Equinix Inc vs Msci Inc — how do they compare? Equinix Inc trades at $1,032.41 (market cap $101.87B), while Msci Inc trades at $562 (market cap $40.84B). The key difference: Equinix Inc is far larger — about 2.5× Msci Inc's market cap, and Equinix Inc pays the higher dividend (2%). Which is the better fit depends on your goals.
| EQIX | MSCI | |
|---|---|---|
Market Cap | $101.87B | $40.84B |
Sector | Real Estate | Financials |
52-Week High | $1.12K | $643.83 |
52-Week Low | $726.09 | $511.84 |
Enterprise Value | $123.00B | $47.00B |
Dividend Yield | 2% | 1.46% |
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Equinix is a retail provider of data centers, enabling hundreds of enterprise tenants to house their servers and networking equipment in a collocated environment. Tenants can then connect with each other, through cloud service providers and telecom networks. Equinix operates 240 data centers in 66 markets worldwide and owns just less than half of them. The firm has roughly 10,000 customers, including 2,000 networks, that are dispersed over five verticals: Cloud and IT Services, Content Providers, Network and Mobile Services, Financial Services, and Enterprise. About 70% of Equinix's revenue comes from renting space to tenants and related services, and more than 15% comes from connecting customers with each other. Equinix operates as a real estate investment trust.
Read more on EQIX →MSCI describes its mission as enabling investors to build better portfolios for a better world. MSCI's largest and most profitable segment is its index segment, where it provides benchmarking to asset managers and asset owners. In addition, it boasts over $1 trillion in ETF assets linked to MSCI indexes. The MSCI analytics segment provides portfolio management and risk management analytics software to asset managers and asset owners. MSCI's all other segment was broken out into ESG and climate and private assets segments in 2021. In ESG and climate, MSCI provides ESG data to the investment industry. In the private assets side, MSCI provides real restate reporting, market data, benchmarking, and analytics to investors and real estate managers.
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