Morgan Stanley (NYSE:MS) currently has a daily average trading volume of 8.11M but it saw 6371712 shares traded in last market. With a market cap of 201.02B USD, the company’s current market price of $125.30 came falling about -2.97 while comparing to the previous closing price of $129.13. In past 52 weeks, the stock remained buoying in the range of price level as high as $142.03 and as low as $90.94.
Wells Fargo upgraded its recommendation for the stock as a “Equal Weight” from “Underweight” on November 15, 2024 while assigning a price target of $142. HSBC Securities issued its recommendations for the stock as it upgraded the price target for the stock is $118.
Over the week, MS’s stock price is moving -4.38% down while it is 13.52% when we observe its performance for the past one month. Year-to-date it is -0.33% down and over the past year, the stock is showing an upside performance of 25.02%.
The company is expected to be releasing its next quarterly report in June, for which analysts forecasted an EPS of 2.05 while estimate for next year EPS is 8.69. In next quarter, company is expected to be making quarterly sales of $15.84B as analysts are expecting the sales for current fiscal year at $65.59B and seeing the company making $68.38B in sales next year. Moreover, analysts are in estimates of $16.15B for current-quarter revenue.
Currently, Morgan Stanley’s total number of outstanding shares is 1.61B with 23.74% of that held by the insiders while 62.83% of its common stock has been owned by the institutions. Company’s return on investment (ROI) stands at 3.33% and return on equity (ROE) at 13.88%. It has a price to earnings ratio (P/E ratio) of 14.70 while having a 13.52 of forward P/E ratio. Stock’s beta reads 1.29. Stock has a price to book (P/B) ratio of 2.07 while price to sale or P/S ratio amounts to 1.89. Its return on asset (ROA) is 1.13% on average.
