Moody's Overview: Moody’s Corporation is a publicly-traded company headquartered in New York. Its subsidiaries are:
- Moody's Investors Service
- Moody's KMV (credit analysis tools)
- Moody's Economy.com (economic research and data)
- Moody's Wall Street Analytics (structured finance software and analysis)
The main lines of business in the principal subsidiary, Moody's Investors Service, are:
- Credit Ratings
- Investment Research
- Risk Analysis
- Financial Data and Information
Size: Moody's reports these figures as of June, 2008:
- Employees = 3,500
- Analysts = 1,000
- Offices in 29 countries
- Offices in the U.S. = 6
- Tracks debt of over 100 nations
- Tracks debt of over 12,000 corporate issuers
- Tracks debt of over 29,000 public finance issuers
- Tracks over 96,000 structured finance obligations
Positives: Moody's focuses solely on rating debt issues, with a particular expertise in municipal bonds. People interested in the latter field might find Moody's to be their employer of choice. Moody's has been in the credit rating business since 1909.
Negatives: See the rating agencies overview.
