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LinkedIn: where you read opinion pieces on office life, congratulate ex-colleagues and that girl you think you went to uni with on their new job or promotion, and brag about all the fun you’re having at your new job...
While you can't invest directly in LinkedIn itself, you can buy shares in Microsoft (which acquired LinkedIn at the end of 2016). Microsoft is listed on the NASDAQ with stock code "MSFT".
It's important to note that Microsoft isn't just the parent company for LinkedIn. By investing, you're effectively also buying into Windows, Bing, Outlook, Activision Blizzard, Visual Studio and Xbox, amongst others. That means the movement of Microsoft's share price will be affected by more than just the fortunes of LinkedIn.
How to buy shares in LinkedIn (Microsoft)
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- Search the platform by ticker symbol. MSFT in this case.
- Choose an order type. Place a market order or limit order with your preferred number of shares or dollar amount.
- Submit the order. It's that simple.
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Alternative ways to invest in LinkedIn (Microsoft)
Buying shares in just one company is generally considered a riskier bet than investing in a range of investments - AKA a "diversified portfolio". Experts generally recommend holding a mix of investments in specific assets and funds. Funds are ready-made portfolios of multiple companies' shares (potentially including LinkedIn (Microsoft)), and the idea is that drops in the value of one constituent company's share price might be offset by rises in others.
LinkedIn (Microsoft) is a major part of the NASDAQ, so it's included in many global funds and investment trusts, as well as tracker-style exchange traded funds (ETFs).
Latest updates for LinkedIn (Microsoft)
January 28, 2025: Donald Trump said that Microsoft is in contention to buy TikTok's US operations from Chinese parent company, ByteDance. But he also said that many parties were interested, and that he would like to see a bidding war. This came the week after the social media app was obliged to go offline in the US and then issued a stay of execution by Trump, allowing it to continue to operate.
January 27, 2025: China's DeepSeek A.I. app elbowed ChatGPT aside to become AppStore's top-rated free app in the US. This sent jitters through the markets, as it suggested that despite not having a budget like Microsoft's ($80bn for AI in 2025 alone), or access to the supposedly-all-important, highest-tech chips from the likes of Nvidia, an A.I model can still be wildly successful.
January 15, 2025: Quantum stocks rallied Wednesday, a day after a Microsoft blog post called 2025 "the year to become quantum-ready," mitigating a string of recent losses spurred by high-profile bearish comments on the sector, according to Investopedia.
January 2, 2025: Gladstone Institutional Advisory LLC grew its holdings in Microsoft by 2.8% in the third quarter, according to its most recent disclosure with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The institutional investor owned 84,200 shares of the software giant’s stock after buying an additional 2,295 shares during the quarter, as per Defense World.
Is it a good time to buy LinkedIn (Microsoft) stock?
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View LinkedIn (Microsoft)'s price performance, share price volatility, historical data and technicals.
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Historical closes compared with the last close of $413.29
| 1 week (2025-01-30) | -0.41% |
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| 1 month (2025-01-06) | -2.15% |
| 3 months (2024-11-06) | -1.99% |
| 6 months (2024-08-06) | 2.18% |
| 1 year (2024-02-06) | 0.56% |
| 2 years (2023-02-06) | 57.00% |
| 3 years (2022-02-06) | 40.89% |
| 5 years (2020-02-06) | 134.97% |
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 LinkedIn (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 LinkedIn (Microsoft) P/E ratio, PEG ratio and EBITDA.
LinkedIn (Microsoft)'s current share price divided by its per-share earnings (EPS) over a 12-month period gives a "trailing price/earnings ratio" of roughly 33x. In other words, LinkedIn (Microsoft)'s shares trade at around 33x 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.
LinkedIn (Microsoft)'s "price/earnings-to-growth ratio" can be calculated by dividing its P/E ratio by its growth – to give 2.1928. 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 LinkedIn (Microsoft)'s future profitability. By accounting for growth, it could also help you if you're comparing the share prices of multiple high-growth companies.
LinkedIn (Microsoft)'s EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation) is a whopping $136.6 billion (£109.7 billion).
The EBITDA is a measure of LinkedIn (Microsoft)'s overall financial performance and is widely used to measure a its profitability.
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