Morgan Stanley (MS) Stock Price, News & Analysis

19 Wall Street research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Morgan Stanley in the last twelve months. There are currently 12 hold ratings, 6 buy ratings and 1 strong buy rating for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street research analysts is that investors should "hold" MS shares. A hold rating indicates that analysts believe investors should maintain any existing positions they have in MS, but not buy additional shares or sell existing shares.
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19 brokers have issued 12-month price targets for Morgan Stanley's stock. Their MS share price targets range from $79.15 to $116.00. On average, they expect the company's share price to reach $94.56 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 10.4% from the stock's current price.
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Morgan Stanley's stock was trading at $93.25 on January 1st, 2024. Since then, MS stock has decreased by 8.2% and is now trading at $85.65.
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Morgan Stanley saw a increase in short interest during the month of December. As of December 31st, there was short interest totaling 23,210,000 shares, an increase of 21.1% from the December 15th total of 19,160,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 8,860,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 2.6 days. Currently, 1.8% of the shares of the stock are short sold.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Tuesday, April 16th 2024.
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Morgan Stanley will be holding an earnings conference call on Tuesday, April 16th at 9:30 AM Eastern. Interested parties can register for or listen to the call using this link.

Morgan Stanley (NYSE:MS) issued its quarterly earnings data on Tuesday, January, 16th. The financial services provider reported $1.13 earnings per share for the quarter, topping analysts' consensus estimates of $1.07 by $0.06. The financial services provider earned $12.90 billion during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $12.77 billion. Morgan Stanley had a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 10.33% and a net margin of 9.49%. The business's quarterly revenue was up 1.2% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period in the prior year, the firm posted $1.31 earnings per share.
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Morgan Stanley announced a quarterly dividend on Tuesday, January 16th. Investors of record on Wednesday, January 31st will be paid a dividend of $0.85 per share on Thursday, February 15th. This represents a $3.40 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 3.97%. The ex-dividend date is Tuesday, January 30th.
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Morgan Stanley (NYSE:MS) pays an annual dividend of $3.40 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 3.95%. The company has been increasing its dividend for 3 consecutive year(s), indicating that it does not yet have a strong track record of dividend growth. The dividend payout ratio is 65.76%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, MS will have a dividend payout ratio of 46.45% next year. This indicates that the company will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.
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ETFs with the largest weight of Morgan Stanley (NYSE:MS) stock in their portfolio include iShares U.S. Broker-Dealers & Securities Exchanges ETF (IAI), Invesco KBW Bank ETF (KBWB), Invesco BuyBack Achievers ETF (PKW), Invesco Large Cap Value ETF (PWV), iShares U.S. Financial Services ETF (IYG), Roundhill Big Bank ETF (BIGB), InfraCap Equity Income Fund ETF (ICAP) and Core Alternative ETF (CCOR).

Morgan Stanley announced that its board has initiated a stock repurchase program on Friday, June 30th 2023, which authorizes the company to buyback $20,000,000,000.00 in outstanding shares, according to EventVestor. This buyback authorization authorizes the company to repurchase up to 12.7% of its stock through open market purchases. Stock buyback programs are typically a sign that the company's leadership believes its stock is undervalued.

3,439 employees have rated Morgan Stanley Chief Executive Officer James P. Gorman on Glassdoor.com. James P. Gorman has an approval rating of 93% among the company's employees. This puts James P. Gorman in the top 30% of approval ratings compared to other CEOs of publicly-traded companies.

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), Intel (INTC), NVIDIA (NVDA), Walt Disney (DIS), Citigroup (C), Cisco Systems (CSCO), AT&T (T), Netflix (NFLX) and Verizon Communications (VZ).

Morgan Stanley's stock is owned by a number of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include Fisher Asset Management LLC (1.23%), Massachusetts Financial Services Co. MA (1.23%), Charles Schwab Investment Management Inc. (0.54%), Dimensional Fund Advisors LP (0.53%), Boston Partners (0.43%) and Principal Financial Group Inc. (0.30%). Insiders that own company stock include Alistair Darling, Andrew M Saperstein, Andrew M Saperstein, Charles Aubrey Smith III, Daniel A Simkowitz, Edward N Pick, James P Gorman, Jonathan Pruzan, Raja Akram, Sharon Yeshaya, Stanley Morgan, Stephen J Luczo and Thomas H Glocer.
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