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Morgan Stanley (MS) Competitors

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$116.23
-1.69 (-1.43%)
(As of 10/31/2024 ET)

MS vs. GS, SCHW, RJF, LPLA, SF, EVR, LAZ, PIPR, BGC, and OPY

Should you be buying Morgan Stanley stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Morgan Stanley include The Goldman Sachs Group (GS), Charles Schwab (SCHW), Raymond James (RJF), LPL Financial (LPLA), Stifel Financial (SF), Evercore (EVR), Lazard (LAZ), Piper Sandler Companies (PIPR), BGC Group (BGC), and Oppenheimer (OPY). These companies are all part of the "investment banking & brokerage" industry.

Morgan Stanley vs.

The Goldman Sachs Group (NYSE:GS) and Morgan Stanley (NYSE:MS) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, profitability, community ranking, valuation, analyst recommendations, dividends, media sentiment, earnings and risk.

Morgan Stanley has a net margin of 10.64% compared to The Goldman Sachs Group's net margin of 9.89%. Morgan Stanley's return on equity of 12.69% beat The Goldman Sachs Group's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
The Goldman Sachs Group9.89% 11.05% 0.72%
Morgan Stanley 10.64%12.69%0.96%

The Goldman Sachs Group pays an annual dividend of $12.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.3%. Morgan Stanley pays an annual dividend of $3.70 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.2%. The Goldman Sachs Group pays out 35.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Morgan Stanley pays out 56.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. The Goldman Sachs Group has increased its dividend for 13 consecutive years and Morgan Stanley has increased its dividend for 11 consecutive years.

71.2% of The Goldman Sachs Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 84.2% of Morgan Stanley shares are held by institutional investors. 0.6% of The Goldman Sachs Group shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.2% of Morgan Stanley shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

The Goldman Sachs Group has a beta of 1.36, indicating that its stock price is 36% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Morgan Stanley has a beta of 1.36, indicating that its stock price is 36% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Morgan Stanley has higher revenue and earnings than The Goldman Sachs Group. The Goldman Sachs Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Morgan Stanley, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
The Goldman Sachs Group$50.96B3.21$8.52B$34.0815.19
Morgan Stanley$54.61B3.46$9.09B$6.5717.69

The Goldman Sachs Group presently has a consensus target price of $524.69, suggesting a potential upside of 1.36%. Morgan Stanley has a consensus target price of $109.24, suggesting a potential downside of 6.02%. Given The Goldman Sachs Group's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe The Goldman Sachs Group is more favorable than Morgan Stanley.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
The Goldman Sachs Group
0 Sell rating(s)
5 Hold rating(s)
14 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.74
Morgan Stanley
1 Sell rating(s)
10 Hold rating(s)
7 Buy rating(s)
1 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.42

The Goldman Sachs Group received 67 more outperform votes than Morgan Stanley when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 60.31% of users gave Morgan Stanley an outperform vote while only 60.20% of users gave The Goldman Sachs Group an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
The Goldman Sachs GroupOutperform Votes
1301
60.20%
Underperform Votes
860
39.80%
Morgan StanleyOutperform Votes
1234
60.31%
Underperform Votes
812
39.69%

In the previous week, The Goldman Sachs Group had 11 more articles in the media than Morgan Stanley. MarketBeat recorded 32 mentions for The Goldman Sachs Group and 21 mentions for Morgan Stanley. Morgan Stanley's average media sentiment score of 0.75 beat The Goldman Sachs Group's score of 0.14 indicating that Morgan Stanley is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
The Goldman Sachs Group
9 Very Positive mention(s)
6 Positive mention(s)
11 Neutral mention(s)
2 Negative mention(s)
3 Very Negative mention(s)
Neutral
Morgan Stanley
11 Very Positive mention(s)
2 Positive mention(s)
5 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
2 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

Summary

Morgan Stanley beats The Goldman Sachs Group on 12 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.

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MS vs. The Competition

MetricMorgan StanleySecurity brokers & dealers IndustryFinance SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$188.89B$27.87B$9.69B$19.18B
Dividend Yield3.17%2.40%10.49%3.52%
P/E Ratio17.6918.2148.6931.76
Price / Sales3.465.223,327.0717.89
Price / Cash14.0720.2829.8120.46
Price / Book2.092.492.915.38
Net Income$9.09B$951.88M$952.27M$984.71M
7 Day Performance-2.47%-0.66%-0.61%-0.53%
1 Month Performance11.50%2.65%0.47%-0.96%
1 Year Performance64.12%43.09%26.12%29.32%

Morgan Stanley Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
MS
Morgan Stanley
4.681 of 5 stars
$116.23
-1.4%
$109.24
-6.0%
+67.1%$188.89B$54.61B17.6980,000Options Volume
GS
The Goldman Sachs Group
4.9207 of 5 stars
$524.50
+0.2%
$524.69
+0.0%
+74.3%$165.64B$50.96B15.3945,300Short Interest ↑
SCHW
Charles Schwab
4.5368 of 5 stars
$71.94
-0.1%
$73.94
+2.8%
+40.1%$127.86B$18.74B28.1033,000
RJF
Raymond James
4.8964 of 5 stars
$149.02
+0.6%
$137.36
-7.8%
+56.1%$30.69B$12.64B15.3518,000Analyst Forecast
Analyst Revision
News Coverage
LPLA
LPL Financial
4.5259 of 5 stars
$265.63
+0.5%
$277.77
+4.6%
+18.2%$19.84B$10.93B20.728,400Earnings Report
Analyst Forecast
Gap Up
SF
Stifel Financial
4.7089 of 5 stars
$104.76
-0.4%
$100.33
-4.2%
+83.0%$10.74B$4.35B18.949,000Dividend Announcement
EVR
Evercore
4.5123 of 5 stars
$265.21
+1.5%
$270.40
+2.0%
+104.7%$10.22B$2.79B36.682,195Analyst Revision
LAZ
Lazard
3.8463 of 5 stars
$51.30
-0.7%
$51.14
-0.3%
+78.0%$5.78B$2.82B33.103,291News Coverage
PIPR
Piper Sandler Companies
3.642 of 5 stars
$288.73
-0.2%
$181.50
-37.1%
+105.9%$5.11B$1.40B30.851,725Dividend Announcement
Analyst Downgrade
Short Interest ↓
BGC
BGC Group
2.7072 of 5 stars
$9.44
+0.9%
N/A+115.6%$4.59B$2.03B37.763,895Short Interest ↑
OPY
Oppenheimer
3.3663 of 5 stars
$57.24
-0.7%
N/A+66.2%$591.29M$1.25B10.452,942Earnings Report
Dividend Announcement

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This page (NYSE:MS) was last updated on 10/31/2024 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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