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

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

Microsoft declared a quarterly dividend on Monday, March 11th. Shareholders of record on Wednesday, May 15th will be paid a dividend of $0.46 per share on Thursday, June 13th. This represents a $1.84 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 1.57%. The ex-dividend date is Wednesday, May 15th. View Microsoft's Dividend History.

Microsoft Co. (NASDAQ:MSFT) released its quarterly earnings data on Wednesday, January, 30th. The software giant reported $1.10 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating analysts' consensus estimates of $1.09 by $0.01. The software giant had revenue of $32.47 billion for 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%. The business's revenue for the quarter was up 12.3% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter last year, the company earned $0.96 EPS. 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.

31 brokerages 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 $123.0690 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 4.7% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for Microsoft.

31 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, 28 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 very negative on Thursday, according to InfoTrie Sentiment. The research group rates the sentiment of news coverage by analyzing 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 positive five, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. Microsoft earned a media sentiment score of -3.6 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave news headlines about the software giant a news buzz of 10.0 out of 10, indicating that recent news coverage is extremely likely to have an impact on the company's share price in the near future.

Microsoft saw a increase in short interest in the month of February. As of February 28th, there was short interest totalling 41,155,216 shares, an increase of 4.8% from the February 15th total of 39,272,903 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 24,030,677 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 1.7 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), ServiceNow (NOW), Dassault Systemes (DASTY), Activision Blizzard (ATVI), Autodesk (ADSK), Square (SQ), Electronic Arts (EA), Shopify (SHOP), Check Point Software Technologies (CHKP) and Splunk (SPLK).

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), Canopy Growth (CGC), Intel (INTC), Netflix (NFLX), Cisco Systems (CSCO), Bank of America (BAC) and AT&T (T).

Microsoft's stock is owned by a variety of of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include BlackRock Inc. (6.58%), FMR LLC (3.31%), Oregon Public Employees Retirement Fund (2.21%), Geode Capital Management LLC (1.30%), Northern Trust Corp (1.25%) and Bank of New York Mellon Corp (1.11%). 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 bought by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Oregon Public Employees Retirement Fund, Norges Bank, Lunia Capital LP, FMR LLC, Geode Capital Management LLC, Magellan Asset Management Ltd, Parnassus Investments CA and Northern Trust Corp. 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 $117.52.

Microsoft has a market capitalization of $904.88 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]