has 9,900 employees, and had $3.33 billion in revenue in 2014.