With 6.11 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained heavier than its average volume of 6.09 million shares. During the session, the Capital Markets company that operates in wider Financial sector, reached to the highest price of $135.66 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $133.96. The 52-week range on MS shows that it touched its highest point at $135.57 and its lowest point at $76.33 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $123.32. With its current market cap of 216.51 billion, MS has annualized dividend of $3.55 while the current yield stands at 2.64%. MS paid its most recent dividend on 1730332800, while the ex-dividend date for that was 1730332800. Beta for the stock currently stands at 1.35.
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Price Performance and Earnings:
Stock performance is one of the indicators that investors use to determine whether they will profit from a stock. The price performance of MS was up-trending over the past week, with a rise of 0.47%, but this was up by 13.02% over a month. Three-month performance surged to 31.62% while six-month performance rose 36.09%. The stock gained 71.60% in the past year, while it has gained 44.44% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for MS yields 6.58 with Next year EPS estimates of 7.92. For the next quarter, that number is 1.62. This implies an EPS growth rate of 41.80% for this year and 7.84% for next year. EPS is expected to grow by 17.30% annually over the next five years; however, over the past five years, the company experienced an annual growth rate of 1.84%.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 1.63 billion MS shares are outstanding with a float of 1.23 billion shares on hand for trading. On 2024-10-31, short shares totaled 14.76 million, which was 92.0 higher than short shares on 1727654400. In addition to Mr. James Patrick Gorman as the firm’s Executive Chairman, Mr. Daniel Aaron Simkowitz serves as its Co-President.
Institutional Ownership:
Through their ownership of 0.62183 of MS’s outstanding shares, institutional investors have minority control over the company.
Analysts Ratings:
Reading analyst opinions is an effective way to decide where to invest, and there are several opinions available for MS since 19 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 9 analysts who recommend BUY ratings, while 0 suggest SELL ratings. Of the remaining analysts, 10 believe that the stock is worth HOLDING, 0 give it an OVERWEIGHT rating, and 0 thinks that it’s UNDERWEIGHT. In the same way, a target price assigned to a stock can also reveal much about its potential. With MS analysts setting a high price target of 142.0 and a low target of 100.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 122.90588. Based on these targets, MS could surge 5.43% to reach the target high and fall by -25.76% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a decline of -8.75% from current levels.
Analysts have provided yearly estimates in a range of $7.62636 being high and $7.18484 being low. For MS, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $7.34539. The surprise factor in the prior quarter was $1.65. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is $2.5 and the low estimate is $1.89. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus $2.15.
