Morningstar Completes Acquisition of CRSP From the University of Chicago
February 5, 2026
Morningstar, Inc. completed its previously announced acquisition of the Center for Research in Security Prices (CRSP) from the University of Chicago for about $365 million. The deal brings CRSP’s Market Indexes (benchmarks for over $3 trillion in U.S. equities) and CRSP Research Data Products into the Morningstar Indexes family and rebrands the indexes under the Morningstar name.
- Buyers
- Morningstar, Inc., Vanguard
- Targets
- Center for Research in Security Prices (CRSP)
- Sellers
- University of Chicago
- Industry
- Financial Services
- Location
- United States
- Transaction Type
- Buyout
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