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
21 Wall Street Analysts provided 1 year price targets over the past 3 months
21 analyst ratings
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 |
Financial journalist opinion
Based on 389 articles about MSFT published over the past 30 days









