Rothschild & Co Redburn Lowers Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) Price Target to $450.00

Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) had its price objective cut by Rothschild & Co Redburn from $500.00 to $450.00 in a note issued to investors on Wednesday,MarketScreener reports. The firm currently has a “neutral” rating on the software giant’s stock. Rothschild & Co Redburn’s target price would suggest a potential upside of 0.13% from the stock’s previous close.

Other research analysts also recently issued reports about the company. UBS Group reiterated a “buy” rating and set a $650.00 target price on shares of Microsoft in a research report on Thursday, October 30th. Arete Research increased their price objective on shares of Microsoft from $710.00 to $730.00 in a report on Monday, October 27th. Evercore ISI set a $640.00 target price on shares of Microsoft in a research note on Thursday, October 30th. Wall Street Zen lowered shares of Microsoft from a “buy” rating to a “hold” rating in a research note on Sunday. Finally, Stifel Nicolaus set a $640.00 price objective on Microsoft in a research note on Thursday, October 30th. Three research analysts have rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, thirty-seven have issued a Buy rating and three have issued a Hold rating to the stock. According to data from MarketBeat.com, Microsoft has a consensus rating of “Buy” and an average price target of $626.90.

Microsoft Trading Down 1.1%

Shares of Microsoft stock opened at $449.42 on Wednesday. Microsoft has a fifty-two week low of $344.79 and a fifty-two week high of $555.45. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.10, a quick ratio of 1.39 and a current ratio of 1.40. The company has a market cap of $3.34 trillion, a P/E ratio of 31.94, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 1.72 and a beta of 1.07. The firm has a 50-day simple moving average of $481.96 and a two-hundred day simple moving average of $502.15.

Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) last announced its quarterly earnings results on Wednesday, October 29th. The software giant reported $4.13 earnings per share for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $3.65 by $0.48. The firm had revenue of $77.67 billion during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $75.49 billion. Microsoft had a return on equity of 32.45% and a net margin of 35.71%.Microsoft’s revenue for the quarter was up 18.4% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter in the previous year, the business earned $3.30 EPS. As a group, equities analysts predict that Microsoft will post 13.08 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.

Insider Buying and Selling

In related news, CEO Judson Althoff sold 12,750 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction dated Tuesday, December 2nd. The shares were sold at an average price of $491.52, for a total value of $6,266,880.00. Following the completion of the sale, the chief executive officer owned 129,349 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $63,577,620.48. This represents a 8.97% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The sale was disclosed in a document filed with the SEC, which can be accessed through this link. Also, insider Bradford L. Smith sold 38,500 shares of Microsoft stock in a transaction dated Monday, November 3rd. The stock was sold at an average price of $518.64, for a total transaction of $19,967,640.00. Following the transaction, the insider directly owned 461,597 shares in the company, valued at $239,402,668.08. This trade represents a 7.70% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The SEC filing for this sale provides additional information. Over the last 90 days, insiders have sold 54,100 shares of company stock worth $27,598,872. 0.03% of the stock is owned by corporate insiders.

Institutional Trading of Microsoft

A number of hedge funds and other institutional investors have recently made changes to their positions in MSFT. Vanguard Group Inc. boosted its stake in Microsoft by 2.0% during the second quarter. Vanguard Group Inc. now owns 705,077,786 shares of the software giant’s stock worth $350,712,742,000 after buying an additional 13,691,572 shares during the period. State Street Corp lifted its stake in Microsoft by 1.1% during the second quarter. State Street Corp now owns 299,196,519 shares of the software giant’s stock worth $148,823,341,000 after purchasing an additional 3,166,275 shares in the last quarter. Geode Capital Management LLC grew its stake in shares of Microsoft by 2.0% in the second quarter. Geode Capital Management LLC now owns 179,001,751 shares of the software giant’s stock valued at $88,714,256,000 after buying an additional 3,532,054 shares in the last quarter. Norges Bank acquired a new position in Microsoft during the 2nd quarter worth about $50,493,678,000. Finally, Kingstone Capital Partners Texas LLC boosted its holdings in Microsoft by 564,387.1% during the 2nd quarter. Kingstone Capital Partners Texas LLC now owns 90,549,369 shares of the software giant’s stock valued at $45,040,162,000 after acquiring an additional 90,533,328 shares during the period. Institutional investors and hedge funds own 71.13% of the company’s stock.

Microsoft News Roundup

Here are the key news stories impacting Microsoft this week:

• Positive Sentiment: Board launched domain‑specific enterprise AI agents built on Microsoft Foundry — a direct Azure/Foundry customer adoption signal that should drive recurring cloud consumption for planning use cases. Board Collaborates with Microsoft
• Positive Sentiment: Bristol Myers Squibb partnership to use Microsoft’s AI radiology platform for earlier lung‑cancer detection—adds a large regulated healthcare use case that can increase Azure usage and credibility in life sciences. Bristol Myers partners with Microsoft
• Positive Sentiment: OpenAI reached ~$20B revenue in 2025 — a material growth signal for Microsoft given its strategic partnership and Azure hosting relationships, implying continued demand for MSFT cloud capacity and product tie‑ins. OpenAI hits $20B
• Positive Sentiment: Major analysts continue to back MSFT: Goldman maintained a Buy rating highlighting AI/cloud offsets to higher power costs, and many firms still show buy consensus — supports longer‑term investor confidence. Goldman maintains Buy
• Neutral Sentiment: Microsoft announced a partnership with Mercedes F1 — positive for brand, telemetry/edge compute exposure, but limited immediate revenue impact. Microsoft and Mercedes F1 deal
• Neutral Sentiment: Coverage notes on data‑center energy strategies (efficiency projects, possible nuclear partnerships) — helps long‑term supply but uncertain timing and capex implications remain. Nuclear power push for AI
• Neutral Sentiment: TD Cowen trimmed its price target (from $655 to $625) but kept a Buy rating — a signal of high long‑term conviction with a more cautious near‑term view on margins/capex. TD Cowen adjusts PT
• Negative Sentiment: Reports that Azure growth and forward guidance fell short of expectations have pressured the stock — investors are sensitive to any signs cloud demand or margin expansion is slowing while AI capex rises. Azure growth/guidance miss
• Negative Sentiment: Broad concern about an AI investment bubble (raised by investors and commentators like Michael Burry) and CEO warnings that benefits must spread beyond big tech are creating risk‑off sentiment for high‑capex AI winners. Michael Burry warns on AI bubble

Microsoft Company Profile

Microsoft Corporation is a global technology company headquartered in Redmond, Washington. Founded in 1975 by Bill Gates and Paul Allen, Microsoft develops, licenses and supports a broad range of software products, services and devices for consumers, enterprises and governments worldwide. Its operations span personal computing, productivity software, cloud infrastructure, enterprise applications, developer tools and gaming.

Microsoft’s product portfolio includes the Windows operating system and the Microsoft 365 suite of productivity and collaboration tools (Office apps, Outlook, Teams).