MSFT Stock Summary and Trading Ideas (Microsoft | NASDAQ:MSFT)

Microsoft develops and licenses consumer and enterprise software. It is known for its Windows operating systems and Office productivity suite. The company is organized into three equally sized broad segments: productivity and business processes (legacy Microsoft Office, cloud-based Office 365, Exchange, SharePoint, Skype, LinkedIn, Dynamics), intelligence cloud (infrastructure- and platform-as-a-service offerings Azure, Windows Server OS, SQL Server), and more personal computing (Windows Client, Xbox, Bing search, display advertising, and Surface laptops, tablets, and desktops).

Microsoft trades on the NASDAQ stock market under the symbol MSFT.

As of March 18, 2026, MSFT stock price declined to $393.71 with 11,829,952 million shares trading.

MSFT has a beta of 0.91, meaning it tends to be less sensitive to market movements. MSFT has a correlation of 0.37 to the broad based SPY ETF.

MSFT has a market cap of $2.92 trillion. This is considered a Mega Cap stock.

Last quarter Microsoft reported $81 billion in Revenue and $4.14 earnings per share. This beat revenue expectation by $1 billion and exceeded earnings estimates by $.28.

In the last 3 years, MSFT traded as high as $555.45 and as low as $269.52.

The top ETF exchange traded funds that MSFT belongs to (by Net Assets): VTI, VOO, IVV, SPY, VUG.

MSFT has underperformed the market in the last year with a price return of +2.2% while the SPY ETF gained +18.8%. MSFT has also underperformed the stock market ETF in the last 3 month and 2 week periods returning -17.1% and -2.5%, respectively, while the SPY returned -0.4% and -2.0%, respectively.

MSFT support price is $393.41 and resistance is $405.41 (based on 1 day standard deviation move). This means that using the most recent 20 day stock volatility and applying a one standard deviation move around the stock's closing price, stastically there is a 67% probability that MSFT shares will trade within this expected range on the day.