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

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

Microsoft announced a quarterly dividend on Tuesday, September 18th. Investors of record on Thursday, November 15th will be paid a dividend of $0.46 per share on Thursday, December 13th. This represents a $1.84 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 1.72%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Wednesday, November 14th. This is a boost from Microsoft's previous quarterly dividend of $0.42. View Microsoft's Dividend History.

Microsoft Co. (NASDAQ:MSFT) released its earnings results on Wednesday, October, 24th. The software giant reported $1.14 EPS for the quarter, topping the Thomson Reuters' consensus estimate of $0.96 by $0.18. The software giant earned $29.08 billion during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $27.92 billion. Microsoft had a net margin of 16.38% and a return on equity of 39.86%. The business's revenue for the quarter was up 18.5% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period in the previous year, the firm earned $0.84 EPS. View Microsoft's Earnings History.

Microsoft is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, January 30th 2019. View Earnings Estimates for Microsoft.

34 brokerages have issued 12-month target prices for Microsoft's shares. Their forecasts range from $75.00 to $140.00. On average, they expect Microsoft's share price to reach $122.4483 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 14.4% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for Microsoft.

34 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, 31 buy ratings and 1 strong buy rating for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Buy." View Analyst Ratings for Microsoft.

News stories about MSFT stock have been trending somewhat positive recently, InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis reports. The research group identifies negative and positive media coverage by monitoring more than six thousand news and blog sources. The firm ranks coverage of companies on a scale of negative five to five, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. Microsoft earned a news impact score of 1.4 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave news headlines about the software giant a news buzz of 8.0 out of 10, meaning that recent media coverage is very likely to have an effect on the stock's share price in the next several days.

Microsoft saw a decline in short interest in the month of October. As of October 31st, there was short interest totalling 40,675,990 shares, a decline of 12.3% from the October 15th total of 46,403,307 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 45,522,602 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 0.9 days. Currently, 0.5% of the shares of the company are sold short. 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), Activision Blizzard (ATVI), Dassault Systemes (DASTY), ServiceNow (NOW), Square (SQ), Autodesk (ADSK), Electronic Arts (EA), CA (CA), Check Point Software Technologies (CHKP) and Shopify (SHOP).

Microsoft's stock is owned by a number of of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include BlackRock Inc. (6.54%), FMR LLC (3.15%), Capital World Investors (2.41%), Capital Research Global Investors (1.42%), Capital International Investors (1.19%) and Bank of New York Mellon Corp (1.15%). 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 Capital World Investors, Mitsubishi UFJ Trust & Banking Corp, Franklin Resources Inc., Fusion Family Wealth LLC, First Eagle Investment Management LLC, BlackRock Inc., Canada Pension Plan Investment Board and Veritas Asset Management LLP. 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 Bank of New York Mellon Corp, Capital International Investors, FMR LLC, Capital Research Global Investors, Alliancebernstein L.P., Jennison Associates LLC, Third Point LLC and Russell Investments Group Ltd.. 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 $107.04.

Microsoft has a market capitalization of $822.88 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]