Currently, there are 1.63B common shares owned by the public and among those 1.23B shares have been available to trade.
The company’s stock has a 5-day price change of -0.05% and 31.33% over the past three months. MS shares are trading 41.81% year to date (YTD), with the 12-month market performance up to 64.72% higher. It has a 12-month low price of $76.33 and touched a high of $135.51 over the same period. MS has an average intraday trading volume of 5.98 million shares. The stock is trading above its simple moving averages at the SMA20, SMA50, and SMA200, as the current price level is off by 5.86%, 16.04%, and 32.43% respectively.
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Institutional ownership of Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS) shares accounts for 61.78% of the company’s 1.63B shares outstanding.
It has a market capitalization of $213.04B and a beta (3y monthly) value of 1.35. The stock’s trailing 12-month PE ratio is 20.10, while the earnings-per-share (ttm) stands at $6.58. The company has a PEG of 1.16 and the debt-to-equity ratio at 3.78. Price movements for the stock have been influenced by the stock’s volatility, which stands at 1.69% over the week and 1.88% over the month.
Earnings per share for the fiscal year are expected to increase by 41.36%, and 7.83% over the next financial year. EPS should grow at an annualized rate of 17.30% over the next five years, compared to 1.84% over the past 5-year period.
Looking at the support for the MS, a number of firms have released research notes about the stock. Wells Fargo stated their Equal Weight rating for the stock in a research note on November 15, 2024, with the firm’s price target at $142. HSBC Securities coverage for the Morgan Stanley (MS) stock in a research note released on October 04, 2024 offered a Buy rating with a price target of $118. Goldman was of a view on September 11, 2024 that the stock is Neutral, while Wells Fargo gave the stock Underweight rating on August 02, 2024, issuing a price target of $99- $95. Oppenheimer on their part issued Perform rating on July 17, 2024.
