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Not exactly a vote of no confidence
Ninety One UK Ltd trimmed its Moody’s position by 17,591 shares, leaving it with 835,862 shares worth about $427 million. That’s only a 2.1% haircut, so this isn’t the kind of exit that sends everyone sprinting for the doors — but it is the sort of filing that makes you squint at a stock that’s already widely owned and richly valued.
The insider paper trail is a little softer
The article also flags some insider selling, including CEO Robert Fauber and SVP Richard Steele. Nothing here screams “storm warning,” especially with one sale tied to a pre-arranged Rule 10b5-1 plan, but it does add to the sense that the easy upside may be getting harder to find.
Meanwhile, the business is doing its thing
This is the part that keeps Moody’s from turning into a doom story. The company just beat quarterly expectations, posting $3.64 in EPS on $1.89 billion of revenue, and it raised FY2026 guidance to $16.40–$17.00 in EPS. Oh, and it bumped the quarterly dividend to $1.03. So the stock may be getting a little less love from some holders, but the underlying business is still behaving like a cash machine.
Big picture
For investors, this looks less like a “sell everything” headline and more like a reminder that even high-quality names can get a little crowded. If you own Moody’s, the fundamentals are still doing the heavy lifting — but the ownership data suggests some big players are quietly taking chips off the table.