Morgan Stanley Preferred Stock Fundamentals

MS-PF Preferred Stock  USD 25.32  0.01  0.04%   
Morgan Stanley fundamentals help investors to digest information that contributes to Morgan Stanley's financial success or failures. It also enables traders to predict the movement of Morgan Preferred Stock. The fundamental analysis module provides a way to measure Morgan Stanley's intrinsic value by examining its available economic and financial indicators, including the cash flow records, the balance sheet account changes, the income statement patterns, and various microeconomic indicators and financial ratios related to Morgan Stanley preferred stock.
  
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Morgan Stanley Company Beta Analysis

Morgan Stanley's Beta is one of the most important measures of equity market volatility. Beta can be thought of as asset elasticity or sensitivity to market. In other words, it is a number that shows the relationship of an equity instrument to the financial market in which this instrument is traded. For example, if Beta of equity is 2, it is expected to significantly outperform market when the market is going up and significantly underperform when the market is going down. Similarly, Beta of 1 indicates that an asset and market will generate similar returns over time.

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Current Morgan Stanley Beta

    
  1.34  
Most of Morgan Stanley's fundamental indicators, such as Beta, are part of a valuation analysis module that helps investors searching for stocks that are currently trading at higher or lower prices than their real value. If the real value is higher than the market price, Morgan Stanley is considered to be undervalued, and we provide a buy recommendation. Otherwise, we render a sell signal.
In a nutshell, Beta is a measure of individual stock risk relative to the overall volatility of the stock market. and is calculated based on very sound finance theory - Capital Assets Pricing Model (CAPM).However, since Beta is calculated based on historical price movements it may not predict how a firm's stock is going to perform in the future.
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In accordance with the recently published financial statements, Morgan Stanley has a Beta of 1.3427. This is 63.74% higher than that of the Financial Services sector and 42.62% lower than that of the Capital Markets industry. The beta for all United States preferred stocks is notably lower than that of the firm.

Morgan Stanley Fundamental Drivers Relationships

Comparative valuation techniques use various fundamental indicators to help in determining Morgan Stanley's current stock value. Our valuation model uses many indicators to compare Morgan Stanley value to that of its competitors to determine the firm's financial worth. You can analyze the relationship between different fundamental ratios across Morgan Stanley competition to find correlations between indicators driving Morgan Stanley's intrinsic value. More Info.
Morgan Stanley is considered to be number one stock in price to sales category among its peers. It also is considered to be number one stock in beta category among its peers totaling about  1.14  of Beta per Price To Sales. The reason why the comparable model can be used in almost all circumstances is due to the vast number of multiples that can be utilized, such as the price-to-earnings (P/E), price-to-book (P/B), price-to-sales (P/S), price-to-cash flow (P/CF), and many others. The P/E ratio is the most commonly used of these ratios because it focuses on the Morgan Stanley's earnings, one of the primary drivers of an investment's value.

Morgan Beta Peer Comparison

Stock peer comparison is one of the most widely used and accepted methods of equity analyses. It analyses Morgan Stanley's direct or indirect competition against its Beta to detect undervalued stocks with similar characteristics or determine the preferred stocks which would be a good addition to a portfolio. Peer analysis of Morgan Stanley could also be used in its relative valuation, which is a method of valuing Morgan Stanley by comparing valuation metrics of similar companies.
Morgan Stanley is currently under evaluation in beta category among its peers.
As the market goes up, the company is expected to outperform it. However, if the market returns are negative, Morgan Stanley will likely underperform.

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About Morgan Stanley Fundamental Analysis

The Macroaxis Fundamental Analysis modules help investors analyze Morgan Stanley's financials across various querterly and yearly statements, indicators and fundamental ratios. We help investors to determine the real value of Morgan Stanley using virtually all public information available. We use both quantitative as well as qualitative analysis to arrive at the intrinsic value of Morgan Stanley based on its fundamental data. In general, a quantitative approach, as applied to this company, focuses on analyzing financial statements comparatively, whereas a qaualitative method uses data that is important to a company's growth but cannot be measured and presented in a numerical way.
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Other Information on Investing in Morgan Preferred Stock

Morgan Stanley financial ratios help investors to determine whether Morgan Preferred Stock is cheap or expensive when compared to a particular measure, such as profits or enterprise value. In other words, they help investors to determine the cost of investment in Morgan with respect to the benefits of owning Morgan Stanley security.