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Microsoft Corporation Common Stock
Technology · Software - Infrastructure · NASDAQ · United States
$491.65-0.47%
Market cap $3.65TNext earnings 2026-07-29Updated Sep 9, 2026
FAIR VALUE · 6-MODEL CONSENSUS
$491.65+0.0%
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ACCE thesis

Microsoft sells enterprise software, cloud infrastructure, and productivity tools to essentially every large organization on earth - Azure, Office 365, Teams, Dynamics, and GitHub are the core revenue engines. The structural advantage here is distribution: 300+ million commercial Office seats and deep IT procurement relationships create a switching cost moat that takes years for competitors to chip away at. Copilot monetization is the catalyst to watch - the $30/seat/month add-on is still early innings of penetration across that installed base, and Azure's OpenAI exclusivity keeps enterprise AI workloads sticky. At 22.7x forward earnings for a business compounding revenue at 18.3% with 46.3% operating margins, the multiple is not demanding relative to the quality of cash flows. The $3.17T market cap means this isn't a double from here, but it's the safest way to own AI infrastructure buildout without betting on a single hyperscaler winning the model wars.

Investor warnings · 3 flags
  • high
    ACCE score collapse
    Score dropped 16 points in 90 days (78→62), driven by Momentum score of 17/100, signaling significant near-term price deterioration.
  • moderate
    Momentum score critically low
    Momentum sub-score of 17/100 against a Quality of 100 suggests price action is severely lagging fundamentals - potential distribution phase.
  • moderate
    Insider selling, zero buying
    Last 10 disclosed transactions show $7.66M in sales and $0 in buys, indicating no insider conviction at current price levels.

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Snapshot

Growth88Value39Quality100Momentum76Total76
Valuation
Trailing P/E
27.4x
Forward P/E
20.9x
PEG
0.88
P/B
8.56x
EV / Revenue
11.4x
Book value/sh
$59.56
Enterprise value
$3.77T
Profitability
ROE
34.0%
FCF yield
1.81%
ROIC
22.7%
Health and risk
Debt / equity
0.09
Dividend yield
0.74%
Beta
1.11
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