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 2025 Q1 regulatory disclosures by fund managers ($100M+ AUM)
1% more repeat investments, than reductions
Existing positions increased: 2,583 | Existing positions reduced: 2,566
0% more call options, than puts
Call options by funds: $34.2B | Put options by funds: $34.1B
2% less first-time investments, than exits
New positions opened: 159 | Existing positions closed: 162
1.13% less ownership
Funds ownership: 71.83% [Q4 2024] → 70.71% (-1.13%) [Q1 2025]
2% less funds holding
Funds holding: 5,761 [Q4 2024] → 5,646 (-115) [Q1 2025]
7% less funds holding in top 10
Funds holding in top 10: 3,005 [Q4 2024] → 2,782 (-223) [Q1 2025]
13% less capital invested
Capital invested by funds: $2.27T [Q4 2024] → $1.97T (-$299B) [Q1 2025]
Research analyst outlook
25 Wall Street Analysts provided 1 year price targets over the past 3 months
25 analyst ratings
Jefferies Brent Thill | 29%upside $675 | Buy Maintained | 31 Jul 2025 |
DA Davidson Gil Luria | 24%upside $650 | Buy Maintained | 31 Jul 2025 |
Scotiabank Patrick Colville | 24%upside $650 | Sector Outperform Maintained | 31 Jul 2025 |
Barclays Raimo Lenschow | 19%upside $625 | Overweight Maintained | 31 Jul 2025 |
RBC Capital Rishi Jaluria | 22%upside $640 | Outperform Maintained | 31 Jul 2025 |
Financial journalist opinion
Based on 450 articles about MSFT published over the past 30 days









