How is Microsoft (MSFT) doing?
Microsoft is a company in the software, infrastructure industry, based in Redmond, WA, worth $3.97T. Here is how its shares and business compare with the rest of the market, and where it shows up on our dashboards.
Updated Oct 9, 2026
Weak
Microsoft shares are up 2% over the past year, 12 points behind the S&P 500. Its type is Turning Up. Among large US stocks and funds it ranks in the 41st percentile on market beat, the 2nd on staying power and the 67th on business growth. It appears on 16 of our dashboards, including 1st on “What is Congress trading?” and 4th on “How much do the biggest companies dominate?”.
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Financials, earnings and news on Stox ›The past year
Price against the S&P 500, each set to $100 a year ago. Score is its weekly rank against the market. Select a tile for that score month by month.
What kind of stock is it?
Its type on Stox Atlas, from its four scores: beating or lagging the market, a steady or erratic rank, a growing or slowing business, and whether buyers or sellers lead.
Turning Up
Lagging and erratic, but the business is growing and buyers are arriving.
Turning Up since Feb; Bellwether before that.
Also Turning Up (51 in all): PCTY · PTC · PAYX · CRM · ADSK · MSA
How is it doing against its group?
Its group is Software / cloud, 53 large US stocks and funds whose prices tend to move together. Enterprise software and cloud — the long-duration growth engine.
Microsoft is +2% over the past year, against +15% for the rest of the group and +16% for the S&P 500. It ranks 25th of 53 in Software / cloud.
How much does it move?
Its typical daily move, against its own past year, the market and other large stocks. Swings describe risk, not direction.
About usual Microsoft typically moves 2.2% in a day, about usual for it, and it swings less than 75% of large US stocks.
MSFT on our dashboards
Every question where Microsoft appears, in the order of the home page, with its reading and place in that table. Select a question to open it with MSFT highlighted. Select a column to sort.
| Question | Reading | Place | Details |
|---|---|---|---|
| How much do the biggest companies dominate? What’s leading | – | 4 of 25 | Weight 5.7% · Value $3.99T · 1Y return +2% |
| Which companies are worth the most? What’s leading | – | 4 of 50 | Market value $3.97T · Places, 1Y −2 · Value, 1Y +3% |
| How are the Magnificent Seven doing? What’s leading | 18Weak | 4 of 7 | Weight 5.7% · 3M +37% · YTD +11% |
| Is AI spending paying off? What’s leading | – | 1 of 6 | Capex $115.9B · Capex growth +80% · Capex intensity 35% |
| Who beats estimates every quarter? Earnings | 8912 in a row | 57 of 60 | Run 12 · EPS beats 12 of 12 · Sales beats 12 of 12 |
| Is the market rewarding earnings beats? Earnings | –Beat | 32 of 60 | Surprise +12% · Move vs S&P +14.6% · Reported 2026-07-29 |
| Which stocks are starting to lead? Leading stocks | 73Leading | 4 of 19 | 3-6 months ago 44 · Change +29 pts · 3M +37% |
| Which companies grow earnings every year? Business quality | 98Long run | 12 of 60 | Years of growth 8 years · Growth, 5Y +17% a yr · Latest EPS 17.95 |
| Which companies earn the most on their capital? Business quality | 89Excellent | 43 of 60 | Return on capital 26% · Gross margin 68% · Cash margin 20% |
| Which companies are built to last? Business quality | 66Solid | 35 of 60 | Steady margins 72 · Reliable cash 58 · Balance sheet 67 |
| Which companies get the most from each employee? Business quality | 89Lean | 52 of 60 | Revenue / employee $1.5M · Profit / employee $587K · Value / employee $16.7M |
| Who is spending big on expansion? Business quality | 93Ramping | 26 of 60 | Capex, 1Y +80% · A year $115.9B · % of revenue 35% |
| Which companies have more cash than debt? Value | 85Net cash | 57 of 60 | Net cash $36.5B · % of value +1% · Debt payback 0.6 yrs |
| Which companies pay the most in stock? Dividends and buybacks | 85Heavy | 56 of 60 | % of revenue 3.7% · A year $12.4B · % of cash flow 19% |
| What is Congress trading? Who’s buying and selling | 10Sold | 1 of 60 | Buying 3 · Selling 7 · Bought $81K |
| Where is money flowing in? Who’s buying and selling | 98Inflow | 11 of 60 | 30 days 80 · 5 days 75 · Net buying +25% |
Go deeper on Stox
MSFT’s full profile: financial statements, earnings and analysts’ estimates, valuation against its sector, recent news with a summary, and its scores in detail.
How to read this page
How it’s measured. Scores from Stox rank the stock against about 1,200 S&P 500, Nasdaq-100 and Russell 1000 stocks and popular funds, where 100 is best; market beat and staying power use prices, business growth uses revenue, margins and cash flow. Readings on other dashboards come from this site’s pages.
Sources. Daily prices and company financial statements from Financial Modeling Prep; scores and co-movement groups from Stox.
Scores are percentiles: 80 means the stock ranks above 80% of the others on that measure. They describe the recent past and are not advice or a forecast.
Its type follows Stox Atlas: each of the four scores is split at 50. “Steady” means its rank has held, high or low, so it says nothing on its own about direction.
Its group is the cluster of large US stocks whose prices have moved together over five years, with the market’s own moves taken out. The typical daily move is the average true range over 14 days, a measure of how far the price travels in a day including overnight gaps.
For financial statements, earnings and news, see MSFT’s full profile on Stox.
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