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Morgan Stanley (MS) up 9.89% since start of the year

Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS) is 9.89% higher on its value in year-to-date trading and has touched a low of $69.42 and a high of $109.11 in the current 52-week trading range. The question becomes, what are the chances the stock will continue to grow shareholders’ wealth in the market. Here’s what analysts think will happen to its price in the coming time. The MS stock was last observed hovering at around $102.47 in the last trading session, with the day’s loss setting it 0.0%.

Currently trading at $102.47, the stock is 2.50% and 2.16% above its SMA20 and SMA50 respectively. However, with a daily trading volume of 3.96 million and changing 0.00% at the moment leaves the stock 9.11% off its SMA200. MS registered 20.72% gain for a year compared to 6-month gain of 11.44%.

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The stock witnessed a 1.90% loss in the last 1 month and extending the period to 3 months gives it a 5.53%, and is 2.38% up over the last 5 days. If we measure the stock’s price variations over the week and the month, we find that the volatility rates stand at 1.73% over the week and 2.11% over the month.

Morgan Stanley (MS) has around 80000 employees, a market worth around $165.78B and $102.76B in sales. Current P/E ratio is 16.87 and Fwd P/E is 13.45. Profit margin for the company is 9.59%. Distance from 52-week low is 47.61% and -6.09% from its 52-week high. The company has generated returns on investments over the last 12 months (2.61%).

The EPS is expected to grow by 34.92% this year.

Morgan Stanley (MS) Top Institutional Holders

2387.0 institutions hold shares in Morgan Stanley (MS), with institutional investors hold 80.64% of the company’s shares. The shares outstanding are 1.63B, and float is at 1.24B with Short Float at 1.20%. Institutions hold 61.63% of the Float.

The top institutional shareholder in the company is MITSUBISHI UFJ FINANCIAL GROUP INC with over 377.09 million shares valued at $36.65 billion. The investor’s holdings represent 23.5531% of the MS Shares outstanding. As of 2024-06-30, the second largest holder is STATE STREET CORP with 110.27 million shares valued at $10.72 billion to account for 6.8875 of the shares outstanding. The other top investors are VANGUARD GROUP INC which holds 108.65 million shares representing 6.7864% and valued at over $10.56 billion, while BLACKROCK INC. holds 5.2697 of the shares totaling 84.37 million with a market value of $8.2 billion.

Morgan Stanley (MS) Insider Activity

The most recent transaction is an insider sale by CRAWLEY MANDELL, the company’s Chief Human Resources Officer. SEC filings show that CRAWLEY MANDELL sold 3,500 shares of the company’s common stock on Jul 26 ’24 at a price of $105.25 per share for a total of $0.37 million. Following the sale, the insider now owns 43224.0 shares.

Still, SEC filings show that on Jul 18 ’24, AKRAM RAJA (Deputy Chief Financial Officer) disposed off 7,500 shares at an average price of $106.37 for $0.8 million. The insider now directly holds 87,119 shares of Morgan Stanley (MS).

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