MSFT - Microsoft Corporation
140.53 +0.12 (0.09%)
After hours: 7:57PM EDT
| Previous Close | 141.57 |
| Open | 140.79 |
| Bid | 140.35 x 1200 |
| Ask | 140.54 x 1300 |
| Day's Range | 139.53 - 140.99 |
| 52 Week Range | 93.96 - 142.37 |
| Volume | 20,079,608 |
| Avg. Volume | 24,436,233 |
| Market Cap | 1.072T |
| Beta (3Y Monthly) | 0.96 |
| PE Ratio (TTM) | 27.75 |
| EPS (TTM) | 5.06 |
| Earnings Date | Oct 23, 2019 |
| Forward Dividend & Yield | 2.04 (1.46%) |
| Ex-Dividend Date | 2019-08-14 |
| 1y Target Est | 156.77 |
- Zacks
Amazon (AMZN) Q3 2019 Earnings Preview: AWS, Prime & Advertising
Amazon stock is down 11% in the last three months heading into its Q3 earnings release on Thursday, October 24. So let's see what to expect from the e-commerce giant, including AWS, Prime, and advertising...
- American City Business Journals
Atherton estate of late Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen lists for $41.5 million
Located in one of the Bay Area's — and the country's — most expensive zip codes, this resort-like estate sits on 1.9 acres of land and boasts 21,030 square feet of living space.
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The Dow Finished Down Wednesday. Blame Tech and Oil Stocks.
The market might have finished higher on the day if oil stocks like Exxon and Chevron, and tech stocks like Salesforce and Adobe hadn’t tumbled.
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Tech Stocks for Dividend Investors to Buy as Q3 Earnings Season Heats Up
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- Investor's Business Daily
This Sector Gets Pounded, Hitting Nasdaq But Not Dow Jones; Will This Hot Stock Break Out?
The Dow Jones Industrial Average, seeing more warmth in bank stocks, is doing better than the Nasdaq amid a bearish call on the enterprise software field.
- Investor's Business Daily
Dow Gets A Boost From These 3 Key Stocks, But Software Thumps Nasdaq
Stocks faded back near session lows amid weak retail data and a software drubbing. The Dow Jones industrials held up best as Johnson & Johnson rallied.
- Quartz
Facial recognition AI can’t identify trans and non-binary people
New research takes AI software from Amazon, IBM, and Microsoft to task.
- Investing.com
Stocks – S&P Drifts Lower on Weak Retail Sales, China Worries
Investing.com - Stocks drifted lower Wednesday on a weaker-than-expected report on retail sales and growing fears about how firm the Chinese trade deal really is.
- Zacks
Google Expands Device Lineup: Key Made by Google Takeaways
Alphabet's (GOOGL) Google rolls out Pixel 4 smartphones, Pixelbook Go laptop, Nest Mini, Nest Wi-Fi and Pixel Buds, which will bolster its presence in the electronic gadgets space.
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Cadence (CDNS) to Report Q3 Earnings: What's in the Cards?
Cadence (CDNS) benefits from solid demand of its broad based product portfolio. Traction witnessed by Palladium Z1 and EDA-optimized Cloud-Hosted Design solution is also a positive.
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- Investopedia
Why a Longtime Big Investor Has Lost Faith in Buffett and Berkshire
Berkshire Hathaway has been a major market laggard in one of the greatest bull markets, leading a longtime fan of Warren Buffett to dump his holdings.
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4 GARP Stocks for a Winning Portfolio
Growth at a reasonable price or GARP strategy helps investors gain exposure to stocks that have impressive prospects and are trading at a discount.
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Microsoft (MSFT) Reports Next Week: Wall Street Expects Earnings Growth
Microsoft (MSFT) doesn't possess the right combination of the two key ingredients for a likely earnings beat in its upcoming report. Get prepared with the key expectations.
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Logitech (LOGI) to Post Q2 Earnings: What's in the Offing?
Logitech's (LOGI) second-quarter fiscal 2020 results are likely to have benefited from growth in video conferencing business. However, higher tariffs are expected to have kept margins under pressure.
- Yahoo Finance
CrowdStrike CEO gives perfect answer on post IPO stock price tumble
Crowdstrike remains a business on fire, even if some on Wall Street are voicing views to the contrary.
- MarketWatch
Microsoft, Visa share losses contribute to Dow's 75-point fall
DOW UPDATE Shares of Microsoft and Visa are trading lower Wednesday morning, sending the Dow Jones Industrial Average into negative territory. Shares of Microsoft (MSFT) and Visa (V) have contributed to the index's intraday decline, as the Dow (DJIA) was most recently trading 79 points (0.
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CenturyLink Augments Network Connectivity to Google Cloud
The expansion of CenturyLink's (CTL) Cloud Connect Dynamic Connections service to Google Cloud Platform will facilitate business enterprises to seamlessly connect and control bandwidth according to their requirements.
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- Investopedia
Tech Sector Leads as Stocks Move Higher
With tech stocks leading the market higher, Apple is separating from the pack, but Intel is not nimble enough to keep up.
- Bloomberg
Elizabeth Warren Vows to Be First Nominee to Forgo High-Dollar Fundraisers
(Bloomberg) -- Elizabeth Warren pledged Tuesday to forgo any high-dollar fundraising events if she becomes the Democratic nominee, a move that would make her the first general-election candidate to do so and could be a high-stakes gamble against a cash-rich incumbent and a well-funded GOP apparatus.But Warren would still accept high-dollar contributions from most people who choose to write her a check without getting special access or seeing her in person. She also vowed to refuse to accept “any contributions over $200 from executives at big tech companies, big banks, private equity firms, or hedge funds.”Warren’s pledge also wouldn’t stop the party or super-PACs from raising vast amounts of money on her behalf. But it may stop wealthy donors from cutting big checks if they believe it won’t help them get access to the nominee.“When I’m the Democratic nominee for president, I’m not going to change a thing in how I run my campaign: No PACs. No federal lobbyists. No special access or call time with rich donors or big dollar fundraisers to underwrite my campaign,” Warren said in a statement released by her campaign.Still, some Democrats fear it would put the party at a huge fundraising disadvantage against President Donald Trump, who’s raking in vast sums of money from big donors by his own campaign and by super-PACs that support him.Rufus Gifford, the finance director for former President Barack Obama’s 2012 campaign, has said Warren’s earlier suggestions to avoid high-dollar events was “a colossally stupid decision” that would cost Democrats not only in the presidential contest but also in down-ballot races.But it also reflects her populist pitch to be a different kind of candidate who isn’t corrupted by special interest money, and so far she has proven adept at generating small-dollar contributions that are envied by her party rivals.A Warren campaign aide said the decision to accept no more than $200 from executives and big tech or financial firms was “retroactive” and any contributions above $200 from those people would be returned.The aide also said that big tech companies under this guideline will include Alphabet Inc., which is Google’s parent company; Amazon.com Inc., Apple Inc., Facebook Inc., Microsoft Corp., Lyft Inc. and Uber Technologies Inc.Nominees traditionally complain about the amount of time needed to raise money in a campaign and call for changes in financing presidential races, but then say they can’t “unilaterally disarm” against a well-funded opponent.Warren’s bet is that her pitch will propel her campaign in the Democratic contest -- where she’s tied with Joe Biden for the top spot -- and mobilize many of the estimated 100 million eligible voters who didn’t turn out in the 2016 election. Biden spends a significant amount of time raising money from traditional donor bases.It’s unclear how Warren’s pledge would apply to the Democratic National Committee, which can accept contributions from individuals of as much as $355,000 for various accounts, including $35,500 per donor that can be used to influence the election.And it wouldn’t apply to outside groups like super-PACs, which under federal law cannot coordinate their activities with campaigns. In 2016, Priorities USA had more than 30 individual donors who contributed more than $1 million.Obama barred contributions from registered lobbyists and corporate PACs. The DNC was outraised by its Republican counterpart in 2012 by almost $100 million, yet Obama, a popular incumbent, won overwhelmingly against rival Mitt Romney in the election. The party lifted the bans in 2016, and the DNC raised $354 million compared to $343 million for the Republican National Committee.Warren often highlights her approach to fundraising on the campaign trail, reassuring prospective voters that her campaign is fueled by them, not big dollar donors.“I don’t spend my time at fundraisers for bazilionaires and corporate executives,” Warren said during a town hall in Austin, Texas, last month. “I just don’t do it.”When asked whether her grassroots fundraising model could leave her without enough money to go against Trump in the general election, Warren was adamant that a flurry of contributions between $5 and $25 would be enough. Trump and the RNC raised $125 million in the first quarter, more than all of the major Democrats combined.“If you think it’s going to be all about scooping up a bunch of money from rich people, and then buying a bunch of TV ads, and that’s how it is someone’s gonna win, then, yeah, it looks like Trump’s doing a lot here,” Warren said recently in San Diego. “I just don’t think that’s how democracy works anymore. And I sure don’t think that’s how it’s going to work in 2020. I think it’s going to be about getting out and building a grassroots movement.”In his battle against Hillary Clinton in 2016, Bernie Sanders relied primarily on small-dollar donors to raise $235.4 million through the end of May 2016, nearly matching the $238.2 million she raised over the same period.But Clinton also had joint fundraising committees that raised millions for the Democratic National Committee and state parties.Trump is using the same arrangements to build a huge financial advantage over his rivals. His campaign and the RNC, plus a pair of joint fundraising committees that raise money for each, have taken more than $300 million through this year, according to Federal Election Commission reports and totals announced by Trump’s re-election effort.Warren has raised $60.2 million in the same period, including about $10 million she transferred from her Senate campaign.(Updates with Warren aide saying big tech donation policy was retroactive in eighth, ninth paragraphs.)To contact the reporters on this story: Sahil Kapur in Washington at skapur39@bloomberg.net;Bill Allison in Washington at ballison14@bloomberg.net;Misyrlena Egkolfopoulou in Washington at megkolfopoul@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Wendy Benjaminson at wbenjaminson@bloomberg.net, Max BerleyFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.
- Barrons.com
Microsoft Stock Is on a Roll. Its Cloud Business Is a Big Reason Why.
Microsoft’s 40% rally this year has been driven in no small measure by investor enthusiasm for the company’s Azure cloud business, which skewed to larger enterprises than its rivals and should be the least vulnerable to any macro-related slowdown, an analyst says.
- Bloomberg
The Government Should Regulate the Tech Sector More, Says Bill Gates
Oct.16 -- Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Co-Chair and Microsoft Co-Founder Bill Gates talks about the government's role in regulating the tech industry. He appears on "The David Rubenstein Show: Peer-to-Peer Conversations." The show was recorded on June 24 in Washington.
