MSD Stock Summary and Trading Ideas (MS Emerging Markets Debt | NYSE:MSD)

The Fund's primary investment objective is to produce high current income and as a secondary objective, to seek capital appreciation, through investments primarily in debt securities of government and government-related issuers located in emerging countries, of entities organized to restructure outstanding debt of such issuers and debt securities of corporate issuers in or organized under the laws of emerging countries. To the extent that the Fund invests in derivative instruments that Morgan Stanley Investment Management Inc. (the "Adviser") believes have economic characteristics similar to debt securities of government and government-related issuers located in emerging market countries and of entities organized to restructure outstanding debt of such issuers, such investments will be counted for purposes of the Fund's policy.

MS Emerging Markets Debt trades on the NYSE stock market under the symbol MSD.

As of April 17, 2024, MSD stock price climbed to $6.94 with 80,254 million shares trading.

MSD has a beta of 0.44, meaning it tends to be less sensitive to market movements. MSD has a correlation of 0.19 to the broad based SPY ETF.

MSD has a market cap of $140.12 million. This is considered a Micro Cap stock.

In the last 3 years, MSD stock traded as high as $9.70 and as low as $5.85.

MSD has underperformed the market in the last year with a price return of +18.9% while the SPY ETF gained +23.0%. MSD has also underperformed the stock market ETF in the last 3 month and 2 week periods returning +1.7% and -3.7%, respectively, while the SPY returned +5.7% and -3.5%, respectively.

MSD support price is $6.84 and resistance is $6.94 (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 MSD stock will trade within this expected range on the day.