Morgan Stanley MS

equity

Price History

1993-02 · DCA start$8.28

Time underwater

How far below its previous all-time high the price sat, each month. 0% means a new high.

1993-022026-08 · 0.0%

Worst drawdown: −88%, peaking Aug 2000 and bottoming May 2012 — 290 months below the prior high before recovering.

DCA Backtest

Start month

Monthly amount (USD)

Invested: $40,300
Value today: $285,064
Return: +607.4%
Months invested: 403

Scenarios

Inflation — the same contributions merely keeping pace with CPI would be $64,371 today, so the real (inflation-adjusted) return is +342.8%.

Lump sum instead — $40,300 all at once in Feb 1993: $1,059,127 (+2528.1%) — lump sum came out ahead.

Worst timing — same monthly amount started at the all-time high (Jul 2026): $203.43 on $200 invested (+1.7%).

⚠ Price returns only — dividends are not included. This understates the true return of dividend-paying shares, and any comparison against crypto (which pays no dividends) is biased against equities by roughly the dividend yield, compounded.

If this saved you a spreadsheet — buy me a coffee.

Every start month at once

Each cell is the return-to-date of £/$/€100-a-month DCA started that month. Click a cell to load it in the backtest above. The ringed cell is the all-time-high start — the worst timing scenario.

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Legend:−50%−20%0%+50%+200%+1000%worst timing (ATH)Selected 1993-02: +607.4%

About Morgan Stanley

Morgan Stanley is an American multinational investment bank and financial services company headquartered at 1585 Broadway in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. With offices in 42 countries and more than 80,000 employees, the firm's clients include corporations, governments, institutions, and individuals. Morgan Stanley ranked No. 61 in the 2023 Fortune 500 list of the largest United States corporations by total revenue and in the same year ranked No. 30 in the Forbes Global 2000. (Wikipedia)

It's a listed company categorised under financials and investment banking & brokerage, with a market cap of about $341.8B.

It rates Medium-High Risk at 2.6/5, meaning real but ordinary risk — the kind most mainstream assets carry, with some factors scoring poorly.

What pushes the score up: market / volatility (4.0/5) and sector / regulatory (4.0/5).

Scoring well: liquidity at 1.0/5.

Not yet researched: concentration, governance. These are excluded from the score rather than guessed, so the real risk may be higher than what’s shown.

Ratings summarise sourced facts against fixed rules — not investment advice, and no substitute for your own diligence.

Risk Profile

Medium-High Risk(2.6/5)80% rated

How these ratings work

Market / Volatility4.0/5 · weight 20%

Annualised volatility (3yr)3/525.4
Max drawdown from ATH5/587.6
Beta vs S&P 5004/51.7

Liquidity1.0/5 · weight 15%

Avg daily $ volume1/51.2bn
Float % of shares outstandingnot yet researched

Leverage / Financial2.0/5 · weight 20%

Debt / equity2/53.3
Interest coverage (EBIT / interest)not yet researched

Earnings Quality2.0/5 · weight 15%

3yr EPS volatility2/517.7

Concentrationunrated · weight 10%

Largest customer, % of revenuenot yet researched
Geographic revenue concentrationnot yet researched

Governanceunrated · weight 10%

Board independence %not yet researched
Share structurenot yet researched
Litigation / audit historynot yet researched

Sector / Regulatory4.0/5 · weight 10%

Sector regulatory exposure4/5high

Linked Assets

Same sector, or return-correlated — worth knowing what else might move if this one does.