MS Stock Summary and Trading Ideas (Morgan Stanley | NYSE:MS)

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 2025. 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.

What symbol and exchange does Morgan Stanley shares trade?

Morgan Stanley trades on the NYSE stock market under the symbol MS.

What is Morgan Stanley stock price doing today?

As of June 26, 2026, MS stock price declined to $212.03 with 9,113,816 million shares trading.

What is Morgan Stanley's Beta?

MS has a beta of 1.41, meaning it tends to be more sensitive to market movements. MS has a correlation of 0.53 to the broad based SPY ETF.

How much is Morgan Stanley worth?

MS has a market cap of $334.43 billion. This is considered a Mega Cap stock.

How much money does Morgan Stanley make?

Last quarter Morgan Stanley reported $21 billion in Revenue and $3.43 earnings per share. This beat revenue expectation by $787 million and exceeded earnings estimates by $.39.

What is the highest and lowest price Morgan Stanley traded in the last 3 year period?

In the last 3 years, MS traded as high as $230.47 and as low as $69.42.

What are the top ETFs holding Morgan Stanley?

The top ETF exchange traded funds that MS belongs to (by Net Assets): VTI, VOO, IVV, SPY, VTV.

Is Morgan Stanley (MS) a good investment?

MS has outperformed the market in the last year with a price return of +56.9% while the SPY ETF gained +21.3%. MS has also outperformed the stock market ETF in the last 3 month and 2 week periods returning +28.6% and -0.3%, respectively, while the SPY returned +11.3% and -0.9%, respectively.

What are the support and resistance levels for Morgan Stanley (MS)?

MS support price is $216.35 and resistance is $225.74 (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.