Morgan Stanley

MS Security Brokers, Dealers & Flotation Companies · NYSE

Market statistics

Annualised volatility 28.0%
Beta vs SPY 1.39
Market correlation 0.636
Rate sensitivity -0.08
Volatility sensitivity -0.52
Traded per day $1.1B

Measured from daily returns over the past year. That is not the same estimator as the beta quoted on most finance sites, which is usually five years of monthly returns, and in a market where single stocks move on their own news the daily figure comes out materially lower. Over this window the average large-cap correlation to the index is far below its long-run level: a low number here is a statement about the last twelve months, not a claim that the security is uncorrelated with the market in general.

As filed with the SEC twelve months to 2025-12-31 · balance sheet 2026-03-31

Net income $16.86B
Diluted EPS $10.21
Total assets $1.58T
Total liabilities $1.47T
Shareholders’ equity $114.29B
Cash & equivalents $133.53B
Shares outstanding 1.58B

Short selling — three different measurements

Shares short 13.9M
Days to cover 3.1
Change vs prior +4.1%
Short share of volume 36.3%
Largest fail balance 78.0M
Dates with a fail balance 26

These measure different things and are routinely confused. Shares short is an outstanding position, reported twice monthly (settlement 2026-08-14). Short share of volume counts sell-side transactions flagged short each day, most of which is market-maker hedging closed the same session — the market-wide median is around half. Fail balances are shares that did not settle on time; the SEC states these are cumulative balances whose age cannot be determined, and they are not evidence of naked short selling.

Ownership

Institutions reporting a position 2,466
Reported value $204.45B

Largest reported holdersamong the managers stored here

ManagerReported valueShares
MITSUBISHI UFJ FINANCIAL GROUP INC $62.06B 377,085,167
STATE STREET CORP $16.68B 101,340,194
BlackRock, Inc. $15.86B 96,396,889
VANGUARD CAPITAL MANAGEMENT LLC $12.79B 77,715,132
VANGUARD PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT LLC $4.98B 30,240,801
GEODE CAPITAL MANAGEMENT, LLC $4.54B 27,702,674
Fisher Asset Management, LLC $4.21B 25,600,068
FMR LLC $3.74B 22,730,023

Schedule 13D activist stakesfilers declaring intent to influence

Filer% of classFiledForm
MITSUBISHI UFJ FINANCIAL GROUP INC 24.1% 2026-07-15 SCHEDULE 13D/A
MITSUBISHI UFJ FINANCIAL GROUP INC 24.0% 2026-04-13 SCHEDULE 13D/A

On the public record

Moves most like

Ticker1-year correlationVolatility vs MS
GS The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. 0.845 1.13×
IAI iShares U.S. Broker-Dealers & Securities Exchanges ETF 0.823 0.73×
KBWB Invesco KBW Bank ETF 0.786 0.72×
C Citigroup, Inc. 0.743 1.04×
STT State Street Corporation 0.702 0.89×
KCE State Street SPDR S&P Capital Markets ETF 0.701 0.75×
EVR Evercore Inc. Class A 0.682 1.35×
BAC Bank of America Corporation 0.665 0.76×

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Coverage

US securities trading at least $1 million a day with three years of history. Sections appear only where there is something to show: a fund has no income statement, most companies have no activist stake, and only a few dozen listed companies hold material federal contracts.