MSFT

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$540.04 +1.19% today · +3.34% 1W

Oct 15 close or latest

ReadoutWhy it's moving

Up on 2.8T AI model efficiency gains

MSFT +1.19% on the last session vs SPY +0.02%: +1.2 pts of stock-specific move.
News: Microsoft unveiled a 2.8T-parameter AI model requiring up to 12x less computing power than rivals (Investing.com). (Investing.com)
Not a group move: its cloud peers +0.8% (+0.7 pts vs SPY).
Aftermath, big drop (Oct 14): After its 49 big drops in the past 5 years, MSFT was higher a week later 20 times out of 49; half the outcomes fell between -3.2% and +1.3%. History, not a forecast.
34 Reddit mentions in the past 24 hours, 70% positive over the week.
3 analyst actions in the past 10 days (3 positive, 0 negative); latest: Barclays maintained Overweight, raised target $512 → $600.
4 insider or congressional trades in the past 30 days.
Market backdrop (Today): Core PPI m/m 1.3% vs 0.3% expected (hotter); Core Retail Sales m/m 0.9% vs 0.6% expected (stronger); S&P futures -0.08%, 10-year yield -3bp in the 30 minutes after.

Assembled from Wallsti's own signals and the session's headlines and filings read by AI (Claude); it can misread, so the sources are linked.

Bargain & stretch prices

Prices MSFT only reaches with set odds, from its own recent swings. Odds, not a forecast.

TodayNext 5 sessionsToday so far

	Today	Next 5 sessions
Stretch sell side	541.91 +1.5% ↑ more often after a big drop reached 3 in 10 days · 31% vs usual 28%	552.24 +3.5% ↑ more often after a big drop reached 3 in 10 weeks · 31% vs usual 30%
Now	540.04 · prior close 533.69
Bargain buy side	525.60 -1.5% reached 3 in 10 days	515.76 -3.4% ↑ more often while near its 52-week high reached 3 in 10 weeks · 29% vs usual 27%

More patient or more eager

	Bargain	Reached	Stretch	Reached
Today
Patient	523.00	2 in 10 days	544.60	2 in 10 days↑ 20% vs 17%
Balanced	525.60	3 in 10 days	541.91	3 in 10 days↑ 31% vs 28%
Eager	528.03	4 in 10 days	539.41	5 in 10 days↑ 49% vs 45%
Next 5 sessions
Patient	510.07	2 in 10 weeks↑ 20% vs 18%	558.40	2 in 10 weeks
Balanced	515.76	3 in 10 weeks↑ 29% vs 27%	552.24	3 in 10 weeks↑ 31% vs 30%
Eager	521.13	4 in 10 weeks↑ 44% vs 43%	546.56	5 in 10 weeks↑ 49% vs 48%

"3 in 10 days" means the price was reached on about 3 of every 10 days like this one. Patient prices are further away and come less often; eager ones are closer and come more often. From MSFT's daily swings (about 1.6% a day lately), anchored on the Oct 14 close. The odds were measured on 10 years of S&P 500 prices (they move about 3 points from year to year with the market: bargain prices come more often in falling years, stretch prices in rising ones), and where a situation below changed them consistently (in at least 8 of 10 years), they are adjusted and marked. In those tests, waiting for the bargain price did no better on average than buying at the close: what you save when it comes, you pay when it doesn't.

Situations on the Oct 14 close

All-time high, then a big drop weak warning odds adjusted

Across S&P 500 stocks, this was followed by lagging the stock's usual pace by about 1.2% over the next quarter (±0.9; the same direction in 7 of 9 years). Weak and slow: nothing over the next week or month.

After a big drop, the stretch price was reached more often than usual, so the bargain & stretch odds above are adjusted (marked in gold):

Stretch price, next session: reached 31% of days instead of the usual 28% (held in 9 of 10 years)
Stretch price, next 5 sessions: reached 31% of weeks instead of the usual 30% (held in 8 of 10 years)

MSFT's past 78 times in 5 years: a month later, up 41 of 78, typical +0.6%.

Date	That day	1 week on	1 month on	3 months on
Sep 4, 2026	-2.0%	+1.1%	+5.9%	—
Aug 12, 2026	-2.3%	-1.6%	+0.8%	—
Jul 22, 2026	-1.9%	+0.1%	+23.5%	—
Jun 22, 2026	-3.2%	+0.3%	+6.3%	+36.8%
Jun 11, 2026	-1.8%	-2.8%	-1.4%	+27.2%
Jun 2, 2026	-4.2%	-8.6%	-11.5%	+13.7%
Apr 23, 2026	-4.0%	-1.9%	+0.9%	-8.0%
Mar 27, 2026	-2.5%	+4.5%	+20.3%	+3.5%

Within 2% of its 52-week high odds adjusted

Near its 52-week high, the 5-session bargain price was reached a little more often than usual, so the bargain & stretch odds above are adjusted (marked in gold):

Bargain price, next 5 sessions: reached 29% of weeks instead of the usual 27% (held in 8 of 10 years)

Big drop and big gain: among MSFT's own worst or best 10% of daily moves, as on the Aftermath tab. The past times are history: in our tests, how a stock did after its earlier times did not predict the next one, and across the S&P 500 none of these situations leaned up or down except, weakly, an all-time high followed by a big drop. Not advice.

Price ladder

Highest analyst target	870.00 +61.1%
Mean analyst target	590.28 +9.3%
Stretch, next 5 sessions	552.24 +2.3%
All-time and 52-week closing high Oct 13, 2026	543.45 +0.6%
Now	540.04
Previous close Oct 14, 2026	533.69 -1.2%
Bargain, next 5 sessions	515.76 -4.5%
50-day average	504.78 -6.5%
Lowest analyst target	440.00 -18.5%
200-day average	433.81 -19.7%
52-week closing low Jun 25, 2026	352.17 -34.8%

Closing prices (all-time = the 41 years Yahoo has). Percentages are the distance from now. These are levels people watch, not levels the price has to respect. Not advice.