Morgan Stanley quarterly net revenue rises 11.6% to $20.34 billion
Morgan Stanley's revenue growth has more than halved. Results for the quarter ended September 30, 2026, from the earnings release filed with the SEC on Oct 14, 2026.
Snapshot
Morgan Stanley's revenue growth has more than halved: net revenue rose 11.6% to $20.34 billion in the quarter ended September 30, 2026, from $18.22 billion a year earlier, after 27.1% year over year growth the quarter before.
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What We Know
Net revenue (revenue net of interest expense) was $20.34 billion for the quarter ended September 30, 2026, versus $18.22 billion a year earlier, up 11.6%. Noninterest income was $17.09 billion, versus $15.73 billion a year earlier, up 8.6%.
Quarterly net revenue by quarter end, oldest first: Dec 2024: $16.22 billion; Mar 2025: $17.74 billion; Jun 2025: $16.79 billion; Sep 2025: $18.22 billion; Dec 2025: $17.89 billion; Mar 2026: $20.58 billion; Jun 2026: $21.35 billion; Sep 2026: $20.34 billion.
Octans View
Year over year net revenue change by quarter, computed from the filed figures: Dec 2025 up 10.3%; Mar 2026 up 16.0%; Jun 2026 up 27.1%; Sep 2026 up 11.6%. On those figures, Morgan Stanley's revenue growth has more than halved. That read compares the latest two year over year growth rates and nothing else.
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This brief covers net revenue, net interest income, noninterest income, the provision for credit losses and diluted earnings per share, each on the reported basis. Banks also publish managed or adjusted figures; those are not used here. It does not cover capital ratios, credit quality, guidance or the earnings call, and it makes no forecast.
Method and source. Each figure is taken from a row of the company's earnings release or financial supplement that also prints the year ago quarter exactly as the company reported it in its own XBRL financial data; rows that do not match are not used. Where the release prints net revenue, net interest income and noninterest income, the two parts must add up to the total. The text is generated from those verified figures by a fixed template; no model wrote it.
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Sources
- [1]SEC EDGAR — Morgan Stanley results for the quarter ended September 30, 2026 (Exhibit 99.1, earnings release), filed Oct 14, 2026
- [2]SEC EDGAR — Morgan Stanley XBRL financial data (company facts)
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