Morgan Stanley (MS) concluded trading on Thursday at a closing price of $124.78, with 5.01 million shares of worth about $625.64 million changed hands on the day. Half year performance of the stock remained positive as price took a surge of 24.53% during that period and on Thursday the price saw a loss of about -0.75%. Currently the company’s common shares owned by public are about 1.61B shares, out of which, 1.23B shares are available for trading.
Stock saw a price change of -1.79% in past 5 days and over the past one month there was a price change of -4.77%. Year-to-date (YTD), MS shares are showing a performance of -0.75% which increased to 32.89% when we look at its performance for past 12 months. Over the period of past 52 weeks, stock dropped to lowest price of $83.09 but also hit the highest price of $136.24 during that period. The average intraday trading volume for Morgan Stanley shares is 6.44 million. The stock is currently trading -1.47% below its 20-day simple moving average (SMA20), while that difference is down -1.59% for SMA50 and it goes to 17.80% higher than SMA200.
Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS) currently have 1.61B outstanding shares and institutions hold larger chunk of about 61.63% of that.
The stock has a current market capitalization of $201.03B and its 3Y-monthly beta is at 1.35. PE ratio of stock for trailing 12 months is 18.97, while it has posted earnings per share of $6.58 in the same period. Its PEG reads 1.10 while making debt-to-equity ratio of 3.78. Volatility of a stock is a metric used to know how much the price of that stock is under influence and for MS, volatility over the week remained 1.69% while standing at 2.05% over the month.
Analysts are in expectations that Morgan Stanley (MS) stock would likely to be making an EPS of 1.64 in the current quarter, while forecast for next quarter EPS is 2.17 and it is 7.97 for next year. For the current quarter EPS, analysts have given the company a lowest target 1.43 which is 1.86 at the higher side of the target for the same. When we compare those targets with actual EPS, we find that company posted an EPS of 0.85 in the same quarter a year ago. Stock’s fiscal year EPS is expected to rise by 42.14% while it is estimated to increase by 9.72% in next year. EPS is likely to grow at an annualized rate of 17.30% for next 5-years, compared to annual growth of 1.84% made by the stock over the past 5-years.
Coverage by Wells Fargo stated Morgan Stanley (MS) stock as an Equal weight in their note to investors on November 15, 2024, suggesting a price target of $142 for the stock. Stock get an Underweight rating from Wells Fargo on August 02, 2024.
