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Morgan Stanley is a massive global financial services firm, with offices in 42 countries and more than 82,000 employees as of year-end 2025. The firm cut its teeth in investment banking and institutional trading, where it maintains a strong presence today, but generates the lion share of its income from wealth and asset management franchises, where it boasted $9.3 trillion in client assets at the end of its most recent fiscal year. After reincorporation as a bank holding company in the wake of the global financial crisis, Morgan Stanley also boasts a top 10 banking franchise by deposits, with more than $400 billion in customer deposits, predominately attributable to cash sweeps from its wealth management and brokerage businesses.
Morgan Stanley trades on the NYSE stock market under the symbol MS.
As of March 9, 2026, MS stock price climbed to $160.45 with 7,080,874 million shares trading.
MS has a beta of 1.60, meaning it tends to be more sensitive to market movements. MS has a correlation of 0.79 to the broad based SPY ETF.
MS has a market cap of $254.77 billion. This is considered a Mega Cap stock.
Last quarter Morgan Stanley reported $18 billion in Revenue and $2.68 earnings per share. This beat revenue expectation by $310 million and exceeded earnings estimates by $.25.
In the last 3 years, MS traded as high as $192.68 and as low as $69.42.
The top ETF exchange traded funds that MS belongs to (by Net Assets): VTI, VOO, IVV, SPY, VTV.
MS has outperformed the market in the last year with a return of +37.7%, while the SPY ETF gained +19.7%. However, in the most recent history, MS shares have underperformed the stock market with its stock returning -8.5% in the last 3 month period and -8.5% for the last 2 week period, while SPY has returned -0.8% and -1.6%, respectively.
MS support price is $155.80 and resistance is $164.75 (based on 1 day standard deviation move). This means that using the most recent 20 day stock volatility and applying a one standard deviation move around the stock's closing price, stastically there is a 67% probability that MS shares will trade within this expected range on the day.
