Morningstar Inc is a leading provider of independent investment research and data, offering insights and analysis designed to help investors make informed decisions. The company specializes in a wide range of financial products and services, including mutual fund ratings, investment management, and portfolio analysis tools. Through its comprehensive research reports and advanced analytical platforms, Morningstar empowers individual and institutional investors to evaluate investment options and build robust portfolios, fostering greater transparency and understanding within the financial markets. Read More
Quarterly earnings results are a good time to check in on a company’s progress, especially compared to its peers in the same sector. Today we are looking at Morningstar (NASDAQ:MORN) and the best and worst performers in the financial exchanges & data industry.
As the Q4 earnings season comes to a close, it’s time to take stock of this quarter’s best and worst performers in the financial exchanges & data industry, including MSCI (NYSE:MSCI) and its peers.
What a brutal six months it’s been for Morningstar. The stock has dropped 39% and now trades at $159.50, rattling many shareholders. This might have investors contemplating their next move.
As the Q4 earnings season wraps, let’s dig into this quarter’s best and worst performers in the financial exchanges & data industry, including CME Group (NASDAQ:CME) and its peers.
The end of the earnings season is always a good time to take a step back and see who shined (and who not so much). Let’s take a look at how financial exchanges & data stocks fared in Q4, starting with MarketAxess (NASDAQ:MKTX).
Morningstar, Inc. (Nasdaq: MORN), a leading provider of independent investing insights, has appointed Scott Brown as President, Direct Platform, effective March 2, 2026. Brown will lead Morningstar’s largest business segment and a core growth engine, with flagship products such as Morningstar Direct, Morningstar Data, and Direct Advisory Suite (the latest evolution of Advisor Workstation) and capabilities such as manager research and ratings embedded within it.
Morningstar Retirement, part of Morningstar, Inc. (Nasdaq: MORN), a leading provider of independent investment insights, today announced a strategic collaboration with Alta Trust Company and a group of leading asset managers to launch the Foundation Series Collective Investment Trusts (CITs), a set of six multi-manager portfolios designed to broaden access to institutional-quality investment services for retirement plans of all sizes.
Investment research firm Morningstar (NASDAQ:MORN) announced better-than-expected revenue in Q4 CY2025, with sales up 8.5% year on year to $641.1 million. Its GAAP profit of $2.83 per share was 31% above analysts’ consensus estimates.
Morningstar, Inc. (Nasdaq: MORN), a leading provider of independent investment insights, reported solid fourth-quarter revenue growth with increases in operating and free cash flows.
PitchBook, the leading private capital market intelligence platform, today announced the launch of PitchBook Valuation Estimates, the industry’s first daily, standardized valuation framework designed to improve transparency in private markets by delivering a consistent, independent, and data-informed valuation signal across thousands of VC-backed companies. Built to reflect how markets are pricing companies today—not at the last funding event—the model combines machine learning with PitchBook’s best-in-class private market data, public market signals, and deep capital structure insight to deliver market-informed valuations.
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Morningstar, Inc. (NASDAQ: MORN), a leading provider of independent investment insights, has completed its previously announced acquisition of the Center for Research in Security Prices (CRSP), a premier provider of historical stock market data and indexes, from the University of Chicago, for $365 million, subject to customary adjustments.
