Now that Morgan Stanley’s volume has hit 5.0 million, investors get a glimpse of its size.

On Tuesday, Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS) was -0.28% drop from the session before settling in for the closing price of $137.16. A 52-week range for MS has been $83.09 – $141.48.

A company in the Financial sector has jumped its sales by 15.80% annually for the last half of the decade. When this article was written, the company’s average yearly earnings per share was at 9.27%. With a float of $1.23 billion, this company’s outstanding shares have now reached $1.61 billion.

In an organization with 80000 employees, it is important to assess its efficiency. In terms of profitability, gross margin is 36.0%, operating margin of 46.95%, and the pretax margin is 29.63%.

Morgan Stanley (MS) Insider Updates

Also, it is sometimes useful to examine the sentiment of large-scale investors toward Morgan Stanley stocks. The insider ownership of Morgan Stanley is 23.64%, while institutional ownership is 61.59%. The most recent insider transaction that took place on Jan 22 ’25, was worth 1,147,555. In this transaction Chief Client Officer of this company sold 8,312 shares at a rate of $138.06, taking the stock ownership to the 55,249 shares. Before that another transaction happened on Jan 21 ’25, when Company’s Chief Legal/Admin Officer sold 13,097 for $136.20, making the entire transaction worth $1,783,754. This insider now owns 197,444 shares in total.

Morgan Stanley (MS) Performance Highlights and Predictions

According to the Wall Street analysts, stocks earnings will be around 9.27% per share during the next fiscal year. For the long-term projections, market analysts anticipate that the company’s EPS will surge by 9.84% during the next five years compared to 8.90% growth over the previous five years of trading.

Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS) Trading Performance Indicators

You can see what Morgan Stanley (MS) is doing with its current performance indicators. In addition, a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for the trailing twelve months stands at 2.05. Likewise, its price to free cash flow for the trailing twelve months is 8.81.

For the trailing twelve months, Company’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) is 7.95, a number that is poised to hit 2.30 in the next quarter and is forecasted to reach 9.57 in one year’s time.

Technical Analysis of Morgan Stanley (MS)

Let’s dig in a bit further. During the last 5-days, its volume was 5.41 million. That was inferior than the volume of 7.33 million it reported in year-ago period. As of the previous 9 days, the stock’s Stochastic %D was 46.42%. Additionally, its Average True Range was 2.97.

During the past 100 days, Morgan Stanley’s (MS) raw stochastic average was set at 90.06%, which indicates a significant increase from 63.82% during the past two weeks. Based on volatility metrics of the stock, it showed a historical volatility of 27.04% in the past 14 days, which was lower than the 29.87% volatility it showed in the past 100 days.

At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average is $130.48, while its 200-day Moving Average is $110.34. However, in the short run, Morgan Stanley’s stock first resistance to watch stands at $137.67. Second resistance stands at $138.57. The third major resistance level sits at $139.26. If the price goes on to break the first support level at $136.08, it is likely to go to the next support level at $135.39. Assuming the price breaks the second support level, the third support level stands at $134.49.

Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS) Key Stats

There are 1,611,036K outstanding shares of the company, which has a market capitalization of 220.34 billion. As of now, sales total 61,761 M while income totals 13,390 M. Its latest quarter income was 16,223 M while its last quarter net income were 3,714 M.