StockDecksMorgan Stanley
Financial Services · Capital Markets
The four fundamentals ratings
Each rating is built from the measures listed beneath it. Values are the latest reported figures; the rating beside each one is how that measure scores on our −100 to +100 scale.
Debt levels, liquidity and how solid the balance sheet looks.
| Debt to equity | 5.17 × | -93 |
| Buybacks vs new shares | Bought back $5.8B of its own shares last year (≈2.1% of its market value) | +4 |
Margins, and the returns being earned on the capital employed.
| Gross margin | 87.3 % | +98 |
| Operating margin | 39.9 % | +95 |
| Net margin | 25.6 % | +49 |
| Asset turnover | 0.05 × | — |
| Profit vs cash flow | $16.9B profit, burned $17.9B cash | -33 |
The direction and pace of revenue and earnings.
| Revenue growth (YoY) | 10.8 % | +52 |
| Earnings growth (YoY) | 8.2 % | +12 |
| Earnings growth (Q) | 6.5 % | +5 |
What you pay relative to what the business actually delivers.
| P/E (trailing) | 14.31 × | -3 |
| Forward P/E | 13.22 × | -11 |
| PEG ratio | 1.57 × | -4 |
| Price/Book | 2.66 × | +15 |
| Price/Sales | 3.55 × | +43 |
| Value-trap check | Cheapness credit ×0.76 — looks cheap, but quality scores +4 | — |
Key figures
| Sector | Financial Services |
| Industry | Capital Markets |
| Market cap | $283.4B |
| Dividend yield | 2.58% |
| Payout ratio | 32.31% |
| Beta | 1.21 |
About Morgan Stanley
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 Africa.
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