Microsoft (MSFT) shares inched lower and printed a fresh 52-week low this morning after a senior Stifel analyst, Brad Reback, lowered his price target on the tech behemoth to $400. As sentiment shifts from blind AI enthusiasm to cold financial scrutiny, MSFT's relative strength index (RSI) has crashed into the late 20s, indicating “oversold” conditions that often trigger a near-term reversal.
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Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT | MSFT Price Prediction) has been one of the cleanest setups in mega-cap tech this year.
The EU said Thursday that the cloud services of Amazon and Microsoft should face tougher digital competition rules in Europe because of their dominant position in the sector.
European regulators say Amazon's and Microsoft's cloud businesses should fall under the Digital Markets Act (DMA). The European Commission said in a Wednesday (June 24) press release that it had informed both tech giants of its preliminary finding that they should be considered “gatekeepers” under the DMA for their cloud computing services, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure.
This article was written by Doug Nathman, with research by his team at Trefis.
AI was supposed to be a tide that lifted all ships within the sector. Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT | MSFT Price Prediction) is the leading exception.
Under the Digital Markets Act, the companies would be treated as gatekeepers for their cloud computing services and required to take extra steps to ensure they don't stifle competition.
Microsoft Corporation is rated a Strong Buy as shares trade 20%–25% below 5-year valuation averages despite robust growth. MSFT's data center investments are driving revenue acceleration, with performance obligations doubling to $633 billion and strong operating margin expansion. Azure and Productivity segments exhibit high-teens growth, with Copilot and Fabric platforms scaling rapidly and deepening the company's competitive moat.
A critique from the University of St Andrews published in the journal Nature provides evidence that Microsoft's claimed quantum computing "breakthrough" was built on flawed foundations.
Meta Platforms and Microsoft are leading the pack of tech giants that are shoveling money into artificial intelligence data-center leases – each committing tens of billions of dollars in during their most recent quarters. The new agreements helped lift total future data-center lease commitments among the largest cloud-computing companies to more than $850 billion.
In the latest trading session, Microsoft (MSFT) closed at $373.94, marking a +1.8% move from the previous day.