The Jensen Investment Team Sells Position in Moody’s (MCO)
April 2024
The Jensen Investment Team elected to sell portfolio holding Moody’s (ticker: MCO) from the Jensen Quality Growth Strategy due to elevated stock price valuation.
Founded in 1909, Moody’s is a global risk assessment firm focused on helping clients make better decisions. The company is best known for its investor services business and is a global leader in the issuance of credit ratings. Moody’s also boasts a growing analytics business, which provides credit opinions, private company information and commercial real estate data.
We retain a positive view of Moody’s as a business. However, the stock price exceeded our estimate of full value and we began reducing the position in 2023. We intend to closely monitor Moody’s and may consider reestablishing a position based on improvement in the company’s valuation, fundamentals and/or risk characteristics.
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