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Morgan Stanley's CEO Discusses Q2 2011 Results - Earnings Call TranscriptThu, Jul 21, 2011 • 1 Comment
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Morgan Stanley CEO Discusses Q4 2010 Earnings Call TranscriptFri, Jan 21, 2011
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Morgan Stanley CEO Discusses Q3 2010 Results - Earnings Call TranscriptWed, Oct 20, 2010
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Morgan Stanley Q3 2009 Earnings Call TranscriptWed, Oct 21, 2009 • 1 Comment
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- Thursday, April 18, 7:28 AM More on Morgan Stanley (MS) Q1 earnings: Excluding DVA, revenue of $8.5B fell 4.5% Y/Y, but beat expectations by about $160M. Earnings would have been a beat as well. Wealth management is a focus now, and revenue grew to $3.5B from $3.3B in Q4, with pre-tax margin of 17%. "Program to reduce non-strategic risk-weighted assets in (trading) remains on schedule." Indeed: FICC revenue of $1.5B, off 42% Y/Y. Shares flat. (PR) Comment! [Financials, Earnings]
- Thursday, April 18, 7:17 AM Morgan Stanley (MS): Q1 EPS of $0.61 beats by $0.04. Revenue of $8.48B beats by $0.13B. (PR) Comment! [Earnings, Breaking News, Financials]
- Thursday, April 18, 12:05 AM Notable earnings before Thursday’s open: ADS, AN, APH, BAX, BBT, BPOP, BTU, BX, CY, DHR, FCS, FCX, FITB, KEY, LDK, MMR, MS, NOK, NUE, OMC, PBCT, PENN, PEP, PM, PPG, SHW, SNA, SON, TSM, TZOO, UNH, UNP, VZ Comment! [Earnings]
- Wednesday, April 17, 5:30 PM Notable earnings before Thursday’s open: ADS, AN, APH, BAX, BBT, BPOP, BTU, BX, CY, DHR, FCS, FCX, FITB, KEY, LDK, MMR, MS, NOK, NUE, OMC, PBCT, PENN, PEP, PM, PPG, SHW, SNA, SON, TSM, TZOO, UNH, UNP, VZ Comment! [Earnings]
- Wednesday, April 17, 1:38 PM "Too little has been changed to avoid a repeat of the problem," says the Boston Fed's Eric Rosengren, arguing banks with broker-dealer units continue to hold too little capital. "The status quo represents an ongoing financial stability risk." The largest ones still standing are MS, UBS, GS, C, DB, CS, BAC, BCS, and JPM, and each of the U.S. ones passed the Fed stress test and are returning capital. 5 Comments [Financials]
- Monday, April 15, 12:28 PM The Brown/Vitter bill being rolled out in Congress is essentially Armageddon to the TBTF banks, says Goldman, seeing it as mandating another $1.1T in equity for the banking system. Banks would need 12 years of earnings to build this amount organically, though the bill would give just 5 - say goodbye to lending. Break up the banks? BAC, C, JPM, and WFC all have multiple divisions with more than $400M in assets - the level at which the bill gets tough on lenders. 22 Comments [Financials]
- Friday, April 12, 6:00 AM A break-up of the big banks is on the minds of none other than analysts at the banks themselves. Wells Fargo reckons shareholders might "intensify demands" for it, especially as the likes of Bank of America (BAC), Citigroup (C) and JPMorgan (JPM) trade at discounts of 25-30% to more-focused rivals. JPM's analysts have questioned the viability of running an investment bank "as part of a universal banking business." 7 Comments [Financials, Top Stories]
- Friday, April 12, 3:31 AM Morgan Stanley's (MS) private-equity arm and Apax Partners are reportedly thinking about selling Chicago-based insurance brokerage Hub International in a transaction that could be worth $2B. The considerations come six years after Morgan Stanley and Apax took Hub private for $1.8B. 1 Comment [Financials, M&A]
- Tuesday, April 9, 6:43 PM A Goldman Sachs note helps explain some of the recent weakness in big bank stocks and adds a warning signal: Banks that gain more than 10% in Q1 usually give back nearly all those profits in Q2 when future earnings estimates begin falling. Goldman's top concern heading into Q1 earnings is that "lackluster fundamentals could lead to a negative EPS revision cycle (which has been the trend the past few years)." 5 Comments [Financials, Quick Ideas]
- Tuesday, April 9, 11:29 AM Banks this Friday will begin making payments to ~4.2M borrowers whose homes were in any stage of foreclosure in 2009-10. The payments, which will range from $300 to $125K, are compensation for the robo-signing scandal when bank employees said foreclosure documents were correct without reviewing them. Part of the settlement: BAC, C, GS, HBC, JPM, MET, MS, PNC, SAN, STI, USB, WFC. 34 Comments [Financials, U.S. Economy]
- Tuesday, April 9, 9:48 AM JPMorgan Chase (JPM) will lead big U.S. banks in job cuts with 17K expected through 2014, according to Bloomberg, after the six largest U.S. banks announced cuts to 1.8%, or 21K positions, during Q1. The housing rebound means many of the cuts will come in foreclosure units. Banks may tell more about their personnel plans starting this Friday when JPM and Wells Fargo (WFC) report Q1 results. 1 Comment [Financials]
- Monday, April 8, 4:36 PM Seemingly often on the wrong side of broker defections, but maybe turning it around of late (I, II), Morgan Stanley Wealth Management (MS) adds four teams with $765M AUM. The moving brokers are coming from BofA, JPMorgan, and Wells Fargo. Comment! [Financials]
- Monday, April 8, 3:51 PM Goldman Sachs (GS) and Morgan Stanley (MS) have Q1 estimates cut at Sandler O'Neill, which says fixed-income, currencies and commodities trading has been solid, "but less favorable" than hoped. Sandler's estimates remain above consensus, with Goldman EPS now at $4 vs. $3.80 and Morgan at $0.60 vs. $0.57. Comment! [Financials]
- Sunday, April 7, 4:19 AM A bipartisan Senate bill would force all banks to hold capital of 10% and those with over $400B in assets an extra 5%. The strictest provisions would hit six banks: JPMorgan (JPM), BofA (BAC), Citigroup (C), Wells Fargo (WFC), Goldman Sachs (GS) and Morgan Stanley (MS). Analysts reckon the bill has little chance of becoming law, although its authors reckon support for the measures are growing. 34 Comments [Financials]
- Tuesday, April 2, 8:18 AM Credit Suisse takes metaphorical chips off the table, downgrading MS, SCHW, and CME to Hold after nice runs for each has them exceeding price targets established when the bank made them Buys. Morgan's top ideas in the financial sector: GS, LAZ, ICE, APO, BX, CG. 1 Comment [Financials]
- Tuesday, April 2, 7:18 AM Bank of America's (BAC) prime brokerage unit hires former Morgan Stanley (MS) executive Deepak Abraham as Asia Pacific head of capital strategy. Abraham used to run Morgan's MENA prime brokerage operations. 1 Comment [Financials]
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Tom Guttenberger
For instance, $MS really has a bid this morning? Excited over a market P/E on a zero-sum business model, on all junky collateral? - View all 3 replies
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Tom Guttenberger: Your comment on James K's stocktalk was spot on. As far as I can tell, any I-bank globally can be susceptible. This is their business! -
Tom Guttenberger: Sure if they take a bath in the Mediterranean, the franchise may get saved, but the equity won't!
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Daniel Nadler
Seasonal Odds: These Banks Typically Rally in the Last Week of March: http://goo.gl/ZLdIr $JPM $GS $MS $BAC $C - View all 0 replies
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analystOracle
the $MS Analyst who upgraded $BBRY is Ehud Gelblum 59% of his Buy ratings outperformed the SP500 since 2009 http://stks.co/jP3N - View all 2 replies
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Daniel Nadler
Is March Bullish For Financials? Here's The Average Historical Performance: http://stks.co/gNlD $XLF $C $BAC $MS $GS $WFC - View all 0 replies
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Brad Kenagy
I'm running a March Madness Stock Trading contest on my instablog. $GRPN,$HPQ,$JCP,$MS,Entries due by close Feb 28th. http://bit.ly/15KeC9y - View all 0 replies
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David White
Retail sales data for full Q2 comes out Thursday. Many are expecting this to be disappointing. MS says ANF has lots of clearance items. - View all 5 replies
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David White: That's kind of how I feel about them too. The kid's/teen's opinion is probably more important than ours though.
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bull_market_somewhere
whatd MS print on MSSB? like gormans turnaround plan (advisors and clearing) and may pick up MS for the real long term in a few days - View all 3 replies
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bull_market_somewhere: but what was MSSB revenue? more concerned with how the turnaround is going. not surprised trading is horrid since theyre moving away from it -
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Energysystems: It definitely looks interesting, and kinda making me regret my recent laptop purchase. -
bigazul: What's interesting is that many of the "Apple friendly" tech review sites have been very positive.
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Maria Auziliadora: i agree Mitch they should have never going public I personally don't like it Everybody wants to know your business
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Rupert Nicholson
Morgan Stanley's (MS) CEO should accept some culpability for mistakes in the IPO. FB's debut was hardly exemplary and the banks did not help - View all 3 replies
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Rupert Nicholson: They downgraded revenue projections in the midst of the IPO and only informed their institutional clients
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David White
Independent Investment Advisors are more free to advise without bias. How do you think all the MS clients who were SOLD Facebook did? - View all 3 replies
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David White: That was my point. MS had the biggest brokerage share of the IPO. They are sure to have recommended FB to many clients. -
David White: It's not unbiased when you are trying to SELL a bunch of shares that you are getting paid to sell by the company.
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Rupert Nicholson
JPM, GS, and MS should be ashamed of themselves for deceiving their clients over the FB IPO - View all 8 replies
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Rupert Nicholson: I didn't invest but for banks to advise their clients to invest while undermining them is just wrong -
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Paulo Santos
With the historical precedent, one would expect MS to start getting hit on account of facebook. - View all 10 replies
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Paulo Santos: ... and article on the telegraph today claimed they had been stuck with more than $10 billion. Not likely. -
Jeremy Johnson: Heads would roll at the key banks if they got stuck with that much across the syndicate.





