Cim Investment Management Inc. Has $12.08 Million Stock Position in Microsoft Corporation $MSFT

Cim Investment Management Inc. decreased its holdings in shares of Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) by 51.1% during the 3rd quarter, according to the company in its most recent disclosure with the Securities & Exchange Commission. The firm owned 23,321 shares of the software giant’s stock after selling 24,365 shares during the quarter. Microsoft makes up approximately 3.3% of Cim Investment Management Inc.’s holdings, making the stock its 5th biggest holding. Cim Investment Management Inc.’s holdings in Microsoft were worth $12,079,000 as of its most recent filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission.

A number of other hedge funds and other institutional investors also recently bought and sold shares of MSFT. San Luis Wealth Advisors LLC grew its holdings in shares of Microsoft by 11.4% during the third quarter. San Luis Wealth Advisors LLC now owns 26,621 shares of the software giant’s stock valued at $13,788,000 after purchasing an additional 2,724 shares during the last quarter. Tcfg Wealth Management LLC lifted its holdings in shares of Microsoft by 992.0% in the 3rd quarter. Tcfg Wealth Management LLC now owns 110,989 shares of the software giant’s stock worth $57,487,000 after purchasing an additional 100,825 shares during the last quarter. Fulcrum Asset Management LLP boosted its position in Microsoft by 1.7% during the 3rd quarter. Fulcrum Asset Management LLP now owns 23,430 shares of the software giant’s stock valued at $12,136,000 after purchasing an additional 393 shares during the period. Reliant Wealth Planning boosted its position in Microsoft by 1,002.3% during the 3rd quarter. Reliant Wealth Planning now owns 7,110 shares of the software giant’s stock valued at $3,683,000 after purchasing an additional 6,465 shares during the period. Finally, Vertex Planning Partners LLC grew its stake in Microsoft by 5.2% during the 3rd quarter. Vertex Planning Partners LLC now owns 4,762 shares of the software giant’s stock worth $2,466,000 after buying an additional 235 shares during the last quarter. 71.13% of the stock is currently owned by institutional investors and hedge funds.

Key Headlines Impacting Microsoft

Here are the key news stories impacting Microsoft this week:

• Positive Sentiment: Management unifies commercial and consumer Copilot teams to create a single Copilot product roadmap and experience; Jacob Andreou will lead Copilot work while Mustafa Suleyman shifts toward model research — a move investors view as improving focus and speeding product coherence/adoption. Microsoft unifies Copilot commercial and consumer product teams in unit rejig
• Positive Sentiment: Microsoft Research collaborates on a MicroLED-powered Active Optical Cable design with MediaTek to improve data‑center power efficiency — a technology that could lower operating costs for large-scale AI infrastructure over time. MediaTek Develops Active Optical Cable Technology with Microsoft Research
• Positive Sentiment: Microsoft is named as a collaborator in large AI compute deployments (Nscale’s West Virginia AI campus), reinforcing demand for Azure and cloud services tied to AI GPU capacity. That supports long‑run cloud revenue upside. Nscale and Microsoft Announce Collaboration with NVIDIA and Caterpillar
• Neutral Sentiment: Microsoft reports progress on healthcare AI (MAI-DxO) with strong diagnostic results in testing; promising for long-term TAM but commercial and regulatory paths remain uncertain. Microsoft Pushes Toward ‘Medical Superintelligence’ in Healthcare
• Neutral Sentiment: Broader tech competition in quantum computing intensifies (IBM ramping hybrid quantum-classical work); Microsoft is active in quantum but the landscape remains long‑term and uncertain. The New Threat IBM’s Quantum Computing Research Poses to D-Wave
• Negative Sentiment: Security concern: reporting suggests Microsoft Intune tooling may have been used in an attack on Stryker — raises questions about enterprise security controls and could spur customer scrutiny or contract risk if such incidents scale. Microsoft Stock (NASDAQ:MSFT) Slips, Intune Tool May Have Been Used Against Stryker

Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades

Several equities research analysts have weighed in on the company. New Street Research increased their target price on Microsoft from $670.00 to $675.00 and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a research report on Thursday, January 29th. Cantor Fitzgerald restated an “overweight” rating and set a $590.00 price target on shares of Microsoft in a research report on Thursday, January 29th. TD Cowen reaffirmed a “buy” rating on shares of Microsoft in a report on Thursday, January 29th. BNP Paribas Exane lifted their price objective on shares of Microsoft from $632.00 to $659.00 and gave the company an “outperform” rating in a research report on Tuesday, January 27th. Finally, Jefferies Financial Group restated a “buy” rating on shares of Microsoft in a research report on Thursday, March 5th. Two research analysts have rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, forty have assigned a Buy rating and four have given a Hold rating to the company’s stock. According to data from MarketBeat, Microsoft has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average price target of $591.95.

Microsoft Trading Down 0.1%

NASDAQ:MSFT opened at $399.41 on Wednesday. The stock has a fifty day simple moving average of $424.42 and a 200 day simple moving average of $474.29. The firm has a market capitalization of $2.97 trillion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 24.98, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 1.56 and a beta of 1.10. Microsoft Corporation has a 1-year low of $344.79 and a 1-year high of $555.45. The company has a quick ratio of 1.38, a current ratio of 1.39 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.09.

Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) last posted its quarterly earnings data on Wednesday, January 28th. The software giant reported $4.14 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $3.86 by $0.28. Microsoft had a return on equity of 32.34% and a net margin of 39.04%.The firm had revenue of $81.27 billion for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $80.28 billion. During the same quarter in the previous year, the company earned $3.23 EPS. The business’s revenue for the quarter was up 16.7% compared to the same quarter last year. Sell-side analysts forecast that Microsoft Corporation will post 13.08 earnings per share for the current year.

Microsoft Announces Dividend

The company also recently declared a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Thursday, June 11th. Stockholders of record on Thursday, May 21st will be issued a dividend of $0.91 per share. The ex-dividend date is Thursday, May 21st. This represents a $3.64 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 0.9%. Microsoft’s payout ratio is currently 22.76%.

Insider Activity at Microsoft

In other Microsoft news, EVP Kathleen T. Hogan sold 12,321 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction on Friday, March 6th. The shares were sold at an average price of $409.52, for a total transaction of $5,045,695.92. Following the sale, the executive vice president directly owned 137,933 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $56,486,322.16. The trade was a 8.20% decrease in their position. The sale was disclosed in a document filed with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is available through this hyperlink. Also, Director John W. Stanton bought 5,000 shares of Microsoft stock in a transaction dated Wednesday, February 18th. The stock was acquired at an average price of $397.35 per share, with a total value of $1,986,750.00. Following the acquisition, the director directly owned 83,905 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $33,339,651.75. This represents a 6.34% increase in their ownership of the stock. The disclosure for this purchase is available in the SEC filing. 0.03% of the stock is currently owned by corporate insiders.

Microsoft Company Profile

Microsoft Corporation is a global technology company headquartered in Redmond, Washington. Founded in 1975 by Bill Gates and Paul Allen, Microsoft develops, licenses and supports a broad range of software products, services and devices for consumers, enterprises and governments worldwide. Its operations span personal computing, productivity software, cloud infrastructure, enterprise applications, developer tools and gaming.

Microsoft’s product portfolio includes the Windows operating system and the Microsoft 365 suite of productivity and collaboration tools (Office apps, Outlook, Teams).