NASDAQ:MSFT - Microsoft Stock Price, News, & Analysis

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

Microsoft announced a quarterly dividend on Wednesday, November 28th. Shareholders of record on Thursday, February 21st will be given a dividend of $0.46 per share on Thursday, March 14th. This represents a $1.84 annualized dividend and a yield of 1.70%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Wednesday, February 20th. View Microsoft's Dividend History.

Microsoft Co. (NASDAQ:MSFT) issued its quarterly earnings results on Wednesday, January, 30th. The software giant reported $1.10 earnings per share for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $1.09 by $0.01. The software giant earned $32.47 billion during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $32.53 billion. Microsoft had a return on equity of 39.52% and a net margin of 28.31%. Microsoft's revenue for the quarter was up 12.3% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter in the prior year, the firm earned $0.96 earnings per share. View Microsoft's Earnings History.

Microsoft is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, April 25th 2019. View Earnings Estimates for Microsoft.

30 analysts have issued 12-month price objectives for Microsoft's stock. Their forecasts range from $75.00 to $140.00. On average, they anticipate Microsoft's share price to reach $122.6429 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 13.3% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for Microsoft.

30 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Microsoft in the last year. There are currently 1 sell rating, 1 hold rating, 27 buy ratings and 1 strong buy rating for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Buy." View Analyst Ratings for Microsoft.

News coverage about MSFT stock has been trending somewhat positive on Saturday, InfoTrie Sentiment reports. The research group ranks the sentiment of news coverage by monitoring more than six thousand blog and news sources in real time. The firm ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of negative five to five, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. Microsoft earned a news sentiment score of 1.8 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave news articles about the software giant a news buzz of 5.0 out of 10, meaning that recent news coverage is somewhat likely to have an impact on the stock's share price in the next few days.

Microsoft saw a decline in short interest in the month of January. As of January 31st, there was short interest totalling 39,768,623 shares, a decline of 31.9% from the January 15th total of 58,402,379 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 34,027,502 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 1.2 days. Approximately 0.5% of the shares of the company are short sold. View Microsoft's Current Options Chain.

Some companies that are related to Microsoft include Oracle (ORCL), SAP (SAP), Adobe (ADBE), salesforce.com (CRM), VMware (VMW), Intuit (INTU), ServiceNow (NOW), Dassault Systemes (DASTY), Autodesk (ADSK), Activision Blizzard (ATVI), Square (SQ), Electronic Arts (EA), Splunk (SPLK), Check Point Software Technologies (CHKP) and Shopify (SHOP).

Microsoft's stock is owned by a number of of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include BlackRock Inc. (6.58%), Oregon Public Employees Retirement Fund (2.21%), Geode Capital Management LLC (1.30%), Northern Trust Corp (1.25%), Bank of New York Mellon Corp (1.11%) and Legal & General Group Plc (0.46%). Company insiders that own Microsoft stock include Amy Hood, Christopher C Capossela, Frank H Brod, G Mason Morfit, Jean Philippe Courtois, Kathleen T Hogan, Margaret L Johnson, Sandra E Peterson, Satya Nadella and William H Gates III. View Institutional Ownership Trends for Microsoft.

MSFT stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, Bank of New York Mellon Corp, Swedbank, London Co. of Virginia, Acadian Asset Management LLC, New York State Common Retirement Fund, PGGM Investments and Toronto Dominion Bank. Company insiders that have sold Microsoft company stock in the last year include Amy Hood, Christopher C Capossela, Frank H Brod, Jean Philippe Courtois, Kathleen T Hogan, Margaret L Johnson and Satya Nadella. View Insider Buying and Selling for Microsoft.

MSFT stock was acquired by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Oregon Public Employees Retirement Fund, Lunia Capital LP, Geode Capital Management LLC, Parnassus Investments CA, Northern Trust Corp, Brown Advisory Inc., BlackRock Inc. and Legal & General Group Plc. View Insider Buying and Selling for Microsoft.

Shares of MSFT can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Scottrade, Fidelity and Charles Schwab.

One share of MSFT stock can currently be purchased for approximately $108.22.

Microsoft has a market capitalization of $833.27 billion and generates $110.36 billion in revenue each year. The software giant earns $16.57 billion in net income (profit) each year or $3.88 on an earnings per share basis. Microsoft employs 131,000 workers across the globe.

The official website for Microsoft is http://www.microsoft.com.

Microsoft's mailing address is ONE MICROSOFT WAY, REDMOND WA, 98052. The software giant can be reached via phone at 425-882-8080 or via email at [email protected]