Morningstar is the independent scorekeeper of the investing world. It gathers raw market, fund and private-company data, turns it into ratings, research, indexes and software, and rents that intelligence back to the advisers, asset managers and institutions who run the money — a recurring-revenue data business (~$2.4B) still ~35% owned by founder Joe Mansueto.
What Morningstar, Inc. really sells
Morningstar is the independent scorekeeper of the investing world. It gathers raw market, fund and private-company data, turns it into ratings, research, indexes and software, and rents that intelligence back to the advisers, asset managers and institutions who run the money — a recurring-revenue data business (~$2.4B) still ~35% owned by founder Joe Mansueto.