On Monday, Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS) was -0.52% drop from the session before settling in for the closing price of $120.22. A 52-week range for MS has been $90.94 – $142.03.
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Over the past five-year period, the growth rate of yearbook sales for the company of the Financial sector was 15.55%. When this article was written, the company’s average yearly earnings per share was at 8.82%. With a float of $1.23 billion, this company’s outstanding shares have now reached $1.61 billion.
Considering the fact that the conglomerate employs 80000 people, you should pay attention to its efficiency factor. In terms of profitability, gross margin is 29.14%, operating margin of 35.81%, and the pretax margin is 25.55%.
Morgan Stanley (MS) Insider Activity
Also, it is sometimes useful to examine the sentiment of large-scale investors toward Morgan Stanley stocks. The insider ownership of Morgan Stanley is 23.60%, while institutional ownership is 61.91%. The most recent insider transaction that took place on May 02 ’25, was worth 95,459. In this transaction Director of this company sold 800 shares at a rate of $119.32, taking the stock ownership to the 96,760 shares. Before that another transaction happened on May 02 ’25, when Company’s Co-President sold 40,000 for $120.00, making the entire transaction worth $4,799,812. This insider now owns 335,765 shares in total.
Morgan Stanley (MS) Earnings and Forecasts
According to the Wall Street analysts, stocks earnings will be around 8.82% per share during the next fiscal year. For the long-term projections, market analysts anticipate that the company’s EPS will surge by 8.19% during the next five years compared to 8.89% 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 1.81.
For the trailing twelve months, Company’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) is 8.52, a number that is poised to hit 2.07 in the next quarter and is forecasted to reach 9.27 in one year’s time.
Technical Analysis of Morgan Stanley (MS)
Compared to the last year’s volume of 7.74 million, its volume of 6.47 million showed lagged in the last five days. As of the previous 9 days, the stock’s Stochastic %D was 91.95%. Additionally, its Average True Range was 4.58.
During the past 100 days, Morgan Stanley’s (MS) raw stochastic average was set at 52.98%, which indicates a significant decrease from 92.11% during the past two weeks. Based on volatility metrics of the stock, it showed a historical volatility of 28.48% in the past 14 days, which was lower than the 41.95% volatility it showed in the past 100 days.
At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average is $116.44, while its 200-day Moving Average is $117.49. Nevertheless, the first resistance level for the watch stands at $120.85 in the near term. At $122.10, the stock is likely to face the second major resistance level. The third major resistance level sits at $123.33. If the price goes on to break the first support level at $118.37, it is likely to go to the next support level at $117.14. Should the price break the second support level, the third support level stands at $115.89.
Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS) Key Stats
There are 1,612,856K outstanding shares of the company, which has a market capitalization of 192.90 billion. As of now, sales total 61,761 M while income totals 13,390 M. Its latest quarter income was 29,134 M while its last quarter net income were 4,315 M.
