NYSE:MS - Morgan Stanley Stock Price, Forecast & News

Morgan Stanley's stock was trading at $36.87 on March 11th, 2020 when Coronavirus (COVID-19) reached pandemic status according to the World Health Organization. Since then, MS stock has decreased by 14.2% and is now trading at $31.62. View which stocks have been mosted impacted by Coronavirus.

18 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Morgan Stanley in the last year. There are currently 8 hold ratings and 10 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Buy." View analyst ratings for Morgan Stanley.

Morgan Stanley is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, April 15th 2020. View our earnings forecast for Morgan Stanley.

Morgan Stanley (NYSE:MS) announced its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, January, 16th. The financial services provider reported $1.20 earnings per share for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $0.98 by $0.22. The financial services provider had revenue of $10.86 billion for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $9.72 billion. Morgan Stanley had a net margin of 16.80% and a return on equity of 11.70%. The firm's quarterly revenue was up 27.0% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period in the previous year, the company posted $0.80 earnings per share. View Morgan Stanley's earnings history.

Morgan Stanley announced a quarterly dividend on Friday, January 17th. Investors of record on Friday, January 31st will be given a dividend of $0.35 per share on Friday, February 14th. This represents a $1.40 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 4.43%. The ex-dividend date is Thursday, January 30th. View Morgan Stanley's dividend history.

Morgan Stanley announced that its Board of Directors has authorized a stock repurchase plan on Wednesday, July 18th 2018, which authorizes the company to repurchase $4,700,000,000.00 in outstanding shares, according to EventVestor. This repurchase authorization authorizes the company to purchase up to 5.3% of its stock through open market purchases. Stock repurchase plans are often an indication that the company's board believes its shares are undervalued.

18 Wall Street analysts have issued 12 month price objectives for Morgan Stanley's stock. Their forecasts range from $32.00 to $69.00. On average, they expect Morgan Stanley's stock price to reach $51.07 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 61.5% from the stock's current price. View analysts' price targets for Morgan Stanley.

Media headlines about MS stock have been trending very negative on Thursday, according to InfoTrie Sentiment. InfoTrie identifies positive and negative media coverage by analyzing more than six thousand news and blog sources. The firm ranks coverage of publicly-traded companies on a scale of negative five to positive five, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. Morgan Stanley earned a coverage optimism score of -3.3 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned news stories about the financial services provider a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, meaning that recent media coverage is extremely unlikely to have an effect on the company's share price in the near future. View the latest news aboutMorgan Stanley.

Morgan Stanley saw a increase in short interest in the month of March. As of March 13th, there was short interest totaling 50,936,500 shares, an increase of 33.3% from the February 27th total of 38,220,000 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 13,300,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 3.8 days. Approximately 4.2% of the shares of the stock are short sold. View Morgan Stanley's Current Options Chain.

Some companies that are related to Morgan Stanley include Goldman Sachs Group (GS), Charles Schwab (SCHW), TD Ameritrade (AMTD), Raymond James (RJF), E*TRADE Financial (ETFC), LPL Financial (LPLA), Stifel Financial (SF), Lazard (LAZ), Evercore (EVR), BGC Partners (BGCP), Piper Jaffray Companies (PJC), INTL Fcstone (INTL), Cowen (COWN), Oppenheimer (OPY) and Greenhill & Co., Inc. (GHL).

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Morgan Stanley investors own include JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM), Bank of America (BAC), Citigroup (C), NVIDIA (NVDA), Walt Disney (DIS), Alibaba Group (BABA), Intel (INTC), Cisco Systems (CSCO), AT&T (T) and Netflix (NFLX).

Morgan Stanley trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "MS."

Shares of MS can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Robinhood, Fidelity, and Charles Schwab.

One share of MS stock can currently be purchased for approximately $31.62.

Morgan Stanley has a market capitalization of $50.57 billion and generates $53.82 billion in revenue each year. The financial services provider earns $9.04 billion in net income (profit) each year or $4.98 on an earnings per share basis. Morgan Stanley employs 60,431 workers across the globe. View additional information about Morgan Stanley.

The official website for Morgan Stanley is http://www.morganstanley.com/.

Morgan Stanley's mailing address is 1585 BROADWAY, NEW YORK NY, 10036. The financial services provider can be reached via phone at 212-761-4000.