Morgan Stanley (MS) on Decifer

Why it ranks here

• Its returns on invested money are modest, around 2% and it turns most of its profit into real cash.
• Revenue is growing about 11% a year and profits grew 29% over the past year.
• It keeps a high share of every sale as profit.
• It is riding an active market tailwind but its balance sheet leaves little room to fund growth.
• It is not watering down its owners with new shares and it returns cash to shareholders.
• Our durability check found pressure on this name, which costs it a few points.
• It trades about 17% above similar companies, and its growth does not yet back up that price.

The current read

The evidence on MS lines up on the supportive side: the intelligence feed flags this name as connected to what is moving markets now. The independent signals we track are telling the same story.

Themes

• Banks & Financial Institutions: Morgan Stanley sits in the investment banks layer of the Banks & Financial Institutions story.

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