Levels Of Institutional Ownership At Microsoft Corporation (MSFT)

Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) has made a 27.72% comeback from a 12-month low price of $80.7. It was seen -0.04% lower, changing the price to $103.07, when the closing bell rang on 11/23/2018. At recent session, the prices were hovering between $102 and $103.8099. This company shares are 21.42% off its target price of $125.15 and the current market capitalization stands at $791.5B. The recent change has given its price a -5.94% deficit over SMA 50 and -11.28% deficit over its 52-week high. The stock witnessed 0.73% gains, -4.92% declines and 4.79% gains for the 1-month, 3-month and 6-month period, respectively. To measure price-variation, we found MSFT’s volatility during a week at 2.87% and during a month it has been found around 2.96%.

Microsoft Corporation (MSFT) Top Holders

Institutional investors currently hold around $580.48 billion or 74.6% in MSFT stock. Look at its top three institutional owners. Vanguard Group Inc owns $59.56 billion in Microsoft Corporation, which represents roughly 7.53% of the company’s market cap and approximately 10.26% of the institutional ownership. Similar statistics are true for the second largest owner, Blackrock Inc., which owns 503,748,643 shares of the stock are valued at $51.92 billion. The third largest holder is State Street Corp, which currently holds $31.57 billion worth of this stock and that ownership represents nearly 3.99% of its market capitalization.

Microsoft Corporation 13F Filings

At the end of September reporting period, 1,220 institutional holders increased their position in Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) by some 228,207,396 shares, 1,468 decreased positions by 242,323,147 and 237 held positions by 5,161,000,000. That puts total institutional holdings at 5,632,000,000 shares, according to SEC filings. The stock grabbed 115 new institutional investments totaling 11,711,374 shares while 55 institutional investors sold out their entire positions totaling 3,298,735 shares.

Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) Insider Trades

Multiple company employees have indulged in significant insider trading. Microsoft Corporation disclosed in a document filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) that EVP, Human Resources Hogan Kathleen T has sold 36,500 shares of Microsoft Corporation (MSFT) in trading session dated Nov. 08, 2018. These shares are worth $4,061,720 and were traded at $111.28 each. The SEC filing shows that Brod Frank H performed a sale of 2,000 shares. The Chief Accounting Officer disposed these shares by way of transaction on Nov. 05, 2018. The company’s shares were given away at $107.18 per share worth to an income of some $214,360 on account of Brod Frank H.

Chief Accounting Officer, Brod Frank H, sold 20,000 common shares of Microsoft Corporation (MSFT) in the open market. In a transaction dated Oct. 31, 2018, the shares were put up for sale at an average price of $107.7, raking in a sum of $2,154,000. After this sale, 66,676 common shares of MSFT are directly owned by the insider, with total stake valued at $6,872,295.

In the transaction dated Oct. 26, 2018, the great number of shares disposed came courtesy the CEO; Nadella Satya disposed a total of 203,418 shares at an average price of $106.68, amounting to approximately $21,700,632. The insider now directly owns 846,854 shares worth $87,285,242.

Microsoft Corporation (MSFT) Analyst Guide

Several analysts have released their opinion on Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT), with 19 analysts believing it is a strong buy. Whereas 1 of them predict the stock is a hold. Also, there are 13 buy, 0 sell and 1 strong sell ratings, collectively assigning a 1.56 average brokerage recommendation.

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