Microsoft Corp | MSFT

Daily Technical Analysis of Microsoft Corp

Microsoft is up a bit on the day, funds flowing in kept the price up 1.26% since yesterday. It looks like MSFT could be hitting an upward sloping resistance line. Most traders won't try to short a stock when the line is upsloping. But it may be a good time to take profit or wait for a better entry point for a long position. Microsoft has been drifting up over the last few months, we'll see if it has the energy to break through or if buyers decide to take profit.

If the price breaks through the resistance level it will probably move up to the $288.49 level where it may meet further resistance. If the price reverses and heads back down lower, it looks like the nearest support level is $246.27 it may head back up from there or break lower.

Analyst Ratings for Microsoft By Price Target And Rating

Microsoft has an overall positive view by the analysts. The current Analysts Sentiment Score is 115.97. Most companies range between (-200 to 200).

Here's a break down of the latest rating changes. On 2023-03-20 UBS Group set their price target to $275.00. Evercore ISI provided a price target boost of 5.36% to $295.00 from $280.00 on 2023-03-20. Mizuho gave a boost to their price target and moved to $315.00 from $300.00 on 2023-03-17. Royal Bank of Canada announced that they are reiterating a rating of Outperform on 2023-03-17 and added a price target of $285.00. On 2023-03-02 Credit Suisse Group set their price target to $285.00. On 2023-02-27 Jefferies Financial Group set their price target to $310.00. Wedbush provided a price target boost of 3.57% to $290.00 from $280.00 on 2023-02-24. A price target of $265.00 wa set by JPMorgan Chase & Co. on 2023-02-08. Oppenheimer gave a boost to their price target and moved to $280.00 from $265.00 on 2023-02-08. Piper Sandler gave a boost to their price target and moved to $290.00 from $247.00 on 2023-02-08.

Company	Ratings Score ? Composite analyst sentiment score	Positive Ratings	Negative Ratings	Boost Price Target	Lower Price Target
MSFT	115.97	176.28	-100.13	201.96	-46.16

Earnings Per Share (EPS) Estimates By Year and Quarter

(updated 2022-11-28)

Company	YOY Growth Score (typical -20 to +20)	Revision Directions (-6 to +6)
MSFT	0.01	-1.92

Short interest for Microsoft

We take into account several different measures of short interest to create a composite score. These measures are shown in the chart below. Short selling is when investors are betting against a stock. We compile these factors to create a dynamic Short Score - this can indicate poor sentiment, internal problems with a company or industry and the anticipation of future price declines. We look at the short interest percent, days to cover, the rate of change and total shares sold short.

Company	Short Score (typical 1-15) ? We take into account several different measures and attributes of short interest to create a composite sentiment score. typical range (0 - 30)	Short Interest	Days to Cover	Rate of Change	Shares Short
MSFT	1.12	%0.6	1.4	14.85	41570000

How Microsoft compares to the broader Technology sector and the more specific Application Software industry

Segment	Count	1 Day%	5 Day	1 Month	3 Month	6 Month	1 Year	RSI	3mo S-momo ? Smooth Momentum is our proprietary technical indicator that looks for momentum with the greatest consistency and steady velocity. We have penalized dramatic swings and fluctuations. If the momentum is too high and an asset spikes upward, this is often unreliable and collapses back down. But the smoothed momentum provides the highest probability of continuing into the near future with the same directional rate of change. Several complex factors are weighted by neural nets to maximize probabilistic accuracy. It works the same with positive or negative directions.	6mo S-momo	1yr S-momo	Resistance ? Support and Resistance levels are determined by previous high and low points. You may be familiar with traders drawing lines across charts where several peaks or valleys occur in the same range. This helps us understand the trading range of an asset where the market doesn't perceive it to be worth more or less than a certain price level. When it nears the boundaries of this range the probability of reversal can increase. Our neural nets create scores for this measure based on many factors such as the frequency, recency, size, consistency, etc of previous reversal points.	Support	Demark Sell ? Demark 9 indicators are designed to look for exhaustion in the selling or buying trend which can often be predictive of a reversal point. This indicator is triggered when there are 9 consecutive days where the closing price is higher/lower than the closing price 4 days ago. Like all indicators, it is best used in combinations with other factors.	Demark Buy	Short Interest	Analysts Ratings ? We track several different measures of analyst sentiment including ratings and price targets. To create a composite Analyst Sentiment Score, we weight several factors such as the recent rate of change which can be more predictive than the absolute level. We also weight each analyst's opinion based on their historic accuracy. We built in a time decay function to ensure that the rating reflects the current sentiment levels. Typical range (-80 to +80)
Application Software Show Me Companies With: S-Momentum: Highest \| Lowest At Bottom Support At Top Resistance RSI Highest \| Lowest 1 Day Growth: Highest \| Lowest 5 Day Growth: Highest \| Lowest 1 Month Growth: Highest \| Lowest 6 Month Growth: Highest \| Lowest List All Stocks	199	0.47	2.47	-4.90	6.15	5.84	-25.06	54.24	2.43	-4.87	-8.67	-24257.99	-6232.28	8.17	6.28	4.40	39.23
Technology Show Me Companies With: S-Momentum: Highest \| Lowest At Bottom Support At Top Resistance RSI Highest \| Lowest 1 Day Growth: Highest \| Lowest 5 Day Growth: Highest \| Lowest 1 Month Growth: Highest \| Lowest 6 Month Growth: Highest \| Lowest List All Stocks	478	0.64	2.37	-4.28	7.05	10.95	-16.77	53.11	3.48	-2.14	-5.34	-18889.97	-5910.63	8.68	5.49	4.39	37.93

Social Sentiment for Microsoft

Social Sentiment is an aggregation of several different factors such as news, articles, blogs, user content, ratings, etc. Which is shown in the chart below. It may become predictive of a reversal if price and the sentiment diverge. Broader market forces may push prices up or down but if market participants maintain a different view on a specific stock, it may be taken as an opportunity to buy or sell in those cases.

Ticker	Social Sentiment(1-10)
MSFT	9.00

Companies with the highest correlation to Microsoft

Company	Score	1 Day%	5 Day	1 Month	3 Month	6 Month	1 Year	RSI	3mo S-momo ? Smooth Momentum is our proprietary technical indicator that looks for momentum with the greatest consistency and steady velocity. We have penalized dramatic swings and fluctuations. If the momentum is too high and an asset spikes upward, this is often unreliable and collapses back down. But the smoothed momentum provides the highest probability of continuing into the near future with the same directional rate of change. Several complex factors are weighted by neural nets to maximize probabilistic accuracy. It works the same with positive or negative directions.	6mo S-momo	1yr S-momo	Resistance ? Support and Resistance levels are determined by previous high and low points. You may be familiar with traders drawing lines across charts where several peaks or valleys occur in the same range. This helps us understand the trading range of an asset where the market doesn't perceive it to be worth more or less than a certain price level. When it nears the boundaries of this range the probability of reversal can increase. Our neural nets create scores for this measure based on many factors such as the frequency, recency, size, consistency, etc of previous reversal points.	Support	Short Interest Score
ADBE \| Adobe Inc.	1.71	0.34	1.63	10.77	11.62	36.96	-17.17	73	8.23	5.65	0.24	-12558.02	-6430.58	1.20494
GOOG \| Alphabet Inc. Class C Cap	1.67	-0.59	-4.55	7.68	14.13	3.22	-29.02	39	-44.67	-36.16	-32.70	-7776.10	-2684.94	6.16223
GOOGL \| Alphabet Inc. Class A Com	1.66	-0.48	-4.37	7.67	14.48	3.51	-28.96	50	5.82	6.98	-10.18	-1250.65	-4369.98	8.34219
ANSS \| Ansys Inc	1.53	1.56	3.14	4.91	34.02	43.10	1.65	74	148.26	38.75	35.98	-1612.49	-14766.34	0.96058
SNPS \| Synopsys Inc	1.5	0.24	-0.16	2.30	17.14	21.58	13.03	51	88.20	35.24	40.99	-1449.16	-13832.65	1.85114
AAPL \| Apple Inc.	1.47	0.76	1.14	7.31	28.26	13.75	-8.83	63	18.05	11.86	10.54	-4019.31	-8931.61	1.09287
NOW \| SERVICENOW, INC.	1.44	0.27	1.55	-0.98	11.62	14.04	-23.41	47	5.16	5.87	6.85	-1983.98	-3106.92	2.09419
INTU \| Intuit Inc	1.41	1.45	2.40	7.67	12.34	10.85	-6.80	60	7.08	5.98	4.73	-673.57	-7338.36	1.8473

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