Microsoft Corporation develops, licenses, and supports software, services, devices, and solutions worldwide. The company operates in three segments: Productivity and Business Processes, Intelligent Cloud, and More Personal Computing.
Microsoft stock last closed at $288.30, up 1.5% from the previous day, and has decreased 6.49% in one year. It has overperformed other stocks in the Software - Infrastructure industry by 0.15 percentage points. Microsoft stock is currently +35.08% from its 52-week low of $213.43, and -8.51% from its 52-week high of $315.11.
There are currently 7.44B shares of MSFT outstanding. The market capitalization of MSFT is $2.15T. In the last 24 hours, 32.09M MSFT shares were traded.
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Investors use a variety of different financial metrics, analyses, models, and charts to gauge MSFT's fair value.
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Out of 27 Wall Street analysts who monitor MSFT, the consensus analyst rating on MSFT is a Strong Buy
Please note that analyst ratings are not recommendations, nor are they investment advice.
Michael Turits, a top 16% analyst from KeyBanc maintains MSFT with a strong buy rating and raises their MSFT price target from $270.00 to $316.00, on Mar 29, 2023.
Maintaining his Strong Buy rating, Turits raised his price target on Microsoft Corporation by 17%.
Citing his survey of over 100 SMBs in the first two months of the year, the analyst reported that respondents plan an "optimistic" 3% in tech spend growth in FY 2023.
However, given worsening macro headwinds, the results should be taken with a grain of salt, Turits cautioned.
The survey results showed that SMB public cloud usage is evenly split between Amazon and Google, he continued.
Microsoft is the survey leader in UCaaS*, expense management, and file management, while remaining the second most popular choice for video conferencing behind Zoom, Turits added.
* Unified Communications as a Service.
Ambrish Srivastava, a top 6% analyst from BMO Capital maintains MSFT with a hold rating and raises their MSFT price target from $265.00 to $305.00, on Mar 28, 2023.
Michael Turrin, a bottom 2% analyst from Wells Fargo maintains MSFT with a strong buy rating and raises their MSFT price target from $300.00 to $320.00, on Mar 24, 2023.
Gregg Moskowitz, a bottom 8% analyst from Mizuho maintains MSFT with a strong buy rating and raises their MSFT price target from $300.00 to $315.00, on Mar 17, 2023.
Rishi Jaluria, a bottom 2% analyst from RBC Capital reiterates MSFT with a buy rating and maintains their MSFT price target from $285.00 to $285.00, on Mar 17, 2023.
You can dig deeper into what analysts are saying on the Microsoft stock forecast page.
Last year, MSFT earnings were $67.45B. During the past 5 year, MSFT's earnings have grown by 38.34% per year. This was faster than the Software - Infrastructure industry average of 32.37%.
Last year, MSFT revenue was $204.09B. During the last five year, MSFT's revenue has grown by 14.82% per year. This was slower than the Software - Infrastructure industry average of 20.34%.
You can analyze MSFT's earnings and revenue performance here.
In the past 12 months, executives and large shareholders at MSFT have sold more shares than they have bought.
Judson Althoff, EVP Chief Commercial Officer of MSFT, was the latest MSFT insider to sell. They sold $647,914.40 worth of MSFT shares on Feb 28, 2023.
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Microsoft pays a dividend of 0.9%, compared to the Software - Infrastructure industry's average dividend yield of 1.36%. If you owned $1,000 worth of MSFT stock, you would have received $9.02 in the past 12 months.
Microsoft dividend payments have consistently grown over the past decade and have remained stable.
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