Company profile
SEC EDGAR ↗- Industry
- Security Brokers, Dealers & Flotation Companies
- Listed
- NYSE: MS
- Incorporated
- DE
- Headquarters
- New York, NY
- Fiscal year end
- Dec 31
Financials
FY2014- Revenue
- $34.3B
- Net income
- $3.47B
- Total assets
- $801.5B
Latest full fiscal year from SEC filings (10-K) — SEC EDGAR ↗. Stratrix is a strategy publication, not a real-time financial data service.
The analyses
The Turnaround · Decision Forks
Morgan Stanley Spent 16 Years Becoming Boring on Purpose. It Worked.
Everyone calls it a post-2008 pivot to wealth management. But the move began before James Gorman was even CEO, took three transactions across 16 years, and lifted the firm's pre-tax profit mix from roughly a quarter to a majority. The catch: the margin and asset targets are still running behind.
8 min
The Crisis Response · Crisis & Reinvention
The Fed Stabilized Morgan Stanley Eight Days Before Japan's $9 Billion Arrived
The legend says a $9 billion Japanese investment rescued Morgan Stanley in 2008. But the Fed had already made it a bank holding company eight days before the deal was announced. MUFG bolstered a firm the government had already stabilized — backstopped by tens of billions in emergency lending.
8 min