Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT)’s traded shares stood at 16.06 million during the last session, with the company’s beta value hitting 1.05. At the close of trading, the stock’s price was $510.88, to imply an increase of 0.99% or $5.01 in intraday trading. The MSFT share’s 52-week high remains $514.64, putting it -0.74% down since that peak but still an impressive 32.51% since price per share fell to its 52-week low of $344.79. The company has a valuation of $3797.14B, with an average of 15.77 million shares in intraday trading volume over the past 10 days and average of 20.01 million shares over the past 3 months.
Analysts have given a consensus recommendation of Buy for Microsoft Corporation (MSFT), translating to a mean rating of 1.29. Of 40 analyst(s) looking at the stock, 2 analyst(s) give MSFT a Sell rating. 0 of those analysts rate the stock as Overweight while 3 advise Hold as 34 recommend it as a Buy. 1 analyst(s) have given it an Underweight rating. Estimates put the company’s current-quarter earnings per share at 3.38.
Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) trade information
After registering a 0.99% upside in the last session, Microsoft Corporation (MSFT) has traded red over the past five days. The 5-day price performance for the stock is -0.16%, and 4.24% over 30 days. With these gigs, the year-to-date price performance is 15.34%. Short interest in Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) saw shorts transact 56.86 million shares and set a 2.74 days time to cover.
The extremes give us $470 and $600 for target low and target high price respectively. As such, MSFT has been trading -17.44% off suggested target high and 8.0% from its likely low.
Microsoft Corporation (MSFT) estimates and forecasts
The rating firms project that company’s revenue will grow 13.85% compared to the previous financial year.
Revenue forecast for the current quarter as set by 41 analysts is 73.81B. Meanwhile, for the current quarter, a total of 34 analyst(s) estimate revenue growth to 74.17B.Earnings reports from the last fiscal year show that sales brought in 64.73B and 65.58B respectively in the corresponding quarters. In this case, analysts estimate current quarter sales to rise 14.03% before jumping 13.09% in the following quarter.
An assessment of the company’s 5-year growth patterns shows that annual earnings grew an estimated 18.45% for the past 5-year period. While 2025 is set for a 13.62% return in earnings, projections for the next 5 years are at 14.90% annually.
MSFT Dividends
Microsoft Corporation has its next earnings report out on 2025-Apr-30. However, it is important to take into account that this dividend yield ratio is just an indicator to only serve the purpose of guidance. Investors interested to invest in the stock should ponder company’s other fundamental and operations related aspects too. Microsoft Corporation has a forward dividend ratio of 3.24, with the share yield ticking at 0.63% to continue the rising pattern observed over the past year. The company’s average dividend yield trailing the past 5-year period is 0.83%.
Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT)’s Major holders
Microsoft Corporation insiders hold 0.06% of total outstanding shares, with institutional holders owning 74.67% of the shares at 74.71% float percentage. In total, 74.67% institutions holds shares in the company, led by VANGUARD GROUP INC. As of 2024-06-30, the company held over 675.91 million shares (or 9.0933% of shares), all amounting to roughly $302.1 billion.
The next major institution holding the largest number of shares is BLACKROCK INC. with 553.98 million shares, or about 7.4529% of shares outstanding. As of the market price on 2024-06-30, these shares were worth $247.6 billion.
We also have VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund and VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard 500 Index Fund as the top two Mutual Funds with the largest holdings of the Microsoft Corporation (MSFT) shares. Going by data provided on Mar 31, 2025 , VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund holds roughly 234.87 shares. This is just over 3.16% of the total shares, with a market valuation of $119.99 billion. Data from the same date shows that the other fund manager holds a little less at 206.56, or 2.78% of the shares, all valued at about 105.53 billion.
