S&P Global Inc
- Exchange
- US
- Country
- USA
- IPO date
- Jan 2, 2001
- Employees
- 44,500
- Website
- www.spglobal.com
Composite valuation range · conservative $300–$350 / fair $350–$450 / optimistic $500–$580. At $439.83, Within the fair intrinsic-value range.
At publication $417.6 (May 25, 2026)
Data from EODHD, shown in the reporting currency; for reference only, not investment advice.
S&P Global Inc., together with its subsidiaries, provides benchmarks, data, analytics, and workflow solutions in the global capital, energy and commodity, and automotive markets. It operates through four segments: S&P Global Market Intelligence, S&P Global Ratings, S&P Global Energy, and S&P Dow Jones Indices. The S&P Global Market Intelligence segment provides multi-asset-class data and analytics integrated with purpose-built workflow solutions. This segment offers Data, Analytics & Insights, a desktop product suite that provides data, analytics, and third-party research for global finance and corporate professionals; research, reference data, market data, derived analytics, and valuation services; enterprise solutions, such as software and workflow solutions; and credit and risk solutions for selling Ratings' credit ratings and related data and research, analytics, and financial risk solutions. The S&P Global Ratings segment operates as an independent provider of credit ratings, research, and analytics offering investors information and independent benchmarks for their investment and financial decisions as well as access to the capital markets. The S&P Global Energy segment provides information and benchmark prices for the energy and commodity markets. The S&P Dow Jones Indices segment operates as an index provider that maintains various valuation and index benchmarks for investment advisors, wealth managers, and institutional investors. It has operations in the United States, European region, Asia, and internationally. S&P Global Inc. was founded in 1860 and is headquartered in New York, New York.
History
S&P Global Inc. was founded in 1860 and is headquartered in New York, New York. The company completed its IPO on January 2, 2001. In recent years it has reshaped its portfolio around core data and workflow assets: it acquired Visible Alpha in 2024 and With Intelligence in 2025, while in 2025 it joined CME in selling OSTTRA to KKR for about $1.5 billion in cash (roughly $1.4 billion after tax). It is advancing a spin-off of its Mobility business expected to complete in mid-2026, intended to be tax-free for U.S. federal income tax purposes.
Industry position
S&P Global is a financial data and benchmarks provider headquartered in New York with 44,500 employees. It operates through five segments—Market Intelligence, Ratings, Energy, Mobility, and Indices—with 2025 external revenue of $4.902B, $4.549B, $2.299B, $1.747B, and $1.839B respectively (total revenue $15.336B). S&P Global Ratings is an SEC-registered NRSRO, and ETF assets based on S&P Dow Jones Indices grew from $79 billion in 2003 to $4.389 trillion in 2024. By segment, its closest competitors include Moody's (Ratings) and MSCI (Indices), with overlap from FactSet, LSEG, ICE, and Morningstar in financial data and analytics; 2025 capital expenditure was $195 million, about 1.3% of revenue.