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

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

Microsoft declared a quarterly dividend on Tuesday, September 18th. Investors of record on Thursday, November 15th will be given a dividend of $0.46 per share on Thursday, December 13th. This represents a $1.84 annualized dividend and a yield of 1.70%. The ex-dividend date 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) announced its quarterly earnings data on Wednesday, October, 24th. The software giant reported $1.14 EPS for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $0.96 by $0.18. The software giant had revenue of $29.08 billion for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $27.92 billion. Microsoft had a return on equity of 39.86% and a net margin of 16.38%. The business's revenue was up 18.5% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period last year, the company 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 Wall Street analysts have issued 1 year price objectives for Microsoft's stock. Their predictions range from $75.00 to $140.00. On average, they anticipate Microsoft's share price to reach $122.4483 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 13.1% 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.

Press coverage about MSFT stock has trended somewhat positive on Friday, according to InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis. The research group identifies positive and negative press coverage by monitoring more than six thousand blog and news sources in real-time. The firm ranks coverage of publicly-traded companies on a scale of negative five to five, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. Microsoft earned a news impact score of 1.5 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave media stories about the software giant a news buzz of 10.0 out of 10, meaning that recent press coverage is extremely likely to have an effect on the stock's share price in the immediate future.

Microsoft saw a decline in short interest in 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 trading volume of 45,522,602 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 0.9 days. Currently, 0.5% of the shares of the stock 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 variety of of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors 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 bought by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Bank of New York Mellon Corp, Capital International Investors, Matthew Goff Investment Advisor LLC, FMR LLC, Capital Research Global Investors, Alliancebernstein L.P., AQR Capital Management LLC and Jennison Associates 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 $108.29.

Microsoft has a market capitalization of $823.42 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]