MSCI (MSCI) Cash, Cash Equivalents, Marketable Securities

: $458 Mil (As of Dec. 2023)

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MSCI's quarterly cash, cash equivalents, marketable securities increased from Jun. 2023 ($788.44 Mil) to Sep. 2023 ($924.71 Mil) but then stayed the same from Sep. 2023 ($924.71 Mil) to Dec. 2023 ($457.82 Mil).

MSCI's annual cash, cash equivalents, marketable securities declined from Dec. 2021 ($1,421.45 Mil) to Dec. 2022 ($993.20 Mil) and declined from Dec. 2022 ($993.20 Mil) to Dec. 2023 ($457.82 Mil).

MSCI Cash, Cash Equivalents, Marketable Securities Historical Data

The historical data trend for MSCI's Cash, Cash Equivalents, Marketable Securities can be seen below:

* For Operating Data section: All numbers are indicated by the unit behind each term and all currency related amount are in USD.
* For other sections: All numbers are in millions except for per share data, ratio, and percentage. All currency related amount are indicated in the company's associated stock exchange currency.

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MSCI Annual Data

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Dec23

Cash, Cash Equivalents, Marketable Securities

1,506.57

1,300.52

1,421.45

993.20

457.82

MSCI Quarterly Data
	Mar19	Jun19	Sep19	Dec19	Mar20	Jun20	Sep20	Dec20	Mar21	Jun21	Sep21	Dec21	Mar22	Jun22	Sep22	Dec22	Mar23	Jun23	Sep23	Dec23
Cash, Cash Equivalents, Marketable Securities																993.20	1,076.74	788.44	924.71	457.82

MSCI Cash, Cash Equivalents, Marketable Securities Calculation

Cash and cash equivalents are the most liquid assets on the balance sheet. Cash equivalents are assets that are readily convertible into cash, such as money market holdings, short-term government bonds or Treasury bills, marketable securities and commercial paper.

Marketable Securities are very liquid securities that can be converted into cash quickly at a reasonable price.

MSCI (NYSE:MSCI) Cash, Cash Equivalents, Marketable Securities Explanation

Marketable securities are very liquid as they tend to have maturities of less than one year. Furthermore, the rate at which these securities can be bought or sold has little effect on their prices.

A high number means either:

1) The company has competitive advantage generating lots of cash

2) Just sold a business or bonds (not necessarily good)

A low stockpile of cash usually means poor to mediocre economics.

There are 3 ways to create large cash reserve.

1) Sell new bonds or equity to public

2) Sell business or asset

3) It has an ongoing business generating more cash than it burns (usually means durable competitive advantage)

When a company is suffering a short term problem, Buffett looks at cash or marketable securities to see whether it has the financial strength to ride it out.

Important: Lots of cash and marketable securities + little debt = good chance that the business will sail on through tough times.

Test to see what is creating cash by looking at past 7 yrs of balance sheets. This will reveal how the cash was created.

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MSCI (MSCI) Business Description

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Address

250 Greenwich Street, 49th Floor, 7 World Trade Center, New York, NY, USA, 10007

Website

https://www.msci.com

MSCI describes its mission as enabling investors to build better portfolios for a better world. MSCI's largest and most profitable segment is its index segment, where it provides benchmarking to asset managers and asset owners. In addition, it boasts over $1.3 trillion in ETF assets linked to MSCI indexes. The MSCI analytics segment provides portfolio management and risk management analytics software to asset managers and asset owners. MSCI's all other segment was broken out into ESG and climate and private assets segments in 2021. In ESG and climate, MSCI provides ESG data to the investment industry. In private assets, MSCI provides real restate reporting, market data, benchmarking, and analytics to investors and real estate managers.

Executives

Robert J. Gutowski	officer: General Counsel	C/O MSCI INC., 7 WORLD TRADE CENTER, 49TH FLOOR, NEW YORK NY 10007
Scott A Crum	officer: Chief Human Resources Officer	C/O MSCI INC., 7 WORLD TRADE CENTER, 250 GREENWICH STREET, 49TH FL., NEW YORK NY 10007
Catherine R Kinney	director	C/O QTS REALTY TRUST INC., 12851 FOSTER STREET, OVERLAND PARK KS 66213
Andrew C. Wiechmann	officer: Interim CFO and Treasurer	7 WORLD TRADE CENTER, 250 GREENWICH STREET, 49TH FLOOR, NEW YORK NY 10007
Robin Matlock	director	C/O IRON MOUNTAIN INCORPORATED, ONE FEDERAL STREET, BOSTON MA 02110
Cd Baer Pettit	officer: Head of Client Coverage	MSCI INC., 88 PINE STREET, NEW YORK NY 10005
Jennifer H Mak	officer: Principal Accounting Officer	115 TABOR ROAD, MORRIS PLAINS NJ 07950
Rajat Taneja	director	C/O ELECTRONIC ARTS INC., 209 REDWOOD SHORES PARKWAY, LEGAL DEPT., REDWOOD CITY CA 94065
Paula Volent	director	MSCI INC., 7 WORLD TRADE CENTER, 49TH FLOOR, NEW YORK NY 10007
Sandy C. Rattray	director	MSCI INC., 7 WORLD TRADE CENTER, 49TH FLOOR, NEW YORK NY 10007
Henry A Fernandez	director, officer: Chairman, CEO and President	MSCI INC., 88 PINE STREET, NEW YORK NY 10005
Laurent Seyer	officer: Global Head of Client Cvrg	7 WORLD TRADE CENTER, 250 GREENWICH STREET, 49TH FLOOR, NEW YORK NY 10007
Benjamin F Dupont	director	C/O MSCI INC., 88 PINE STREET, NEW YORK NY 10005
Linda Huber	officer: CFO and Treasurer	FACTSET RESEARCH SYSTEMS INC., 45 GLOVER AVENUE, NORWALK CT 06850
Jigar Thakkar	officer: Chief Technology Officer	C/O MSCI INC., 7 WORLD TRADE CENTER, 49TH FLOOR, NEW YORK NY 10007