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Chart of the day: Microsoft

Posted on by darion

The chart of the day belongs to the software company Microsoft MSFT . I found the stocks using Barchart’s powerful screening features to find stocks with the highest technical buy signals, the highest weighted alpha, better current momentum, and a Trend Seeker buy signal, then I used the Flipchart feature to scan the charts for consistent price increases. Since Trend Seeker signaled a 5/20 buy, the stock gained 7.98%.

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Microsoft Corporation develops and supports software, services, devices, and solutions worldwide. The Productivity and Business Processes segment offers Office, Exchange, SharePoint, Microsoft Teams, Office 365 Security and Compliance, Microsoft Viva, and Microsoft 365 Copilot; and Office consumer services, such as Microsoft 365 consumer subscriptions, Office licensed on-premises, and other productivity services. This segment also provides LinkedIn; and Dynamics business solutions, including Dynamics 365, a suite of intelligent cloud-based applications in ERP, CRM, Power Apps, and Power Automate; and on-premises ERP and CRM applications. The Intelligent Cloud segment offers server products and cloud services, such as Azure and other cloud services; SQL and Windows Server, Visual Studio, System Center, and related client access licenses, and Nuance and GitHub; and enterprise services, including enterprise support services, industry solutions, and Nuance professional services. The More Personal Computing segment offers Windows, including Windows OEM licensing and other non-volume licensing of the Windows operating system; commercial Windows, including Windows volume licensing, Windows cloud services, and other Windows commercial offerings; patent licensing; and Windows Internet of Things; and devices, such as Surface, HoloLens, and computer accessories. Additionally, this segment offers gaming, which includes Xbox hardware and content, and first-party and third-party content; Xbox Game Pass and other subscriptions, cloud gaming, advertising, royalties for external drives, and other cloud services; and search advertising and news, which includes Bing, Microsoft News, and Edge, and third-party affiliates. The company sells its products through OEMs, distributors, and resellers; and directly through digital marketplaces, online stores, and retail stores. The company was founded in 1975 and is headquartered in Redmond, Washington.

The Barchart Opinion Trading Systems are listed below. Please note that the Barchart Opinion indicators are updated live during the session every 20 minutes and therefore may change throughout the day as the market fluctuates. Therefore, the indicator numbers shown below may not match what you see live on the Barchart.com website when you read this report.

Bar chart technical indicators:

  • 100% technical buy signals
  • 39.70+ Weighted Alpha
  • Increase of 34.87% over the last year
  • Trend Seeker Buy Signal
  • Above 20, 50 and 100 day moving averages
  • 14 new highs and 10.64% increase in the last month
  • Relative Strength Index 71.03%
  • Technical Support Level $455.07
  • It last traded at $459.28 with the 50-day moving average at $424.90

Basic factors:

  • Market capitalization $3.40 trillion
  • P/E ratio 38.70
  • Dividend yield .64%
  • Revenues are expected to grow by 15.60% this year and by another 14.30% next year.
  • Profits are expected to grow by 20.30% this year, an additional 12.60% next year and continue to compound at an annual rate of 16.24% for the next 5 years

Analysts and investor sentiment — I don’t buy stocks because everyone else is buying them, but I do realize that if big companies and investors are selling stocks, it’s hard to make money swimming against the tide:

  • Wall Street analysts have issued 40 strong buy recommendations, 13 buy recommendations and 3 hold recommendations.
  • Analysts have set price targets of $436 to $600, with the consensus being $491, implying a 7% increase.
  • Value Line rates the stock an Outperform 2, setting a price target between $392 and $689, with an average of $540 implying a gain of 20%.
  • CFRAs MarketScope has a 5-star Strong Buy rating and a $475 price target
  • MorningStar gave the stock an average rating of 3 stars and a fair value of $435
  • 1,150,000 investors monitor Seeking Alpha stocks

Additional information: The daily bar chart highlights stocks that are currently experiencing significant price increases. These are not intended to be buy recommendations, as these stocks are extremely volatile and speculative. If you decide to add one of these stocks to your investment portfolio, it is highly recommended that you maintain a predetermined diversification and rolling stop loss discipline that is consistent with your personal investment risk tolerance and reassess your stop losses at least once a week.

On the date of publication, Jim Van Meerten did not have (directly or indirectly) a position in any of the securities mentioned in this article. All information and data in this article is for informational purposes only. For more information, please see Barchart’s Disclosure Policy here.