Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS) is 9.21% higher on its value in year-to-date trading and has touched a low of $83.09 and a high of $138.08 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 $137.87 in the last trading session, with the day’s loss setting it -0.57%.
Currently trading at $137.30, the stock is 7.71% and 6.16% above its SMA20 and SMA50 respectively. However, with a daily trading volume of 11.21 million and changing -0.41% at the moment leaves the stock 27.17% off its SMA200. MS registered 63.65% gain for a year compared to 6-month gain of 34.49%. The firm has a 50-day simple moving average (SMA 50) of $128.9484 and a 200-day simple moving average (SMA200) of $107.74295.
The stock witnessed a 7.48% loss in the last 1 month and extending the period to 3 months gives it a 14.95%, and is 10.73% 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 2.26% over the week and 2.38% over the month.
Morgan Stanley (MS) has around 80000 employees, a market worth around $221.20B and $107.37B in sales. Current P/E ratio is 17.27 and Fwd P/E is 14.45. Profit margin for the company is 11.92%. Distance from 52-week low is 65.24% and -0.56% from its 52-week high. The company has generated returns on investments over the last 12 months (3.29%).
with sales reaching $16.89B over the same period.The EPS is expected to grow by 8.32% this year, but quarterly earnings will post 6.01% year-over-year. Quarterly sales are estimated to grow 11.57% in year-over-year returns.
Morgan Stanley (MS) Top Institutional Holders
2466.0 institutions hold shares in Morgan Stanley (MS), with institutional investors hold 81.05% of the company’s shares. The shares outstanding are 1.61B, and float is at 1.23B with Short Float at 1.12%. Institutions hold 61.88% 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
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Still, SEC filings show that on Jan 21 ’25, MICHAEL A. PIZZI REVOCABLE TRU (Affiliate) Proposed Sale 18,391 shares at an average price of $136.92 for $2.52 million. The insider now directly holds shares of Morgan Stanley (MS).
