MSFT

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Microsoft Corporation

$483.24

+2.09 (+0.43%)

MSFT price chart

Market capTotal value of all shares. Bigger = more established company.

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P/E ratioPrice ÷ earnings. Rough sense of how expensive the stock is vs its profits.

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EPS (ttm)Profit per share over the last 12 months.

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Dividend yieldAnnual dividend as % of price. Higher isn't always better — check sustainability.

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52w highHighest price in the last year.

$553.72

52w lowLowest price in the last year.

$349.20

Day rangeToday's low and high.

$478.53 – $486.36

VolumeShares traded today. Higher = more activity and interest.

22.51M

In plain English

What Microsoft (MSFT) actually does

Microsoft sells software and cloud computing to businesses and consumers. The bulk of profit comes from subscriptions that companies renew year after year: Microsoft 365 (Office, Teams, Windows licensing) and Azure, its cloud platform. It also owns LinkedIn, the Xbox gaming business and a large stake in OpenAI. Because so much revenue is contracted and recurring, Microsoft's results tend to be far steadier than most large technology companies.

Where the money comes from

Intelligent Cloud (Azure and server products): Renting computing power and data services to businesses. The single most watched number each quarter is Azure's growth rate.
Productivity and Business Processes: Microsoft 365, Teams, Dynamics and LinkedIn — mostly per-seat subscriptions that renew automatically.
More Personal Computing: Windows licences, Surface devices, Xbox, game studios and search advertising.

Price drivers

What moves MSFT stock

1
Azure growth rate
Reported as a percentage each quarter. A one- or two-point difference versus guidance is the most common cause of a big post-earnings move.
2
AI monetisation
How many customers pay for Copilot and AI services, and whether that revenue offsets the enormous cost of building data centres.
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Capital expenditure
Microsoft is spending heavily on AI infrastructure. Investors weigh that spending against the free cash flow it produces.
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Enterprise IT budgets
When companies tighten spending, seat counts and cloud consumption grow more slowly — a broad economic signal shows up directly here.
5
Regulation and large acquisitions
Antitrust reviews in the US and Europe, and scrutiny of its OpenAI relationship, occasionally move the shares.

Risks worth knowing

AI infrastructure spending is enormous and the payback period is uncertain.
Cloud is a three-way fight with Amazon and Google; pricing pressure is permanent.
A mature, widely held mega-cap: large percentage gains require very large absolute value creation.
Regulatory action against bundling or AI partnerships is an ongoing overhang.

How to read MSFT's numbers

Microsoft's dividend yield is small, but the payout has grown steadily for years — total return here comes mostly from earnings growth, not income. Look at free cash flow alongside earnings per share, because heavy data-centre spending can hold cash flow back even while profit rises.

Auri explains