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: 221,000
Fund manager confidence
Based on 2023 Q4 SEC filings by fund managers ($100M+ AUM)
57% more first-time investments, than exits
New positions opened: 403 | Existing positions closed: 257
20% more capital invested
Capital invested by funds: $1.65T [Q3] → $1.98T (+$330B) [Q4]
5% more funds holding in top 10
Funds holding in top 10: 2,630 [Q3] → 2,755 (+125) [Q4]
3% more funds holding
Funds holding: 4,720 [Q3] → 4,866 (+146) [Q4]
1.73% more ownership
Funds ownership: 69.33% [Q3] → 71.06% (+1.73%) [Q4]
7% less call options, than puts
Call options by funds: $30.9B | Put options by funds: $33.2B
15% less repeat investments, than reductions
Existing positions increased: 1,916 | Existing positions reduced: 2,258
Research analyst outlook
51 Wall Street Analysts provided 1 year price forecasts over the past 6 months
51 analyst ratings
Wells Fargo Michael Turrin | 26%upside $500 | Overweight Maintained | 26 Apr 2024 |
Raymond James Andrew Marok | 21%upside $480 | Outperform Reiterated | 26 Apr 2024 |
Wedbush Daniel Ives | 26%upside $500 | Outperform Reiterated | 26 Apr 2024 |
Stifel Brad Reback | 19%upside $475 | Buy Maintained | 26 Apr 2024 |
Goldman Sachs Kash Rangan | 29%upside $515 | Buy Maintained | 26 Apr 2024 |
Financial journalist opinion
Based on 468 articles about MSFT published over the past 30 days