The trading price of Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) closed higher on Firday, October 25, and closing at $428.15, 0.81% higher than its previous close.
Traders who pay close attention to intraday price movement should know that it fluctuated between $426.6 and $432.5. The company’s P/E ratio in the trailing 12-month period was 36.28, while its 5Y monthly beta was 0.896. In examining the 52-week price action we see that the stock hit a 52-week high of $468.35 and a 52-week low of $326.94. Over the past month, the stock has lost -0.73% in value.
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Microsoft Corporation, whose market valuation is $3183.06 billion at the time of this writing, is expected to release its quarterly earnings report on 2024-Oct-30. The dividend yield on the company stock is 0.70%, while its Forward Dividend ratio is 3.00. Investors’ optimism about the company’s current quarter earnings report is understandable. Analysts have predicted the quarterly earnings per share to grow by 3.1 per share this quarter, however they have predicted annual earnings per share of 13.07 for current year and 15.21 for next year.
Analysts have forecast the company to bring in revenue of 64.51B for the current quarter, with the likely lows of 64.22B and highs of 65.2B. From the analysts’ viewpoint, the consensus estimate for the company’s annual revenue is 278.97B.
On the technical side, indicators suggest MSFT has a 50% Sell on average for the short term. According to the data of the stock’s medium term indicators, the stock is currently averaging as a Hold, while an average of long term indicators suggests that the stock is currently 100% Buy.
Here is the average analyst rating on the stock as represented by 1.00 to 5.00, with the extremes of 1.00 and 5.00 suggesting the stock should be considered as either strong buy or strong sell respectively. The number of analysts that have assigned MSFT a recommendation rating is 40. Out of them, 3 rate it a Hold, while 34 recommend Buy, whereas 0 assign an Overweight rating. 1 analyst(s) have tagged Microsoft Corporation (MSFT) as Underweight, while 2 advise Sell. Analysts have rated the stock Buy, likely urging investors to take advantage of the opportunity to add to their holdings of the company’s shares.
If we dig deeper into the stock’s outlook, we see that the stock’s PEG is 2.44, which symbolizes a positive outlook. A quick review shows that MSFT’s price is currently 2.10% off the SMA20 and 1.79% off the SMA50. The RSI metric on the 14-day chart is currently showing 58.81, and weekly volatility stands at 1.71%. When measured over the past 30 days, the indicator reaches 1.49%. Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT)’s beta value is currently sitting at 0.90, while the Average True Range indicator is currently displaying 6.90. With analysts defining $232-$600 as the low and high price targets, we arrive at a consensus price target of $475 for the trailing 12-month period. The current price is about 45.81% off the estimated low and -40.14% off the forecast high, based on this estimate. Investors will be thrilled if MSFT’s share price rises to $475, which is the median consensus price. At that level, MSFT’s share price would be -10.94% below current price.
To see how Microsoft Corporation stock has been performing in comparison to its peers in the industry, here are the numbers: MSFT stock’s performance was 0.81% in the latest trading, and 25.68% in the past year. Microsoft Corporation has a P/E ratio of 36.28.
An evaluation of the daily trading volume of Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) indicates that the 3-month average is 19.70 million. However, this figure has increased over the past 10 days to an average of 17.28.
Currently, records show that 7.43 billion of the company’s shares remain outstanding. The insiders hold 1.47% of outstanding shares, whereas institutions hold 72.77%. The stats also highlight that short interest as of 2024-10-15, stood at 60.31 million shares, resulting in a short ratio of 3.26 at that time. From this, we can conclude that short interest is 81.00 of the company’s total outstanding shares. It is noteworthy that short shares in October were down slightly from the previous month’s figure, which was 67.5 million. However, since the stock’s price has seen 13.86% year-to-date, investors’ interest is likely to be reignited due to its potential to move even higher.
