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

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

Morgan Stanley declared a quarterly dividend on Friday, January 17th. Shareholders 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 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 2.57%. The ex-dividend date is Thursday, January 30th. View Morgan Stanley's Dividend History.

Morgan Stanley declared that its Board of Directors has initiated a stock repurchase program 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 repurchase up to 5.3% of its shares through open market purchases. Shares repurchase programs are usually an indication that the company's management believes its stock is undervalued.

Morgan Stanley (NYSE:MS) released its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, January, 16th. The financial services provider reported $1.20 EPS for the quarter, topping the Zacks' consensus estimate of $0.98 by $0.22. The financial services provider earned $10.86 billion during 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 business's quarterly revenue was up 27.0% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter in the previous year, the company earned $0.80 earnings per share. View Morgan Stanley's Earnings History.

Morgan Stanley is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, April 15th 2020. View Earnings Estimates for Morgan Stanley.

17 brokerages have issued twelve-month target prices for Morgan Stanley's stock. Their forecasts range from $48.00 to $69.00. On average, they anticipate Morgan Stanley's share price to reach $56.42 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 3.4% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for Morgan Stanley.

17 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Morgan Stanley in the last year. There are currently 1 sell rating, 6 hold ratings and 10 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Buy." View Analyst Ratings for Morgan Stanley.

Media coverage about MS stock has been trending extremely negative on Sunday, according to InfoTrie. The research firm identifies negative and positive media coverage by monitoring more than six thousand blog and news sources. The firm ranks coverage of publicly-traded companies on a scale of -5 to 5, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. Morgan Stanley earned a media sentiment score of -4.5 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned news coverage about the financial services provider a news buzz of 10.0 out of 10, indicating that recent media coverage is extremely likely to have an impact on the stock's share price in the next few days. View News Stories for Morgan Stanley.

Morgan Stanley saw a decline in short interest during the month of December. As of December 31st, there was short interest totalling 14,670,000 shares, a decline of 14.7% from the December 15th total of 17,190,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 8,790,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 1.7 days. Approximately 1.2% of the shares of the company are short sold. View Morgan Stanley's Current Options Chain.

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

Morgan Stanley's stock is owned by many different of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include Focused Investors LLC (0.15%), New York State Teachers Retirement System (0.13%), Calamos Advisors LLC (0.08%), Hexavest Inc. (0.06%), Gateway Investment Advisers LLC (0.05%) and Strs Ohio (0.04%). Company insiders that own Morgan Stanley stock include Daniel A Simkowitz, James P Gorman, Jeffrey S Brodsky, Jonathan Pruzan, Keishi Hotsuki, Paul C Wirth, Robert P Rooney, Stanley Morgan and Ufj Financial Group Mitsubishi. View Institutional Ownership Trends for Morgan Stanley.

MS stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Commerzbank Aktiengesellschaft FI, Nisa Investment Advisors LLC, Calamos Advisors LLC, Gateway Investment Advisers LLC, Meag Munich Ergo Kapitalanlagegesellschaft MBH, LGT Capital Partners LTD., Tocqueville Asset Management L.P. and LVM Capital Management Ltd. MI. Company insiders that have sold Morgan Stanley company stock in the last year include Keishi Hotsuki, Paul C Wirth, Robert P Rooney and Ufj Financial Group Mitsubishi. View Insider Buying and Selling for Morgan Stanley.

MS stock was bought by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Hexavest Inc., Focused Investors LLC, PGGM Investments, Zurcher Kantonalbank Zurich Cantonalbank, KAMES CAPITAL plc, Advisors Capital Management LLC, Diversified Trust Co and Assenagon Asset Management S.A.. Company insiders that have bought Morgan Stanley stock in the last two years include Daniel A Simkowitz and Ufj Financial Group Mitsubishi. View Insider Buying and Selling for Morgan Stanley.

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 $54.55.

Morgan Stanley has a market capitalization of $88.29 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 60,348 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.