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

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

Morgan Stanley declared a quarterly dividend on Thursday, July 18th. Stockholders of record on Wednesday, July 31st will be given a dividend of $0.35 per share on Thursday, August 15th. This represents a $1.40 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 3.48%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Tuesday, July 30th. This is an increase from Morgan Stanley's previous quarterly dividend of $0.30. View Morgan Stanley's Dividend History.

Morgan Stanley declared that its board has authorized a share buyback plan on Wednesday, July 18th 2018, which allows the company to buyback $4,700,000,000.00 in outstanding shares, according to EventVestor. This buyback authorization allows the company to purchase up to 5.3% of its shares through open market purchases. Shares buyback plans are generally an indication that the company's management believes its stock is undervalued.

Morgan Stanley (NYSE:MS) posted its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, July, 18th. The financial services provider reported $1.23 EPS for the quarter, beating the Zacks' consensus estimate of $1.13 by $0.10. The financial services provider earned $10.24 billion during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $10.02 billion. Morgan Stanley had a net margin of 16.06% and a return on equity of 11.04%. Morgan Stanley's revenue was down 3.4% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period last year, the company posted $1.30 EPS. View Morgan Stanley's Earnings History.

Morgan Stanley is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Tuesday, October 15th 2019. View Earnings Estimates for Morgan Stanley.

14 analysts have issued 1 year price targets for Morgan Stanley's shares. Their predictions range from $45.00 to $69.00. On average, they expect Morgan Stanley's share price to reach $57.4545 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 42.7% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for Morgan Stanley.

14 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Morgan Stanley in the last year. There are currently 1 sell rating, 3 hold ratings and 10 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Buy." View Analyst Ratings for Morgan Stanley.

News stories about MS stock have trended positive this week, InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis reports. The research firm rates the sentiment of press coverage by monitoring more than six thousand news and blog sources in real-time. The firm ranks coverage of publicly-traded companies on a scale of negative five to positive five, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. Morgan Stanley earned a news impact score of 2.5 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned media stories about the financial services provider a news buzz of 6.0 out of 10, meaning that recent press coverage is somewhat likely to have an impact on the stock's share price in the next several days. View News Stories for Morgan Stanley.

Morgan Stanley saw a decline in short interest during the month of July. As of July 31st, there was short interest totalling 9,883,200 shares, a decline of 8.2% from the June 30th total of 10,768,000 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 9,560,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 1.0 days. Approximately 0.8% of the company's shares are sold short. View Morgan Stanley's Current Options Chain.

Some companies that are related to Morgan Stanley include Goldman Sachs Group (GS), BlackRock (BLK), Charles Schwab (SCHW), Credit Suisse Group (CS), TD Ameritrade (AMTD), MarketAxess (MKTX), Nomura (NMR), Raymond James (RJF), SEI Investments (SEIC), Jefferies Financial Group (JEF), Stifel Financial (SF), Virtu Financial (VIRT), Navient (NAVI), Futu (FHL) and Waddell & Reed Financial (WDR).

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), Intel (INTC), Wells Fargo & Co (WFC), General Electric (GE), Netflix (NFLX), NVIDIA (NVDA), Alibaba Group (BABA) and Cisco Systems (CSCO).

Morgan Stanley's stock is owned by a variety of of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc. (23.65%), Vanguard Group Inc. (6.08%), BlackRock Inc. (5.93%), BlackRock Inc. (5.93%), Price T Rowe Associates Inc. MD (3.60%) and Invesco Ltd. (1.31%). Company insiders that own Morgan Stanley stock include Alistair Darling, Daniel A Simkowitz, James P Gorman, Jeffrey S Brodsky, Jonathan Pruzan, Keishi Hotsuki, Paul C Wirth, Stanley Morgan and Thomas Colm Kelleher. View Institutional Ownership Trends for Morgan Stanley.

MS stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc., Tocqueville Asset Management L.P., Balyasny Asset Management LLC, Natixis, Natixis, Price T Rowe Associates Inc. MD, Westwood Holdings Group Inc. and Canada Pension Plan Investment Board. Company insiders that have sold Morgan Stanley company stock in the last year include Jeffrey S Brodsky, Paul C Wirth and Stanley Morgan. View Insider Buying and Selling for Morgan Stanley.

MS stock was acquired by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Nuveen Asset Management LLC, Eminence Capital LP, Renaissance Technologies LLC, Amundi Pioneer Asset Management Inc., Janus Henderson Group PLC, Janus Henderson Group PLC, Marshall Wace North America L.P. and Invesco Ltd.. 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, Scottrade, Fidelity and Charles Schwab.

One share of MS stock can currently be purchased for approximately $40.27.

Morgan Stanley has a market capitalization of $66.56 billion and generates $50.19 billion in revenue each year. The financial services provider earns $8.75 billion in net income (profit) each year or $4.61 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.