By Geoffrey Seiler
Publication Date: 2026-04-15 10:15:00
The market has been volatile to start 2026, largely due to concerns about how companies are managing various macroeconomic uncertainties. Two of the biggest fears this year are whether artificial intelligence (AI) will displace software and whether companies will get a solid return on their AI infrastructure spending investments. Unfortunately for Microsoft (MSFT +2.28%), that puts it at the intersection of two of the market’s greatest worries.
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Current Price
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Key Data Points
Market Cap
$2.9T
Day’s Range
$386.55 – $394.68
52wk Range
$355.67 – $555.45
Volume
14K
Avg Vol
37M
Gross Margin
68.59%
Dividend Yield
0.89%
As a leader in enterprise productivity software, Microsoft was not spared in the recent software-as-a-service (SaaS) stock sell-off. Meanwhile, it has also been squarely in the crosshairs when it comes to AI infrastructure spending, as its Azure cloud computing unit has been its biggest growth driver. To make matters worse, unlike cloud rivals Alphabet and…
