You dont have to calculation anything, find information of Microsoft Corporation

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You dont have to calculation anything, find information of Microsoft Corporation (MSFT) in yahoo finance and give me your thought :

- Line(s) of business, geographic markets in which Microsoft Corporation (MSFT) operate and company leadership.

- What is the outlook for Microsoft Corporation (MSFT) in the upcoming years?

- Discuss any positive and negative financial trends that you have identified in this link https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1d0ghHOcHp65mgbpEl09ZKpJDsM6vUI-TDSk9HX95XVU/edit?usp=sharing (Revenue, net income, debt, liquidity, fair value estimate, price target, dividend, etc.)

- What conditions exist that would allow the firm to improve its competitive condition and performance? Are there forces outside of the firm that could reduce the level of the firm’s performance?

- Do you feel that this is a good risk for us to take in the portfolio? Why or why not?

Explanation / Answer

Microsoft Corporation is into Windows Operating System and MS Office packages, offering wide variety of products to the customers. The company is also into cloud computing services with name Azure. They also manufacture tablets, X-box and laptop computers. Company has also taken over Skype, the online business meeting solution and Linkedln which is a business networking site.

The company is headquartered in Redmond - Washington and operates in 190 countries. The company has regional centres all around the world and has R&D centres and data centres.

Analysts following the company expecting it grow the earnings at an average annual rate of 11.88% over the next five years.Analysts expect earnings growth of 10.25% over the last year and an earning growth of 7.2% over the year's forecasted.

Current quarter's EPS is $0.84 and is showing a negative growth of -12.09% in the future. However current sales revenue is of $25.7 B and is showing a sales growth of 10.01% over the next year. Thus the company is howing good prospects in future in terms of sales revenue but need to work on EPS. Earnings per share is outside the firm's control asit dependson the market sentiments and mindset of the common public towards the performance of the company. Company needs tostregten its position against the competitors and work on improving the Earnings per share.

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