Morgan Stanley is a financial holding company. Through its subsidiaries and affiliates, Co. advises, and originates, trades, manages and distributes capital for, governments, institutions and individuals. Co.'s segments are: Institutional Securities, which provides investment banking, sales and trading, lending and other services; Wealth Management, which provides investment advisory services, brokerage services, financial and wealth planning services, stock plan administration, annuity and insurance products, residential real estate loans and other lending products, banking, and retirement plan services; and Investment Management, which provides investment strategies and products. We show 57 historical shares outstanding datapoints in our MS shares outstanding history coverage, used to compute MS market cap on those dates.
Understanding the changing numbers of shares outstanding, the changing
share price, and the resulting changing MS market cap history over the course of time is important for investors
interested in comparing MS's market cap history versus its peers.
Many "beginner" or "novice" investors will look at one stock trading at a price of $10 per share and another trading at
a price of $20 per share and think the latter company is worth twice as much. Of course, that is a completely meaningless comparison without also knowing how many shares outstanding there are for each of the two companies,
and then calculating their respective market caps. Comparing the share price of MS versus a peer is one thing; comparing
MS market cap versus a peer is a completely different story.
Furthermore, via fluctuation both in per-share price and in the number of shares outstanding (via issuance of new shares over time, the repurchase of existing shares),
the market cap for a company like MS can fluctuate over the course of history.
With this page we aim to empower investors researching MS by allowing them to research the MS market cap history. |
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