MICROSOFT CORPORATION
At today's price, MICROSOFT CORPORATION (MSFT) is priced for +15.0% growth. boothcheck doesn't publish a fair value or a price target; it shows what the price assumes, so you can judge whether that bar is too high. Built from SEC EDGAR filings.
• Microsoft sells software almost no one cancels, and its commercial backlog of contracted-but-unrecognized work has swelled to $392 billion, a queue of revenue the company has already signed but not yet delivered. • The biggest risk is the spend behind the growth: capital expenditure ran $34.9 billion in a single quarter and management has guided fiscal 2026 capex above fiscal 2025, so the AI buildout has to convert into durable cloud demand rather than idle capacity. • Watch the next earnings
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6,041 institutional managers reported holding MSFT in 13F filings for the quarter ended 2026-03-31. Together they hold about 70% of the company; the top 10 hold 34%. 118 opened new positions that quarter. Held by Vanguard Group, BlackRock, State Street, among others. On the short side, 95.2M shares were sold short as of the 2026-06-15 count, about 1% of shares outstanding (2.6 days of typical volume to cover).
Quarterly 13F filings arrive up to 45 days after quarter end, so the picture is never current (filed through 2026-05-29). Nothing here is investment advice.
MSFT has cut its share count 1.2% over the past five years, spending $108.31B on repurchases. It pays a dividend, and has paid one every year in our records (18 and counting), raised 9 years straight; the current rate is $3.32 a share annually. Cash returned over the past three years: $65.54B in dividends and $53.37B in repurchases.
Share counts are split-adjusted; repurchase totals are gross of share issuance. Nothing here is investment advice.
Open-market insider buys at MSFT over the trailing three years: 2025: 1 buy totaling $1.45M; 2026: 1 buy totaling $1.99M. 21 officers and directors are on file.
Code P open-market purchases from SEC Form 4 filings, non-derivative, excluding scheduled 10b5-1 plans. Nothing here is investment advice.
MSFT's recent reports: the day-one move, then what the following quarter actually did.
| report | day one | next quarter |
|---|---|---|
| 2023-07-28 | -2.1% | -6.7% |
| 2023-10-25 | +3.5% | +9.8% |
| 2024-01-31 | -3.0% | +5.8% |
| 2024-04-26 | -0.7% | +10.0% |
Day-one is the close-to-close move around the filing. Nothing here is investment advice.
MSFT's latest 8-K filings: 2026-06-05 (items 5.02); 2026-05-14 (items 5.02, 9.01); 2026-04-29 (items 2.02, 9.01); 2026-01-28 (items 2.02, 9.01); 2025-12-08 (items 5.02, 5.07).
Item codes are the SEC's own classification of what each report discloses. Nothing here is investment advice.
Last analyzed: July 3, 2026
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