Market Update: Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) – Microsoft Makes Windows 10 ‘Free Upgrades’ Worse

[at Forbes] – Microsoft will resort to dirty tricks to get users onto Windows 10. This is how and why… Read more on this. Microsoft Corporation (MSFT) , valued at $446.04B, opened this morning at $55.60. Today, shares have traded between $54.76 and $55.85 per share with a trailing 52-week range being $39.72 to $56.23. Priced at 20.00x this year’s forecasted earnings, MSFT shares are relatively expensive compared to the industry’s 7.90x forward p/e ratio. And for those looking to make a return holding the stock, the company pays shareholders $1.44 per share annually in dividends, yielding 2.66%. In a review of the consensus earnings estimate this quarter, 28 sell-side analysts are looking at $0.71 per share, which would be $0.00 worse than the year-ago quarter and a $0.01 sequential decrease. In looking at the bigger picture, the full-year EPS estimate of $2.76 would be a $0.30 better when compared to the previous year’s annual results. The quarterly earnings estimate is predicated on a consensus revenue forecast of $25.23 Billion. If reported, that would be a 4.68% decrease over the year-ago quarter. Recently, Stifel upgraded MSFT from Hold to Buy (Aug 13, 2015). Previously, Wunderlich Initiated MSFT at to Hold. The average price target for MSFT shares by the analysts covering the stock is $56.45, which is 1.53% above where the stock opened this morning. See more in (NASDAQ:MSFT) Similar Articles: Market Update (NASDAQ:MSFT): Microsoft Fixes The Worst Problem With Windows 10 Upgrades Market Update: Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) – Microsoft: 14 million devices are already running Windows 10 Market Update (NASDAQ:MSFT): Microsoft’s free Windows 10 giveaway: What that means