In the latest trading session,, 1.36 million Morgan Stanley (NYSE:MS) shares changed hands as the company’s beta touched 1.32. With the company’s most recent per share price at $140.39 changing hands around $0.35 or 0.25% at last look, the market valuation stands at $224.35B. MS’s current price is a discount, trading about -3.4% off its 52-week high of $145.16. The share price had its 52-week low at $90.94, which suggests the last value was 35.22% up since then. When we look at Morgan Stanley’s average trading volume, we note the 10-day average is 6.19 million shares, with the 3-month average coming to 5.83 million.
Analysts gave the Morgan Stanley (MS) stock a consensus recommendation rating of Hold, calculated at a mean rating of 2.44. If we narrow down to specifics, the data shows that 0 out of 19 analysts rate the stock as a Sell, with a further 0 assigning it an Overweight rating. Of the remaining, 10 recommended MS as a Hold, 9 felt it is a Buy and 0 rated the stock as Underweight.
Morgan Stanley (NYSE:MS) trade information
Instantly MS is in green as seen in intraday trades today. With action 0.43%, the performance over the past five days has been green. The company’s shares are showing year-to-date upside of 37.52%, with the 5-day performance at 0.43% in the green. However, in the 30-day time frame, Morgan Stanley (NYSE:MS) is 4.77% up. Looking at the short shares, we see there were 14.77 million shares sold at short interest cover period of 2.68 days.
The consensus price target for the stock as assigned by Wall Street analysts is 56.5, meaning bulls need a downside of -148.48% from its recent market value. According to analyst projections, MS’s forecast low is 53 with 60 as the target high. To hit the forecast high, the stock’s price needs a 57.26% surge from its current level, while the stock would need to tank 62.25% for it to hit the projected low.
Looking at the company’s year-on-year earnings, data shows that the past 5-year has an earnings growth rate of 8.89%. The 2025 estimates are for Morgan Stanley earnings to increase by 10.97%, but the outlook for the next 5-year period is at 9.55% per year.
MS Dividends
Morgan Stanley is expected to release its next quarterly earnings report on 2025-Apr-11. The 2.64% annual yield figure for the share gives it an annual dividend of 3.70. It is important to note, however, that the 2.64% dividend yield ratio should serve as a guide only, as you should also take into consideration many other aspects of a company’s operations and fundamentals before making any investment decision. During the past 5 years, the average dividend yield was 2.97 per year.
Morgan Stanley (NYSE:MS)’s Major holders
If we look at who the major shareholders are, we find that insiders hold 23.82% of Morgan Stanley shares while 63.19% of the shares are in the hands of institutional holders. The share float percentage for the stock currently stands at 82.95%. There are 63.19% institutions holding the Morgan Stanley stock share, with MITSUBISHI UFJ FINANCIAL GROUP INC the top institutional holder. As of 2024-06-30, the company held 23.6565% of the shares, roughly 377.09 million MS shares worth $36.65 billion.
STATE STREET CORP holds the second largest percentage of outstanding shares, with 6.9177% or 110.27 million shares worth $10.72 billion as of 2024-06-30.
Among Mutual Funds, the top two as of Mar 31, 2025 were VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund and VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard 500 Index Fund . With 38.22 shares estimated at $5.36 billion under it, the former controlled 2.38% of total outstanding shares. On the other hand, VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard 500 Index Fund held about 2.14% of the shares, roughly 34.37 shares worth around $4.82 billion.
