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Market Update: Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) – Microsoft And Facebook Say They’ve No Gender Pay Gap: Is This True?

[at Forbes] – Earlier this week both Microsoft and Facebook announced, in the run up to Equal Pay Day, that men and women at those corporations earn the same amount of money. Thus there is no gender pay gap at those companies. The way that they’ve defined equal pay it most certainly seems Read more on this. Microsoft Corporation (MSFT) , valued at $445.06B, opened this morning at $55.40. A quick look at the market, the company’s stock traded between $55.25 and $56.59 with its 52-week range being $39.72 to $56.85. Microsoft (MSFT) shares are currently priced at 20.24x this year’s forecasted earnings, which makes them relatively inexpensive compared to the industry’s 21.19x earnings multiple for the same period. And for dividend hunters, the company pays shareholders $1.44 per share annually in dividends, yielding 2.59%. In a review of the consensus earnings estimate this quarter, 29 sell-side analysts are looking at $0.64 per share, which would be $0.03 better than the year-ago quarter and a $0.04 sequential decrease. Furthermore, our analysis shows the full-year EPS estimate to be $2.75, which would be a $0.29 better when compared to the last year’s annual results. The quarterly earnings estimate is based on a consensus revenue forecast of the current quarter of $22.11 Billion. If realized, that would be a 1.75% increase over the year-ago quarter. More recently, Macquarie Initiated MSFT at Neutral (Mar 4, 2016). Previously, Morgan Stanley upgraded MSFT from Equal-Weight to Overweight. When considering if the stock is under or overvalued, the average price target is $58.80, which is 6.14% above where the stock opened this morning. See more in (NASDAQ:MSFT) Similar Articles: Market Update: Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) – Microsoft’s Azure: The Engine in BMW’s Mobile App (MSFT, AMZN) Market Update: Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) – Microsoft Makes Windows 10 ‘Free Upgrades’ Worse Stock Update: Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) – MICROSOFT IS UP 10%: Here’s what a one-point move in MSFT does to the Dow
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