What smart money is saying about Moody's Corporation
3 funds in our archive have pitched Moody's Corporation, most recently Akre Capital in September 2026.
Moody's Corporation operates as a global leader in risk assessment, divided into two main segments: Moody's Investors Service and Moody's Analytics. Moody's Investors Service is dedicated to issuing credit ratings and providing detailed assessments for a diverse range of debt obligations and the entities that issue them. This encompasses corporate, financial institution, governmental, and structured finance securities across approximately 140 nations. These ratings are made publicly available through press releases, digital media, and real-time financial information systems. Its vast scope includes ratings for thousands of non-financial corporations, financial institutions, public finance issuers, sovereign and sub-sovereign governments, supranational bodies, infrastructure projects, and structured finance deals. The Moody's Analytics segment develops and provides a comprehensive suite of products and services designed to support the risk management needs of institutional participants in financial markets. This includes subscription-based research, data, and analytical tools such as credit ratings, quantitative credit scores, economic forecasts, business intelligence, commercial real estate data, and specialized training and certification programs. Additionally, this segment offers offshore analytical and research services, along with advanced software solutions for risk management. Originally founded in 1900 and headquartered in New York, New York, the company was known as Dun and Bradstreet Company before officially becoming Moody's Corporation in September 2000.
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Fund signal · last 12 months
14 lettersToo few moves on Moody's Corporation yet for a clear signal
Moves described in fund letters in our archive. A sentence published word for word by several funds of one house in the same quarter counts once.
Position history
Between Q4 2025 and Q3 2026, 14 fund letters reported a position in Moody's Corporation, with 2 buys (opened or added) and 2 sells (trimmed or exited).
| Quarter | Letters | Bought | Sold | Theses |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Q3 2026 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Q2 2026 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Q1 2026 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Q4 2025 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Bought and Sold count moves: the same sentence published by several funds of one house in a quarter counts once.
Fund activity · 14 positions · 5 moves
- HoldsAkre CapitalSeptember 2026
“Moody’s: Moody’s has enjoyed a phenomenal first half of the year, benefiting from the record debt issuance funding the AI compute buildout.”
Moody's Corporation - HoldsAkre Focus ETFSeptember 2026
“Moody’s: Moody’s has enjoyed a phenomenal first half of the year, benefiting from the record debt issuance funding the AI compute buildout.”
Moody's Corporation - September 2026
“Two positions were eliminated in the quarter. Fair Isaac (FICO) owns the FICO score that banks use to decide whether to approve your mortgage, car loan or credit card. Historically, selling the FICO score was an enormously profitable business. Recent government changes encouraging competitors like VantageScore will likely limit FICO's pricing power, margins and profit outlook. Moody's (MCO) earns most of its money rating bonds, the letter grades that tell investors how risky a bond is. When companies and governments borrow money, they hire Moody's to rate their debt.”
Moody's Corporation - New positionArtisan Partners Global Equity StrategySeptember 2026
“As mentioned, our additions to the portfolio were mostly centered around our three themes. Within financials, we added Moody’s, a credit rating, research and risk analysis firm.”
Moody's Corporation - September 2026
“As mentioned, our additions to the portfolio were mostly centered around our three themes. Within financials, we added Moody’s, a credit rating, research and risk analysis firm.”
Moody's Corporation - HoldsBretton FundSeptember 2026
Listed in Bretton Fund’s reported holdings.
Moody's Corporation - New positionAoris International FundJune 2026
“Purchases Moody’s Moody’s provides credit opinions, data, and analytics tools to help its customers manage risk.”
Moody's Corporation - June 2026
“It was an unusual quarter from a performance attribution perspective. Information Technology (IT) was the only sector in the Index to outperform the Index, accounting for two-thirds of its total gain. The Fund’s entire 156bps shortfall relative to the Index could be attributed either to weak stock selection in IT, which detracted 279bps, or to weak stock selection in Financials, which cost an additional 227bps. Somehow, all 11 of our holdings classified as Financials, including Visa and Mastercard , which we view as digital railroads, and MSCI , Moody’s , and S&P Global , which we view as business services, detracted from our relative returns during the quarter.”
Moody's Corporation - HoldsAkre Focus ETFJune 2026
“Recent examples of AI adoption, monetization, or lack of AI-related disruption among our portfolio companies include: • CCC Intelligent Solutions (CCC): $120 million annualized revenue run-rate (ARR) from its Emerging Solutions’ products of which AI is the largest contributor. The company’s Emerging Solutions revenue grew 50% year-over-year. • Salesforce (CRM): Agentforce + Data 360 (key AI products) ARR up 225% to $3.4 billion in Q1 (119% organic). • ServiceNow (NOW): raised 2026 AI revenue guidance by 50% from the prior quarter; announced $300 million in cost savings from internal AI adoption; gross dollar retention steady at 98%. • Constellation Software: no material customer losses to “AI-native” startups across their portfolio of ~1,500 vertical market software companies. • Fair Isaac (FICO): has filed 137 AI-based patents. Second Quarter 2026 Akre Capital Management, LLC | 2 West Marshall Street, Middleburg, Virginia 20117 | 540-687-3880 | akrecapital.com | akrefund.com • CoStar Group (CSGP): Launched Homes Ai and Apartments.com Ai, adding conversational natural language search capabilities to its leading home and apartment online portals and leveraging the company’s unmatched proprietary property data and imagery. • Moody’s (MCO): Rated over $100 billion in AI-related debt issuance during Q1; expanded distribution of its decision intelligence analytics into enterprise AI environments such as Anthropic, OpenAI, AWS, Azure, etc.”
Moody's Corporation - June 2026
“Thermo Fisher Scientific (TMO), Moody’s (MCO), & Sherwin-Williams (SHW) We also exited our positions in Thermo Fisher Scientific, Moody’s, and Sherwin-Williams.”
Moody's Corporation - HoldsAcción GlobalJune 2026
“Thus, during the last few months, we have had the opportunity to gradually build a "quality basket", in businesses of the highest quality, at valuations that we had not been able to find during the last 10-15 years. Some examples of them are CME Group (absolute monopoly in several specific types of derivatives and competitive advantage through a virtuous circle of liquidity very difficult to disrupt), FICO (hyper asset-light business and gold standard in credit scorings in the United States), Moody's (oligopoly of credit ratings) or Ryan Specialty (leader in non-regulated insurance brokerage).”
Moody's Corporation - HoldsHIX Capital Geo FlagshipJune 2026
Listed in HIX Capital Geo Flagship’s reported holdings.
Moody's Corporation - March 2026
“In our portfolio, a number of names were hurt by this, including Intuit, Microsoft, Moody’s, Verisk and MSCI.”
Moody's Corporation - HoldsAkreDecember 2025
Listed in Akre’s reported holdings.
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Also mentioned · 3
These funds discuss Moody's Corporation as a competitor, benchmark or comparable, without disclosing a position in it.
- MentionedFocus CM Research Position PaperJuly 2026
“Interestingly, in July 2011, Moody’s released a report listing numerous Chinese companies with red and yellow flags for accounting fraud risk.”
Moody's Corporation - MentionedPershing SquareJune 2026
“Ratings, the company’s largest and namesake business, is a powerful effective duopoly alongside Moody’s, with each company rating over 95% of U.S. corporate debt as most debt issuances are rated by at least two agencies.”
Moody's Corporation - MentionedApolloMarch 2025
“In mid-May, Moody’s downgraded the US credit rating, increasing borrowing costs for both US consumers and firms. This voluntary trade reset slowdown (Exhibit 1) is a risk to the economic outlook.”
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Fund coverage · 3 theses
- Akre CapitalSeptember 2026
Moody's benefits from standardized ratings, mission-critical analytics, and AI-enabled product adoption.
Read the full thesis - Artisan Partners Global Equity StrategySeptember 2026
Moody's Corp is a credit rating and risk analytics firm with a defensible ratings franchise, high barriers to entry, and continued demand growth.
Read the full thesis - Ironvine Capital PartnersDecember 2025
Moody's is an entrenched, capital-light credit rating franchise benefiting from regulatory barriers and secular debt growth, supporting mid-single-digit revenue growth and strong cash generation.
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