Microsoft
MSFT
Market cap $3.37T

453.13 USD

+0.19

0.04%

At close May 15, 4:00 PM EDT

After hours

452.68

-0.45

0.10%

1 day

0.04%

5 days

2.98%

1 month

17.47%

3 months

10.62%

6 months

9.19%

Year to date

8.25%

1 year

7.10%

5 years

147.40%

10 years

838.16%

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

Technology Software - Infrastructure

0

Funds holding %

of 7,425 funds

0

Analysts bullish %

of 21 analysts

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

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Research analyst outlook

21 Wall Street Analysts provided 1 year price targets over the past 3 months

Low target

$450

1%

downside

Avg. target

$504

11%

upside

High target

$595

31%

upside

21 analyst ratings

21 positive

100%

0 neutral

0%

0 negative

0%

Citigroup Tyler Radke 58% 1-year accuracy 30 / 52 met price target	19%upside $540	Buy Maintained	15 May 2025
Jefferies Brent Thill 70% 1-year accuracy 52 / 74 met price target	21%upside $550	Buy Maintained	1 May 2025
DA Davidson Gil Luria 58% 1-year accuracy 33 / 57 met price target	10%upside $500	Buy Maintained	1 May 2025
RBC Capital Rishi Jaluria 55% 1-year accuracy 41 / 74 met price target	16%upside $525	Outperform Maintained	1 May 2025
Morgan Stanley Keith Weiss 78% 1-year accuracy 29 / 37 met price target	6%upside $482	Overweight Maintained	1 May 2025

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Financial journalist opinion

Based on 389 articles about MSFT published over the past 30 days

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