Pre-Market Activity Shows Gains For Morgan Stanley (MS)

Trade-Ideas LLC identified Morgan Stanley (MS) as a pre-market leader candidate
By TheStreet Wire ,

Trade-Ideas LLC identified

Morgan Stanley

(

MS

) as a pre-market leader candidate. In addition to specific proprietary factors, Trade-Ideas identified Morgan Stanley as such a stock due to the following factors:

  • MS has an average dollar-volume (as measured by average daily share volume multiplied by share price) of $386.0 million.
  • MS traded 10,619 shares today in the pre-market hours as of 8:22 AM.
  • MS is up 2.2% today from yesterday's close.

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More details on MS:

Morgan Stanley, a financial holding company, provides various financial products and services to corporations, governments, financial institutions, and individuals worldwide. The stock currently has a dividend yield of 2.3%. MS has a PE ratio of 12. Currently there are 8 analysts that rate Morgan Stanley a buy, no analysts rate it a sell, and 6 rate it a hold.

The average volume for Morgan Stanley has been 15.1 million shares per day over the past 30 days. Morgan Stanley has a market cap of $51.1 billion and is part of the financial sector and financial services industry. The stock has a beta of 1.45 and a short float of 1.2% with 1.04 days to cover. Shares are down 14% year-to-date as of the close of trading on Tuesday.

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TheStreetRatings.com

Analysis:

TheStreet Quant Ratings

rates Morgan Stanley as a

hold

. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its attractive valuation levels, good cash flow from operations and notable return on equity. However, as a counter to these strengths, we also find weaknesses including unimpressive growth in net income, poor profit margins and a generally disappointing performance in the stock itself.

Highlights from the ratings report include:

  • Net operating cash flow has significantly increased by 131.69% to $4,138.00 million when compared to the same quarter last year. In addition, MORGAN STANLEY has also vastly surpassed the industry average cash flow growth rate of -199.57%.
  • Regardless of the drop in revenue, the company managed to outperform against the industry average of 23.7%. Since the same quarter one year prior, revenues fell by 20.0%. Weakness in the company's revenue seems to have hurt the bottom line, decreasing earnings per share.
  • The gross profit margin for MORGAN STANLEY is currently lower than what is desirable, coming in at 34.48%. It has decreased from the same quarter the previous year. Along with this, the net profit margin of 13.12% trails that of the industry average.
  • The company, on the basis of change in net income from the same quarter one year ago, has significantly underperformed against the S&P 500 and did not exceed that of the Capital Markets industry. The net income has significantly decreased by 52.6% when compared to the same quarter one year ago, falling from $2,394.00 million to $1,134.00 million.

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