Morgan Stanley Dividends
The next dividend date for Morgan Stanley is July 31, 2026.
A dividend of $1.15 per share is scheduled.
What is a Dividend Date
When we talk about a dividend date, we’re referring specifically to the ex-dividend date.
This is the date on which all stockholders will earn a dividend. Technically, a person needs to be the owner of a share of stock as of the night before the ex-dividend date in order to earn the dividend.
The ex-dividend date is different than the date when the dividend is issued. Although you earn a dividend on the ex-dividend date, that dividend is typically not disbursed to your account until several weeks later.
Most brokerages will automatically credit the dividend to your account once it’s issued.
Historical Dividends for Morgan Stanley (MS)
| 04/30/2026 | 04/15/2026 | 04/30/2026 | 05/15/2026 | $1 |
| 01/30/2026 | 01/15/2026 | 01/30/2026 | 02/13/2026 | $1 |
| 10/31/2025 | 10/15/2025 | 10/31/2025 | 11/14/2025 | $1 |
| 07/31/2025 | 07/16/2025 | 07/31/2025 | 08/15/2025 | $1 |
| 04/30/2025 | 04/11/2025 | 04/30/2025 | 05/15/2025 | $0.93 |
| 01/31/2025 | 01/16/2025 | 01/31/2025 | 02/14/2025 | $0.93 |
| 10/31/2024 | 10/16/2024 | 10/31/2024 | 11/15/2024 | $0.93 |
| 07/31/2024 | 07/16/2024 | 07/31/2024 | 08/15/2024 | $0.93 |
| 04/29/2024 | 04/16/2024 | 04/30/2024 | 05/15/2024 | $0.85 |
| 01/30/2024 | 01/16/2024 | 01/31/2024 | 02/15/2024 | $0.85 |
More About Morgan Stanley
Morgan Stanley, a financial holding company, provides various financial products and services to corporations, governments, financial institutions, and individuals in the Americas, Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. It operates through Institutional Securities, Wealth Management, and Investment Management segments. The company offers capital raising and financial advisory services, including services related to the underwriting of debt, equity securities, and other products, as well as advice on mergers and acquisitions, restructurings, and project finance. It also provides equity and fixed income products comprising sales, financing, prime brokerage, and market-making services; Asia wealth management; business-related investments services; originating corporate and commercial real estate loans, secured lending facilities, and extending securities-based and other financing; and research activities. In addition, the company offers financial advisor-led brokerage, investment advisory, custody, cash management, and administrative services; self-directed brokerage services; financial and wealth planning services; stock plan administration; securities-based lending, residential real estate loans, and other lending products; banking; and retirement plan services. Further, it provides equity, fixed income, alternatives and solutions, and liquidity and overlay services to benefit/defined contribution plans, foundations, endowments, government entities, sovereign wealth funds, insurance companies, third-party fund sponsors, corporations, and individuals. Morgan Stanley was founded in 1924 and is headquartered in New York, New York.
Owning Morgan Stanley Stock on the Dividend Date
If you own Morgan Stanley stock on the ex-dividend date, then you earn the associated dividend.
Theoretically, the price of Morgan Stanley stock should go down by the amount of the dividend (in addition to any other pressures that market forces have on the price of Morgan Stanley stock).
Therefore, it is typically not expected that there is any incremental profit to be gained from buying Morgan Stanley stock right before the ex-dividend date and then selling it immediately after. It’s not like you get the Morgan Stanley dividend payout for free just by doing that since there is typically an equivalent commensurate drop in the stock price.
Owning Morgan Stanley Options on the Dividend Date
Unlike the stock price, which will normally have an abrupt decrease by the amount of the dividend on the ex-dividend date, option prices typically do not reflect the same phenomenon.
The reason is that in the time leading up to the ex-dividend date, that projected drop in Morgan Stanley stock price from the dividend is already baked into Morgan Stanley option prices.
That means the prices of call options that overlap the Morgan Stanley ex-dividend date typically go down in the period leading up to the ex-dividend date.
The prices of put options that overlap the Morgan Stanley ex-dividend date typically go up in the period leading up to the ex-dividend date.
Owners of Morgan Stanley call options do not receive the dividend, even if they own the options on the ex-dividend date. Owners of Morgan Stanley put options are not responsible to pay the dividend, even if they own the options on the ex-dividend date.
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