Insider trade

CEO purchased ~$192K of MSCI shares in the open market

Traded Dec 5, 2025 · Filed Dec 9, 2025

~$192K
Reported value · 360 sh @ $531.98: 1.48M
Holds after · shares reported: +2.6%
stock since the trade · S&P 500 +13.0%, $538.26 → $552.35 on Oct 5

Henry A Fernandez, Chairman and CEO's past purchases, 90 days after disclosure: 3 buys, median −1.0% vs S&P 500, beat it 1 of 3 times. Past results, not a forecast.

Why it stands out

The boss of MSCI paid $192K out of pocket for MSCI shares.

Written from the filing's own figures. OQRO describes what was reported and never tells you what to buy or sell

View the official recordSEC Form 4 — Statement of Changes in Beneficial Ownership

All the details

Dates, kept separate

Transaction date: Dec 5, 2025
Reporting period: Not applicable
Filed with the SEC: Dec 9, 2025

CEO$100K–$500K

Context

Classification

open market purchase

Code P — open-market or private purchase

Absolute commitment

~$191,513

Shares × reported transaction price

Size band

$100K–$500K

Rarity

Not enough history to judge

Confirmed open-market purchases by the same insider in the available history

Cluster activity

No other insider purchases within 30 days

Distinct insiders at the same issuer with confirmed open-market purchases

Size vs CEO pay

This purchase equals about 1.2% of the CEO's reported total pay for fiscal 2024 ($15.7M)

Purchase value ÷ the CEO's total from the Summary Compensation Table, as tagged in the pay versus performance table of the company's proxy statement (DEF 14A), filed 2026-03-11. The proxy names Henry A. Fernandez as CEO for that year. A size comparison, not a judgement

Timing vs results

38 days after results of Oct 28, 2025, 54 days before results of Jan 28, 2026

Results dates are the company's own 8-K (Item 2.02). Many companies only let insiders trade in a window after results

Price at the time

Closed at $538.26 on Dec 5, 2025, 6% above its 52-week low and 15% below its high, little changed over the previous 30 trading days

52-week range $506.56 (Apr 7, 2025) to $635.99 (Dec 12, 2024), 24% of the way up, from 250 adjusted closes. 30 trading days earlier: $538.75 on Oct 23, 2025. Describes the past only, not a forecast

Planned / mechanical clue

None found in footnotes

Only flagged when a footnote says so; never inferred

After it was reported

After	Stock	S&P 500	Difference
7 days	+4.2%	−2.4%	+6.6%
30 days	+8.0%	+0.9%	+7.0%
90 days	+2.2%	−1.5%	+3.7%
180 days	+12.0%	+7.5%	+4.5%

Past results only. Not a forecast.

Source receipt

Record ID: 0001416750-25-000005
Filed / recorded: Dec 9, 2025, 11:38 AM UTC
Added to OQRO: Oct 2, 2026, 12:28 PM UTC
Parser: form4-xml-v1
Data quality: Verified: identifiers matched exactly
Issuer: MSCI Inc.
Issuer CIK: 1408198
Ticker: MSCI
Reporting person: Henry A Fernandez
Relationship: Director, Officer
Officer title: Chairman and CEO
Security: Common Stock
Table: Non-derivative (Table I)
Transaction date: Dec 5, 2025
Transaction code: P
Shares / units: 360
Price per share: $531.98
Acquired / disposed: Acquired (A)
Shares owned after: 1,477,197
Ownership form: Direct
Amendment: No

Footnotes from the filing

This transaction was executed in multiple trades at prices ranging from $531.57 to $532.56. The price reported above reflects the weighted average purchase price. The Reporting Person hereby undertakes to provide, upon request, to the SEC staff, the issuer or the security holders of the issuer full information regarding the number of shares and prices at which each transaction was effected.
The balance shown reflects the transfer of 196,886 shares previously indirectly held by the Henry Fernandez 2024 MSCI Annuity Trust (the "2024 GRAT"), a grantor retained annuity trust established by the Reporting Person to direct holdings of the Reporting Person following a scheduled annuity payment from the 2024 GRAT.

Around the same time

CFO sold ~$248K of MSCI

Scheduled in advance10mo ago

CEO bought

~$599KReported value · 1,124 sh @ $533.12

10mo ago

The boss of MSCI paid $599K out of pocket for MSCI shares.

More Official record

CEO bought

~$558KReported value · 1,043 sh @ $534.55

10mo ago

The boss of MSCI paid $558K out of pocket for MSCI shares.

More Official record

Henry A Fernandez, Chairman and CEO's past purchases, 90 days after disclosure: 3 buys, median −1.0% vs S&P 500, beat it 1 of 3 times. Past results, not a forecast.