Ratings

As a leading global provider of credit ratings, research, and risk analysis, we offer valuable insights into the financial stability and creditworthiness of organizations, debt instruments, and securities.

Credit ratings from Moody’s Ratings allow issuers to create timely, go-to-market debt strategies and capture wider investor focus. Likewise, investors gain a broad view of global debt markets through our credit ratings and research.

Moody’s insights can help decision-makers navigate through market volatility.

How can we help?

We provide organizations with a comprehensive perspective of the global debt markets through our global credit ratings and in-depth research.

Understand and manage risks

We combine detailed analysis, rich data, and innovative technology to help organizations understand and manage risks.

Elevate strategic thinking

Our in-depth and timely insights into the creditworthiness and risk profiles of diverse investments help organizations make informed choices.

Identify opportunities

We help individuals and organizations identify opportunities and risks by providing access to research, data, and analyses on various industries, sectors, markets, ESG factors impacting credit analysis, opinions on sustainable debt instruments, and more.

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Understanding ratings

As capital markets become increasingly global and interconnected, investors are faced with an extensive and often bewildering choice of investment opportunities. Learn how Moody's Ratings speaks to the relative credit risk of debt instruments and securities across industries and asset classes around the globe.

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What is a credit rating?

Learn how ratings and analyses address the relative credit risk of debt instruments and securities across global industries and asset classes.

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The rating process

Moody's Ratings offers a clear, transparent, and thorough rating process, with timely assessments to help you make informed decisions.

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The rating scale

Credit ratings assigned on Moody’s Ratings’ global long-term and short-term rating scales are forward-looking opinions of the relative credit risks of financial obligations.

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01 Public credit ratings

Public credit ratings

Our public rating service can offer valuable solutions for an entity seeking capital market access, allowing for public comparison to peers and other debt issuers.

A public rating may help:

Issuers enhance financing with diversified funding options in capital markets
Provide market participants with an independent evaluation of credit quality at the issuer and instrument level

Private credit ratings

We offer a suite of private monitored credit rating services, including entity-level credit ratings for issuers, loan ratings for borrowers, and private ratings for investors. These ratings are distributed on a confidential basis via a secure data room.

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03 Unpublished ratings

Unpublished ratings

Our unpublished rating services enhance lending decisions for borrowers and provide investors with access to private debt instrument ratings. These ratings are distributed on a confidential basis via a secure data room.

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04 Other Permissible Services

Other Permissible Services

Other Permissible Services (OPS) include non-credit rating products.

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01 Public credit ratings
02 Private credit ratings
03 Unpublished ratings
04 Other Permissible Services

Public credit ratings

Our public rating service can offer valuable solutions for an entity seeking capital market access, allowing for public comparison to peers and other debt issuers.

A public rating may help:

Issuers enhance financing with diversified funding options in capital markets
Provide market participants with an independent evaluation of credit quality at the issuer and instrument level

Private credit ratings

Discover our suite of services:

Unpublished ratings

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Other Permissible Services

Other Permissible Services (OPS) include non-credit rating products.

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Why Moody's Ratings

Knowledge

We provide a comprehensive view of global markets through our ratings and research. See how we deliver knowledge across sectors and regions through our latest research.

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Credibility

We have a strong history of delivering forward-looking, independent, stable and transparent opinions. Don’t just take our word for it.

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Engagement

We engage in meaningful interactions between our analysts and market participants across multiple channels.

Moody’s Ratings by the numbers*

$73 trillion

total rated debt

33,200+

rated entities and transactions

190+

rating methodologies

~58,000

global event participants

1,700+

analysts

100+

years of experience

23,600+

publications

540+

global events

40+

global offices

*Sources for "Moody’s Ratings by the numbers":

Moody's Ratings data as of 01 January 2024; Research and Events data covers the period of 01 January 2023 to 31 December 2023
All numbers are rounded

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Sep 26, 2024

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Easing job market is leading US consumer spending to stabilize from rapid growth

Slower wage growth, modest savings and still-tight monetary policy will continue to limit consumption. Default rates for companies in sectors sensitive to consumer strength have mostly passed peaks.

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Aug 27, 2024

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Global growth finds a stable footing as inflation slows and central banks sync on rates

Most G-20 economies will turn from recovery to steady expansion in 2025 as monetary policies turn less restrictive. Risks lie in festering geopolitical frictions and a cooling US labor market.

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Aug 11, 2024

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Five factors that will shape credit conditions in the second half

Monetary policy, the global economy and commercial real estate’s continued resilience to high rates, geopolitics and elections will all shape credit quality in the second half of 2024.