MS · Financial Services
What a holder would want to know before buying MS: where the price sits in its own history, how far it has fallen before and whether it recovered, and what the business behind it earns. All of it is arithmetic over free market data — no opinions, no recommendations.
Today’s price is 25% above the lowest point of the past year and 17% below the highest.
Over the past year it was cheaper than today on 56% of days and more expensive on 44%. Over the last 10 years: cheaper on 96% of days.
2% below its average price of the last 200 trading days.
Fell 20% or more 3 times in 10 years. The deepest fall was 53%; the longest took 2.7 years to get back to its peak. Every one recovered.
Now 17% below the Jul 2026 peak.
Morgan Stanley · Financial Services · Capital Markets · a mega-cap worth $298.44B
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…
revenue profit
Sales of $65.97B in 2025, with $16.86B of profit. Sales grew in 3 of the last 3 years.
Keeps about 26 cents of every dollar of sales as profit.
Holds more cash ($739.08B) than debt ($607.50B).
You pay $15 for every $1 of last year’s profit, and $14 for every $1 of profit expected next year.
A high number means buyers expect growth; a low one means they expect little, or fear trouble. Large US companies have averaged roughly 15–20 over the decades.
Pays 2.45% a year in dividends at today’s price · next ex-dividend Jul 31.
26 analysts: 11 say buy, 14 hold, 1 sell. Their average 12-month target is $223.41 (range $184.00–$262.00).
Insiders made 0 purchases and 7 sales in the last 6 months. Executives routinely sell shares they were paid in; buying with their own money is the rarer signal.
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