- Prev close
- $498.00
- Day range
- $493.65 – $508.50
- From 52-wk high
- -10.1%
- Next earnings
- in 35 days
MSFT’s 2026-09-18 close of -0.8% looks like routine consolidation rather than stock-specific deterioration, with the move sitting against a -0.1% S&P 500 and +0.6% Nasdaq 100 and no fresh company event in the facts.
MSFT
MICROSOFT CORP
As of Sep 19, 2026
66/100
Worth keeping an eye onHealth ScoreMove driver
MSFT fell -0.8% on 2026-09-18, while the S&P 500 was -0.1% and the Nasdaq 100 was +0.6%; that gap makes the move mostly stock-specific rather than a broad market washout. The intraday path also mattered: it opened at $497.965, traded up to $498.65, then slid to a $491.1 low and closed at $493.78, which is a fade from early strength rather than an orderly market drift. No fresh company news is listed, so the cleanest read is that this was company-level consolidation after a strong 3m +30.1% run, not a market-wide shock.
Volatility check
This looks like normal volatility, but in a richly valued name where strong growth is already priced in. MSFT still shows revenue +17.8% YoY (TTM), EPS +31.6% YoY (TTM), gross margin +67.9%, operating margin +46.7%, and net margin +40.3%, which is an intact fundamental profile. The valuation is not cheap at PE 27.5, forward PE 22.9, and PEG 1.47 — the PEG, or P/E divided by growth rate, says investors are paying 1.47x growth, so good news is already partly embedded. Beta 1.06 also points to ordinary market sensitivity rather than extreme behavior, and there is no analyst-consensus cut in the facts. On that mix, a -0.8% session is more consistent with routine volatility than with deterioration.
Earnings setup
The next earnings date is not available this period, so I cannot anchor the report to a confirmed release date. The facts also do not provide current consensus revenue or EPS expectations for the coming quarter, nor updated margin guidance. The durable setup the market will still focus on is clear: whether revenue growth stays near the listed +17.8% YoY (TTM), whether EPS growth can hold near +31.6% YoY (TTM), and whether margins remain close to gross +67.9%, operating +46.7%, and net +40.3%. In the supplied facts, there is no prior-print reaction history to use, so the earnings read is limited to the business metrics above and the stock’s recent 3m +30.1% advance.
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