Morgan Stanley is a capital markets business based in the US. Morgan Stanley shares (MS) are listed on the NYSE and all prices are listed in US Dollars. Its last market close was $108.12 – an increase of 8.3% over the previous week. Morgan Stanley employs 80,000 staff and has a trailing 12-month revenue of around $61.5 billion.
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| Latest market close | $108.12 |
|---|---|
| 52-week range | $82.74 - $142.03 |
| 50-day moving average | $125.05 |
| 200-day moving average | $116.49 |
| Wall St. target price | $129.83 |
| PE ratio | 14.0422 |
| Dividend yield | $3.625 (3.71%) |
| Earnings per share (TTM) | $7.59 |
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Historical closes compared with the close of $106.58 from 2025-04-10
| 1 week (2025-04-04) | 6.76% |
|---|---|
| 1 month (2025-03-12) | -6.51% |
| 3 months (2025-01-10) | -13.67% |
| 6 months (2024-10-11) | -3.51% |
| 1 year (2024-04-12) | 23.66% |
|---|---|
| 2 years (2023-04-12) | 34.06% |
| 3 years (2022-04-12) | 41.48% |
| 5 years (2020-04-09) | 204.97% |
Valuing Morgan Stanley stock is incredibly difficult, and any metric has to be viewed as part of a bigger picture of Morgan Stanley's overall performance. However, analysts commonly use some key metrics to help gauge the value of a stock.
Morgan Stanley's current share price divided by its per-share earnings (EPS) over a 12-month period gives a "trailing price/earnings ratio" of roughly 14x. In other words, Morgan Stanley shares trade at around 14x recent earnings.
That's relatively low compared to, say, the trailing 12-month P/E ratio for the NASDAQ 100 at the end of 2019 (27.29). The low P/E ratio could mean that investors are pessimistic about the outlook for the shares or simply that they're under-valued.
Morgan Stanley's "price/earnings-to-growth ratio" can be calculated by dividing its P/E ratio by its growth – to give 135.0665. A low ratio can be interpreted as meaning the shares offer better value, while a higher ratio can be interpreted as meaning the shares offer worse value.
The PEG ratio provides a broader view than just the P/E ratio, as it gives more insight into Morgan Stanley's future profitability. By accounting for growth, it could also help you if you're comparing the share prices of multiple high-growth companies.
| Revenue TTM | $61.5 billion |
|---|---|
| Operating margin TTM | 37.1% |
| Gross profit TTM | $53.3 billion |
| Return on assets TTM | 1.12% |
| Return on equity TTM | 13.17% |
| Profit margin | 21.77% |
| Book value | $58.98 |
| Market Capitalization | $179.7 billion |
TTM: trailing 12 months
Dividend payout ratio: 45.65% of net profits
Recently Morgan Stanley has paid out, on average, around 0% of net profits as dividends. That has enabled analysts to estimate a "forward annual dividend yield" of 0% of the current stock value. This means that over a year, based on recent payouts (which are sadly no guarantee of future payouts), Morgan Stanley shareholders could enjoy a 0% return on their shares, in the form of dividend payments. In Morgan Stanley's case, that would currently equate to about $3.625 per share.
While Morgan Stanley's payout ratio might seem fairly standard, it's worth remembering that Morgan Stanley may be investing much of the rest of its net profits in future growth.
Morgan Stanley's most recent dividend payout was on 13 February 2025. The latest dividend was paid out to all shareholders who bought their shares by 30 January 2025 (the "ex-dividend date").
Morgan Stanley's shares were split on a 2:1 basis on 26 January 2000 . So if you had owned 1 share the day before before the split, the next day you'd have owned 2 shares. This wouldn't directly have changed the overall worth of your Morgan Stanley shares – just the quantity. However, indirectly, the new 50% lower share price could have impacted the market appetite for Morgan Stanley shares which in turn could have impacted Morgan Stanley's share price.
Over the last 12 months, Morgan Stanley's shares have ranged in value from as little as $82.7429 up to $142.03. A popular way to gauge a stock's volatility is its "beta".
Beta is a measure of a share's volatility in relation to the market. The market (NYSE average) beta is 1, while Morgan Stanley's is 1.289. This would suggest that Morgan Stanley's shares are more volatile than the average for this exchange and represent, relatively-speaking, a higher risk (but potentially also market-beating returns).
Morgan Stanley, a financial holding company, provides various financial products and services to governments, financial institutions, and individuals in the Americas, Asia, Europe, Middle East, and Africa. The company operates through Institutional Securities, Wealth Management, and Investment Management segments. It offers capital raising and financial advisory services, including services related to the underwriting of debt, equity, and other securities, as well as advice on mergers and acquisitions, restructurings, and project finance. It also provides equity and fixed income products comprising sales, financing, prime brokerage, and market-making services; Asia wealth management; business-related investments services; originating corporate and commercial real estate loans, secured lending facilities, and extending securities; and research. In addition, the company offers financial advisor-led brokerage, custody, and administrative and investment advisory services; self-directed brokerage services; financial and wealth planning services; stock plan administration; securities-based lending, residential and commercial real estate loans, and other lending products; banking; and retirement plan services. Further, it provides equity, fixed income, alternatives and solutions, and liquidity and overlay services to benefit/defined contribution plans, foundations, endowments, government entities, sovereign wealth funds, insurance companies, third-party fund sponsors, corporations, and individuals. The company was founded in 1924 and is headquartered in New York, New York.
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