Morgan Stanley (MS)
Morgan Stanley, a financial holding company, provides various financial products and services to corporations, governments, financial institutions, and individuals in the Americas, Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa.
Scored against other Financial Services stocks, not a fixed scale.
The quick read
Morgan Stanley is right in the middle: the good and the not-so-good roughly cancel out.
- What's working
- People inside the company and big investors are showing confidence in it.
- Worth watching
- The stock has been sliding and sits near the low end of its range for the year.
Analyst price target
~12-month · 22 analystsPublished targets from Wall Street analysts (public data) — what analysts expect over roughly a year. This is not a StockGlow forecast and not a recommendation. Analyst targets are frequently wrong.
About Morgan Stanley
Morgan Stanley, a financial holding company, provides various financial products and services to corporations, governments, financial institutions, and individuals in the Americas, Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. It operates through Institutional Securities, Wealth Management, and Investment Management segments…
- Sector
- Financial Services
- Industry
- Capital Markets
- Employees
- 83,728
- Headquarters
- New York, NY
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What’s behind the score
Valuation
P/E 14.3 — lower than 52% of Financial Services peers
P/B 2.7 — lower than 50% of Financial Services peers
P/S 3.6 — lower than 44% of Financial Services peers
EV/Revenue 2.0 — lower than 62% of Financial Services peers
PEG 1.6 — lower than 39% of Financial Services peers
Profitability & quality
Operating margin 39.9% — higher than 62% of Financial Services peers
Net margin 25.6% — higher than 53% of Financial Services peers
Financial health
Debt/equity 5.2 — lower than 4% of Financial Services peers
Cash/debt 1.22 — higher than 82% of Financial Services peers
Growth
Revenue growth 10.8% YoY — higher than 56% of Financial Services peers
Earnings growth 8.2% YoY — higher than 31% of Financial Services peers
Ownership & investor activity
Payout ratio 32.3% — somewhat unusual vs Financial Services peers
Net insider buying, +0.0% of insider shares
Institutions net sold, -11.8% of shares held
Insiders hold 24.4% of shares outstanding
1.2% of float sold short
Momentum
Below its 50- & 200-day averages
35% of the way from its 52-week low to high