Currently, there are 7.43B common shares owned by the public and among those 7.32B shares have been available to trade.
The company’s stock has a 5-day price change of -4.67% and -15.47% over the past three months. MSFT shares are trading -15.10% year to date (YTD), with the 12-month market performance down to -14.36% lower. It has a 12-month low price of $359.48 and touched a high of $468.35 over the same period. MSFT has an average intraday trading volume of 23.69 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 -6.41%, -10.10%, and -14.88% respectively.
Institutional ownership of Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) shares accounts for 73.28% of the company’s 7.43B shares outstanding.
It has a market capitalization of $2660.32B and a beta (3y monthly) value of 0.95. The stock’s trailing 12-month PE ratio is 28.82, while the earnings-per-share (ttm) stands at $12.42. The company has a PEG of 2.02 and a Quick Ratio of 1.34 with the debt-to-equity ratio at 0.34. Price movements for the stock have been influenced by the stock’s volatility, which stands at 3.77% over the week and 2.43% over the month.
Analysts forecast that Microsoft Corporation (MSFT) will achieve an EPS of 3.22 for the current quarter, 3.33 for the next quarter and 15.04 for current fiscal year. The lowest estimate earnings-per-share for the quarter is 3.16 while analysts give the company a high EPS estimate of 3.16. Comparatively, EPS for the current quarter was 2.94 a year ago. Earnings per share for the fiscal year are expected to increase by 11.59%, and 13.49% over the next financial year. EPS should shrink at an annualized rate of 14.30% over the next five years, compared to 18.45% over the past 5-year period.
Looking at the support for the MSFT, a number of firms have released research notes about the stock. Scotiabank stated their Sector Outperform rating for the stock in a research note on March 20, 2025, with the firm’s price target at $470. DA Davidson coverage for the Microsoft Corporation (MSFT) stock in a research note released on March 13, 2025 offered a Buy rating with a price target of $450. Cantor Fitzgerald was of a view on January 17, 2025 that the stock is Overweight, while Piper Sandler gave the stock Overweight rating on January 06, 2025, issuing a price target of $470- $520. BMO Capital Markets on their part issued Outperform rating on October 31, 2024.
