Microsoft - MSFT Stock Forecast, Price & News

33 Wall Street equities research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Microsoft in the last year. There are currently 3 hold ratings and 30 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street equities research analysts is that investors should "buy" MSFT shares.
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33 brokerages have issued 1 year price targets for Microsoft's stock. Their MSFT share price forecasts range from $275.00 to $411.00. On average, they predict the company's share price to reach $332.77 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 40.1% from the stock's current price.
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Microsoft's stock was trading at $336.32 at the beginning of the year. Since then, MSFT shares have decreased by 29.4% and is now trading at $237.45.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Tuesday, October 25th 2022.
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Microsoft Co. (NASDAQ:MSFT) issued its earnings results on Tuesday, July, 26th. The software giant reported $2.23 earnings per share for the quarter, missing the consensus estimate of $2.28 by $0.05. The software giant had revenue of $51.87 billion for the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $52.31 billion. Microsoft had a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 43.31% and a net margin of 36.69%. During the same period in the prior year, the business earned $2.17 earnings per share.
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Microsoft announced a quarterly dividend on Tuesday, September 20th. Stockholders of record on Thursday, November 17th will be given a dividend of $0.68 per share on Thursday, December 8th. This represents a $2.72 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 1.15%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Wednesday, November 16th. This is a positive change from the stock's previous quarterly dividend of $0.62.
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Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) pays an annual dividend of $2.48 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 1.04%. The company has been increasing its dividend for 19 consecutive years, indicating the company has a strong committment to maintain and grow its dividend. The dividend payout ratio is 25.73%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, MSFT will have a dividend payout ratio of 21.25% next year. This indicates that the company will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.
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Microsoft declared that its Board of Directors has approved a stock buyback program on Tuesday, September 14th 2021, which permits the company to buyback $60,000,000,000.00 in shares, according to EventVestor. This buyback authorization permits the company to purchase up to 2.7% of its stock through open market purchases. Stock buyback programs are often an indication that the company's management believes its shares are undervalued.

Microsoft updated its first quarter 2023 earnings guidance on Thursday, August, 4th. The company provided EPS guidance of for the period. The company issued revenue guidance of $49.25 billion-$50.25 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $51.60 billion.

11,127 employees have rated Microsoft Chief Executive Officer Satya Nadella on Glassdoor.com. Satya Nadella has an approval rating of 98% among the company's employees. This puts Satya Nadella in the top 20% of approval ratings compared to other CEOs of publicly-traded companies.

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Microsoft investors own include NVIDIA (NVDA), Alibaba Group (BABA), Micron Technology (MU), General Electric (GE), Tesla (TSLA), Walt Disney (DIS), Intel (INTC), Netflix (NFLX), Visa (V).

Microsoft trades on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbol "MSFT."

Microsoft's stock is owned by a variety of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include State Street Corp (3.94%), FMR LLC (2.78%), Price T Rowe Associates Inc. MD (2.63%), Northern Trust Corp (1.13%), Legal & General Group Plc (0.73%) and Massachusetts Financial Services Co. MA (0.54%). Insiders that own company stock include Amy Hood, Bradford L Smith, Christopher C Capossela, Christopher C Capossela, Emma N Walmsley, Frank H Brod, Jean Philippe Courtois, Judson Althoff, Kathleen T Hogan, Margaret L Johnson, Satya Nadella and Teri List.
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One share of MSFT stock can currently be purchased for approximately $237.45.

Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) has a market capitalization of $1.77 trillion and generates $198.27 billion in revenue each year. The software giant earns $72.74 billion in net income (profit) each year or $9.64 on an earnings per share basis.

The company employs 221,000 workers across the globe.

Microsoft's mailing address is ONE MICROSOFT WAY, REDMOND WA, 98052. The official website for the company is www.microsoft.com. The software giant can be reached via phone at (425) 706-4400, via email at msft@microsoft.com, or via fax at 425-706-7329.