CHICAGO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–
Morningstar, Inc. (Nasdaq: MORN), a number one supplier of impartial funding insights, posted stable first-quarter income development, pushed by power throughout its enterprise.
“Morningstar celebrates its fortieth anniversary subsequent month,” stated Kunal Kapoor, Morningstar’s chief government officer. “We’re pleased with the distinction we’ve made on behalf of traders, the long-term returns we have now delivered for our shareholders, and the distinctive office we have constructed for our colleagues. With a robust begin to 2024, we stay centered on our aim of producing sturdy, long-term development.”
The Firm’s quarterly shareholder letter offers extra context on its quarterly outcomes and enterprise and might be discovered at shareholders.morningstar.com.
First-Quarter 2024 Monetary Highlights
- Reported income elevated 13.2% to $542.8 million in comparison with the prior-year interval; natural income grew 12.9%.
- Reported working revenue elevated to $92.6 million from $24.5 million; adjusted working revenue elevated 113.9%.
- Diluted web revenue (loss) per share elevated to $1.49 versus $(0.18); adjusted diluted web revenue per share elevated 208.9% to $1.73.
- Money offered by working actions elevated 300.0% to $93.6 million. Free money move elevated to $59.5 million in comparison with damaging $6.1 million within the prior-year interval.
First-Quarter 2024 Outcomes
Income elevated 13.2% to $542.8 million on a reported foundation and 12.9% on an natural foundation versus the prior-year interval, pushed by power throughout the enterprise. Morningstar Knowledge and Analytics, PitchBook, and Morningstar Credit score have been the largest contributors to reported income development.
Working expense decreased 1.1% to $450.2 million. Excluding the affect of M&A-related bills, amortization in each durations, and prices associated to the transition of the Firm’s China actions within the prior-year interval, working expense elevated 1.0% within the quarter.
The biggest contributor to the decline in reported working expense was skilled charges, primarily as a result of decrease bills for third-party sources supporting M&A integration-related exercise. This lower was partially offset by will increase in compensation and advantages.
First-quarter working revenue was $92.6 million, in comparison with $24.5 million within the prior-year interval. Adjusted working revenue was $110.8 million, a rise of 113.9%. First-quarter working margin was 17.1%, in contrast with 5.1% within the prior-year interval. Adjusted working margin was 20.4% within the first quarter of 2024, versus 10.8% within the prior-year interval.
Internet revenue (loss) within the first quarter of 2024 was $64.2 million, or $1.49 per diluted share, in contrast with web revenue (loss) of $(7.6) million, or $(0.18) per diluted share, within the first quarter of 2023. Adjusted diluted web revenue per share elevated 208.9% to $1.73 within the first quarter of 2024, in contrast with $0.56 within the prior-year interval.
The Firm’s revenue tax expense was $21.3 million, a rise of $12.9 million in comparison with the prior-year interval. The Firm’s efficient tax charge was 24.9% within the first quarter of 2024. The Firm’s prior-year interval efficient tax charge was not significant because of the low stage of pretax revenue within the interval.
Section Highlights
Morningstar Knowledge and Analytics
Morningstar Knowledge and Analytics contributed $196.7 million to consolidated income and $16.9 million to consolidated income development, with income rising 9.4% within the first quarter versus the prior-year interval, or 8.9% on an natural foundation. Progress was primarily pushed by power in Morningstar Knowledge and Morningstar Direct. Each product areas benefited from development in North America and Europe, whereas managed funding information, together with mutual fund information, continued to be a key driver of upper income for Morningstar Knowledge. Morningstar Direct licenses elevated 0.7%. Morningstar Advisor Workstation additionally made a constructive contribution to development within the quarter.
Morningstar Knowledge and Analytics adjusted working revenue elevated 12.7% to $91.2 million, and adjusted working margin elevated 1.4 proportion factors to 46.4% in contrast with the prior-year interval.
PitchBook
PitchBook contributed $147.6 million to consolidated income and $16.5 million to consolidated income development, with income rising 12.6% on a reported and natural foundation. Progress was primarily pushed by the PitchBook platform with licensed customers rising 10.5%. With the substantial completion of the Leveraged Commentary & Knowledge (LCD) integration, LCD’s core information, analysis, and information at the moment are out there on the platform. Legacy LCD shoppers are beginning to efficiently migrate to the PitchBook platform and are included in PitchBook licensed person counts. PitchBook platform development drivers have been per latest quarters with income rising primarily as a result of power in PitchBook’s core investor and advisor consumer teams which offset some softness in corporates.
PitchBook section adjusted working revenue elevated 31.6% to $40.0 million, and adjusted working margin elevated 3.9 proportion factors to 27.1%.
Morningstar Wealth
Morningstar Wealth contributed $59.0 million to consolidated income and $4.1 million to consolidated income development, with income rising 7.5% within the first quarter versus the prior-year interval, or 7.7% on an natural foundation. Progress was primarily pushed by Funding Administration, supported by larger income for strategist mannequin portfolios provided on third-party platforms and income development for the worldwide wealth platform.
Reported property beneath administration and advisement (AUMA) elevated 12.3% to $57.6 billion in contrast with the prior-year interval, helped by robust market efficiency which drove larger asset values. Constructive web flows to Morningstar Managed Portfolios over the trailing 12 months primarily mirrored robust web inflows outdoors the USA (U.S.). These offset decrease AUM for Institutional Asset Administration which skilled important anticipated outflows from a big institutional consumer.
Morningstar Wealth adjusted working loss was $5.6 million, in comparison with a $14.6 million loss within the prior-year interval and adjusted working margin was damaging 9.5%, in contrast with damaging 26.6%. The loss narrowed in comparison with the prior-year interval due partly to price containment efforts, together with focused reorganizations in 2023 and a concentrate on discretionary bills.
Morningstar Credit score
Morningstar Credit score contributed $60.3 million to consolidated income and $13.5 million to consolidated income development, with income rising 28.8% within the first quarter versus the prior-year interval, or 27.9% on an natural foundation. Progress was pushed by larger income within the U.S., Canada, and Europe. Scores-related income elevated throughout asset lessons, in comparison with a comparatively delicate prior-year interval, with specific power in U.S. business and residential mortgage-backed securities. Elevated income from monetary establishment scores additionally contributed to development, as did larger company scores income, particularly in Europe.
Morningstar Credit score adjusted working revenue was $12.3 million, in contrast with a $4.0 million adjusted working loss within the prior-year interval and adjusted working revenue margin was 20.4%, in contrast with damaging 8.5% within the prior-year interval.
Morningstar Retirement
Morningstar Retirement contributed $28.4 million to consolidated income and $3.2 million to consolidated income development, with income rising 12.7% within the first quarter versus the prior-year interval on a reported and natural foundation. AUMA elevated 19.6% to $235.9 billion in contrast with the prior-year interval, primarily pushed by robust market efficiency. Internet inflows to Managed Accounts over the trailing 12 months additionally contributed to larger AUMA, supported by participant development and flows to Advisor Managed Accounts.
Morningstar Retirement adjusted working revenue elevated 26.8% to $14.2 million and adjusted working margin elevated 5.6 proportion factors to 50.0%.
Company and All Different
Income attributable to Company and All Different contributed $50.8 million to consolidated income and $8.9 million to consolidated income development, with income rising 21.2% within the first quarter versus the prior-year interval primarily pushed by development in Morningstar Indexes and Morningstar Sustainalytics.
The rise in Morningstar Indexes income was pushed primarily by larger investable product income as market efficiency and web inflows over the trailing 12 months elevated asset worth linked to Morningstar Indexes by 13.3% to $190.2 billion. Morningstar Indexes licensed information gross sales additionally elevated.
The rise in Morningstar Sustainalytics income was supported by development in license-based income, primarily pushed by regulatory use circumstances in Europe. Transaction-based income additionally grew as a result of elevated issuance of sustainable bonds.
The affect of Company and All Different on consolidated adjusted working revenue was damaging $41.3 million, in contrast with damaging $52.1 million within the prior-year interval.
Steadiness Sheet and Capital Allocation
As of March 31, 2024, the Firm had money, money equivalents, and investments totaling $409.1 million and $949.4 million of debt, in contrast with $389.0 million and $972.4 million, respectively, as of Dec. 31, 2023.
Money offered by working actions elevated 300.0% to $93.6 million for the primary quarter of 2024, in comparison with the prior-year interval. Free money move elevated to $59.5 million, in comparison with damaging $6.1 million within the prior-year interval. The will increase in money offered by working actions and free money move have been pushed primarily by larger money earnings. As beforehand disclosed, working money flows have been negatively impacted within the prior-year interval by sure objects totaling $11.4 million. As well as, the Firm paid $17.3 million in dividends within the quarter.
2024 Annual Assembly of Shareholders
The Firm’s 2024 Annual Assembly of Shareholders will probably be held at 9 a.m. Central time on Friday, Could 10, at Morningstar’s company headquarters at 22 W. Washington St. in Chicago. If you need to attend, both in individual or nearly, please register right here. The assembly will cowl the official enterprise described in Morningstar’s 2024 proxy assertion and embrace shows from Morningstar’s administration workforce, together with a dwell query and reply session open to contributors each in-person and on-line.
Use of Non-GAAP Monetary Measures
The tables on the finish of this press launch embrace a reconciliation of the non-GAAP monetary measures utilized by the Firm to comparable GAAP measures and a proof of why the Firm makes use of them.
Investor Communication
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About Morningstar, Inc.
Morningstar, Inc. is a number one supplier of impartial funding insights in North America, Europe, Australia, and Asia. The Firm provides an in depth line of merchandise and options that serve a variety of market contributors, together with particular person and institutional traders in private and non-private capital markets, monetary advisors and wealth managers, asset managers, retirement plan suppliers and sponsors, and issuers of fixed-income securities. Morningstar offers information and analysis insights on a variety of funding choices, together with managed funding merchandise, publicly listed corporations, personal capital markets, debt securities, and real-time international market information. Morningstar additionally provides funding administration companies by its funding advisory subsidiaries, with roughly $294 billion in AUMA as of March 31, 2024. The Firm operates by wholly- or majority-owned subsidiaries in 32 international locations. For extra data, go to www.morningstar.com/firm. Observe Morningstar on X (previously generally known as Twitter) @MorningstarInc.
Warning Regarding Ahead-Wanting Statements
This press launch accommodates forward-looking statements as that time period is used within the Non-public Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These statements are primarily based on our present expectations about future occasions or future monetary efficiency. Ahead-looking statements by their nature deal with issues which are, to completely different levels, unsure, and infrequently comprise phrases equivalent to “think about,” “future,” “keep,” “might,” “count on,” “potential,” “anticipate,” “imagine,” “proceed,” “will,” or the damaging thereof, and comparable expressions. These statements contain recognized and unknown dangers and uncertainties which will trigger the occasions we talk about to not happen or to vary considerably from what we count on. For us, these dangers and uncertainties embrace, amongst others, failing to take care of and defend our model, independence, and status; failure to forestall and/or mitigate cybersecurity occasions and the failure to guard confidential data, together with private details about people; compliance failures, regulatory motion, or adjustments in legal guidelines relevant to our credit score scores operations, funding advisory, environmental, social, and governance (ESG) and index companies; failing to innovate our product and repair choices, or anticipate our shoppers’ altering wants; the affect of synthetic intelligence (AI) and associated applied sciences on our enterprise, authorized and regulatory publicity profile and status; failing to detect errors in our merchandise or the failure of our merchandise to carry out correctly as a result of defects, malfunctions or comparable issues; failing to recruit, develop, and retain certified staff; extended volatility or downturns affecting the monetary sector, international monetary markets, and the worldwide economic system and its impact on our income from asset-based charges and our credit score scores enterprise; failing to scale our operations and improve productiveness so as to implement our enterprise plans and techniques; legal responsibility for any losses that end result from errors in our automated advisory instruments or errors in using the data and information we accumulate; inadequacy of our operational danger administration, enterprise continuity packages and insurance coverage protection within the occasion of a fabric disruptive occasion; failing to effectively combine and leverage acquisitions and different investments, which can not notice the anticipated enterprise or monetary advantages, to provide the outcomes we anticipate; failing to take care of development throughout our companies in immediately’s fragmented geopolitical, regulatory and cultural world; legal responsibility referring to the data and information we accumulate, retailer, use, create, and distribute or the stories that we publish or are produced by our software program merchandise; the potential antagonistic impact of our indebtedness on our money flows and monetary and operational flexibility; challenges in accounting for tax complexities within the international jurisdictions which we function in and their impact on our tax obligations and tax charges; and failing to guard our mental property rights or claims of mental property infringement towards us. A extra full description of those dangers and uncertainties, amongst others, might be present in our filings with the Securities and Alternate Fee (SEC), together with our most up-to-date Studies on Kinds 10-Okay and 10-Q. If any of those dangers and uncertainties materialize, our precise future outcomes and different future occasions might fluctuate considerably from what we count on. We don’t undertake to replace our forward-looking statements on account of new data, future occasions or in any other case, besides as could also be required by legislation. You might be, nevertheless, suggested to evaluate any additional disclosures we make on associated topics, and about new or further dangers, uncertainties and assumptions in our future filings with the SEC on Kinds 10-Okay, 10-Q and 8-Okay.
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Morningstar, Inc. and Subsidiaries Unaudited Condensed Consolidated Statements of Revenue |
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Three months ended March 31, |
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(in tens of millions, besides per share quantities) |
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2024 |
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2023 |
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Change |
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Income |
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$ |
542.8 |
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$ |
479.7 |
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13.2 |
% |
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Working expense: |
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Price of income |
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218.1 |
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218.8 |
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(0.3 |
)% |
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Gross sales and advertising and marketing |
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104.6 |
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107.6 |
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(2.8 |
)% |
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Basic and administrative |
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80.3 |
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84.0 |
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(4.4 |
)% |
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Depreciation and amortization |
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47.2 |
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44.8 |
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5.4 |
% |
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Complete working expense |
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450.2 |
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455.2 |
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(1.1 |
)% |
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Working revenue |
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92.6 |
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24.5 |
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278.0 |
% |
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Working margin |
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17.1 |
% |
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5.1 |
% |
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12.0 pp |
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Non-operating expense, web: |
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Curiosity expense, web |
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(11.5 |
) |
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(13.3 |
) |
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(13.5 |
)% |
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Expense from fairness methodology transaction, web |
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— |
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(11.8 |
) |
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NMF |
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Different revenue, web |
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5.9 |
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2.7 |
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118.5 |
% |
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Non-operating expense, web |
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(5.6 |
) |
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(22.4 |
) |
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(75.0 |
)% |
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Revenue earlier than revenue taxes and fairness in investments of unconsolidated entities |
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87.0 |
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2.1 |
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NMF |
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Fairness in investments of unconsolidated entities |
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(1.5 |
) |
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(1.3 |
) |
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15.4 |
% |
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Revenue tax expense |
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21.3 |
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|
8.4 |
|
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153.6 |
% |
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Consolidated web revenue (loss) |
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$ |
64.2 |
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$ |
(7.6 |
) |
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NMF |
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Internet revenue (loss) per share: |
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Primary |
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$ |
1.50 |
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$ |
(0.18 |
) |
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NMF |
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Diluted |
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$ |
1.49 |
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$ |
(0.18 |
) |
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NMF |
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Weighted common shares excellent: |
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Primary |
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42.7 |
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42.5 |
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Diluted |
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43.0 |
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42.5 |
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NMF – Not significant, pp – proportion factors |
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Morningstar, Inc. and Subsidiaries Unaudited Condensed Consolidated Steadiness Sheets |
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(in tens of millions) |
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As of March 31, 2024 |
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As of December 31, 2023 |
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Belongings |
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Present property: |
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Money and money equivalents |
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$ |
353.7 |
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$ |
337.9 |
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Investments |
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55.4 |
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51.1 |
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Accounts receivable, web |
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326.2 |
|
|
343.9 |
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Revenue tax receivable, web |
|
|
— |
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0.6 |
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Different present property |
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|
95.3 |
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82.2 |
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Complete present property |
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|
830.6 |
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|
815.7 |
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Goodwill |
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1,574.1 |
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1,578.8 |
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Intangible property, web |
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463.4 |
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|
484.4 |
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Property, gear, and capitalized software program, web |
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210.8 |
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207.7 |
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Working lease property |
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|
156.5 |
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|
163.9 |
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Investments in unconsolidated entities |
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96.1 |
|
|
100.2 |
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Deferred tax property, web |
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19.7 |
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|
14.6 |
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Different property |
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|
38.2 |
|
|
38.1 |
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Complete property |
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$ |
3,389.4 |
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$ |
3,403.4 |
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Liabilities and fairness |
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Present liabilities: |
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Deferred income |
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$ |
565.2 |
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$ |
517.7 |
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Accrued compensation |
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|
122.9 |
|
|
214.4 |
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Accounts payable and accrued liabilities |
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|
72.0 |
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|
78.4 |
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Working lease liabilities |
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|
34.7 |
|
|
36.4 |
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Present portion of long-term debt |
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|
32.1 |
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|
32.1 |
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Different present liabilities |
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19.9 |
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1.8 |
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Complete present liabilities |
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846.8 |
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|
880.8 |
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Working lease liabilities |
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143.8 |
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|
151.4 |
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Accrued compensation |
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|
23.3 |
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|
23.7 |
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Deferred tax liabilities, web |
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|
32.8 |
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|
35.6 |
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Lengthy-term debt |
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|
917.3 |
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|
940.3 |
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Different long-term liabilities |
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42.3 |
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43.8 |
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Complete liabilities |
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2,006.3 |
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|
2,075.6 |
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Complete fairness |
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|
1,383.1 |
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|
1,327.8 |
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Complete liabilities and fairness |
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$ |
3,389.4 |
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$ |
3,403.4 |
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Morningstar, Inc. and Subsidiaries Unaudited Condensed Consolidated Statements of Money Flows |
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Three months ended March 31, |
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(in tens of millions) |
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2024 |
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2023 |
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Working actions |
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Consolidated web revenue (loss) |
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$ |
64.2 |
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$ |
(7.6 |
) |
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Changes to reconcile consolidated web revenue (loss) to web money flows from working actions |
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43.0 |
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9.0 |
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Modifications in working property and liabilities, web |
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(13.6 |
) |
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22.0 |
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Money offered by working actions |
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93.6 |
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23.4 |
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Investing actions |
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Capital expenditures |
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(34.1 |
) |
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(29.5 |
) |
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Purchases of investments in unconsolidated entities |
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(2.8 |
) |
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(0.1 |
) |
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Different, web |
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|
10.2 |
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|
28.9 |
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Money used for investing actions |
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(26.7 |
) |
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(0.7 |
) |
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Financing actions |
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Dividends paid |
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(17.3 |
) |
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(15.9 |
) |
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Repayments of debt |
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(113.1 |
) |
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|
(73.1 |
) |
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Proceeds from debt |
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|
90.0 |
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|
95.0 |
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Fee of acquisition-related earn-outs |
|
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— |
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(45.5 |
) |
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Different, web |
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(3.1 |
) |
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(9.3 |
) |
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Money used for financing actions |
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(43.5 |
) |
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(48.8 |
) |
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Impact of trade charge adjustments on money and money equivalents |
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(7.6 |
) |
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1.7 |
|
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Internet improve (lower) in money and money equivalents |
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15.8 |
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(24.4 |
) |
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Money and money equivalents-beginning of interval |
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|
337.9 |
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376.6 |
|
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Money and money equivalents-end of interval |
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$ |
353.7 |
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$ |
352.2 |
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Morningstar, Inc. and Subsidiaries Supplemental Knowledge (Unaudited) |
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Three months ended March 31, |
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(in tens of millions) |
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2024 |
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2023 |
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Change |
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Natural (1) |
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Morningstar Knowledge and Analytics |
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Income |
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$ |
196.7 |
|
|
$ |
179.8 |
|
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9.4 |
% |
|
8.9 |
% |
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Adjusted Working Revenue |
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|
91.2 |
|
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|
80.9 |
|
|
12.7 |
% |
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Adjusted Working Margin |
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46.4 |
% |
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|
45.0 |
% |
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1.4 pp |
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PitchBook |
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Income |
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$ |
147.6 |
|
|
$ |
131.1 |
|
|
12.6 |
% |
|
12.6 |
% |
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Adjusted Working Revenue |
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|
40.0 |
|
|
|
30.4 |
|
|
31.6 |
% |
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Adjusted Working Margin |
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27.1 |
% |
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|
23.2 |
% |
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3.9 pp |
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Morningstar Wealth |
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Income |
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$ |
59.0 |
|
|
$ |
54.9 |
|
|
7.5 |
% |
|
7.7 |
% |
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Adjusted Working Revenue (Loss) |
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|
(5.6 |
) |
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(14.6 |
) |
|
(61.6 |
)% |
|
|
|
|
Adjusted Working Margin |
|
|
(9.5 |
)% |
|
|
(26.6 |
)% |
|
17.1 pp |
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|
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|
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Morningstar Credit score |
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|
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|
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Income |
|
$ |
60.3 |
|
|
$ |
46.8 |
|
|
28.8 |
% |
|
27.9 |
% |
|
Adjusted Working Revenue (Loss) |
|
|
12.3 |
|
|
|
(4.0 |
) |
|
NMF |
|
|
||
|
Adjusted Working Margin |
|
|
20.4 |
% |
|
|
(8.5 |
)% |
|
28.9 pp |
|
|
||
|
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|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
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Morningstar Retirement |
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|
|
|
|
|
|
|
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|
Income |
|
$ |
28.4 |
|
|
$ |
25.2 |
|
|
12.7 |
% |
|
12.7 |
% |
|
Adjusted Working Revenue |
|
|
14.2 |
|
|
|
11.2 |
|
|
26.8 |
% |
|
|
|
|
Adjusted Working Margin |
|
|
50.0 |
% |
|
|
44.4 |
% |
|
5.6 pp |
|
|
||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
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Consolidated Income |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
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|
Complete Reportable Segments |
|
$ |
492.0 |
|
|
$ |
437.8 |
|
|
12.4 |
% |
|
|
|
|
Company and All Different (2) |
|
|
50.8 |
|
|
|
41.9 |
|
|
21.2 |
% |
|
|
|
|
Complete Income |
|
$ |
542.8 |
|
|
$ |
479.7 |
|
|
13.2 |
% |
|
12.9 |
% |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
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|
Consolidated Adjusted Working Revenue |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
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|
Complete Reportable Segments |
|
$ |
152.1 |
|
|
$ |
103.9 |
|
|
46.4 |
% |
|
|
|
|
Much less: Company and All Different (3) |
|
|
(41.3 |
) |
|
|
(52.1 |
) |
|
(20.7 |
)% |
|
|
|
|
Adjusted Working Revenue |
|
$ |
110.8 |
|
|
$ |
51.8 |
|
|
113.9 |
% |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
||||||
|
Adjusted Working Margin |
|
|
20.4 |
% |
|
|
10.8 |
% |
|
9.6 pp |
|
|
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(1) Natural income is a non-GAAP measure that excludes acquisitions, divestitures, the impacts of the adoption of recent accounting requirements or revisions to accounting practices, and the impact of overseas forex translations. As well as, the calculation of natural income development by product income sort compares the three months ended March 31, 2024 income to the prior durations on the idea of the up to date classifications. (2) Company and All Different offers a reconciliation between income from our Complete Reportable Segments and consolidated income quantities. Company and All Different consists of Morningstar Sustainalytics and Morningstar Indexes as sources of revenues. Income from Morningstar Sustainalytics was $30.8 million and $27.3 million for the three months ended March 31, 2024 and 2023, respectively. Income from Morningstar Indexes was $20.0 million and $14.6 million for the three months ended March 31, 2024 and 2023, respectively. (3) Company and All Different consists of unallocated company bills of $40.9 million and $36.1 million for the three months ended March 31, 2024 and 2023, respectively, in addition to adjusted working revenue (loss) from Morningstar Sustainalytics and Morningstar Indexes. Unallocated company bills embrace sure finance, human sources, authorized, advertising and marketing, and different management-related prices that aren’t thought-about when section efficiency is evaluated. |
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Morningstar, Inc. and Subsidiaries Supplemental Knowledge (Unaudited) |
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|
|
|
As of March 31, |
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|
AUMA (approximate) ($bil) |
|
2024 |
|
2023 |
|
Change |
||||
|
|
Morningstar Retirement |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Managed Accounts |
|
$ |
136.1 |
|
$ |
111.7 |
|
21.8 |
% |
|
|
Fiduciary Companies |
|
|
57.8 |
|
|
50.6 |
|
14.2 |
% |
|
|
Customized Fashions/CIT |
|
|
42.0 |
|
|
34.9 |
|
20.3 |
% |
|
|
Morningstar Retirement (complete) |
|
$ |
235.9 |
|
$ |
197.2 |
|
19.6 |
% |
|
|
Funding Administration |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Morningstar Managed Portfolios |
|
$ |
40.6 |
|
$ |
34.0 |
|
19.4 |
% |
|
|
Institutional Asset Administration |
|
|
7.3 |
|
|
9.7 |
|
(24.7 |
)% |
|
|
Asset Allocation Companies |
|
|
9.7 |
|
|
7.6 |
|
27.6 |
% |
|
|
Funding Administration (complete) |
|
$ |
57.6 |
|
$ |
51.3 |
|
12.3 |
% |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||
|
Asset worth linked to Morningstar Indexes ($bil) |
|
$ |
190.2 |
|
$ |
167.8 |
|
13.3 |
% |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|
Three months ended March 31, |
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|
|
|
|
2024 |
|
2023 |
|
Change |
|||
|
Common AUMA ($bil) |
|
$ |
289.7 |
|
$ |
247.0 |
|
17.3 |
% |
|
Morningstar, Inc. and Subsidiaries
Reconciliations of Non-GAAP Measures with the Nearest Comparable GAAP Measures (Unaudited)
To complement Morningstar’s condensed consolidated monetary statements offered in accordance with U.S. Typically Accepted Accounting Ideas (GAAP), Morningstar makes use of the next measures thought-about as non-GAAP by the Securities and Alternate Fee, together with:
- consolidated income, excluding acquisitions, divestitures, adoption of recent accounting requirements or revisions to accounting practices (accounting adjustments), and the impact of overseas forex translations (natural income);
- consolidated working revenue, excluding intangible amortization expense, all merger and acquisition (M&A)-related bills (together with M&A-related earn-outs), and bills associated to the numerous discount and shift of the Firm’s operations in China (adjusted working revenue);
- consolidated working margin, excluding intangible amortization expense, all M&A-related bills (together with M&A-related earn-outs), and bills associated to the numerous discount and shift of the Firm’s operations in China (adjusted working margin);
- consolidated diluted web revenue (loss) per share, excluding intangible amortization expense, all M&A-related bills (together with M&A-related earn-outs), objects associated to the numerous discount and shift of the Firm’s operations in China, and sure non-operating good points/losses (adjusted diluted web revenue per share); and
- money offered by or used for working actions much less capital expenditures (free money move).
These non-GAAP measures might not be corresponding to equally titled measures reported by different corporations and shouldn’t be thought-about a substitute for any measure or efficiency as promulgated beneath GAAP.
Morningstar presents natural income as a result of the Firm believes this non-GAAP measure helps traders higher examine period-over-period outcomes, and Morningstar’s administration workforce makes use of this measure to guage the efficiency of the enterprise. Morningstar excludes income from acquired companies from its natural income development calculation for a interval of 12 months after it completes the acquisition. For divestitures, Morningstar excludes income within the prior-year interval for which there isn’t a comparable income within the present interval.
Morningstar presents adjusted working revenue, adjusted working margin, and adjusted diluted web revenue per share to indicate the impact of great acquisition exercise, higher examine period-over-period outcomes, and enhance total understanding of the underlying efficiency of the enterprise absent the affect of M&A and the shift of Morningstar’s operations in China.
As well as, Morningstar presents free money move solely as supplemental disclosure to assist traders higher perceive how a lot money is on the market after making capital expenditures. Morningstar’s administration workforce makes use of free money move to guage the well being of its enterprise. Free money move shouldn’t be thought-about a substitute for any measure required to be reported beneath GAAP (equivalent to money offered by (used for) working, investing, and financing actions).
|
|
|
Three months ended March 31, |
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|
(in tens of millions) |
|
|
2024 |
|
|
|
2023 |
|
|
Change |
|
|
Reconciliation from consolidated income to natural income: |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||
|
Consolidated income |
|
$ |
542.8 |
|
|
$ |
479.7 |
|
|
13.2 |
% |
|
Much less: acquisitions |
|
|
— |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
— |
% |
|
Much less: accounting adjustments |
|
|
— |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
— |
% |
|
Impact of overseas forex translations |
|
|
(1.2 |
) |
|
|
— |
|
|
NMF |
|
|
Natural income |
|
$ |
541.6 |
|
|
$ |
479.7 |
|
|
12.9 |
% |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||
|
Reconciliation from consolidated working revenue to adjusted working revenue: |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||
|
Consolidated working revenue |
|
$ |
92.6 |
|
|
$ |
24.5 |
|
|
278.0 |
% |
|
Add: Intangible amortization expense (1) |
|
|
17.7 |
|
|
|
17.5 |
|
|
1.1 |
% |
|
Add: M&A-related bills (2) |
|
|
0.5 |
|
|
|
4.2 |
|
|
(88.1 |
)% |
|
Add: M&A-related earn-outs (3) |
|
|
— |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
— |
% |
|
Add: Severance and personnel bills (4) |
|
|
— |
|
|
|
1.1 |
|
|
NMF |
|
|
Add: Transformation prices (4) |
|
|
— |
|
|
|
4.2 |
|
|
NMF |
|
|
Add: Asset impairment prices (4) |
|
|
— |
|
|
|
0.3 |
|
|
NMF |
|
|
Adjusted working revenue |
|
$ |
110.8 |
|
|
$ |
51.8 |
|
|
113.9 |
% |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||
|
Reconciliation from consolidated working margin to adjusted working margin: |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||
|
Consolidated working margin |
|
|
17.1 |
% |
|
|
5.1 |
% |
|
12.0 pp |
|
|
Add: Intangible amortization expense (1) |
|
|
3.2 |
% |
|
|
3.6 |
% |
|
(0.4) pp |
|
|
Add: M&A-related bills (2) |
|
|
0.1 |
% |
|
|
0.9 |
% |
|
(0.8) pp |
|
|
Add: M&A-related earn-outs (3) |
|
|
— |
% |
|
|
— |
% |
|
0.0 pp |
|
|
Add: Severance and personnel bills (4) |
|
|
— |
% |
|
|
0.2 |
% |
|
(0.2) pp |
|
|
Add: Transformation prices (4) |
|
|
— |
% |
|
|
0.9 |
% |
|
(0.9) pp |
|
|
Add: Asset impairment prices (4) |
|
|
— |
% |
|
|
0.1 |
% |
|
(0.1) pp |
|
|
Adjusted working margin |
|
|
20.4 |
% |
|
|
10.8 |
% |
|
9.6 pp |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||
|
Reconciliation from consolidated diluted web revenue (loss) per share to adjusted diluted web revenue per share: |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||
|
Consolidated diluted web revenue (loss) per share |
|
$ |
1.49 |
|
|
$ |
(0.18 |
) |
|
NMF |
|
|
Add: Intangible amortization expense (1) |
|
|
0.30 |
|
|
|
0.30 |
|
|
— |
% |
|
Add: M&A-related bills (2) |
|
|
0.01 |
|
|
|
0.07 |
|
|
(85.7 |
)% |
|
Add: M&A-related earn-outs (3) |
|
|
— |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
— |
% |
|
Add: Severance and personnel bills (4) |
|
|
— |
|
|
|
0.02 |
|
|
NMF |
|
|
Add: Transformation prices (4) |
|
|
— |
|
|
|
0.07 |
|
|
NMF |
|
|
Add: Asset impairment prices (4) |
|
|
— |
|
|
|
0.01 |
|
|
NMF |
|
|
Much less: Non-operating (good points) losses (5) |
|
|
(0.07 |
) |
|
|
0.27 |
|
|
NMF |
|
|
Adjusted diluted web revenue per share |
|
$ |
1.73 |
|
|
$ |
0.56 |
|
|
208.9 |
% |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||
|
Reconciliation from money offered by working actions to free money move: |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||
|
Money offered by working actions |
|
$ |
93.6 |
|
|
$ |
23.4 |
|
|
300.0 |
% |
|
Capital expenditures |
|
|
(34.1 |
) |
|
|
(29.5 |
) |
|
15.6 |
% |
|
Free money move |
|
$ |
59.5 |
|
|
$ |
(6.1 |
) |
|
NMF |
|
|
______________________________________________________________________ |
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|
NMF – Not significant, pp – proportion factors
(1) Excludes finance lease amortization expense of $0.3 million and $0.1 million for the three months ended March 31, 2024 and 2023, respectively. (2) Displays non-recurring bills associated to M&A exercise together with pre-deal due diligence, transaction prices, and post-close integration prices. (3) Displays the affect of M&A-related earn-outs included in working expense. (4) Displays prices related to the numerous discount of the Firm’s operations in Shenzhen, China, and the shift of labor associated to its international enterprise features to different Morningstar areas. Severance and personnel bills embrace severance costs, incentive funds associated to early signing of severance agreements, transition bonuses, and stock-based compensation associated to the accelerated vesting of restricted inventory unit and market share unit awards. As well as, the reversal of accrued sabbatical liabilities is included on this class. Transformation prices embrace skilled charges and the short-term duplication of headcount. Because the Firm employed substitute roles in different markets and shifted capabilities, it employed sure Shenzhen-based workers by the transition interval, which resulted in elevated compensation prices on a short lived foundation. Asset impairment prices embrace the write-off or accelerated depreciation of fastened property within the Shenzhen, China workplace that weren’t redeployed, along with lease abandonment prices because the Firm downsized its workplace house previous to the lease termination date. (5) Non-operating (good points) losses within the three months ended March 31, 2024 and March 31, 2023, associated to realized and unrealized good points and losses on investments. As well as, non-operating (good points) losses as of March 31, 2023 additionally consists of expense from an fairness methodology transaction, web. |
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