In today’s recent session, 3.39 million shares of the Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) have been traded, and its beta is 0.91. Most recently the company’s share price was $411.40, and it changed around -$0.82 or -0.20% from the last close, which brings the market valuation of the company to $3058.34B. MSFT at last check was trading at a discount to its 52-week high of $468.35, offering almost -13.84% off that amount. The share price’s 52-week low was $385.58, which indicates that the recent value has risen by an impressive 6.28% since then. We note from Microsoft Corporation’s average daily trading volume that its 10-day average is 25.84 million shares, with the 3-month average coming to 22.01 million.

Microsoft Corporation stock received a consensus recommendation rating of Buy, based on a mean score of 1.28. If we narrow it down even further, the data shows that 0 out of 58 analysts rate the stock as a Sell; another 14 rate it as Overweight. Among the rest, 6 recommended MSFT as a Hold, whereas 38 deemed it a Buy, and 0 rated it as Underweight. Microsoft Corporation is expected to report earnings per share of 3.21 for the current quarter.

Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) trade information

Instantly MSFT has been showing red trend so far today with a performance of -0.20% on intraday trading today. The performance over the last five days has remained in the red territory. The rise to weekly highs of 418.65 on recent trading dayincreased the stock’s daily price by 1.73%. The company’s shares are currently down -2.40% year-to-date, but still down -0.24% over the last five days. On the other hand, Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) is -1.80% down in the 30-day period. We can see from the shorts that 61.74 million shares have been sold at a short interest cover period of 3.1 day(s).

The consensus price target as assigned by Wall Street analysts is $496, which translates to bulls needing to increase their stock price by 17.06% from its current value. Analyst projections state that MSFT is forecast to be at a low of $425 and a high of $600.

Microsoft Corporation (MSFT) estimates and forecasts

The year-over-year growth rate is expected to be 13.12%, up from the previous year.

Consensus estimates provided by 31 financial analysts predict the company will bring in an average of 68.46B in revenue for the current quarter. 30 analysts expect Microsoft Corporation to make 72.68B in revenue for the current ending quarter. The company’s sales for the same quarters a year ago were 61.86B and 64.73B respectively. Analysts predict that the company’s current quarter sales will jump, forecast at 10.68%. Forecasts for the next quarter put sales growth at 12.29%.

Looking at the company’s year-over-year earnings, the past five years showed a positive earnings growth rate of 18.45%. Microsoft Corporation earnings are expected to increase by 11.47% in 2025, but the outlook is positive 14.41% per year for the next five years.

MSFT Dividends

Microsoft Corporation’s next quarterly earnings report is expected to be released in March. The annual dividend yield of the stock is 0.75 percent and its annual dividend per share was 3.08. It is important to note, however, that the 0.75% dividend yield ratio should be regarded as a guide only, as many other factors should be taken into consideration before making any investment decision. The average dividend yield for the past five years averaged 0.86 per year.

Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT)’s Major holders

Upon looking at major shareholders, it appears that insiders hold 0.06% of Microsoft Corporation shares, and 73.74% of them are in the hands of institutional investors. The stock currently has a share float of 73.78%. Microsoft Corporation stock is held by 7039.0 institutions, with VANGUARD GROUP INC being the largest institutional investor. By 2024-06-30, it held 9.0958% of the shares, which is about 675.91 million shares worth $302.1 billion.

BLACKROCK INC., with 7.4549% or 553.98 million shares worth $247.6 billion as of 2024-06-30, holds the second largest percentage of outstanding shares.

Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund and Vanguard 500 Index Fund were the top two Mutual Funds as of Sep 30, 2024 . The former held 235.61 shares worth $97.11 billion, making up 3.17% of all outstanding shares. On the other hand, Vanguard 500 Index Fund held roughly 194.67 shares worth around $80.24 billion, which represents about 2.62% of the total shares outstanding.