MSFT Analyst Ratings & Price Targets
Microsoft Corporation
Consensus rating
The consensus across 56 analysts covering Microsoft Corporation is Strong Buy.
Price targets
The spread between the lowest and highest target is the number worth looking at. A range of $440.00 to $870.00 on the same company, at the same time, on the same public information, is a fair measure of how much of a price target is judgement rather than arithmetic.
Recent rating changes
No recent rating changes are on record for MSFT.
Source: Yahoo Finance - retrieved 20 minutes ago
Informational only, not financial advice. Content is AI-generated and may contain errors. How this works.
Common questions
What is a price target?
A price target is the share price an analyst expects a stock to reach, usually within twelve months. It follows from that analyst’s own earnings forecasts and their view of what those earnings are worth. Both are judgements. Two analysts can therefore publish very different targets on the same company, and neither has to be unreasonable.
Do analyst ratings predict returns?
Not reliably. Ratings cluster heavily towards buy across the whole market. They are revised after a large price move at least as often as before one. A consensus is not a set of independent opinions either, because analysts read each other. Treat ratings as a record of what the sell side expects today. That is context for a price, not a forecast of one.
What do upgrade, downgrade and maintained mean?
An upgrade means a firm moved the stock to a more positive rating. A downgrade moves it to a more negative one. Maintained, or reiterated, means the rating is unchanged even though the firm published a note, often with a revised price target. Initiated means the firm has just started covering the company.