MicrosoftMSFT
About: Microsoft develops and licenses consumer and enterprise software. It is known for its Windows operating systems and Office productivity suite. The company is organized into three equally sized broad segments: productivity and business processes (legacy Microsoft Office, cloud-based Office 365, Exchange, SharePoint, Skype, LinkedIn, Dynamics), intelligence cloud (infrastructure- and platform-as-a-service offerings Azure, Windows Server OS, SQL Server), and more personal computing (Windows Client, Xbox, Bing search, display advertising, and Surface laptops, tablets, and desktops).
Employees: 228,000
Fund manager confidence
Based on 2024 Q4 regulatory disclosures by fund managers ($100M+ AUM)
624% more first-time investments, than exits
New positions opened: 695 | Existing positions closed: 96
13% more repeat investments, than reductions
Existing positions increased: 2,462 | Existing positions reduced: 2,175
9% more funds holding
Funds holding: 5,217 [Q3] → 5,702 (+485) [Q4]
6% more funds holding in top 10
Funds holding in top 10: 2,824 [Q3] → 2,980 (+156) [Q4]
1.86% more ownership
Funds ownership: 69.92% [Q3] → 71.77% (+1.86%) [Q4]
2% more capital invested
Capital invested by funds: $2.22T [Q3] → $2.27T (+$49B) [Q4]
2% less call options, than puts
Call options by funds: $45.1B | Put options by funds: $46.1B
Research analyst outlook
13 Wall Street Analysts provided 1 year price targets over the past 3 months
13 analyst ratings
Goldman Sachs Kash Rangan 46% 1-year accuracy 13 / 28 met price target | 14%upside $450 | Buy Maintained | 24 Apr 2025 |
Piper Sandler Brent Bracelin 41% 1-year accuracy 51 / 125 met price target | 10%upside $435 | Overweight Maintained | 23 Apr 2025 |
Barclays Raimo Lenschow 40% 1-year accuracy 37 / 93 met price target | 9%upside $430 | Overweight Maintained | 21 Apr 2025 |
BMO Capital Keith Bachman 60% 1-year accuracy 34 / 57 met price target | 19%upside $470 | Outperform Maintained | 16 Apr 2025 |
B of A Securities Brad Sills 43% 1-year accuracy 13 / 30 met price target | 21%upside $480 | Buy Maintained | 15 Apr 2025 |
Financial journalist opinion
Based on 280 articles about MSFT published over the past 30 days
