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Recent Analysts Ratings of Stock: Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT)

Summit Partners Public Asset Management reduced its stake in Microsoft Corporation by 64.71% during the most recent quarter end.

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This Little Known Stocks Could Turn Every $10,000 into $42,749! CLS Investments LLC now owns 3,726 shares of the software giant’s stock valued at $206,000 after buying an additional 3,206 shares in the last quarter. Madison Investment Holdings Inc. now owns 1,221,307 shares of the software giant’s stock worth $67,758,000 after buying an additional 352,773 shares in the last quarter. Kimelman & Baird LLC bought a new position in shares of Microsoft Corp. during the first quarter valued at approximately $215,000.

During last 5 trades the stock sticks nearly -0.40%. Finally, Century Capital Management LLC increased its stake in Microsoft Corp.by 9.4% in the fourth quarter.

During last 3 month it remained at 11.49%. After trading began at $57.67, the stock was seen striking at $58.19 as its peak price and $57.42 as its lowest price.

Microsoft Corporation’s (MSFT) ended its day with a gain of 0.09% and finalized at the price of $57.66. The firm’s 50-day moving average is $57.05 and its 200 day moving average is $53.46. This appreciation has taken its market cap to $449.39B and a price-to-earnings ratio to 27.46. The firm earned $22.60 billion during the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $22.15 billion. During the same quarter in the previous year, the company posted $0.62 EPS. The reported numbers came lower than the analysts’ estimates of $0.58, demonstrating a miss of $0.11 as against reported figures. The debt-to-equity ratio (D/E) was recorded at 0.75.

The ratings are calculated on a 1 to 5 scale where 1 represents a Strong Buy and 5 a Strong Sell. The ex-dividend date is Tuesday, August 16th. The Company also designs and sells hardware and delivers online advertising to the customers.

According to TIPRANKS, Based on 26 ranked analysts offering 12 month price targets for MSFT in the last 3 months, the average price target is $60.83, with a high estimate of $68.00 and a low estimate of $40.00. It touched its peak point at $43.78 and its lowest price point stood at $40.95 in last session after starting the trading at $. A CEO at Microsoft Corporation (MSFT) sold shares in the company in a transaction completed on Wednesday August 10, 2016. Three equities research analysts have rated the stock with a sell rating, eleven have issued a hold rating and twenty have issued a buy rating to the company’s stock.

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Along with these its year to date performance is standing at 6.06%. The shares were sold at an average price of $57.86, for a total transaction of $6,943,200.00. The disclosure for this sale can be found here.

Macquarie has been a brokerage house following shares of Microsoft Corporation (MSFT), so its rating change is noteworthy.

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Microsoft Corporation is engaged in developing licensing and supporting a range of software products and services. Its segments are Productivity and Business Processes, Intelligent Cloud, and More Personal Computing.

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