JP Morgan is Better than Morgan Stanley

Don’t know where MS employees are getting this false sense of superiority. JPM has been out preforming MS for years across products. Time to update the narrative for what is actually happening.

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outperforming as a whole but not on a per capita basis because MS is a smaller firm in terms of headcount. Also shareholder returns don’t lie being that dimon and gorman care so much about them. JPM leads in DCM/LevFin due to their ability to leverage balance sheet, but ECM/M&A are MS for sure.

 

Due to the fact I’m in intern at one of the two. Additionally it is well known MS is a smaller firm head count wise than JPM. Specifically you see a big difference in capital markets IB groups (ECM/DCM/LevFin) where MS runs super lean compared to JPM.

 

To say MS wins out in M&A is completely false. If we are bringing a legitmate and scientific approach to this discussion, look at their 2021 10-Ks. Here is how they shake out across advisory, equity and fixed income fees generated.

Advisory -

JP Morgan: $4.4 billion

Morgan Stanley: $3.5 billion

Fixed Income - 

JP Morgan: $5.0 billion

Morgan Stanley: $2.4 billion

Equity - 

JP Morgan: $4.0 billion

Morgan Stanley: $4.4 billion

Summary - the only product Morgan Stanley beat out out JPM on was equities. JP generated higher fees for Advisory (M&A) and Fixed Income. 

 

MS does not generate more fees in M&A than JPM. That statement is completely false. Cracked open their 2021 10-Ks. Here is how they shake out across advisory, equity and fixed income fees generated.

Advisory -

JP Morgan: $4.4 billion

Morgan Stanley: $3.5 billion

Fixed Income - 

JP Morgan: $5.0 billion

Morgan Stanley: $2.4 billion

Equity - 

JP Morgan: $4.0 billion

Morgan Stanley: $4.4 billion

Summary - the only product Morgan Stanley beat out out JPM on was equities. JP generated higher fees for Advisory (M&A) and Fixed Income. 

 

I'm the only intern who has posted thus far and have gotten my information from intern email lists and standing up from my desk and utilizing my god given eyes. It isn't that hard to get a rough estimate of broad IB head count in NA at these firms. Also just crack open the recent earnings reports from MS and JPM to see product performance (not to mention I’ve spoken to bankers having gone through the recruiting process at each firm). Not sure why you wouldn’t roughly know what each firm is good at as an associate? MBA associate?

 

So you are working at both firms at once and that gives you insight into each of their headcounts? Idk doesn't really make any sense. I think you can only deduce headcount from the firm you work at.

Also, I just cracked open their 2021 10-Ks. Here is how they shake out across advisory, equity and fixed income fees generated.

Advisory -

JP Morgan: $4.4 billion

Morgan Stanley: $3.5 billion

Fixed Income - 

JP Morgan: $5.0 billion

Morgan Stanley: $2.4 billion

Equity - 

JP Morgan: $4.0 billion

Morgan Stanley: $4.4 billion

Summary - the only product Morgan Stanley beat out out JPM on was equities. JP generated higher fees for Advisory (M&A) and Fixed Income. 

 

MS Media and Telecom in NY destroys JP Morgan as a firm.

I'd rather be in that group than any at JP Morgan.

Thus MS is better than JP Morgan for me. 

JP Morgan is full of weirdos who act like its a Big 4 firm.

 

Goldman employees reading this thread, seeing verified MS monkeys debate with JPM employees over who's second best:

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I don’t work at either of these banks. I’m a fan of the European business model where I work 50 hours a week and make 200k

I think I did this right
 

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