MSFT - Microsoft Corporation
| Previous Close | 108.50 |
| Open | 108.93 |
| Bid | 0.00 x 900 |
| Ask | 0.00 x 1100 |
| Day's Range | 108.22 - 110.84 |
| 52 Week Range | 78.01 - 116.18 |
| Volume | 32,785,475 |
| Avg. Volume | 25,919,723 |
| Market Cap | 834.238B |
| Beta (3Y Monthly) | 1.31 |
| PE Ratio (TTM) | 51.01 |
| EPS (TTM) | 2.13 |
| Earnings Date | Oct 24, 2018 |
| Forward Dividend & Yield | 1.84 (1.66%) |
| Ex-Dividend Date | 2018-11-14 |
| 1y Target Est | 124.47 |
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Reuters•2 days agoWith market on edge, investors look to tech trio
The pressure is on for Amazon, Alphabet and Microsoft as they prepare to report quarterly results at a time when confidence in those market leaders looks increasingly fragile and in danger of derailing Wall Street's rally. After worries about higher interest rates sparked a steep sell-off in early October and again on Thursday, the S&P 500 remains down 5 percent from its Sept. 20 record high close, with top-shelf stocks including Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O), Alphabet Inc (GOOGL.O), Netflix Inc (NFLX.O) and Facebook Inc (FB.O) showing little of their vitality from recent years. A quarterly report from Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O) on Wednesday after the bell, followed by Alphabet and Amazon late on Thursday, will influence sentiment across Wall Street.
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[$$] Why Big Tech Keeps Trying Its Hand at Hardware
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Cramer's game plan: Companies tied to China or the Fed are 'guilty until proven innocent'
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Microsoft is now tying Satya Nadella's pay to LinkedIn's performance
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- Benzinga•3 days ago
Why Microsoft Could Be Next To Join The $1-Trillion Market Cap Club
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- Engadget•3 days ago
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- TechCrunch•3 days ago
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What to Know Before Investing in Augmented & Virtual Reality
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- TechCrunch•3 days ago
Microsoft's new expense tracker Spend hits the App Store
The team behind mileage-tracking app MileIQ, a company Microsoft acquired a few years ago, is out with a new application. The new app, simply called "Spend," arrived on the App Store on Thursday, offering automatic expense tracking for work reimbursement purposes or for taxes. Spend doesn't appear to be a part of some grand Microsoft plan to take on expense tracking industry giants, like Expensify or SAP-owned Concur, for example.
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The struggles continue for International Business Machines (NYSE:IBM). The tech dinosaur just keeps dogging its way along and its stock price has greatly lagged that of its peers. Down 10% since reporting earnings on Tuesday after the close, IBM stock is now down 15% on the year.
- InvestorPlace•3 days ago
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A viable alternative to Amazon’s (NASDAQ: AMZN) Prime subscription shipping program is the biggest threat to the e-commerce giant and to Amazon stock. Amazon has painstakingly worked to provide new services to its Prime members, thereby increasing the value proposition of the service. Prime has grown very rapidly in recent quarters. In the second quarter, Amazon’s revenues from subscriptions jumped 55% year-over-year to $3.4 billion.
