Microsoft Stock Is Down 30% From Its Peak. History Says This Is What Happens Next. | The Motley Fool

Microsoft (MSFT 1.20%) has been one of the worst big tech stocks to own this year. It’s trading down over 23% in 2025 alone, and down around 31% from its all-time highs. While that may cause some investors to panic, I don’t think it should. I think Microsoft will likely be fine over the long term, and long-term investors should view this recent sell-off as a buying opportunity.

Let’s take a look at what history says will happen next with Microsoft’s stock.

Microsoft rarely sells off this much

Microsoft has an interesting company history. If you’ve been investing in the stock market only over the last decade, you may be unaware that Microsoft set an all-time high at the start of the year 2000, then promptly crashed when the dot-com bubble burst. It didn’t set a new all-time high until 2016. However, the company that Microsoft was during those years is a lot different from the Microsoft we know now.

The current iteration of Microsoft has a hefty chunk of…