Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS) is -20.59% lower on its value in year-to-date trading and has touched a low of $85.01 and a high of $142.03 in the current 52-week trading range. The question becomes, what are the chances the stock will make a comeback and enjoy potential growth. Why not look at analysts view on what the future holds for the stock. The MS stock was last observed hovering at around $107.93 in the last trading session, with the day’s loss setting it -8.1%.
Currently trading at $99.83, the stock is -14.19% and -21.42% below its SMA20 and SMA50 respectively. However, with a daily trading volume of 18.86 million and changing -7.50% at the moment leaves the stock -14.22% off its SMA200. MS registered 7.34% gain for a year compared to 6-month gain of -4.49%. The firm has a 50-day simple moving average (SMA 50) of $127.0478 and a 200-day simple moving average (SMA200) of $116.38565.
The stock witnessed a -16.37% loss in the last 1 month and extending the period to 3 months gives it a -20.00%, and is -13.44% down 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 4.75% over the week and 3.52% over the month.
Morgan Stanley (MS) has around 80000 employees, a market worth around $161.01B and $103.59B in sales. Current P/E ratio is 12.56 and Fwd P/E is 10.59. Profit margin for the company is 12.36%. Distance from 52-week low is 17.43% and -29.71% from its 52-week high. The company has generated returns on investments over the last 12 months (3.41%).
The EPS is expected to grow by 6.98% this year.
Morgan Stanley (MS) Top Institutional Holders
2666.0 institutions hold shares in Morgan Stanley (MS), with institutional investors hold 81.32% of the company’s shares. The shares outstanding are 1.61B, and float is at 1.23B with Short Float at 1.17%. Institutions hold 62.09% 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 23.6565% 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 6.9177 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 5.2929 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 22 ’25, CRAWLEY MANDELL (Chief Client Officer) disposed off 8,312 shares at an average price of $138.06 for $1.15 million. The insider now directly holds 55,249 shares of Morgan Stanley (MS).
