Investment Summary
Performance Leveraged Upside Securities
Principal at Risk Securities
The PLUS Based on the SPDR® S&P 500® ETF Trust due June 30, 2028 (the “PLUS”) can be used:
■As an alternative to direct exposure to the underlying shares that enhances returns for any positive performance of the underlying shares
■To enhance returns and potentially outperform the underlying shares in a bullish scenario, with no limitation on the appreciation potential
■To achieve similar levels of upside exposure to the underlying shares as a direct investment while using fewer dollars by taking advantage of the leverage factor.
The PLUS are exposed on a 1:1 basis to the negative performance of the underlying shares.
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Maturity:
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5 years
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Leverage factor:
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131% (applicable only if the final share price is greater than the initial share price)
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Minimum payment at maturity:
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None. Investors may lose their entire initial investment in the PLUS.
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Interest:
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None
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Listing:
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The PLUS will not be listed on any securities exchange
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The original issue price of each PLUS is $1,000. This price includes costs associated with issuing, selling, structuring and hedging the PLUS, which are borne by you, and, consequently, the estimated value of the PLUS on the pricing date is less than $1,000. We estimate that the value of each PLUS on the pricing date is $960.70.
What goes into the estimated value on the pricing date?
In valuing the PLUS on the pricing date, we take into account that the PLUS comprise both a debt component and a performance-based component linked to the underlying shares. The estimated value of the PLUS is determined using our own pricing and valuation models, market inputs and assumptions relating to the underlying shares, instruments based on the underlying shares, volatility and other factors including current and expected interest rates, as well as an interest rate related to our secondary market credit spread, which is the implied interest rate at which our conventional fixed rate debt trades in the secondary market.
What determines the economic terms of the PLUS?
In determining the economic terms of the PLUS, including the leverage factor, we use an internal funding rate, which is likely to be lower than our secondary market credit spreads and therefore advantageous to us. If the issuing, selling, structuring and hedging costs borne by you were lower or if the internal funding rate were higher, one or more of the economic terms of the PLUS would be more favorable to you.
What is the relationship between the estimated value on the pricing date and the secondary market price of the PLUS?
The price at which MS & Co. purchases the PLUS in the secondary market, absent changes in market conditions, including those related to the underlying shares, may vary from, and be lower than, the estimated value on the pricing date, because the secondary market price takes into account our secondary market credit spread as well as the bid-offer spread that MS & Co. would charge in a secondary market transaction of this type and other factors. However, because the costs associated with issuing, selling, structuring and hedging the PLUS are not fully deducted upon issuance, for a period of up to 6 months following the issue date, to the extent that MS & Co. may buy or sell the PLUS in the secondary market, absent changes in market conditions, including those related to the underlying shares, and to our secondary market credit spreads, it would do so based on values higher than the estimated value. We expect that those higher values will also be reflected in your brokerage account statements.
MS & Co. may, but is not obligated to, make a market in the PLUS, and, if it once chooses to make a market, may cease doing so at any time.