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How to buy Microsoft stock in Canada

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Microsoft

NASDAQ: MSFT-USD

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$411.49

-$0.35 (-0.09%)

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Microsoft is a software - infrastructure business based in the US. Microsoft shares (MSFT.US) are listed on the NASDAQ and all prices are listed in US dollars. Its last market close was $411.84 – a decrease of 0.66% over the previous day. Microsoft employs 221,000 staff and has a trailing 12-month revenue of around $227.6 billion.

How to buy shares in Microsoft

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Latest updates for Microsoft

April 15, 2024: Reports says Microsoft has invested $1.5 billion in UAE's top artificial intelligence (AI) firm, G42. As part of the deal, Microsoft will be getting a board seat and G42 will be using Azure cloud for its AI applications.

March 31, 2024: Jefferies analysts maintained a Buy rating on Microsoft, with an updated price target of $550 (from $465), according to Benzinga.

March 28, 2024: Microsoft and OpenAI are planning an unprecedented supercomputer that uses millions of specialized server chips and could cost up to $100 billion, according to Business Insider.

March 25, 2024: Wedbush analysts maintained an Outperform rating on Microsoft, with an updated price target of $500 (up from $475), according to Benzinga.

March 19, 2024: Microsoft has hired DeepMind co-founder, Mustafa Suleyman, to be the CEO of its new artificial intelligence (AI) unit.

Is it a good time to buy Microsoft stock?

Only you can make the decision on the time to leap... but here's some supporting information and analysis.

Use our graph to track the performance of MSFT stocks over time.

Share price volatility

Over the last 12 months, Microsoft's shares have ranged in value from as little as $273.1284 up to $430.82. A popular way to gauge a stock's volatility is its "beta".

Beta is a measure of a share's volatility in relation to the market. The market (NASDAQ average) beta is 1, while Microsoft's is 0.877. This would suggest that Microsoft's shares are less volatile than average (for this exchange).

Historical closes compared with the last close of $411.84

1 week (2024-04-10)	-3.76%
1 month (2024-03-17)	-1.31%
3 months (2024-01-17)	4.56%
6 months (2023-10-17)	24.76%
1 year (2023-04-17)	42.82%
2 years (2022-04-17)	46.81%
3 years (2021-04-15)	57.95%
5 years (2019-04-17)	233.83%

The gauge below shows real-time ratings that are based on 26 popular indicators such as moving averages, for specific time periods. It's not a recommendation but is simply technical analysis that can form part of your research.

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Is Microsoft under- or over-valued?

Valuing a stock is incredibly difficult, and any metric has to be viewed as part of a bigger picture of overall performance. However, analysts commonly use some key metrics to help gauge value. Check out the Microsoft P/E ratio, PEG ratio and EBITDA

Microsoft's current stock price divided by its per-share earnings (EPS) over a 12-month period gives a "trailing price/earnings ratio" of roughly 37x. In other words, Microsoft stocks trade at around 37x recent earnings.

That's relatively high compared to, say, the trailing 12-month P/E ratio for the United States stock markets on average as of November 09, 2023 (20.44). The high P/E ratio could mean that investors are optimistic about the outlook for the shares or simply that they're over-valued.

Microsoft's "price/earnings-to-growth ratio" can be calculated by dividing its P/E ratio by its growth – to give 2.1026. A PEG ratio over 1 can be interpreted as meaning shares are overvalued at the current rate of growth, or may anticipate an acceleration in growth.

The PEG ratio provides a broader view than just the P/E ratio, as it gives more insight into Microsoft's future profitability. By accounting for growth, it could also help you if you're comparing the stock prices of multiple high-growth companies.

Microsoft's EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation) is a whopping $118.4 billion ($163 billion CAD).

The EBITDA is a measure of a Microsoft's overall financial performance and is widely used to measure a its profitability.

Frequently asked questions

Dividend yield: 0.72% of stock value
Forward annual dividend yield: 0.72% of stock value
Dividend payout ratio: 26.49% of net profits

Microsoft has recently paid out dividends equivalent to 0.72% of its share value annually.

Microsoft has paid out, on average, around 26.49% of recent net profits as dividends. That has enabled analysts to estimate a "forward annual dividend yield" of 0.72% of the current stock value. This means that over a year, based on recent payouts (which are sadly no guarantee of future payouts), shareholders could enjoy a 0.72% return on their shares, in the form of dividend payments. In Microsoft's case, that would currently equate to about 2.86 per share.

While Microsoft's payout ratio might seem fairly standard, it's worth remembering that it may be investing much of the rest of its net profits in future growth.

Microsoft's most recent dividend payout was on 12 June 2024. The latest dividend was paid out to all shareholders who bought their shares by 14 May 2024 (the "ex-dividend date").
Microsoft's shares were split on a 2:1 basis on 17 February 2003. So if you had owned 1 share the day before before the split, the next day you'd have owned 2 shares. This wouldn't directly have changed the overall worth of your Microsoft shares – just the quantity. However, indirectly, the new 50% lower share price could have impacted the market appetite for Microsoft shares which in turn could have impacted Microsoft's share price.
It's as easy to sell Microsoft as it is to buy! Here's how to sell Microsoft stocks that you already own.
1. Open your investment app. If you've got one with desktop access, you can log in online
2. Go to your portfolio. This should be in the main menu
3. Find your shares. You may be able to search your portfolio
4. Choose how many you'd like to sell. You'll be able to review the price and see how much you'll receive
5. Sell your Microsoft shares. Your investment platform will let you know when your shares are sold

Microsoft financials

Revenue TTM	$227.6 billion
Operating margin TTM	43.59%
Gross profit TTM	$135.6 billion
Return on assets TTM	15.19%
Return on equity TTM	39.17%
Profit margin	36.27%
Book value	$32.06
Market capitalisation	$3.1 trillion

TTM: trailing 12 months

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How to buy Microsoft stock in Canada