Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) shares, rose in value, with the stock price down by -1.60% to the previous day’s close as strong demand from buyers drove the stock to $384.35.
Actively observing the price movement in the recent trading, the stock is buoying the session at $390.58, falling within a range of $383.51 and $389.13. The value of beta (5-year monthly) is 0.914 whereas the PE ratio is 30.96 over 12-month period. Referring to stock’s 52-week performance, its high was $468.35, and the low was $376.91. On the whole, MSFT has fluctuated by -2.08% over the past month.
With the market capitalization of Microsoft Corporation currently standing at about $2857.25 billion, investors are eagerly awaiting this quarter’s results, scheduled for on 2025-Jan-28. The company’s Forward Dividend Ratio is 3.16, with its dividend yield at 0.82%.
Projections by analysts suggest varying estimates for the company’s quarterly revenue. Analysts have estimated the company’s revenue for the quarter at 277.01B, with a low estimate of 67.14B and a high estimate of 69.9B. Wall Street analysts also predicted that the company’s y-o-y revenues would reach 68.54B.
Technical indicators serve as essential tools for traders, offering insights into market sentiment and potential price movements. We see that MSFT’s technical picture suggests that short-term indicators denote the stock is a 100% Sell on average. However, medium-term indicators have put the stock in the category of 100% Sell while long-term indicators on average have been pointing out that it is a 100% Sell.
The stock’s technical analysis shows that the PEG ratio is about 2.15, with the price of MSFT currently trading nearly -1.08% and -5.32% away from the simple moving averages for 20 and 50 days respectively. The Relative Strength Index (RSI, 14) currently indicates a reading of 41.14, while the 7-day volatility ratio is showing 1.54% which for the 30-day chart, stands at 2.24%. Furthermore, Microsoft Corporation (MSFT)’s beta value is 0.99, and its average true range (ATR) is 7.97.
A comparison of Microsoft Corporation (MSFT) with its peers suggests the former has fared considerably weaker in the market. MSFT showed an intraday change of -1.60% in today’s session so far, and over the past year, it shrunk by -8.85%%.
Data on historical trading for Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) indicates that the trading volumes over the past 10 days have averaged 20.59 and over the past 3 months, they’ve averaged 22.61 million. According to company’s latest data on outstanding shares, there are 7.43 billion shares outstanding.
Nearly 1.47% of Microsoft Corporation’s shares belong to company insiders and institutional investors own 73.26% of the company’s shares. The data on short interest also indicates that stock shorts accounted for 64.26 million shares as on 2025-03-14, resulting in a short ratio of 2.58. According to the data, the short interest in Microsoft Corporation (MSFT) stood at 86.00 of shares outstanding as of 2025-03-14; the number of short shares registered in 2025-02-14 reached 53.63 million. The stock has fallen by -8.81% since the beginning of the year, thereby showing the potential of a further growth. This could raise investors’ confidence to be optimistic about the MSFT stock heading into the next quarter.
