Currently, there are 7.43B common shares owned by the public and among those 7.32B shares have been available to trade.
However, the script later moved the day high at 425.18, down -1.27%. The company’s stock has a 5-day price change of -5.40% and 0.11% over the past three months. MSFT shares are trading 6.14% year to date (YTD), with the 12-month market performance up to 38.37% higher. It has a 12-month low price of $275.37 and touched a high of $430.82 over the same period. MSFT has an average intraday trading volume of 21.55 million shares. The stock is trading above its simple moving averages at the SMA20, SMA50, and SMA200, as the current price level is off by -5.23%, -3.91%, and 8.64% respectively.
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Institutional ownership of Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) shares accounts for 72.88% of the company’s 7.43B shares outstanding.
It has a market capitalization of $2965.64B and a beta (3y monthly) value of 0.88. The stock’s trailing 12-month PE ratio is 36.10, while the earnings-per-share (ttm) stands at $11.06. The company has a PEG of 2.24 and a Quick Ratio of 1.20 with the debt-to-equity ratio at 0.47. Price movements for the stock have been influenced by the stock’s volatility, which stands at 2.07% over the week and 1.47% over the month.
Earnings per share for the fiscal year are expected to increase by 18.93%, and 14.74% over the next financial year. EPS should shrink at an annualized rate of 16.10% over the next five years, compared to 35.37% over the past 5-year period.
Looking at the support for the MSFT, a number of firms have released research notes about the stock. Wells Fargo stated their Overweight rating for the stock in a research note on April 17, 2024, with the firm’s price target at $460-$480. BMO Capital Markets coverage for the Microsoft Corporation (MSFT) stock in a research note released on April 12, 2024 offered a Outperform rating with a price target of $465. Morgan Stanley was of a view on April 11, 2024 that the stock is Overweight, while KeyBanc Capital Markets gave the stock Overweight rating on March 21, 2024, issuing a price target of $490. Exane BNP Paribas on their part issued Outperform rating on January 18, 2024.
