Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) finished Thursday with a subtraction of -$7.03 to close at $319.97, a downside of -2.15 percent. An average of 21,868,920 shares of common stock have been traded in the last five days. There was a gain of $3.09 in the past week, and it reached a new high 28 times over the past 12 months. The last 20 days have seen an average of 21,809,449 shares traded, while the 50-day average volume stands at 27,376,576.
MSFT stock has decreased by -5.27% in the last month. The company shares reached their 1-month lowest point of $311.55 on 08/18/23. With the stock rallying to its 52-week high on 07/18/23, shares of the company touched a low of $213.43 and a high of $366.78 in 52 weeks. It has reached a new high 33 times so far this year and achieved 33.42% or $80.15 in price. In spite of this, the price is down -12.76% from the 52-week high.
Insider Transactions
MSFT stock investors should be aware that Microsoft Corporation (MSFT) stock had its last reported insider trading activity 24 days ago on Aug 01. In this transaction, the insider spent $16,860,105. Director, List Teri, disposed of 1,250 shares at a price of $334.77 on Jun 02. The insider now owns more than $418,463 worth of shares. Prior to that, EVP, Chief Marketing Officer Capossela Christopher C went on to Sale 5,000 shares at $316.87 each on May 18. An amount of $1,584,354 was transacted.
Valuation Metrics
Microsoft Corporation (MSFT) has a trailing price-to-earnings (P/E) ratio of 33.04. The stock’s beta is 0.90. Other valuation ratios to consider include the trailing price-to-sales (P/S) ratio at 11.23, the price-to-book (PB) ratio at 11.53, and the price-to-cash flow ratio at 40.02.
The company has a payout ratio of 27.40%. The company’s most recent quarterly dividend payment was $0.68 a share, without any change from last year. Its latest increase dividend $0.06 reported on Tuesday September 20 2022.
Financial Health
The quick ratio of Microsoft Corporation for the three months ended June 29 was 1.70, and the current ratio was 1.80, indicating that the company is able to meet its debt obligations. Further, the company has a long term debt to equity ratio of 0.28 and a total debt to equity ratio of 0.31 for the quarter ending June 29. Microsoft Corporation’s EBITDA margin for the year ending June 29 is 48.31%, while its operating margin for the same period stands at 41.80%. Its gross profit as reported stood at $146.05 billion compared to revenue of $211.91 billion.
Earnings Surprise
For the three-month period that ended June 29, Microsoft Corporation had $41.99 billion in total debt. In the quarter under review, the net income was up than the previous quarter. The company posted a net income of $20.08 billion in the quarter, while revenues of $18.3 billion were grew 16.64%. The analyst consensus anticipated Microsoft Corporation’s latest quarter earnings to come in at $2.55 per share, but it turned out to be $2.69, a 5.50% surprise. For the quarter, EBITDA amounted to $28.13 billion. Shareholders own equity worth $7.43 billion.
Technical Picture
From a technical analysis perspective, let’s take a brief look at Microsoft Corporation (MSFT) price momentum. RSI 9-day as of the close on 24 August was 41.58%, suggesting the stock is Neutral, with historical volatility in this time frame at 18.59%.
As of today, MSFT’s price is $321.56 +0.98% or $3.09 from its 5-day moving average. MSFT is currently trading -3.25% lower than its 20-day SMA and +10.99% higher than its 100-day SMA. However, the stock’s current price level is -4.28% below the SMA50 and +44.53% above the SMA200.
The stochastic %K and %D were 50.34% and 46.09%, respectively, and the average true range (ATR) was 6.93. With the 14-day stochastic at 39.29% and the average true range at 7.04, the RSI (14) stands at 42.30%. The stock has reached 1.92 on the 9-day MACD Oscillator while the 14-day reading was at 0.76.
Analyst Ratings
Raymond James reiterated its an Outperform rating on Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT), but raised their price target to $320, indicating a potential price increase of 0.01% for the stock.
