Microsoft (MSFT) Stock: Price, Earnings and News
By Markets & Investing DeskUpdated Nov 10, 2026
Stock · MSFT
Microsoft Corporation
Nov 13, 2026 · 21:00 UTC · Yahoo Finance
- Prev. close
- 523.00
- Day range
- 513.82 – 526.42
- 52-week range
- 349.20 – 559.15
- Volume
- 25.46M
- Exchange
- NMS
- 1D+0.17%
- 5D−1.27%
- 1M−2.88%
- 6M+24.17%
- YTD+8.32%
- 1Y+2.69%
Key takeaways
- MSFT's daily percentage change equals the current price minus the previous close, divided by the previous close.
- Period returns from 1D to 2Y track price change only, so Microsoft's dividends are left out.
- Microsoft's fiscal year ends June 30, so fiscal Q2 covers October to December and is reported in late January.
- Earnings come out after the closing bell, so the first price reaction shows up in after-hours trading.
Microsoft (MSFT) stock trades on the Nasdaq Global Select Market, shown under the exchange code NMS. The headline figure is the latest price. The percentage beside it compares that price with the previous close: (current price − previous close) ÷ previous close.
Reading the MSFT quote
- Previous close: the final regular-session price from the prior trading day, the base for the daily change.
- Day range: the lowest and highest prices traded so far in the current session.
- 52-week range: the low and high over the past year. The price’s position in this band shows its distance from recent extremes, not where shares are headed.
- Volume: shares traded in the session, most meaningful when compared with typical days.
- Period returns (1D to 2Y): price change only over each window, so the dividends Microsoft pays are not included.
What Microsoft is and how it reports
Microsoft sells software, cloud services and hardware, including Windows, Microsoft 365, the Azure cloud platform, LinkedIn and Xbox. Its fiscal year ends June 30, so fiscal Q2 covers October to December and is reported in late January.
Microsoft releases earnings after the closing bell, so the first price reaction appears in after-hours trading and carries into the next regular session. Revenue is broken out by segment, with Azure inside Intelligent Cloud.
What moves MSFT stock
- Quarterly results: revenue and adjusted earnings per share against analyst estimates, plus management’s guidance.
- Cloud growth: the growth rate of the Intelligent Cloud segment and Azure.
- AI and data center spending: capital expenditure on AI infrastructure, which investors weigh against the revenue it eventually produces.
- Market and sector moves: Microsoft is one of the largest companies by market value, so it carries a heavy weight in the S&P 500 and tends to react to swings in large-cap tech.
- Options pricing before earnings: implied moves show the size of the swing traders are pricing in, not its direction.
Analyst ratings and price targets are opinions with a time horizon, not a valuation the market has accepted.
