Morgan Stanley is a financial holding company. Through its subsidiaries and affiliates, Co. advises, and originates, trades, manages and distributes capital for, governments, institutions and individuals. Co.'s segments are: Institutional Securities, which provides investment banking, sales and trading, lending and other services; Wealth Management, which provides investment advisory services, brokerage services, financial and wealth planning services, stock plan administration, annuity and insurance products, residential real estate loans and other lending products, banking, and retirement plan services; and Investment Management, which provides investment strategies and products. The MS stock yearly return is shown above.
The yearly return on the MS stock yearly return page and across the coverage universe of our site,
is a measure of the annual return over the calendar year 2016 for the given stock.
When performing this calculation it is important to factor in dividends, because a financial instrument's annual return is
more than just the change in price if that instrument pays a dividend or coupon.
One way to factor dividends into the return is simply to count them as cash — we don't do
that here. Instead, our website aims to empower investors
by performing the MS annual return calculation with any dividends reinvested as applicable (on ex-dates).
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