About Us

Our mission is to empower investor success. The investing ecosystem is complex, and navigating it with confidence requires a trusted, independent voice.

We are a leading global provider of independent investment insights. Our core competencies are research, design, and technology, and we employ each of these to create products built on the depth and breadth of our data that are designed to clearly convey complex investment information. We offer a variety of products and solutions that serve a wide range of market participants, including individual and institutional investors in public and private capital markets; financial advisors and wealth managers; alliances and redistributors; asset managers; retirement plan providers, advisors and sponsors; and issuers of fixed-income securities.

For more on how we run the business, please refer to our philosophy.

Shareholder Engagement

We strive to communicate with candor and tell you the unvarnished truth about our business. Our goal is to communicate equally with all shareholders, without special treatment for large shareholders or research analysts. We do not host quarterly earnings calls, and our executives do not generally participate in one-on-one meetings with institutional shareholders; encouraging a focus on short-term results is inconsistent with our mission to empower investor success over the long-term. Instead, we answer your questions in written form on a regular basis, and we make these answers available to all shareholders at the same time here and in 8-K filings. We encourage all interested parties to submit any questions about the business here.

Our Strategy

Our strategy is to deliver insights and experiences that make us essential to the investor workflow. Proprietary data sets, meaningful analytics, independent research, and effective investment strategies are at the core of the powerful digital solutions that investors across our different client segments rely on. We have a keen focus on innovation across data, research, product, and delivery so that we can effectively cater to the evolving needs and expectations of investors globally.

Morningstar Segments and Representative Products

Morningstar Direct Platform

Provides investors comprehensive data, research and insights, and investment analysis to empower investment decision-making

PitchBook

Provides investors with access to a broad collection of data and research covering the private capital markets, including venture capital, private equity, private credit and bank loans, and merger and acquisition (M&A) activities. Investors can also access Morningstar’s data and research on public equities.

Morningstar Credit

Provides investors with credit ratings, research, data, and credit analytics solutions that contribute to the transparency of international and domestic credit markets.

Morningstar Wealth

Delivers investment products, advisor platforms, and investor tools powered by our research and data. Serves financial advisors through model portfolios, SMAs, and technology platforms, and individuals through Morningstar Investor.

Morningstar Retirement

Offers products to help individuals reach their retirement goals with highly personalized savings and investment advice at the employee level and scalable investment advisory and risk mitigation services at the employer and advisor level.

Corporate and All Other*

* The operating segments of Morningstar Sustainalytics and Morningstar Indexes have been combined and presented as part of Corporate and All Other, which is not a reportable segment.

Our Sustainability

We are committed to operating an enduring business. This commitment shapes a variety of efforts across the firm, including offering sustainable-investing data and products to meet investor demand.

Read our Corporate Sustainability Report

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