---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001289419-26-000044"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "MORN"
cik: "0001289419"
company_name: "Morningstar, Inc."
filed_at: "2026-08-25T20:18:41+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-08-25T20:20:11.743324+00:00"
event_type: "other"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.1
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.1
confidence: "low"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Morningstar furnishes investor Q&A; document contains no substantive answers

## Summary
- 8-K dated Aug 25, 2026 furnishes responses to investor questions received through Aug 5, 2026.
- Exhibit 99.1 includes only submission instructions (investors@morningstar.com) and contact info; no Q&A answers shown.
- No financial figures, guidance, M&A, or corporate actions disclosed in the furnished text.
- Report signed by CFO Michael Holt.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001289419-26-000044
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: MORN
- cik: 0001289419
- company_name: Morningstar, Inc.
- filed_at: 2026-08-25T20:18:41+00:00
- event_type: other
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.1
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.1
- confidence: low
- sec_items: 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1289419/000128941926000044/0001289419-26-000044-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1289419/000128941926000044/morn-20260825.htm

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