Just a few years ago, Wall Street wrote off Microsoft stock. It watched MSFT shares fall 18.4% in 2012 down to the same levels where they traded in 2009.
Microsoft shareholders were stuck with no price growth and a CEO with no plans to improve the situation.
Then MSFT rose 20.1% in 2015 and looks to climb again in 2016.
Why will Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT) stock keep crushing the market? Here are two reasons...
The Microsoft stock forecast for 2016 is for hefty gains as Wall Street begins to recognize how much potential the company's cloud business has.
Not that 2015 was a bad year for Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT). The Microsoft stock price gained 18.65% last year. But Microsoft's strong showing over the past two years doesn't mean Microsoft stock is played out.
Here's why 2016 will prove that the Microsoft turnaround is just getting started...
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The Microsoft stock price has been riding on a cloud lately.
Microsoft Corp.'s (Nasdaq: MSFT) rapidly growing cloud businesses were the main reason the MSFT stock price rose nearly 13% in the two days following a strong Q1 earnings report last month.
But despite those successes, Microsoft is not standing still with its cloud businesses - a great sign for Microsoft stock.
Here's what Microsoft did just today to grow its cloud businesses even faster...
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The 2016 Q1 Microsoft earnings, due out after the market close today, are likely to build on the momentum from the last quarter.
But the Q1 Microsoft earnings will contain only a glimmer of the catalysts destined to drive Microsoft stock higher over the next two years.
You see, Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT) has a new strategy.
Here's how this strategy will generate billions of dollars in future MSFT earnings...
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The chart for Microsoft stock over the past two years suggests the stock's solid run in 2014 peaked in early 2015.
In 2015, MSFT stock is up less than 3% and has zig-zagged a lot along the way. But don't be fooled. The Microsoft rebound is far from over.
That's because the Redmond, Wash.-based tech giant has adopted a new, promising strategy.
Here's how this new strategy will generate billions of dollars in value for Microsoft investors...
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Wall Street celebrated the official launch of Windows 10 today (Wednesday) by adding 2.25% to Microsoft stock.
Think of that as a first installment on the benefit that Windows 10 will deliver to Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT) stock over the next few years.
And yes, even though Windows 10 is a free upgrade, it has great potential to lift MSFT stock.
Here's how Microsoft will monetize Windows 10...
Microsoft stock is suffering from a bad reaction to a Q4 earnings report that, at first blush, looks really awful.
MSFT stock plunged more than 4.5% in after-hours trading Tuesday, thanks to a one-time write-off of the purchase of Nokia's devices unit.
But the reality isn't nearly so bad. Backing out the Nokia charge, Microsoft's EPS was $0.62 - higher than analyst expectations for $0.58.
Here's why Microsoft stock is still a buy...
Whether to buy Microsoft stock is a question investors started to ponder last year as the iconic tech company shed its decade-long status as a perennial laggard.
As Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT) stock soared nearly 40% from November 2013 to November 2014, investors were eager to jump on board.
But since then, investors have had reason to wonder if it's still a good idea to buy MSFT stock.
This question actually has a pretty easy answer...
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Now that two of Wall Street's biggest names have put an unusual "sell" rating on Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT) stock, investors might be tempted to dump shares of the tech giant.
That would be a mistake.
Both Goldman Sachs and Citigroup have utterly misunderstood what's going on with Microsoft. Both have lowball price targets on Microsoft stock. Both ignored a string earnings beat last month.
They just don't get it.
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Microsoft stock gained as much as 10% today (Friday) as the company's latest earnings report showed that its "mobile-first, cloud-first" strategy is gaining momentum.
Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT) reported its fiscal Q3 earnings yesterday (Thursday) after the market close.
Even with a decline in Windows sales, one of the company's traditional cash cows, Microsoft handily beat Wall Street expectations.
And the areas that outperformed in Q3 clearly are Microsoft's future...
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Microsoft Corp.'s (Nasdaq: MSFT) Q3 earnings don't figure to offer many surprises, but even a small beat will drive up the MSFT stock price.
Microsoft reports earnings tomorrow (Thursday) after the market close.
Microsoft, like longtime partner Intel Corp. (Nasdaq: INTC) and most PC makers, has suffered as PC sales have leveled off in recent years. Investors mainly want to know that Microsoft has a viable plan for future growth.
Here's why any sign of progress will have a big impact on the Microsoft stock price...
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The Microsoft stock price has taken a hit this year, down 11.8% on the year.
But don't be fooled by the current troubles of Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT) stock. It has fallen so much that at this point, it may well be oversold at around $40.65 today (Wednesday).
Here's where the Microsoft stock price is headed...
The Microsoft stock forecast for 2015 is for another strong year as Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT) continues to adjust to a tech landscape radically different from the one it dominated in the 1990s.
Microsoft stock picked up momentum after new CEO Satya Nadella officially took over Feb. 4. Nadella's willingness to break with that past and focus on areas with the most potential to grow earnings, particularly the cloud, has re-energized the company.
Here's what Microsoft has at stake in 2015...
Microsoft's (Nasdaq: MSFT) new CEO Satya Nadella could bring the company what it's been missing, as we recently pointed out, but Nadella will have to tackle two very troubling numbers just reported for Microsoft.
These are figures that give us a glimpse of what could prevent MSFT stock from climbing in 2014 following its 40.9% rise last year.
These numbers were just released last week - and they're ugly.
After showing some signs of life last year, Microsoft Corp. stock could get another boost in 2014 when a new CEO takes the helm - and the job could be going to a company insider. And while Satya Nadella may not be perfect, he has several strengths that could be
just the tonic for Microsoft's stock...
With a Microsoft reorganization plan expected to be announced on Thursday, investors at this point must be wondering: will it matter?
Shareholders of Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT) have only recently gotten a glimmer of hope. Microsoft stock had languished in the $25-$30 range for more than a decade until this year, which has seen MSFT pop about 30%.
Although extremely profitable, Microsoft under the leadership of CEO Steve Ballmer has struggled to move beyond its core products of Windows and Office, which still deliver nearly all of those profits.
What this new Microsoft reorganization plan needs to do is reorient the Redmond, WA-based company toward future engines of growth, such as the mobile wave of smartphones and tablets, cloud computing and big data.
Insiders say Ballmer intends the new structure to provide "functional coherence" and will align the company into divisions based on services and devices.
But given Ballmer's spotty track record and Microsoft's unwieldy size (98,000 employees), it's not a given that any major structural overhaul will do much good in addressing the company's real problems.
As one worried Microsoft insider told The Wall Street Journal's All Things D: "If this is all about an org chart and not how to build great products, it does not matter what org chart Ballmer presents. Consumers buy products, not management structure."
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