In the latest trading session, 3.31 million Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) shares changed hands as the company’s beta touched 0.91. With the company’s most recent per share price at $410.85 changed hands at -$1.52 or -0.37% at last look, the market valuation stands at $3054.25B. MSFT’s current price is a discount, trading about -14.0% off its 52-week high of $468.35. The share price had its 52-week low at $385.58, which suggests the last value was 6.15% up since then. When we look at Microsoft Corporation’s average trading volume, we note the 10-day average is 28.49 million shares, with the 3-month average coming to 22.08 million.
Analysts gave the Microsoft Corporation (MSFT) stock a consensus recommendation rating of Buy, calculated at a mean rating of 1.25. If we narrow down to specifics, the data shows that 2 out of 40 analysts rate the stock as a Sell, with a further 0 assigning it an Overweight rating. Of the remaining, 3 recommended MSFT as a Hold, 34 felt it is a Buy and 1 rated the stock as Underweight.
Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) trade information
Instantly MSFT was in red as seen in intraday trades today. With action -7.12%, the performance over the past five days has been red. The company’s shares are showing year-to-date downside of -2.53%, with the 5-day performance at -7.12% in the red. However, in the 30-day time frame, Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) is -2.95% down. Looking at the short shares, we see there were 61.74 million shares sold at short interest cover period of 3.1 days.
The consensus price target for the stock as assigned by Wall Street analysts is 496, meaning bulls need an upside of 17.17% from its recent market value. According to analyst projections, MSFT’s forecast low is 425 with 600 as the target high. To hit the forecast high, the stock’s price needs a -46.04% plunge from its current level, while the stock would need to soar -3.44% for it to hit the projected low.
Microsoft Corporation (MSFT) estimates and forecasts
Data shows that the Microsoft Corporation share is performing relatively much not better than most of its peers within the same industry. As can be gleaned from the statistics, the company’s share value shot 3.97% over the past 6 months, a 10.76% in annual growth rate that is considerably lower than the industry average of 17.80%.
Looking at the company’s year-on-year earnings, data shows that the past 5-year has an earnings growth rate of 18.45%. The 2025 estimates are for Microsoft Corporation earnings to increase by 11.81%, but the outlook for the next 5-year period is at 14.41% per year.
MSFT Dividends
Microsoft Corporation is expected to release its next quarterly earnings report in March. The 0.75% annual yield figure for the share gives it an annual dividend of 3.08. It is important to note, however, that the 0.75% dividend yield ratio should serve as a guide only, as you should also take into consideration many other aspects of a company’s operations and fundamentals before making any investment decision. During the past 5 years, the average dividend yield was 0.86 per year.
Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT)’s Major holders
If we look at who the major shareholders are, we find that insiders hold 0.06% of Microsoft Corporation shares while 73.74% of the shares are in the hands of institutional holders. The share float percentage for the stock currently stands at 73.78%. There are 73.74% institutions holding the Microsoft Corporation stock share, with VANGUARD GROUP INC the top institutional holder. As of 2024-06-30, the company held 9.0958% of the shares, roughly 675.91 million MSFT shares worth $302.1 billion.
BLACKROCK INC. holds the second largest percentage of outstanding shares, with 7.4549% or 553.98 million shares worth $247.6 billion as of 2024-06-30.
Among Mutual Funds, the top two as of Sep 30, 2024 were Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund and Vanguard 500 Index Fund. With 235.61 shares estimated at $96.79 billion under it, the former controlled 3.17% of total outstanding shares. On the other hand, Vanguard 500 Index Fund held about 2.62% of the shares, roughly 194.67 shares worth around $79.97 billion.
