Currently, there are 1.60B common shares owned by the public and among those 1.22B shares have been available to trade.
The company’s stock has a 5-day price change of -2.43% and 28.66% over the past three months. MS shares are trading 31.33% year to date (YTD), with the 12-month market performance up to 11.73% higher. It has a 12-month low price of $90.94 and touched a high of $145.16 over the same period. MS has an average intraday trading volume of 5.88 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 -0.25%, 4.93%, and 11.41% respectively.
Institutional ownership of Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS) shares accounts for 62.75% of the company’s 1.60B shares outstanding.
It has a market capitalization of $224.47B and a beta (3y monthly) value of 1.32. The stock’s trailing 12-month PE ratio is 15.91, while the earnings-per-share (ttm) stands at $8.83. The company has a PEG of 1.67 and the debt-to-equity ratio at 3.18. Price movements for the stock have been influenced by the stock’s volatility, which stands at 1.97% over the week and 1.68% over the month.
Earnings per share for the fiscal year are expected to increase by 10.97%, and 8.79% over the next financial year. EPS should grow at an annualized rate of 9.55% over the next five years, compared to 8.89% over the past 5-year period.
Looking at the support for the MS, a number of firms have released research notes about the stock. Keefe Bruyette stated their Outperform rating for the stock in a research note on July 09, 2025, with the firm’s price target at $160. Wells Fargo was of a view on November 15, 2024 that the stock is Equal Weight, while HSBC Securities gave the stock Buy rating on October 04, 2024, issuing a price target of $118. Goldman on their part issued Neutral rating on September 11, 2024.
