As on Wednesday, Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS) got off with the flyer as it spiked 0.77% to $91.54, before settling in for the price of $90.84 at the close. Taking a more long-term approach, MS posted a 52-week range of $69.42-$95.57.
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It was noted that the giant of the Financial sector posted annual sales growth of 15.18% over the last 5 years. Meanwhile, its Annual Earning per share during the time was 1.84%. Nevertheless, stock’s Earnings Per Share (EPS) this year is 32.06%. This publicly-traded company’s shares outstanding now amounts to $1.63 billion, simultaneously with a float of $1.25 billion. The organization now has a market capitalization sitting at $148.94 billion. At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average stood at $89.85, while the 200-day Moving Average is $85.66.
Morgan Stanley (MS) Ownership Facts and Figures
Another important factor to analyze is how key investors are playing towards the stock of the Capital Markets industry. Morgan Stanley’s current insider ownership accounts for 23.34%, in contrast to 62.46% institutional ownership. According to the most recent insider trade that took place on Apr 18 ’24, this organization’s Executive Chairman sold 100,000 shares at the rate of 90.21, making the entire transaction reach 9,020,530 in total value, affecting insider ownership by 414,870. Preceding that transaction, on Apr 17 ’24, Company’s Chief Risk Officer sold 11,200 for 90.09, making the whole transaction’s value amount to 1,009,019. This particular insider is now the holder of 126,190 in total.
Morgan Stanley (MS) Earnings and Revenue Records
If we go through the results of last quarter, which was made public on 3/31/2024, the company posted 1.24 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, besting the agreed prediction (set at 1.15) by 0.09. Wall Street market experts anticipate that the next fiscal year will bring earnings of 1.64 per share during the current fiscal year.
Morgan Stanley’s EPS increase for this current 12-month fiscal period is 32.06% and is forecasted to reach 7.57 in the upcoming year. Considering the longer run, market analysts have predicted that Company’s EPS will increase by 8.00% through the next 5 years, which can be compared against the 1.84% growth it accomplished over the previous five years trading on the market.
Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS) Trading Performance Indicators
Let’s observe the current performance indicators for Morgan Stanley (MS). The Stock has managed to achieve an average true range (ATR) of 1.96. Alongside those numbers, its PE Ratio stands at $16.68, and its Beta score is 1.40. Another valuable indicator worth pondering is a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for trailing twelve months, which is currently 1.49. Similarly, its price to free cash flow for trailing twelve months is now 16.31.
In the same vein, MS’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) trailing twelve months is recorded 5.49, a figure that is expected to reach 1.67 in the next quarter, and analysts are predicting that it will be 7.57 at the market close of one year from today.
Technical Analysis of Morgan Stanley (MS)
Through scrutinizing the latest numbers posted by the [Morgan Stanley, MS], it can be observed that its last 5-days Average volume of 5.27 million was lower the volume of 8.59 million, it posted the year before. During the previous 9 days, stock’s Stochastic %D was recorded 37.55% While, its Average True Range was 1.89.
Raw Stochastic average of Morgan Stanley (MS) in the period of the previous 100 days is set at 78.86%, which indicates a major rise in contrast to 71.73% during the last 2-weeks. If we go through the volatility metrics of the stock, In the past 14-days, Company’s historic volatility was 17.61% that was lower than 25.00% volatility it exhibited in the past 100-days period.
