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ISIN code: US6174464486
Sector: Finance
Industry: Brokers/investment banks

Le actions of Morgan Stanley are listed on the NYSE New York Stock Exchange under the ticker MS.

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Company Description

Morgan Stanley is an American financial services company headquartered in New Yorkk. Morgan Stanley, through its affiliates and subsidiaries, advises and manages and distributes capital for institutions, governments and individuals. The company has equity interests in numerous companies around the world.

It has more than 68.000 employees in approximately 1200 offices in 42 countries around the world.

Le three areas of activity I'm:

• Institutional Securities Group
• Global Wealth Management Group
• Investment Management

The main revenues derive from investment activities (48,7% of the total). Geographically, the largest revenues come from the Americas (73%) followed by Europe/Middle East/Africa (14,6%) and Asia/Pacific (12,4%).

Turnover in 2020 was $ 48,2 billion with a net profit of $ 11 billion.

Morgan Stanley is publicly traded on the NYSE and is a constituent of the S&P 100 and the S&P 500.

The major shareholder of the company is the Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Inc. with 24% of the share capital. During the 2008 financial crisis, at the height of the bank's liquidity crunch, the Japanese bought the stock package for $9 billion.

THEshareholders is composed as follows:

• Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Inc., 24%
• SSGA Funds Management, Inc., 7,12%
• The Vanguard Group Inc, 6,27%
• China Investment Corp. (Investment Management), 3,34%
• T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc. (Investment Management), 2,98%
• Wellington Management Co. LLP, 2,38%
• Fidelity Management & Research Co. LLC, 1,96%
• JPMorgan Investment Management, Inc., 1,93%
• BlackRock Fund Advisors, 1,75%
• Geode Capital Management LLC, 1,32%

Economic and financial analysis of the company

Morgan Stanley was founded on September 5, 1935 by Henry Sturgis Morgan and Harold Stanley. The company was born following the law Glass-Steagall Act, which did not allow a corporation to maintain an investment bank and a commercial bank under the same entity at the same time.
JP Morgan & Co., having the two sections, thus decided to focus on the commercial bank because it was considered a more profitable activity and spun off the investment segment. Some employees, including the two founders, left JP Morgan & Co. and joined other employees of the “Drexel Partners” forming Morgan Stanley.

The bank was immediately a great success; in one year it gained a 24% market share (about $1,1 billion) in public offerings.

In 1939 he got to be the head of the financing of the US railroads.

In 1941, a corporate reorganization took place to allow for greater activity in the securities sector.

In 1962 Morgan Stanley created the first computer model valid for financial analysis.

In 1967 he established in Paris, the Morgan & Cie International with the aim of entering the European real estate market. It also acquires the Harvey & Co., Inc.

In 1970 he opened a representative office in Tokyo and entered the Japanese market.

In 1975 he established the Morgan Stanley International Inc. in London.

In 1977 the wealth management department was born with the creation of Morgan Stanley Realty Inc.

In 1986 the company was listed on the New York Stock Exchange.

In 1989 it landed in Italy with the launch of SICAV MS INVF, an open-end investment fund of the UCITS type.

In 1996 he acquired Van Kampen American Capital.

On February 5, 1997, MS merged with Dean Witter Discover & Co., the financial services business spun off from Sears Roebuck. Morgan Stanley chairman, John J. Mack, became president and chief operating officer of the company. The name is changed to “Morgan Stanley Dean Witter & Co.”.

In 1999 a joint venture is created in India with the local partner JM Financial.

In 2001 it returned to the simple denomination "Morgan Stanley".

In February 2007, he announced the termination of his Indian joint venture. MS acquired its local partner's stake in the institutional brokerage business and sold its stake in the other businesses. The bank then set up a wholly owned subsidiary.

In December 2007 he announced the entry into his share capital (9,9%) of China Investment Corporation worth $ 5 billion.

During the financial crisis the Bank risked bankruptcy; it is estimated that between 2007 and 2008 Morgan Stanley lost more than 80% of its market value. According to the data of Bloomberg News Service Morgan Stanley it borrowed $107,3 billion from the Fed, more than any other bank.

The 22 September 2008 Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs, the last two largest investment banks in the United States, announce that they would become traditional bank holding companies regulated by the Federal Reserve.
Next week, MUFG Bank, Japan's largest bank, invests $9 billion in buying 21% stake in Morgan Stanley.

In 2009 it acquired 51% of the Smith Barney da Citigroup. Global Wealth Management Group is merged with Smith Barney to form Morgan Stanley Smith Barney.
In October, he sold Van Kampen to Invesco for $1,5 billion.

In June 2013 completes the acquisition of Smith Barney.

In October 2020 completes the acquisition of e-trade.

In March 2021 it acquires the Eaton Vance.

In Italy, Morgan Stanley holds shareholdings, directly or through subsidiaries, in numerous companies, among which there are:

• La Doria, 5,03%
• Banco Bpm, 2,6%
• Moncler, 3,7%

In recent years the bank has also concentrated on investments in cryptocurrency. Morgan Stanley has invested in stocks Grayscale Bitcoin Trust, holding a total of over $300 million in Bitcoin exposure. Morgan Stanley Institutional Fund reportedly increased its stake in Grayscale Bitcoin Trust (GBTC) for three of its funds: Growth Portfolio, Insight Fund, and Global Opportunity Portfolio.