Morgan Stanley (NYSE:MS) at last check was buoying at $122.61 on current market day with a rise of 1.75% from its closing price on previous day.
Taking a look at stock we notice that its last check on previous day was $120.50 and 5Y monthly beta was reading 1.336 with its price kept floating in the range of $120.529 and $123.2 on the day. Company’s P/E ratio for the trailing 12 months is 18.64. Considering stock’s 52-week price range provides that MS hit a high price of $136.24 and saw its price falling to a low level of $83.09 during that period. Over a period of past 1-month, stock came subtracting -6.90% in its value.
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With its current market valuation of $197.52 billion, Morgan Stanley is set to declare its quarterly results in January. MS Stock’s Forward Dividend of 3.55 and its yield of 2.90% are making investors’ thoughts stronger that it could climb further before the company announces its earnings for the current quarter. Analysts are in estimates of 1.64 per share for company’s earnings in the current quarter and are expecting its annual EPS growth moving up to 7.34 for current year with estimates of that growing to 7.96 in next year.
Analysts watching the company’s growth closely have provided estimates for its revenue growth with an average revenue estimate of 14.74B. They suggested that in the process company could generate revenue of as low as 14.06B which could climb up to 15.69B to hit a high. The average estimate is representing an increase of 14.30% in sales growth from that of posted by the company in the same quarter of last year. In keeping analyst consensus estimate with, company is forecasted to be making an annual revenue of 60.25B in current fiscal year, which will be 11.27% more from revenue generated by the company last year.
In contrast, when we review MS stock’s current outlook then short term indicators are assigning it an average of 50% Buy, while medium term indicators are categorizing the stock at an average of 50% Buy. Long term indicators are suggesting an average of 100% Buy for it.
According to ratings assigned by 19 analysts at the scale of 1 to 5 with 1.00 representing a strong buy and 5.00 suggesting a strong sell; 10 of them are recommending Morgan Stanley (MS) as a Hold, while 9 are in view that stock is a Buy. Recommendation by 0 analysts for the stock is an Underweight while number of those analysts who rated the stock as an Overweight is 0, whereas 0 of them are considering the stock as a Sell. When taken as whole, stock gets a rating of Overweight and that encourages the investors to exploit the opportunity and build their stake up in the company.
Digging deeper we become aware of the PEG ratio of the MS stock which is currently positioned at 1.08. It further provides that stock’s current price level is -4.71% away from its 20-day simple moving average and is -2.23% off its SMA50. Its relative strength index (RSI) for 14-periods is oscillating at 39.56 while volatility remained at 2.99% over the past week which changes to 1.97% when measuring it over the past month. Beta is valued at 1.36, while measure of average true range or ATR is currently at 2.82. In predicting price targets of as low as $58 and as high as $133, analysts are in agreement on assigning the stock over the next 12 months average price target of $114.5. Stock’s current price level is 52.7% above from estimated low price target while it is -8.47% below the estimated high; and even if the MS’s share succeeded to reach the median price of $114.5, then the outlook of 6.61% could come to the excitement of the investors.
Having a second look at Morgan Stanley (NYSE:MS) provides that stock’s average daily trading volume for 3 months was 6.50 million, while it jumped to 6714810 when we calculate an average volume for past 10 days. Number of outstanding shares of the stock stood at 1.61 billion.
The percentage of outstanding shares held by the insiders is 23.63% while it is 61.62% for the institutional holders. The figures also indicate that as of 2024-11-29, number of stock’s short shares was 15.33 million which implies a short ratio of 2.24. This shows up a 125.00 of Short Interest in company’s outstanding shares on the day. In November the standing of shares short improved as it was 14.76 million in the previous month. Addition of 31.48% by stock’s current price to its year-to-date value in today’s trading is likely to be increasing investors’ interest in the stock as it is hinting an extended uptrend.
