By Eric Volkman, The Motley Fool
Publication Date: 2026-04-13 23:05:00
Two updates from analysts at influential companies helped bolster the buy case for Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) stock on Monday. The storied tech sector incumbent saw its share price improve by 3.6% that trading session, easily outpacing the 1% gain of the benchmark S&P 500 index.
Arguably, the more impactful of the two reports was published last Friday, yet by the following trading day, it was still shaping investor behavior. This was a tech sector overview from Goldman Sachs that heightened the rout many legacy software companies have endured so far this year.
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Much of this is due to fears of disruption by artificial intelligence (AI), which, some worry, could become “smart” enough to code sophisticated applications…