Wolfe Research has decided to maintain its Outperform rating of Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) and raise its price target from $330.00 to $350.00.
Shares of Microsoft are trading up 5.63% over the last 24 hours, at $285.43 per share.
A move to $350.00 would account for a 22.62% increase from the current share price.
About Microsoft
Microsoft develops and licenses consumer and enterprise software. It is known for its Windows operating systems and Office productivity suite. The company is organized into three equally sized broad segments: productivity and business processes (legacy Microsoft Office, cloud-based Office 365, Exchange, SharePoint, Skype, LinkedIn, Dynamics), intelligence cloud (infrastructure- and platform-as-a-service offerings Azure, Windows Server OS, SQL Server), and more personal computing (Windows Client, Xbox, Bing search, display advertising, and Surface laptops, tablets, and desktops).
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