Sometimes all you have time for in the morning is a quick look at where your favorite stock is trading. That's why here we put together all your key Microsoft stock info for today, June 23, 2017. You'll also get an overall picture of how MSFT stock has traded over the past year. First, MSFT shares went down 0.01% or $0.01 from the day before. That brought the Microsoft stock closing price to $70.26. Looking at the 52-week highs and lows for MSFT is a good way to make sense of the current price, so let's do that now... Microsoft is currently trading at a higher price than it was one-year ago, with shares having risen by 37.79% from then.

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The Microsoft stock price 52-week high is $72.89. That was hit on 6/05/2017. The MSFT stock 52-week low is $48.03, reached on 6/27/2016. Another number to look at - MSFT trading volume yesterday was 19,891,000. That's not quite as high as Microsoft stock's average daily trading volume of 22,965,741. Let's look at Microsoft's market cap, which is shares outstanding multiplied by Microsoft's share price. Microsoft has a market cap of 542,936,256,000. That means Microsoft has a mega market cap, because it's over 200 billion. As of April 2016, Apple has the biggest market cap of all publicly traded companies.

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The current P/E (price/earnings) ratio of Microsoft stock is 23.23. That's smaller than the March 2016 S&P 500 P/E ratio of about 23. To really gauge if this stock's P/E is high or low, you should compare MSFT to other companies in the same industry. The current EPS (earnings per share) of MSFT is 2.26. Beta - how closely the stock trades with the overall market, with a beta of 1 meaning it trades in step with the broader index -- for Microsoft is 0.99. Microsoft stock has a dividend yield of 2.22%. Generally a dividend yield of 2% or more is decent for those investors who want income from dividend stocks. Every day we publish Microsoft stock news and coverage on a handful of other key stocks we're watching now so you can maximize profits. To get new info and stock news on MSFT and other companies you are interested in, sign up for Money Morning - it's free.

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