Microsoft (MSFT)

• Market cap: $2.88T
• 1 day: 3.45%
• 5 days: 3.63%
• 1 month: -1.47%
• 3 months: -12.78%
• 6 months: -8.81%
• Year to date: -7.47%
• 1 year: -5.32%
• 5 years: 121.88%
• 10 years: 709.07%
• Sector: Technology
• Industry: Software - Infrastructure

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)

621% more first-time investments, than exits

New positions opened: 692 | Existing positions closed: 96

13% more repeat investments, than reductions

Existing positions increased: 2,463 | Existing positions reduced: 2,173

9% more funds holding

Funds holding: 5,217 [Q3] → 5,697 (+480) [Q4]

5% more funds holding in top 10

Funds holding in top 10: 2,825 [Q3] → 2,978 (+153) [Q4]

1.86% more ownership

Funds ownership: 69.91% [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

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

• Low target: $430 11% upside
• Avg. target: $484 25% upside
• High target: $595 54% upside

17 analyst ratings

• positive: 17 100%
• neutral: 0 0%
• negative: 0 0%

Goldman Sachs Kash Rangan 31% 1-year accuracy 9 / 29 met price target	16% upside $450	Buy Maintained	24 Apr 2025
Piper Sandler Brent Bracelin 16% 1-year accuracy 20 / 125 met price target	12% upside $435	Overweight Maintained	23 Apr 2025
Barclays Raimo Lenschow 30% 1-year accuracy 28 / 93 met price target	11% upside $430	Overweight Maintained	21 Apr 2025
BMO Capital Keith Bachman 36% 1-year accuracy 21 / 58 met price target	21% upside $470	Outperform Maintained	16 Apr 2025
B of A Securities Brad Sills 27% 1-year accuracy 8 / 30 met price target	24% upside $480	Buy Maintained	15 Apr 2025