Morgan Stanley Target of Unusually Large Options Trading (NYSE:MS)

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29 July, 2017

L P acquired a new stake in shares of Morgan Stanley during the fourth quarter valued at about $2,548,000. Park National OH boosted its stake in stocks of Morgan Stanley by 1.0% in the Q1.

ABV Consulting Inc (ABVN) shares have been sparking interest of late as the volume moving average (VMA) has climbed steadily over the past seven bars.

Morgan Stanley (NYSE:MS) last posted its quarterly earnings results on Wednesday, July 19th. It has outperformed by 40.38% the S&P500.

Northcoast Asset Management Llc decreased Hp Inc stake by 509,131 shares to 2.28M valued at $33.78 million in 2016Q4.

The stock is now moving with a Positive distance from 200-Day Simple Moving Average of about 11.17% and has a pretty decent Year to Date (YTD) Performance of 11.46% which means the stock is constantly adding to its value from previous fiscal year end price.

Total cash per share on the most recent quarter is 304.28. Home Depot Inc now has $176.87B valuation. The institutional investor owned 14,456,307 shares of the financial services provider's stock after buying an additional 970,041 shares during the period. About 1.68 million shares traded. Goldcorp Inc. (USA) (NYSE:GG) has declined 19.95% since July 28, 2016 and is downtrending. It has outperformed by 45.12% the S&P500. Its up 0.21, from 0.94 in 2016Q3. It increased, as 53 investors sold Morgan Stanley shares while 267 reduced holdings. Louisiana State Employees Retirement Sys stated it has 90,700 shares. Horrell Mgmt reported 583 shares. Utd Financial Advisers Ltd Liability Corp reported 0.01% stake. Sphinx Trading LP reported 0.01% in Morgan Stanley (NYSE:MS). Janney Montgomery Scott Limited Com reported 26,559 shares. Montag A & Associates has 66,138 shares for 0.33% of their portfolio. This is an increase from Morgan Stanley's previous quarterly dividend of $0.20. Nomura Asset has invested 0.15% in Morgan Stanley (NYSE:MS). Crawford Investment Counsel stated it has 6,037 shares or 0.01% of all its holdings. Rampart Investment Co Limited Co owns 24,168 shares. Benjamin F Edwards And Incorporated holds 11,886 shares.

Maltese Capital Management Llc increased Svb Finl Group (NASDAQ:SIVB) stake by 62,500 shares to 70,000 valued at $12.02 million in 2016Q4.

02/22/2017 - Compass Point began new coverage on Morgan Stanley giving the company a "neutral" rating. The company has a market cap of $85.85 billion, a P/E ratio of 13.36 and a beta of 1.63.

Eaton Vance Enhanced Equity Income Fund II is a diversified, closed-end management investment company. The Company's Institutional Securities business segment provides investment banking, sales and trading, and other services to corporations, governments, financial institutions and high-to-ultra high net worth clients. Morgan Stanley has a 1-year low of $27.79 and a 1-year high of $48.04. Therefore 56% are positive. Equities analysts anticipate that Morgan Stanley will post $3.52 earnings per share for the current fiscal year. Da Davidson has 0.18% invested in Morgan Stanley (NYSE:MS) for 187,541 shares. The firm has "Neutral" rating given on Monday, October 10 by. The firm earned "Outperform" rating on Thursday, October 8 by JMP Securities.

Morgan Stanley was upgraded by analysts at Zacks Investment Research from a "sell" rating to a "hold" rating. The company was upgraded on Wednesday, December 21 by Atlantic Securities. Finally, BMO Capital Markets upped their price objective on Morgan Stanley from $58.00 to $61.00 and gave the stock an "outperform" rating in a research report on Thursday, July 20th. 14,680 shares were sold by Carey Matt, worth $2.30M on Wednesday, May 17. Shares were disposed in a price range of $46.68, amounting $1,202,803.56. after the sale, the CFO has an ownership of 196,708 company stock worth at $9,182,329.44. One analyst has rated the stock with a sell rating, eight have issued a hold rating, sixteen have issued a buy rating and one has issued a strong buy rating to the company.

Several brokerages have issued reports on MS. The firm has "Strong-Buy" rating by Vining Sparks given on Friday, April 21. The company presently has a consensus rating of "Buy" and an average price target of $47.61. The firm has "Conviction Buy" rating by Goldman Sachs given on Tuesday, June 28.

In 2015, Morgan Stanley named former capital markets executive Dan Simkowitz as the head of asset management.

12/15/2016 - Morgan Stanley had its "buy" rating reiterated by analysts at RBC Capital. JP Morgan maintained the shares of JE in report on Wednesday, November 4 with "Overweight" rating. Comerica Inc (NYSE:CMA) was raised too. These initiatives, along with enhanced capital deployment should boost investors' confidence in the stock. On Monday, February 8 the stock rating was maintained by Jefferies with "Buy".

Want to see what other hedge funds are holding MS? 121 funds opened positions while 478 raised stakes. Credit Agricole S A reported 2.36 million shares. Alphamark Advsrs Ltd Company has invested 0.05% of its portfolio in Home Depot Inc (NYSE:HD). The Maltese Capital Management Llc holds 293,300 shares with $12.39 million value, down from 315,000 last quarter.

Now the shares of Morgan Stanley (MS) has the trading volume of 8.93 Million shares with the average trading volume of 10140 shares. Hudson Canyon Counselors Ltd, a New Jersey-based fund reported 25,593 shares. Broadview Advisors Llc owns 891,817 shares or 1.21% of their USA portfolio. The short ratio in the company's stock is documented at 1.58 and the short float is around of 1.03%.


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