UPDATE: JP Morgan Downgrades Microsoft
JP Morgan on Tuesday downgraded Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) from Overweight to Neutral while lowering their price target from $53 to $47 amid concerns over spending.
Analyst Mark Murphy wrote, “Q2 results were consistent with our expectations, as revenue grew 8% y/y (vs. consensus of 7%) and PF EPS of $0.77 (excluding a $0.04 tax impact) exceeded consensus of $0.74, underpinned by strong Commercial Cloud revenue growth of 114% y/y. While revenue guidance was impacted by adverse FX movement consistent with expectations, Microsoft will not exercise as much spending discipline as we had anticipated, resulting in an 8% reduction in our FY15 EPS forecast.”
Shares of Microsoft closed Monday at $47.01.
Latest Ratings for MSFT
Date | Firm | Action | From | To |
---|---|---|---|---|
Feb 2022 | Tigress Financial | Maintains | Buy | |
Jan 2022 | Citigroup | Maintains | Buy | |
Jan 2022 | Morgan Stanley | Maintains | Overweight |
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