Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS): The Best-Of-Breed For Investing?

Currently, there are 1.61B 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 0.75% and 28.64% over the past three months. MS shares are trading 36.99% year to date (YTD), with the 12-month market performance up to 39.48% higher. It has a 12-month low price of $83.09 and touched a high of $136.24 over the same period. MS has an average intraday trading volume of 6.43 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 -2.05%, 2.51%, and 22.75% respectively.

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Institutional ownership of Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS) shares accounts for 61.62% of the company’s 1.61B shares outstanding.

It has a market capitalization of $205.79B and a beta (3y monthly) value of 1.35. The stock’s trailing 12-month PE ratio is 19.42, while the earnings-per-share (ttm) stands at $6.58. The company has a PEG of 1.12 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 1.37% over the week and 1.61% over the month.

Analysts forecast that Morgan Stanley (MS) will achieve an EPS of 1.64 for the current quarter, 2.16 for the next quarter and 7.96 for current fiscal year. The lowest estimate earnings-per-share for the quarter is 1.43 while analysts give the company a high EPS estimate of 1.43. Comparatively, EPS for the current quarter was 0.85 a year ago. Earnings per share for the fiscal year are expected to increase by 42.04%, and 9.25% 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.

Wells Fargo coverage for the Morgan Stanley (MS) stock in a research note released on November 15, 2024 offered a Equal Weight rating with a price target of $142. Wells Fargo on their part issued Underweight rating on August 02, 2024.

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