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| Microsoft is actively advancing its role in product and service development through significant AI integrations across various sectors, notably in financial services. The company's commitment to sustainability and community-focused strategies enhances its market presence, creating products that not only drive efficiency but also address local concerns. Investments in AI development further illustrate Microsoft's proactive stance in technological innovation, benefitting both the company and its customers. However, challenges remain in balancing rapid technological advancement with ethical considerations in AI deployment. |
| The price action of Microsoft Corporation (MSFT) is impacted by broad market risk appetite, sector price trend, company-specific performance and market structure. The trend sentiment at -0.3 is modestly bearish. The market sentiment at 0.4 is modestly bullish. Trend sentiment measures the current trend of the stock price, and market sentiment reflects what market participants collectively think where the price will move next.There is no clear direction for MSFT since trend sentiment and market sentiment are at the opposite directions. The positive sentiment force for sector is at 0.5, and the negative at -0.1 on 2026-01-17. The forces of and Stock Price Trend (-0.3) will drive down the price. The forces of Price Level Sentiment (0), Option Sentiment (0), Valuation Sentiment (0.1), Sector Price Trend (0.2), Sentiment towards Fundamentals (0.8), and Market Risk Appetite (1.8) will drive up the price. The sentiment for Sector Price Trend is calculated based on the price trend of related sector ETF. The sentiment for Option Speculation is calculated from put/call ratio. The Risk Appetite is calculated from Bitcoin price trend. Price Level sentiment is positive when oversold, and negative when overbought. Valuation Sentiment, and Sentimentals towards Fundamentals are extracted from headlines and market commentary. All sentiment scores are normalized on a -10 - +10 scale. The price level reaches 100 at Bollinger upper band, and zero at lower band. |
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| Date | Attention | Price | Price Level | Change | SMA10 Trend | Trend Sentiment | Hourly Trend | Hourly StdDev | Market Sentiment | Action | P | Fund. | News Sentiment |
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| 2026-01-17 | 2%(0.9%) | -0.3 | -0.02% | 0.4 | 0.8 | -4.2 | |||||||
| 2026-01-16 | 1%(0.6%) | 459.86 | 3 | 0.7% | -0.27% | -0.3 | -0.02% | 0.4% | 0.8 | Long | 75% | 1.6 | -2 |
| 2026-01-15 | 0%(0.4%) | 456.66 | -14 | -0.59% | -0.57% | -0.2 | -0.11% | 0.8% | 0.9 | Long | 80% | 2.1 | 7 |
| 2026-01-14 | 1%(0.4%) | 459.38 | -22 | -2.4% | -0.59% | -0.2 | -0.21% | 1.4% | 0.9 | Long | 88% | 1.2 | 3.6 |
| 2026-01-13 | 2%(0.3%) | 470.67 | 5 | -1.36% | -0.35% | 0.1 | -0.06% | 1% | 0.8 | Long | 75% | 1.8 | 2.2 |
| 2026-01-12 | 0%(0%) | 477.18 | 30 | -0.44% | -0.21% | 0.2 | 0% | 0.3% | 0.6 | Long | 60% | 1.5 | 4 |
| 2026-01-11 | 0%(0%) | 0.4 | -0.08% | 0.5 | 1.5 | 5 | |||||||
| 2026-01-10 | 0%(0.1%) | 0.4 | -0.08% | 0.6 | 1.7 | -7 | |||||||
| 2026-01-09 | 0%(0.1%) | 479.28 | 39 | 0.24% | -0.19% | 0.4 | -0.08% | 0.7% | 1.1 | Long | 65% | 2.1 | -1 |
| 2026-01-08 | 0%(0.1%) | 478.11 | 33 | -1.11% | -0.19% | -0.3 | 0.06% | 0.9% | 0.9 | Wait | 50% | 1.6 | -5.5 |
| Wait action is recommended in three scenarios with either high uncertainty or high risk: 1. The trend sentiment and market sentiment are at the opposite directions. 2. Both trend sentiment and market sentiment are positive, but the price level is elevated. 3. Both trend sentiment and market sentiment are negative, but the price level is depressed. In an uptrend, as an investor, you may want to wait for the pullback to open long position. In a downtrend, the price will likely rebound after huge decline. As an investor, you may want to wait for the rebound to exit long position. | |||||||||||||
| Market sentiment will accelerate the current trend when both trend sentiment and market sentiment are at the same direction. Market sentiment will generate volatility when it's at the opposite direction of the trend sentiment. News sentiment measures the daily emotion of the market. News sentiment may impact the daily price change while market sentiment is a more stable and consistent moving force. | |||||||||||||
| Market News | ||
| 1 (-5) Musk is asking for up to $134 billion in his legal battle against OpenAI and Microsoft Elon Musk wants OpenAI and Microsoft to pay him damages in the range of $79 billion to $134 billion over his claims that he was defrauded. (https://www.businessinsider.com/) Sat. Jan 17, 2026 | ||
| 2 (2) Goldman Sachs revamps Microsoft stock price target before earnings A familiar Wall Street voice just changed the tone. (https://www.thestreet.com/) Sat. Jan 17, 2026 | ||
| 3 (-7) Musk Seeks Up to $134 Billion Damages From OpenAI, Microsoft Elon Musk wants OpenAI Inc. and Microsoft to pay him damages in the range of $79 billion to $134 billion over his claims that the generative AI company defrauded him by abandoning its nonprofit roots and partnering with the software giant. (https://www.bloomberg.com/) Sat. Jan 17, 2026 | ||
| 4 (-5) OpenAI Accuses Elon Musk Of 'Cherry-Picking' Evidence In Lawsuit, Says He Backed For-Profit Shift And Quit After Failing To Secure Control OpenAI says Elon Musk supported a for-profit structure as early as 2017 but later quit after failing to secure full control, accusing him of cherry-picking internal records in a lawsuit that now threatens the company's future and its ties to Microsoft. (https://www.benzinga.com/) Sat. Jan 17, 2026 | ||
| 5 (2) Musk wants up to $134B in OpenAI lawsuit, despite $700B fortune Musk's legal team argues he should be compensated as an early startup investor who sees returns "many orders of magnitude greater" than his initial investment. (https://finance.yahoo.com/) Sat. Jan 17, 2026 | ||
| 6 (-6) Musk seeks up to $134 billion from OpenAI, Microsoft in 'wrongful gains' Elon Musk is seeking up to $134 billion from OpenAI and Microsoft, arguing he deserves the "wrongful gains" that they received from his early support of the artificial-intelligence startup, according to a court filing on Friday. OpenAI gained between $65.5 billion and $109.4 billion from the billionaire entrepreneur's contributions when he was co-founding OpenAI from 2015, while Microsoft gained between $13.3 billion and $25.1 billion, Musk said in the federal court filing ahead of his trial against the two companies. OpenAI, Microsoft and Musk's lawyers did not immediately respond to requests for comment outside business hours. (https://finance.yahoo.com/) Sat. Jan 17, 2026 | ||
| 7 (-2) Top Cerved Executive Exits From Billionaire Pignataro’s ION Unit A former Microsoft Corp. executive has left Cerved Group, the Italian credit-information company that is part of billionaire Andrea Pignataro’s ION Group, according to people familiar with the matter. (https://www.bloomberg.com/) Fri. Jan 16, 2026 | ||
| 8 (-2) Microsoft and Meta Kick Off Data Center PR Blitz Data centers aren’t popular with local communities. Microsoft and Meta are running PR campaigns to fix that. (https://www.bloomberg.com/) Fri. Jan 16, 2026 | ||
| 9 (8) Microsoft, Alphabet, Amazon Poised For 'Very Strong' Q4 Earnings, Says Dan Ives: 'This Is A Mid-1996 Moment' Wedbush Analyst, Dan Ives says that Big Tech is poised for a "very strong" Q4 earnings. (https://www.benzinga.com/) Fri. Jan 16, 2026 | ||
| 10 (-5) OpenAI, Microsoft Lose Last Chance to Avoid Trial With Musk OpenAI Inc. and Microsoft failed to escape a trial over Elon Musk’s claims that Sam Altman’s startup betrayed its founding mission as a public charity when it took billions in funding from the software giant and made plans to operate as a for-profit business. (https://www.bloomberg.com/) Fri. Jan 16, 2026 | ||
| 11 (-2) Musk’s lawsuit against OpenAI, Microsoft heads to April jury trial Musk’s lawsuit against OpenAI, Microsoft heads to April jury trial (https://www.investing.com/) Fri. Jan 16, 2026 | ||
| 12 (-3) OpenAI, Microsoft Lose Last Chance to Avoid Trial With Musk A federal judge in Oakland, California, on Thursday rejected requests by OpenAI and Microsoft to dismiss claims by Musk and ordered the case to proceed to a jury trial set for late April. Musk helped Altman and others launch OpenAI in 2015 and went on to found his own artificial intelligence company in 2023. (https://finance.yahoo.com/) Fri. Jan 16, 2026 | ||