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 Q3 regulatory filings by fund managers ($100M+ AUM)
10% more first-time investments, than exits
New positions opened: 183 | Existing positions closed: 166
10% more repeat investments, than reductions
Existing positions increased: 2,407 | Existing positions reduced: 2,198
0% more funds holding
Funds holding: 5,144 [Q2] → 5,161 (+17) [Q3]
9% less call options, than puts
Call options by funds: $41.7B | Put options by funds: $45.8B
2.85% less ownership
Funds ownership: 72.94% [Q2] → 70.08% (-2.85%) [Q3]
5% less funds holding in top 10
Funds holding in top 10: 2,967 [Q2] → 2,804 (-163) [Q3]
8% less capital invested
Capital invested by funds: $2.43T [Q2] → $2.23T (-$198B) [Q3]
Research analyst outlook
14 Wall Street Analysts provided 1 year price targets over the past 3 months
14 analyst ratings
Stifel Brad Reback 72% 1-year accuracy 34 / 47 met price target | 18%upside $515 | Buy Maintained | 18 Dec 2024 |
UBS Karl Keirstead 82% 1-year accuracy 14 / 17 met price target | 20%upside $525 | Buy Maintained | 18 Dec 2024 |
Mizuho Gregg Moskowitz 59% 1-year accuracy 30 / 51 met price target | 17%upside $510 | Outperform Maintained | 13 Dec 2024 |
RBC Capital Rishi Jaluria 56% 1-year accuracy 43 / 77 met price target | 15%upside $500 | Outperform Reiterated | 5 Nov 2024 |
JP Morgan Mark Murphy 63% 1-year accuracy 29 / 46 met price target | 7%upside $465 | Overweight Maintained | 31 Oct 2024 |
Financial journalist opinion
Based on 225 articles about MSFT published over the past 30 days
