Morgan Stanley (MS) ticks all the boxes for top investors with its surprise performance of 10.32% last month.

Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS) on Friday, plunged -0.78% from the previous trading day, before settling in for the closing price of $141.08. Within the past 52 weeks, MS’s price has moved between $83.09 and $141.48.

Annual sales at Financial sector company grew by 15.80% over the past five years. The company achieved an average annual earnings per share of 9.35%. With a float of $1.23 billion, this company’s outstanding shares have now reached $1.61 billion.

Let’s look at the performance matrix of the company that is accounted for 80000 employees. 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 and Institutional Ownership

Observing investor behavior towards Capital Markets industry stocks is more important than anything else. The insider ownership of Morgan Stanley is 23.63%, while institutional ownership is 61.84%. 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) Latest Financial update

Wall Street market experts anticipate that the next fiscal year will bring earnings of 2.14 per share during the current fiscal year.

According to the Wall Street analysts, stocks earnings will be around 9.35% 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

Morgan Stanley (MS) is currently performing well based on its current performance indicators. In addition, a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for the trailing twelve months stands at 2.10. Likewise, its price to free cash flow for the trailing twelve months is 9.02.

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)

Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS) saw its 5-day average volume 5.06 million, a negative change from its year-to-date volume of 7.01 million. As of the previous 9 days, the stock’s Stochastic %D was 78.59%. Additionally, its Average True Range was 2.87.

During the past 100 days, Morgan Stanley’s (MS) raw stochastic average was set at 95.26%, which indicates a significant increase from 74.75% during the past two weeks. Based on volatility metrics of the stock, it showed a historical volatility of 15.62% in the past 14 days, which was lower than the 29.95% volatility it showed in the past 100 days.

At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average is $130.86, while its 200-day Moving Average is $111.07. Nevertheless, the first resistance level for the watch stands at $141.40 in the near term. At $142.82, the stock is likely to face the second major resistance level. The third major resistance level sits at $143.61. If the price goes on to break the first support level at $139.19, it is likely to go to the next support level at $138.40. The third support level lies at $136.98 if the price breaches the second support level.

Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS) Key Stats

Market capitalization of the company is 225.51 billion based on 1,611,036K outstanding shares. Right now, sales total 61,761 M and income totals 13,390 M. The company made 16,223 M in profit during its latest quarter, and 3,714 M in sales during its previous quarter.