Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS) is -14.00% 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 $106.58 in the last trading session, with the day’s gains setting it 1.54%.
Currently trading at $108.12, the stock is -5.56% and -12.64% below its SMA20 and SMA50 respectively. However, with a daily trading volume of 10.16 million and changing 1.44% at the moment leaves the stock -7.27% off its SMA200. MS registered 17.97% gain for a year compared to 6-month gain of -0.84%. The firm has a 50-day simple moving average (SMA 50) of $123.7672 and a 200-day simple moving average (SMA200) of $116.59345.
The stock witnessed a -3.19% loss in the last 1 month and extending the period to 3 months gives it a -12.42%, and is 8.30% 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 9.44% over the week and 4.87% over the month.
Morgan Stanley (MS) has around 80000 employees, a market worth around $174.38B and $106.39B in sales. Current P/E ratio is 12.68 and Fwd P/E is 11.67. Profit margin for the company is 12.87%. Distance from 52-week low is 27.19% and -23.88% from its 52-week high. The company has generated returns on investments over the last 12 months (3.39%).
with sales reaching $15.94B over the same period.The EPS is expected to grow by 6.69% this year, but quarterly earnings will post 5.98% year-over-year. Quarterly sales are estimated to grow 6.15% in year-over-year returns.
Morgan Stanley (MS) Top Institutional Holders
2673.0 institutions hold shares in Morgan Stanley (MS), with institutional investors hold 81.65% of the company’s shares. The shares outstanding are 1.61B, and float is at 1.23B with Short Float at 1.21%. Institutions hold 62.32% 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).
