Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) shares, rose in value on Wednesday, June 18, with the stock price up by 0.46% to the previous day’s close as strong demand from buyers drove the stock to $480.24.
Actively observing the price movement in the last trading, the stock closed the session at $478.04, falling within a range of $474.46 and $481.0. The value of beta (5-year monthly) was 1.026 whereas the PE ratio was 37.11 over 12-month period. Referring to stock’s 52-week performance, its high was $480.69, and the low was $344.79. On the whole, MSFT has fluctuated by 4.66% over the past month.
With the market capitalization of Microsoft Corporation currently standing at about $3569.40 billion, investors are eagerly awaiting this quarter’s results, scheduled for on 2025-Apr-30. The company’s Forward Dividend Ratio is 2.41, with its dividend yield at 0.50%.
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% Buy on average. However, medium-term indicators have put the stock in the category of 100% Buy while long-term indicators on average have been pointing out that it is a 50% Buy.
The stock’s technical analysis shows that the PEG ratio is about 2.55, with the price of MSFT currently trading nearly 2.96% and 11.00% away from the simple moving averages for 20 and 50 days respectively. The Relative Strength Index (RSI, 14) currently indicates a reading of 73.43, while the 7-day volatility ratio is showing 0.75% which for the 30-day chart, stands at 0.83%. Furthermore, Microsoft Corporation (MSFT)’s beta value is 1.03, and its average true range (ATR) is 6.74.
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 0.46% in last session, and over the past year, it grew by 8.51%%.
Data on historical trading for Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) indicates that the trading volumes over the past 10 days have averaged 16.8 and over the past 3 months, they’ve averaged 22.77 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 73.61% of the company’s shares. The data on short interest also indicates that stock shorts accounted for 58.18 million shares as on 2025-05-30, resulting in a short ratio of 2.49. According to the data, the short interest in Microsoft Corporation (MSFT) stood at 78.00 of shares outstanding as of 2025-05-30; the number of short shares registered in 2025-04-30 reached 50.31 million. The stock has risen by 13.94% 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.
