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Microsoft Corp
NASDAQ· Technology· Software - Infrastructure· CUSIP 594918104
$521.08-2.23%Price as of Oct 23, 00:40 UTC · updated once a day, after the close
At a glance
Microsoft Corp (MSFT) is listed on NASDAQ and classified in Software - Infrastructure, part of the Technology sector. It is headquartered in Redmond, United States and has 223,000 employees. The company is worth $3.87T and trades at 29.0x its earnings of the last twelve months; the median for its sector is 28.0x. Revenue was $331.84B in fiscal 2026, up 17.8% from the year before. Net income was $133.75B. The share price is 5.9% below its 52-week high of $553.72. It pays a dividend yielding 0.75%, and has raised its annual dividend for 20 years in a row in our records. 16 of the 38 superinvestors we track held it at the end of Q2 2026. The largest position belongs to Cliff Asness (AQR Capital Management), at $4.26B. In that quarter, 8 of them opened or added to the position and 7 reduced it. Over the last 30 days, company insiders sold $3.98M of its stock on the open market and bought none. All of those sales were scheduled in advance under 10b5-1 plans.
Written from the data on this page: SEC filings (13F, Form 4, annual reports) and market prices.
Analysis
Articles on this site that cover Microsoft Corp.
- Chris Hohn’s TCI in Q2 2026: GE Aerospace is a third of $53 billion, two new materials stocks, Microsoft gonePublished Oct 11, 2026
- Bill Ackman’s Pershing Square in Q2 2026: 14 stocks, three new payment and data names, and Alphabet soldPublished Oct 11, 2026
- Microsoft (MSFT): Azure is now its biggest business, and OpenAI is in the numbersPublished Oct 11, 2026
Key metrics
- Market cap
- $3.87T
- P/E
- 29.0x
- Forward P/E
- 22.0x
- P/B
- 8.7x
- Dividend yield
- 0.75%
- Payout
- 21.84%
- EPS
- $17.95
- ROE
- 34.04%
- Profit margin
- 40.30%
- Revenue growth
- +17.70%
- Beta
- 1.10
- 52-week high
- $553.72
- 52-week low
- $349.20
History
Year by year, from the annual reports; dividends from the payments themselves.
Bars are year-end balances; lines are what happened during the year.
Investors holding this
Major managers that reported this stock in their latest 13F.
- Cliff AsnessAddedAQR Capital Management · Q2 2026$4.26B11.47M shares · 1.5% of portfolio
Bill AckmanAddedPershing Square Capital Management · Q2 2026$2.32B6.21M shares · 11.9% of portfolio- Israel EnglanderAddedMillennium Management · Q2 2026$1.58B4.24M shares · 1.1% of portfolio
Ken GriffinAddedCitadel Advisors · Q2 2026$1.41B3.77M shares · 0.8% of portfolio- Philippe LaffontAddedCoatue Management · Q2 2026$1.1B2.94M shares · 2.3% of portfolio
- Baillie GiffordReducedBaillie Gifford & Co · Q2 2026$1.01B2.71M shares · 0.9% of portfolio
- Chase ColemanReducedTiger Global Management · Q2 2026$845.6M2.27M shares · 3.5% of portfolio
- Two SigmaAddedTwo Sigma Investments · Q2 2026$682.36M1.83M shares · 0.5% of portfolio
- Andreas HalvorsenReducedViking Global Investors · Q2 2026$544.09M1.46M shares · 1.6% of portfolio
Brad GerstnerAddedAltimeter Capital · Q2 2026$473.02M1.27M shares · 4.8% of portfolio- Lee AinslieAddedMaverick Capital · Q2 2026$310.49M832.38K shares · 2.8% of portfolio
Ray DalioReducedBridgewater Associates · Q2 2026$265.55M711.9K shares · 1.1% of portfolio- Tom GaynerHeldMarkel Group · Q2 2026$200.55M537.63K shares · 1.5% of portfolio
George SorosReducedSoros Fund Management · Q2 2026$70.86M189.97K shares · 1.2% of portfolio- Steve CohenReducedPoint72 Asset Management · Q2 2026$11.76M31.52K shares · 0.0% of portfolio
- Renaissance TechnologiesReducedRenaissance Technologies · Q2 2026$2.24M6.01K shares · 0.0% of portfolio
Price over time
▲ +60.0% over 5Y.
today you would have $1,662.30▲ +66.2%
Dividends reinvested, splits accounted for. Past prices say what happened, not what will.
Indicators, year by year
The last 19 closed years, each at that year’s closing price and reported numbers.
| Indicator | Median | 2026 | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010 | 2009 | 2008 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year-end price | $529.05 | $483.62 | $421.50 | $376.04 | $239.82 | $336.32 | $222.42 | $157.70 | $101.57 | $85.54 | $62.14 | $55.48 | $46.45 | $37.41 | $26.71 | $25.96 | $27.91 | $30.48 | $19.44 | |
| P/E | 26.3x | 29.5x | 35.5x | 35.7x | 38.8x | 24.9x | 41.8x | 38.6x | 31.2x | 47.7x | 26.3x | 24.3x | 37.5x | 17.7x | 14.5x | 13.4x | 9.7x | 13.3x | 18.8x | 10.4x |
| P/S | 6.8x | 11.8x | 12.8x | 12.8x | 13.2x | 9.0x | 15.0x | 11.8x | 9.6x | 7.1x | 6.8x | 5.3x | 4.7x | 4.4x | 4.0x | 3.0x | 3.1x | 3.9x | 4.6x | 2.9x |
| P/B | 7.5x | 8.9x | 10.5x | 11.7x | 13.5x | 10.7x | 17.8x | 14.2x | 11.8x | 9.4x | 7.5x | 5.8x | 5.5x | 4.3x | 3.9x | 3.4x | 3.8x | 5.2x | 6.9x | 4.9x |
| EPS | $17.95 | $13.64 | $11.80 | $9.68 | $9.65 | $8.05 | $5.76 | $5.06 | $2.13 | $3.25 | $2.56 | $1.48 | $2.63 | $2.58 | $2.00 | $2.69 | $2.10 | $1.62 | $1.87 | |
| Dividend yield | 1.71% | 0.52% | 0.70% | 0.73% | 0.74% | 1.06% | 0.68% | 0.94% | 1.20% | 1.69% | 1.86% | 2.37% | 2.33% | 2.48% | 2.59% | 3.11% | 2.62% | 1.97% | 1.71% | 2.37% |
| Payout | 32.10% | 15.21% | 24.93% | 26.10% | 28.82% | 26.32% | 28.57% | 36.28% | 37.35% | 80.75% | 48.92% | 57.42% | 87.16% | 43.73% | 37.60% | 41.50% | 25.28% | 26.19% | 32.10% | 24.60% |
| Profit margin | 30.02% | 40.31% | 36.15% | 35.96% | 34.15% | 36.69% | 36.45% | 30.96% | 31.18% | 15.02% | 26.39% | 22.53% | 13.03% | 25.42% | 28.08% | 23.03% | 33.10% | 30.02% | 24.93% | 29.26% |
| ROE | 32.83% | 30.23% | 29.65% | 32.83% | 35.09% | 43.68% | 43.15% | 37.43% | 38.35% | 20.03% | 29.06% | 24.72% | 15.23% | 24.59% | 27.69% | 25.58% | 40.55% | 40.63% | 36.83% | 48.73% |
Median of the years shown; P/E years above 200x are left out.
Fair price, seven ways
Seven formulas applied to the reported numbers, each with its assumption next to the result. None of them predicts a price.
Earnings
$155.10
Square root of 22.5 × earnings × book value. Blind to intangibles, so it undervalues software and brands.
Earnings
$325.76
Earnings growing 17.4% a year plus a 0.8% dividend yield. Growth capped at 25%.
Earnings
$502.69
Median P/E of 28.0 among peers in the sector.
Earnings
$472.44
Median P/E of 26.3 across this company’s own years on record.
Cash flow
$305.83
Cash flow growing 15.0% a year for 10 years, discounted at 10%, then 2.5% forever.
Operating
$363.18
Sector median of 14.3x operating profit, less net debt. Banks have no EBITDA.
Dividends
—
This formula has no meaning here — usually a loss, negative cash flow, or a missing input.
How the average is calculated
The average of the method families that answered, not of the seven numbers: four of the seven start from the same earnings per share.
Earnings $364.00 (avg. of 4)+Cash flow $305.83+Operating $363.18÷ 3 =$344.34
$344.34
6 methods answered, across 3 families.
$258.25
Room for errors in the reported numbers.
$521.08
-33.9% from the average.
Models, not forecasts, and not investment advice. How each formula works →
Others in the same sector
Companies of similar size in Technology, for comparison. The columns are the same ones above, in the same order.
| Stock | Price | P/E | P/B | Dividend yield | ROE | Market cap |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AAPLApple Inc. | $348.22 | 39.4x | 47.3x | 0.31% | 148.75% | $5.08T |
| NVDANvidia Corp | $212.21 | 28.1x | 22.4x | 0.47% | 117.21% | $5.12T |
| TSMTaiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd | $412.35 | 28.0x | 78.7x | 0.91% | 41.85% | $2.14T |
| AVGOBroadcom Inc. | $323.24 | 41.3x | 15.5x | 0.80% | 44.24% | $1.54T |
| SKHYSK hynix Inc. | $136.49 | 8.7x | 5.0x | 0.08% | 92.68% | $994.83B |
| MUMicron Technology Inc | $856.49 | 12.3x | 7.0x | 0.07% | 88.26% | $969.05B |
About the company
- 223,000
- Redmond, United States