Morgan Stanley
About: Morgan Stanley is a global investment bank whose history, through its legacy firms, can be traced back to 1924. The company has institutional securities, wealth management, and investment management segments with approximately 45% of net revenue from its institutional securities business, 45% from wealth management, and 10% from investment management. About 24% of its total revenue is from outside the Americas. The company had over $6 trillion of client assets as well as around 70,000 employees at the end of 2024.
Employees: 81,000
Fund manager confidence
Based on 2025 Q1 regulatory disclosures by fund managers ($100M+ AUM)
19% more repeat investments, than reductions
Existing positions increased: 866 | Existing positions reduced: 728
7% more first-time investments, than exits
New positions opened: 164 | Existing positions closed: 153
0.81% less ownership
Funds ownership: 84.24% [Q4 2024] → 83.43% (-0.81%) [Q1 2025]
2% less funds holding
Funds holding: 2,068 [Q4 2024] → 2,027 (-41) [Q1 2025]
9% less capital invested
Capital invested by funds: $173B [Q4 2024] → $157B (-$16.2B) [Q1 2025]
26% less funds holding in top 10
Funds holding in top 10: 39 [Q4 2024] → 29 (-10) [Q1 2025]
40% less call options, than puts
Call options by funds: $2.36B | Put options by funds: $3.92B
Research analyst outlook
6 Wall Street Analysts provided 1 year price targets over the past 3 months
6 analyst ratings
JP Morgan Kian Abouhossein | 3%downside $122 | Neutral Maintained | 14 Apr 2025 |
Wells Fargo Whit Mayo | 5%downside $120 | Equal-Weight Maintained | 14 Apr 2025 |
B of A Securities Michael Carrier | 14%upside $144 | Buy Maintained | 2 Apr 2025 |
Evercore ISI Group Glenn Schorr | 9%upside $138 | Outperform Maintained | 1 Apr 2025 |
Citigroup Keith Horowitz | 1%downside $125 | Neutral Maintained | 24 Mar 2025 |
Financial journalist opinion
Based on 33 articles about MS published over the past 30 days









