$401.7
Can I buy Skype stock in Canada?
While you can’t invest directly in Skype, you can buy Microsoft stock, which is the company that owns Skype.
COVID-19 continues to have a big impact on the global economy, and the stock market. As more people have been working from home, video conferencing services such as Skype have been popular ways for people to connect with friends, family and colleagues. Skype Technologies is a telecommunications company specializing in video chat, online voice calls and instant messaging. Read on to find out how you can buy Skype stock by investing in its parent, Microsoft (MSFT).
Microsoft Corporation (MSFT) is a publicly traded software - infrastructure business based in the US. It opened the day at $409.06 after a previous close of $408.39. During the day the price has varied from a low of $400.8 to a high of $410.65. The latest price was $401.7 (25 minute delay). Microsoft Corporation is listed on the NASDAQ and employs 228,000 staff. All prices are listed in US dollars.
How to buy shares in Microsoft Corporation
- Open a brokerage account. Choose from our top broker picks or compare brokers in depth. Then, complete an application.
- Fund your account. Add money to your account via bank transfer, debit card or credit card.
- Search the platform by ticker symbol. MSFT in this case.
- Choose an order type. Place a market order or limit order with your preferred number of shares or dollar amount.
- Submit the order. It's that simple.
Latest updates for Microsoft Corporation
September 3, 2024: Shares of Microsoft slid 1.85% to $409.44 Tuesday, on what proved to be an all-around poor trading session for the stock market, with the S&P 500 Index falling 2.12% to 5,528.93 and Dow Jones Industrial Average -0.19% falling 1.51% to 40,936.93, according to MarketWatch.
August 27, 2024: On Tuesday, Wolfe Research maintained its Outperform rating on shares of Microsoft Corporation with a $495.00 price target. The firm's stance comes in light of Microsoft's announcement last week regarding a significant reorganization of its core business groups, according to Investing.com.
August 16, 2024: BMO analyst Keith Bachman, who reiterated his 'overweight' rating and $500 price target on Microsoft in a note published Friday, said the longer-view outlook reflects a bullish vision of AI demand, according to The Street.
Is it a good time to buy Microsoft Corporation stock?
Review technicals and fundamentals to help you determine if now's a good time for you to invest.
Technical analysis
View Microsoft Corporation's price performance, share price volatility, historical data and technicals.
Historical closes compared with the last close of $401.7
1 week (2024-08-29) | -3.70% |
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1 month (2024-08-06) | 0.82% |
3 months (2024-06-06) | -5.23% |
6 months (2024-03-06) | -1.82% |
1 year (2023-09-06) | 21.76% |
2 years (2022-09-06) | 55.64% |
3 years (2021-09-06) | 33.82% |
5 years (2019-09-05) | 188.79% |
The gauge below shows real-time ratings that are based on 26 popular indicators such as moving averages, for specific time periods. It's not a recommendation but is simply technical analysis that can form part of your research.
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Is Microsoft Corporation under- or over-valued?
Valuing a stock is incredibly difficult, and any metric has to be viewed as part of a bigger picture of overall performance. However, analysts commonly use some key metrics to help gauge value. Check out the Microsoft Corporation P/E ratio, PEG ratio and EBITDA.
Microsoft Corporation's current stock price divided by its per-share earnings (EPS) over a 12-month period gives a "trailing price/earnings ratio" of roughly 35x. In other words, Microsoft Corporation's stocks trade at around 35x recent earnings.
That's relatively high compared to, say, the trailing 12-month P/E ratio for the United States stock markets on average as of November 09, 2023 (20.44). The high P/E ratio could mean that investors are optimistic about the outlook for the shares or simply that they're over-valued.
Microsoft Corporation's "price/earnings-to-growth ratio" can be calculated by dividing its P/E ratio by its growth – to give 2.2052. A PEG ratio over 1 can be interpreted as meaning shares are overvalued at the current rate of growth, or may anticipate an acceleration in growth.
The PEG ratio provides a broader view than just the P/E ratio, as it gives more insight into Microsoft Corporation's future profitability. By accounting for growth, it could also help you if you're comparing the stock prices of multiple high-growth companies.
Microsoft Corporation's EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation) is a whopping $129.4 billion ($175.6 billion CAD).
The EBITDA is a measure of Microsoft Corporation's overall financial performance and is widely used to measure a its profitability.
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