NASDAQ:MSFT - Microsoft Stock Price, Price Target & More

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

Microsoft announced a quarterly dividend on Wednesday, June 13th. Shareholders of record on Thursday, August 16th will be paid a dividend of $0.42 per share on Thursday, September 13th. This represents a $1.68 annualized dividend and a yield of 1.67%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Wednesday, August 15th. View Microsoft's Dividend History.

Microsoft Co. (NASDAQ:MSFT) issued its earnings results on Thursday, April, 26th. The software giant reported $0.95 EPS for the quarter, beating analysts' consensus estimates of $0.85 by $0.10. The software giant earned $26.82 billion during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $25.78 billion. Microsoft had a return on equity of 36.49% and a net margin of 13.72%. Microsoft's revenue for the quarter was up 15.5% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter in the prior year, the company earned $0.73 earnings per share. View Microsoft's Earnings History.

Microsoft is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, July, 19th 2018. View Earnings Estimates for Microsoft.

35 brokerages have issued 1 year price targets for Microsoft's stock. Their forecasts range from $70.00 to $130.00. On average, they expect Microsoft's stock price to reach $104.60 in the next twelve months. View Analyst Ratings for Microsoft.

Microsoft saw a increase in short interest in the month of May. As of May 31st, there was short interest totalling 52,207,161 shares, an increase of 8.1% from the May 15th total of 48,292,076 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 21,667,652 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 2.4 days. Approximately 0.7% of the company's stock are short sold.

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

Headlines about MSFT stock have trended somewhat positive recently, Accern reports. The research firm identifies positive and negative media coverage by monitoring more than 20 million blog and news sources. Accern ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of negative one to one, with scores closest to one being the most favorable. Microsoft earned a media sentiment score of 0.17 on Accern's scale. They also gave news headlines about the software giant an impact score of 47.14 out of 100, meaning that recent media coverage is somewhat unlikely to have an effect on the stock's share price in the near term.

Microsoft's stock is owned by many different of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include BlackRock Inc. (6.49%), Northern Trust Corp (1.21%), Franklin Resources Inc. (0.68%), Legal & General Group Plc (0.45%), Schwab Charles Investment Management Inc. (0.37%) and Massachusetts Financial Services Co. MA (0.36%). Company insiders that own Microsoft stock include Amy Hood, Christopher C Capossela, Frank H Brod, G Mason Morfit, Jean Philippe Courtois, 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 First Eagle Investment Management LLC, Franklin Resources Inc., Magellan Asset Management Ltd, Swiss National Bank, Schwab Charles Investment Management Inc., Legal & General Group Plc, Independent Franchise Partners LLP and CI Global Investments Inc.. Company insiders that have sold Microsoft company stock in the last year include Amy Hood, Christopher C Capossela, Frank H Brod, G Mason Morfit and Jean Philippe Courtois. View Insider Buying and Selling for Microsoft.

MSFT stock was purchased by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including BlackRock Inc., Summit Trail Advisors LLC, Polen Capital Management LLC, PointState Capital LP, Mackay Shields LLC, Massachusetts Financial Services Co. MA, Natixis and SG Americas Securities LLC. 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 $100.86.

Microsoft has a market capitalization of $770.98 billion and generates $89.95 billion in revenue each year. The software giant earns $21.20 billion in net income (profit) each year or $3.31 on an earnings per share basis. Microsoft employs 124,000 workers across the globe.

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]