Rare Value And Growth Stock Opportunity: Microsoft Corporation (MSFT), United States Steel Corporation (X) - Financial Mercury

The shares of Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) has been pegged with a rating of Buy by Mizuho in its latest research note that was published on March 14th, 2019. Mizuho wasn’t the only research firm that published a report of Microsoft Corporation, with other equities research analysts also giving their opinion on the stock. Nomura advised investors in its research note published on January 31st, 2019, to Buy the MSFT stock while also putting a $113 price target. The stock had earned Neutral rating from Citigroup when it published its report on January 31st, 2019. That day the Citigroup set price target on the stock to $110. The stock was given Buy rating by BofA/Merrill in its report released on October 25th, 2018, the day when the price target on the stock was placed at $140. BofA/Merrill was of a view that MSFT is Buy in its latest report on October 22nd, 2018 while giving it a price target of $135. Wedbush thinks that MSFT is worth Outperform rating. This was contained in the firm’s report on October 19th, 2018 in which the stock’s price target was also moved to $140.

Amongst the analysts that rated the stock, 1 have recommended investors to sell it, 2 believe it has the potential for further growth, thus rating it as Hold while 18 advised investors to purchase the stock. The consensus currently stands at a Hold while its average price target is $129.25. The price of the stock the last time has raised by 37.08% from its Week high price while it is raised higher than its 52-Week low price. A look at the stock’s other technical shows that its 14-day RSI now stands at 77.11.

The shares of the company added by 0.32% during the trading session on Monday, reaching a low of $122.57 while ending the day at $123.76. During the trading session, a total of 14.66 million shares were traded which represents a 43.09% incline from the average session volume which is 25.76M shares. MSFT had ended its last session trading at 123.37. Microsoft Corporation currently has a market cap of $937.20B, while its P/E ratio stands at 28.78, while its P/E earnings growth sits at 7.91, with a beta of 1.21. Microsoft Corporation debt-to-equity ratio currently stands at 0.85, while its quick ratio hovers at 3.10. MSFT 52-week low price stands at $90.28 while its 52-week high price is $123.52.

The company in its last quarterly report recorded $1.10 earnings per share which is above the $1.09 predicted by most analysts. The Microsoft Corporation generated $32,471.00 million in revenue during the last quarter, which is slightly lower than the $32,512.20 million predicted by analysts. In the second quarter last year, the firm recorded $1.14 earnings per share. Compared to the same quarter last year, the firm’s revenue was down by -3.64%. Microsoft Corporation has the potential to record 4.30 EPS for the current fiscal year, according to equities analysts.

Investment analysts at BofA/Merrill published a research note on April 11th, 2019 where it informed investors and clients that United States Steel Corporation (NYSE:X) is now rated as Underperform. Their price target on the stock stands at $18. Nomura also rated X as Reiterated on January 31st, 2019, with its price target of $113 suggesting that X could surge by 29.96% from its current share price. Even though the stock has been trading at $16.42/share, analysts expect it to surge higher by -1.89% to reach $23.00/share. It started the day trading at $16.48 and traded between $15.87 and $16.11 throughout the trading session.

A look at its technical shows that X’s 50-day SMA is 20.35 while its 200-day SMA stands at 25.54. The stock has a high of $39.23 for the year while the low is $16.28. The company’s P/E ratio currently sits at 2.58, while the P/B ratio is 0.68. At the moment, only of United States Steel Corporation shares were sold short. The company’s average trading volume currently stands at 10.31M shares, which means that the short-interest ratio is just 1.68 days. Over the past seven days, the company moved, with its shift of -3.76%. Looking further, the stock has dropped -25.07% over the past 90 days while it lost -42.85% over the last six months.

The change in the stock’s fortunes has led to several institutional investors altering their holdings of the stock. The Vanguard Group Inc bought more X shares, increasing its portfolio by +1.86% during the last quarter. This move now sees The Vanguard Group Inc purchasing 299,419 shares in the last quarter, thus it now holds 16,426,516 shares of X, with a total valuation of $320,152,797. BlackRock Fund Advisors meanwhile sold more X shares in the recently filed quarter, changing its stake to $284,369,293 worth of shares. Luminus Management LLC followed the path by increasing its X portfolio by +67.13% in the quarter. This means that Luminus Management LLC bought 2,243,878 shares in the last quarter and now controls 5,586,379 shares of the X stock, with the valuation hitting $108,878,527.

Similarly, Dimensional Fund Advisors LP decreased its United States Steel Corporation shares by -3.67% during the recently filed quarter. After selling -180,783 shares in the last quarter, the firm now controls 4,740,532 shares of United States Steel Corporation which are valued at $92,392,969. In the same vein, Bridgewater Associates LP increased its United States Steel Corporation shares by during the most recent reported quarter. The firm bought 2,577,444 shares during the quarter which increased its stakes to 3,669,907 shares and is now valued at $71,526,487. Following these latest developments, around 1.00% of United States Steel Corporation stocks are owned by institutional investors and hedge funds.

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