By Keithen Drury
Publication Date: 2026-03-13 10:57:00
Microsoft (MSFT 1.57%) has been a stock market leader over nearly the past decade, but it has fallen a bit recently. While some stocks have fallen out of favor with the market, it’s usually for slowing growth or exploding expenses. While Microsoft’s capital expenditures are rising alongside every other artificial intelligence (AI) hyperscaler, it’s nothing out of the norm.
Furthermore, many of those companies are near all-time highs, so Microsoft’s latest sell-off is a real head-scratcher. As a result, I think right now is an excellent time to buy Microsoft stock, as there have seldom been buying opportunities like this over the past decade.
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Microsoft has unlinked from the market
For the past decade, Microsoft and the market have been closely tied together. However, that link broke recently.
While Microsoft sold off deeper than the S&P 500 from time to time, it was always selling off at around the same period, which is why the chart…
