Microsoft Corporation (MSFT)

MSFT · Information Technology · United States

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.

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.

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Data and Charts: Microsoft Corporation

Key Data for Microsoft Corporation

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Microsoft Corporation Stock Price Chart

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.

Price series from our database since Jul 11, 2024, 580 daily values.

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Microsoft Corporation Stock Performance

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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.

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Alysly Data Analysis: Microsoft Corporation

What ETF Is Microsoft Corporation In?

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The last column shows how much of €1,000 in one of these funds goes to Microsoft Corporation, based on each fund's latest holdings list.

US-listed ETFs holding Microsoft Corporation (weight per latest SEC filing): VGT 11.32%, XLK 8.38%, ONEQ 8.16%, VUG 7.61%, QQQM 6.00%, QQQ 4.35%, SPY 4.30%, VOO 4.30%, IVV 4.29%, VTI 3.83%. These funds are registered in the US; retail investors in the EU usually cannot buy them.

Microsoft Corporation Weight in iShares Core MSCI World (EUNL) Since 2019

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.

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What's Inside Your ETF Portfolio and the ETF overlap check show how much Microsoft Corporation overlaps with the rest of a portfolio.

Which Tracked Investors Hold Microsoft Corporation?

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.

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.

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What Microsoft Corporation Executives and Directors Traded Recently

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.

“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.

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Stocks With ETF Exposure Similar to Microsoft Corporation

Stocks with ETF exposure similar to Microsoft Corporation

Stock	Shared ETFs	r	1 year	Annualized volatility	Net margin	Revenue growth
Microsoft Corporation	–	–	-0.7%	27.9%	40.3%	+17.8%
Apple	27	–	+27.0%	27.8%	26.9%	+6.4%
NVIDIA Corporation	27	–	+0.9%	46.2%	55.6%	+65.5%
Texas Instruments Incorporated	27	–	+87.4%	40.4%	28.3%	+13.0%
Analog Devices	26	–	+79.1%	37.9%	20.6%	+16.9%
Autodesk	26	–	-17.0%	33.5%	15.6%	+17.5%
Cadence Design Systems	26	–	-2.4%	40.4%	20.9%	+14.1%
Fortinet	26	–	+61.6%	43.7%	27.3%	+14.2%
KLA Corporation	26	–	+30.0%	53.7%	35.6%	+11.7%

These stocks reach a portfolio through largely the same funds as Microsoft Corporation. “Shared ETFs” counts the funds that hold both.

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.

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Fundamental Analysis: Microsoft Corporation

Microsoft Corporation Key Financials

Figures come from the SEC annual filing for the latest reported fiscal year (period end Jun 30, 2026).

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Latest Patents Granted to Microsoft

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.

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.

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.

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Technical Analysis: Microsoft Corporation

Microsoft Corporation Risk Metrics

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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.

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What Microsoft Corporation Correlates With

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.

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