{"format":"alysly-page/1","url":"https://alysly.com/markets/stocks/microsoft-corporation/","json":"https://alysly.com/json/markets/stocks/microsoft-corporation/index.json","lang":"en-US","title":"Microsoft Corporation (MSFT) Stock Price Today | News","description":"Microsoft Corporation (MSFT). Revenue $331.8bn, net margin 40.3% (FY ended Jun 2026). ISIN US5949181045 · WKN 870747.","modified":"2026-11-01T00:00:00Z","alternates":[{"lang":"de-DE","url":"https://alysly.com/de/maerkte/aktien/microsoft-corporation/","json":"https://alysly.com/json/de/maerkte/aktien/microsoft-corporation/index.json"}],"about":"Machine-readable version of the page at url. It contains the text, tables and key figures published there, but not the interactive charts and tools.","breadcrumb":[{"name":"Markets","url":"https://alysly.com/markets/"},{"name":"Stocks","url":"https://alysly.com/markets/stocks/"},{"name":"Microsoft Corporation","url":"https://alysly.com/markets/stocks/microsoft-corporation/"}],"content":[{"type":"heading","level":1,"text":"Microsoft Corporation (MSFT)"},{"type":"paragraph","text":"MSFT · Information Technology · United States","links":[{"text":"Information Technology","href":"https://alysly.com/markets/stocks/browse/?sector=Information%20Technology"},{"text":"United States","href":"https://alysly.com/markets/stocks/browse/?country=United%20States"}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Microsoft Corporation (MSFT) is a US company in the Information Technology sector. Microsoft sells software such as Windows and the Microsoft 365 office suite, operates the cloud platform Azure and owns LinkedIn and the Xbox gaming business, which it expanded in 2023 with the purchase of Activision Blizzard. Cloud services and subscriptions account for most of its growth. Microsoft was founded in 1975 and is based in Redmond, Washington. Its fiscal year ends on June 30."},{"type":"paragraph","text":"The stock has its largest weight in QDVE (S&P 500 Information Technology), at 15.47%. Anyone who holds an ETF containing Microsoft Corporation also has an indirect stake in the company."},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Data note 1","href":"#dn-1"},{"type":"heading","level":2,"id":"data","text":"Data and Charts: Microsoft Corporation"},{"type":"heading","level":3,"text":"Key Data for Microsoft Corporation"},{"type":"facts","items":[{"label":"Held in","value":"28 ETFs"},{"label":"Highest weight","value":"15.47%"},{"label":"Indices","value":"15"},{"label":"Sector","value":"Information Technology"},{"label":"Country","value":"United States"},{"label":"ISIN","value":"US5949181045"},{"label":"WKN","value":"870747"}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Data note 2","href":"#dn-2"},{"type":"heading","level":3,"text":"Microsoft Corporation Stock Price Chart"},{"type":"paragraph","text":"The Microsoft Corporation chart shows daily closing prices and is set to the current year by default. The stock is up 7.9% year to date and down 0.7% over twelve months. The last recorded close on October 30, 2026, was $521.91, at 89% of the 52-week range."},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Price series from our database since Jul 11, 2024, 580 daily values."},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Data note 3","href":"#dn-3"},{"type":"heading","level":3,"text":"Microsoft Corporation Stock Performance"},{"type":"table","caption":"Microsoft Corporation stock performance","rows":[["Year to date","+7.9%","1 year","-0.7%"],["1 month","+1.8%","3 months","+12.3%"],["Calendar year 2025","+14.7%","",""]]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Data note 4","href":"#dn-4"},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Measured in euros, Microsoft Corporation is up 13.5% year to date and up 2.6% over twelve months. The difference from the dollar figures above comes from the exchange rate alone. Each daily price is converted at the ECB euro reference rate for that day."},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Data note 5","href":"#dn-5"},{"type":"heading","level":2,"id":"alysly","text":"Alysly Data Analysis: Microsoft Corporation"},{"type":"heading","level":3,"text":"Microsoft Corporation Connections"},{"type":"image","alt":"Network diagram: Microsoft Corporation"},{"type":"paragraph","text":"The map shows how Microsoft Corporation connects to ETFs, indices and other names. Each link is based on measured data and is not a recommendation."},{"type":"list","ordered":false,"items":[{"text":"Dow Jones Index · contains","links":[{"text":"Dow Jones","href":"https://alysly.com/markets/indices/dow-jones/"}]},{"text":"MSCI USA Information Technology Index · contains","links":[{"text":"MSCI USA Information Technology","href":"https://alysly.com/markets/indices/msci-usa-it/"}]},{"text":"MSCI World Information Technology Index · contains","links":[{"text":"MSCI World Information Technology","href":"https://alysly.com/markets/indices/msci-world-it/"}]},{"text":"MSCI World Quality Index · contains","links":[{"text":"MSCI World Quality","href":"https://alysly.com/markets/indices/msci-world-quality/"}]},{"text":"Nasdaq 100 Index · contains","links":[{"text":"Nasdaq 100","href":"https://alysly.com/markets/indices/nasdaq-100/"}]},{"text":"S&P 500 Index · contains","links":[{"text":"S&P 500","href":"https://alysly.com/markets/indices/sp500/"}]},{"text":"S&P 500 Information Technology Index · contains","links":[{"text":"S&P 500 Information Technology","href":"https://alysly.com/markets/indices/sp500-it/"}]},{"text":"EXXT ETF · holds","links":[{"text":"EXXT","href":"https://alysly.com/markets/etfs/ishares-nasdaq-100-ucits-etf-de/"}]},{"text":"XUIT ETF · holds","links":[{"text":"XUIT","href":"https://alysly.com/markets/etfs/xtrackers-msci-usa-information-technology-ucits-etf-1c/"}]},{"text":"XMIT ETF · holds","links":[{"text":"XMIT","href":"https://alysly.com/markets/etfs/xtrackers-msci-world-information-technology-ucits-etf-1d/"}]},{"text":"XNA1 ETF · holds","links":[{"text":"XNA1","href":"https://alysly.com/markets/etfs/xtrackers-nasdaq-100-ucits-etf-1d/"}]},{"text":"SPYL ETF · holds","links":[{"text":"SPYL","href":"https://alysly.com/markets/etfs/state-street-spdr-sp-500-ucits-etf-acc/"}]},{"text":"QDVE ETF · holds","links":[{"text":"QDVE","href":"https://alysly.com/markets/etfs/ishares-sp-500-information-technology-sector-ucits-etf-usd-acc/"}]},{"text":"CIND ETF · holds","links":[{"text":"CIND","href":"https://alysly.com/markets/etfs/ishares-dow-jones-industrial-average-ucits-etf-acc/"}]},{"text":"SPY5 ETF · holds","links":[{"text":"SPY5","href":"https://alysly.com/markets/etfs/state-street-spdr-sp-500-ucits-etf-dist/"}]},{"text":"XUTC ETF · holds","links":[{"text":"XUTC","href":"https://alysly.com/markets/etfs/xtrackers-msci-usa-information-technology-ucits-etf-1d/"}]},{"text":"XDEQ ETF · holds","links":[{"text":"XDEQ","href":"https://alysly.com/markets/etfs/xtrackers-msci-world-quality-ucits-etf-1c/"}]},{"text":"XDWT ETF · holds","links":[{"text":"XDWT","href":"https://alysly.com/markets/etfs/xtrackers-msci-world-information-technology-ucits-etf-1c/"}]},{"text":"XNAS ETF · holds","links":[{"text":"XNAS","href":"https://alysly.com/markets/etfs/xtrackers-nasdaq-100-ucits-etf-1c/"}]},{"text":"Apple Stock · similar ETF exposure","links":[{"text":"Apple","href":"https://alysly.com/markets/stocks/apple-inc/"}]},{"text":"NVIDIA Corporation Stock · similar ETF exposure","links":[{"text":"NVIDIA Corporation","href":"https://alysly.com/markets/stocks/nvidia-corporation/"}]}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"View the full data network","href":"https://alysly.com/markets/network/"},{"type":"heading","level":3,"text":"What ETF Is Microsoft Corporation In?"},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Microsoft Corporation has very high ETF coverage and is held by 28 of the 104 ETFs we track, which together follow 15 indices. That puts the stock in more ETFs than 96.9% of the 4,341 stocks we track.","links":[{"text":"4,341 stocks we track","href":"https://alysly.com/markets/stocks/"}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Data note 6","href":"#dn-6"},{"type":"table","caption":"What ETF is Microsoft Corporation in","columns":["ETF","Index","Weight","per €1,000 in the ETF"],"rows":[[{"text":"QDVE","href":"https://alysly.com/markets/etfs/ishares-sp-500-information-technology-sector-ucits-etf-usd-acc/"},{"text":"S&P 500 Information Technology","href":"https://alysly.com/markets/indices/sp500-it/"},"15.47%","€154.70"],[{"text":"XUIT / XUTC","links":[{"text":"XUIT","href":"https://alysly.com/markets/etfs/xtrackers-msci-usa-information-technology-ucits-etf-1c/"}]},{"text":"MSCI USA Information Technology","href":"https://alysly.com/markets/indices/msci-usa-it/"},"14.94%","€149.37"],[{"text":"XDWT / 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These funds are registered in the US; retail investors in the EU usually cannot buy them.","links":[{"text":"VGT","href":"https://alysly.com/markets/etfs/us/vgt/"},{"text":"XLK","href":"https://alysly.com/markets/etfs/us/xlk/"},{"text":"ONEQ","href":"https://alysly.com/markets/etfs/us/oneq/"},{"text":"VUG","href":"https://alysly.com/markets/etfs/us/vug/"},{"text":"QQQM","href":"https://alysly.com/markets/etfs/us/qqqm/"},{"text":"QQQ","href":"https://alysly.com/markets/etfs/us/qqq/"},{"text":"SPY","href":"https://alysly.com/markets/etfs/us/spy/"},{"text":"VOO","href":"https://alysly.com/markets/etfs/us/voo/"},{"text":"IVV","href":"https://alysly.com/markets/etfs/us/ivv/"},{"text":"VTI","href":"https://alysly.com/markets/etfs/us/vti/"}]},{"type":"list","ordered":false,"items":[{"text":"Microsoft Corporation among the 4,341 stocks we track","href":"https://alysly.com/markets/stocks/etf-concentration/"},{"text":"Check the overlap of these 28 funds","href":"https://alysly.com/markets/etfs/overlap/"}]},{"type":"heading","level":3,"text":"Microsoft Corporation Weight in iShares Core MSCI World (EUNL) Since 2019"},{"type":"image","alt":"Microsoft Corporation: weight in EUNL 2.44% → 4.09%"},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Sep 30, 2019 Oct 29, 2026"},{"type":"paragraph","text":"In iShares Core MSCI World (EUNL), Microsoft Corporation had a weight of 2.44% on Sep 30, 2019 and 4.09% on Oct 29, 2026. The fund tracks the MSCI World. Its share peaked at 4.75% on Jun 28, 2024. The weight rises and falls with the stock's price performance relative to the other index members. It can also change when the index provider adjusts the index composition.","links":[{"text":"iShares Core MSCI World (EUNL)","href":"https://alysly.com/markets/etfs/ishares-core-msci-world-ucits-etf-usd-acc/"},{"text":"MSCI World","href":"https://alysly.com/markets/indices/msci-world/"}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Data note 8","href":"#dn-8"},{"type":"paragraph","text":"What's Inside Your ETF Portfolio and the ETF overlap check show how much Microsoft Corporation overlaps with the rest of a portfolio.","links":[{"text":"What's Inside Your ETF Portfolio","href":"https://alysly.com/tools/portfolio-xray/"},{"text":"ETF overlap check","href":"https://alysly.com/tools/etf-overlap/"}]},{"type":"heading","level":3,"text":"Which Tracked Investors Hold Microsoft Corporation?"},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Microsoft Corporation is not among the largest purchases in the quarter ending Jun 30, 2026. The list is led by GOOGL, DAL and NEBIUS GROUP N.V. Of the 4 tracked managers holding the stock, 4 cut.","links":[{"text":"GOOGL","href":"https://alysly.com/markets/stocks/alphabet-inc-class-a/"}]},{"type":"table","caption":"Tracked investors holding this stock","columns":["Investor","Shares","Value","Quarter"],"rows":[["Tiger Global Management","2,266,913","$846M","reduced by 233,087"],["Viking Global Investors","1,458,618","$544M","reduced by 850,828"],["Bridgewater Associates","711,896","$266M","reduced by 373,083"],["Soros Fund Management","189,971","$71M","reduced by 21,995"]]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"As of Jun 30, 2026. Based on quarterly filings with the US securities regulator, submitted up to 45 days after the reference date. The change counts shares, not price gains."},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Data note 9","href":"#dn-9"},{"type":"heading","level":3,"text":"What Microsoft Corporation Executives and Directors Traded Recently"},{"type":"table","caption":"Trades by executives and directors","columns":["Date","Person","Type","Shares","Price"],"rows":[["Oct 13, 2026","Hood Amy Officer, EVP, Chief Financial Officer","Sell (plan)","991","$546.51"],["Oct 13, 2026","Hood Amy Officer, EVP, Chief Financial Officer","Sell (plan)","2,927","$545.77"],["Oct 13, 2026","Hood Amy Officer, EVP, Chief Financial Officer","Sell (plan)","3,387","$544.80"]]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"The table shows open-market purchases and sales reported over the past 90 days. Directors, officers and shareholders owning more than ten percent must report such transactions within two trading days. Awards and option exercises are excluded."},{"type":"paragraph","text":"“Plan” means the transaction follows a schedule set up in advance under Rule 10b5-1. Sales consistently outnumber purchases in these filings because a large part of executive pay is granted in shares. For comparison: over the period covered, executives and directors reported sales at 271 of 350 tracked companies and purchases at 32."},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Data note 10","href":"#dn-10"},{"type":"heading","level":3,"text":"Stocks With ETF Exposure Similar to Microsoft Corporation"},{"type":"table","caption":"Stocks with ETF exposure similar to Microsoft Corporation","columns":["Stock","Shared ETFs","r","1 year","Annualized volatility","Net margin","Revenue growth"],"rows":[["Microsoft Corporation","–","–","-0.7%","27.9%","40.3%","+17.8%"],[{"text":"Apple","href":"https://alysly.com/markets/stocks/apple-inc/"},"27","–","+27.0%","27.8%","26.9%","+6.4%"],[{"text":"NVIDIA Corporation","href":"https://alysly.com/markets/stocks/nvidia-corporation/"},"27","–","+0.9%","46.2%","55.6%","+65.5%"],[{"text":"Texas Instruments Incorporated","href":"https://alysly.com/markets/stocks/texas-instrument-inc/"},"27","–","+87.4%","40.4%","28.3%","+13.0%"],[{"text":"Analog Devices","href":"https://alysly.com/markets/stocks/analog-devices-inc/"},"26","–","+79.1%","37.9%","20.6%","+16.9%"],[{"text":"Autodesk","href":"https://alysly.com/markets/stocks/autodesk-inc/"},"26","–","-17.0%","33.5%","15.6%","+17.5%"],[{"text":"Cadence Design Systems","href":"https://alysly.com/markets/stocks/cadence-design-systems-inc/"},"26","–","-2.4%","40.4%","20.9%","+14.1%"],[{"text":"Fortinet","href":"https://alysly.com/markets/stocks/fortinet-inc/"},"26","–","+61.6%","43.7%","27.3%","+14.2%"],[{"text":"KLA Corporation","href":"https://alysly.com/markets/stocks/kla-corporation/"},"26","–","+30.0%","53.7%","35.6%","+11.7%"]]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"These stocks reach a portfolio through largely the same funds as Microsoft Corporation. “Shared ETFs” counts the funds that hold both."},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Return and volatility are calculated from our daily closing prices in US dollars. Margin and growth come from each company's latest SEC annual filing. Because fiscal years do not end on the same date for every company, the underlying periods are not fully identical."},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Data note 11","href":"#dn-11"},{"type":"heading","level":2,"id":"fundamental","text":"Fundamental Analysis: Microsoft Corporation"},{"type":"heading","level":3,"text":"Microsoft Corporation Key Financials"},{"type":"facts","items":[{"label":"Revenue","value":"$331.8B"},{"label":"Net income","value":"$133.7B"},{"label":"Diluted EPS","value":"$17.95"},{"label":"Net margin","value":"40.3%"},{"label":"Gross margin","value":"67.9%"},{"label":"Return on equity","value":"30.2%"},{"label":"Equity ratio","value":"58.3%"},{"label":"Revenue growth","value":"+17.8%"}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Figures come from the SEC annual filing for the latest reported fiscal year (period end Jun 30, 2026)."},{"type":"table","caption":"Revenue and profit by fiscal year","columns":["Fiscal year","Revenue","Net income","Margin"],"rows":[["FY ended Jun 2023","211.9","72.4","34.1%"],["FY ended Jun 2024","245.1","88.1","36.0%"],["FY ended Jun 2025","281.7","101.8","36.1%"],["FY ended Jun 2026","331.8","133.7","40.3%"]]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Data note 12","href":"#dn-12"},{"type":"heading","level":3,"id":"patents","text":"Latest Patents Granted to Microsoft"},{"type":"paragraph","text":"In the 52 weekly issues of the US patent office from Nov 4, 2025 to Oct 27, 2026, Microsoft received 1,714 utility patents and 10 design patents. That is 0.53% of all utility patents the US patent office granted in those weeks. The median time from filing to grant was 2.7 years."},{"type":"table","caption":"The five most recent utility patents granted to Microsoft","columns":["Granted","Patent","Title","Filed","Technology field"],"rows":[["Oct 27, 2026","US 12777617 B2","Systems and methods for cryogenic cooling","Jun 28, 2022","H05K Printed circuits and casings of electric equipment"],["Oct 27, 2026","US 12777606 B2","Computing device assembly with plurality of horizontal and vertical cable backplanes","Mar 21, 2024","H05K Printed circuits and casings of electric equipment"],["Oct 27, 2026","US 12777208 B2","Custom data indicating nominal range of samples of media content","Apr 30, 2025","H04N Pictorial communication and video"],["Oct 27, 2026","US 12777198 B2","Machine learning refinement networks for video post-processing scenarios","May 31, 2024","H04N Pictorial communication and video"],["Oct 27, 2026","US 12777157 B2","Robust encoding/decoding of escape-coded pixels in palette mode","Mar 27, 2025","H04N Pictorial communication and video"]]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"These are grants, not applications. The office usually publishes an application 18 months after the priority date; the grant tends to come much later. Owners counted: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC; Activision Publishing, Inc.; Microsoft Corporation and Microsoft Technology Licesning, LLC. Titles as published by the office; median time based on 890 patents with a known filing date."},{"type":"paragraph","text":"The patent screener lists more grants, filterable by company, type and technology field. The M&A and patents page compares companies. The figures for all seven companies sit side by side on the Magnificent 7 page.","links":[{"text":"patent screener","href":"https://alysly.com/tools/patent-screener/#c=microsoft-corporation"},{"text":"M&A and patents","href":"https://alysly.com/m-and-a/"},{"text":"Magnificent 7","href":"https://alysly.com/markets/stocks/magnificent-7/#patents"}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Data note 13","href":"#dn-13"},{"type":"heading","level":2,"id":"technical","text":"Technical Analysis: Microsoft Corporation"},{"type":"heading","level":3,"text":"Microsoft Corporation Risk Metrics"},{"type":"facts","items":[{"label":"Max drawdown","value":"-34.9%"},{"label":"Annualized volatility","value":"27.9%"}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Data note 14","href":"#dn-14"},{"type":"facts","items":[{"label":"Below peak","value":"-4.0%"},{"label":"Beta to S&P 500","value":"1.01"},{"label":"Correlation to S&P 500","value":"0.39"}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"The close on Oct 30, 2026, was 4.0% below the highest close since Jul 11, 2024. That high was reached on Oct 13, 2026. When the S&P 500 rose or fell 1%, Microsoft Corporation moved 1.01% on average in the same direction (past 252 trading days). The correlation of 0.39, however, shows only a moderate link to the broad market. Accordingly, moves in the S&P 500 explain only a small part of the daily price moves of Microsoft Corporation."},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Data note 15","href":"#dn-15"},{"type":"heading","level":3,"text":"What Microsoft Corporation Correlates With"},{"type":"table","caption":"What Microsoft Corporation Correlates With","columns":["Instrument","r","−1 … +1"],"rows":[[{"text":"Amazon.com Inc.","href":"https://alysly.com/markets/stocks/amazon-com-inc/"},"+0.50",""],[{"text":"TAL Education Group Adr Reptg","href":"https://alysly.com/markets/stocks/tal-education-group-adr-reptg/"},"+0.50",""],[{"text":"Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria S.A.","href":"https://alysly.com/markets/stocks/banco-bilbao-vizcaya-argentaria-sa/"},"+0.48",""],[{"text":"Baxter International Inc.","href":"https://alysly.com/markets/stocks/baxter-international-inc/"},"+0.47",""],[{"text":"Snowflake Inc.","href":"https://alysly.com/markets/stocks/snowflake-inc/"},"+0.46",""],[{"text":"Willis Towers Watson Public Limited Company","href":"https://alysly.com/markets/stocks/willis-towers-watson-public-limited-company/"},"+0.46",""],[{"text":"USD/JPY","href":"https://alysly.com/markets/forex/usd-jpy/"},"-0.48",""],[{"text":"Rentokil Initial plc","href":"https://alysly.com/markets/stocks/rentokil-initial-plc/"},"-0.47",""],[{"text":"Altria Group Inc.","href":"https://alysly.com/markets/stocks/altria-group-inc/"},"-0.39",""]]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"The strongest co-movers are listed at the top, the strongest inverse movers at the bottom. Low or negative correlations can help spread risk more broadly across a portfolio."},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Data note 16","href":"#dn-16"},{"type":"heading","level":2,"id":"refs","text":"Related Content: Microsoft Corporation"},{"type":"heading","level":3,"text":"Latest Investment Analysis: Stocks"},{"type":"list","ordered":false,"items":[{"text":"Oct 31, 2026 · Mixed Weekly Analysis: DAX Sets the Tone for the Week (+2.2%) · October 26–30, 2026","href":"https://alysly.com/analysis/weekly-analysis-dax-sets-tone-week-plus-2-2-percent-10312026/"},{"text":"Oct 24, 2026 · Risk-off Weekly Analysis: A Quiet Week, MSCI China -4.3% · October 19–23, 2026","href":"https://alysly.com/analysis/weekly-analysis-quiet-week-msci-china-minus-4-3-percent-10242026/"},{"text":"Oct 17, 2026 · Risk-off Weekly Analysis: S&P 500 Information Technology Weighs on the Week (-7.7%) · October 12–16, 2026","href":"https://alysly.com/analysis/weekly-analysis-sp-500-information-technology-weighs-week-10172026/"}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"View all Investment Analysis","href":"https://alysly.com/analysis/"},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Updated Nov 1, 2026"},{"type":"heading","level":2,"id":"note-legend-h","text":"Data Notes"},{"type":"paragraph","text":"All calculations run automatically and are not investment advice."},{"type":"list","ordered":true,"items":[{"id":"dn-1","text":"Profile based on public company information, mainly annual reports and required SEC filings (Form 10-K or 20-F). · As of 2026-09"},{"id":"dn-2","text":"Number of ETFs with available holdings data that hold the stock; 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