Microsoft Ownership

Who are the major shareholders and have insiders been buying or selling?

Recent Insider Transactions

WBAG:MSFT Recent Insider Transactions by Companies or Individuals
Date	Value	Name	Entity	Shares	Max Price
09 Dec 24	Sell€1,057,235	Takeshi Numoto	Individual	2,500	€422.89
04 Dec 24	Sell€830,552	Takeshi Numoto	Individual	2,000	€415.28
02 Dec 24	Sell€1,429,981	Takeshi Numoto	Individual	3,500	€410.58
22 Nov 24	Sell€10,028,850	Judson Althoff	Individual	25,000	€401.15
22 Nov 24	Sell€398,961	Takeshi Numoto	Individual	1,000	€398.96
12 Nov 24	Sell€2,874,946	Christopher Young	Individual	7,200	€399.30
10 Sep 24	Sell€6,492,017	Kathleen Hogan	Individual	17,377.58	€373.59
10 Sep 24	Sell€932,143	Takeshi Numoto	Individual	2,500	€372.86
09 Sep 24	Sell€14,584,988	Bradford Smith	Individual	40,000	€365.27
05 Sep 24	Sell€14,071,916	Amy Hood	Individual	38,000	€370.31
23 Aug 24	Sell€5,369,243	Satya Nadella	Individual	14,398	€372.92
23 May 24	Sell€9,832,098	Judson Althoff	Individual	25,000	€393.28
11 Mar 24	Sell€3,693,792	Judson Althoff	Individual	10,000	€369.38
11 Mar 24	Sell€8,116,092	Kathleen Hogan	Individual	21,955.33	€369.66
05 Feb 24	Sell€18,526,135	Bradford Smith	Individual	48,303	€383.90

Insider Trading Volume

Insider Buying: MSFT insiders have only sold shares in the past 3 months.

Ownership Breakdown

What is the ownership structure of MSFT?
Owner Type	Number of Shares	Ownership Percentage
Private Companies	18,117	0.000244%
Individual Insiders	2,517,991	0.0339%
State or Government	7,681,073	0.103%
General Public	2,028,256,343	27.3%
Institutions	5,396,407,252	72.6%

Dilution of Shares: Shareholders have not been meaningfully diluted in the past year.

Top Shareholders

Top 25 shareholders own 43.53% of the company

Ownership	Name	Shares	Current Value	Change %	Portfolio %
9.06%	The Vanguard Group, Inc.	673,639,717	€281.9b	-0.34%	4.32%
7.55%	BlackRock, Inc.	561,482,110	€234.9b	1.35%	3.91%
3.89%	State Street Global Advisors, Inc.	289,501,350	€121.1b	-3.51%	4.66%
3.02%	Capital Research and Management Company	224,775,412	€94.1b	-3.85%	4.66%
2.57%	FMR LLC	191,003,932	€79.9b	-2.94%	4.91%
2.22%	Geode Capital Management, LLC	165,024,812	€69.1b	2.02%	5.04%
1.98%	T. Rowe Price Group, Inc.	147,321,312	€61.6b	-0.73%	5.61%
1.31%	JP Morgan Asset Management	97,328,548	€40.7b	2.98%	4.76%
1.31%	Norges Bank Investment Management	97,071,282	€40.6b	0%	3.41%
1.17%	UBS Asset Management AG	86,953,291	€36.4b	3.05%	3.73%
0.97%	Northern Trust Global Investments	72,187,276	€30.2b	-3.25%	4.79%
0.88%	Legal & General Investment Management Limited	65,635,176	€27.5b	6.2%	5.13%
0.86%	Morgan Stanley, Investment Banking and Brokerage Investments	64,152,728	€26.8b	1.95%	3.22%
0.76%	BNY Asset Management	56,865,290	€23.8b	-3.88%	4.82%
0.73%	Wellington Management Group LLP	54,047,170	€22.6b	0.06%	3.71%
0.67%	Eaton Vance Management	49,942,922	€20.9b	1.65%	5.01%
0.65%	Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association-College Retirement Equities Fund	48,425,965	€20.3b	-2.4%	5.11%
0.64%	Charles Schwab Investment Management, Inc.	47,247,811	€19.8b	1.4%	3.4%
0.55%	AllianceBernstein L.P.	41,238,045	€17.3b	-1.81%	5.41%
0.51%	Goldman Sachs Asset Management, L.P.	37,821,235	€15.8b	0.03%	4.36%
0.48%	Massachusetts Financial Services Company	35,907,575	€15.0b	-4.38%	3.37%
0.47%	Columbia Management Investment Advisers, LLC	35,130,823	€14.7b	1.79%	3.44%
0.44%	Amundi Asset Management SAS	32,807,285	€13.7b	1.81%	2.94%
0.43%	Managed Account Advisors LLC	31,917,648	€13.4b	1.55%	2.82%
0.39%	Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Trust	28,957,247	€12.1b	-17%	31.99%

Company Analysis and Financial Data Status

Data	Last Updated (UTC time)
Company Analysis	2024/12/22 01:48
End of Day Share Price	2024/12/20 00:00
Earnings	2024/09/30
Annual Earnings	2024/06/30

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Company Financials	10 years	Income statement Cash flow statement Balance sheet	SEC Form 10-K SEC Form 10-Q
Analyst Consensus Estimates	+3 years	Forecast financials Analyst price targets	Analyst Research Reports Blue Matrix
Market Prices	30 years	Stock prices Dividends, Splits and Actions	ICE Market Data SEC Form S-1
Ownership	10 years	Top shareholders Insider trading	SEC Form 4 SEC Form 13D
Management	10 years	Leadership team Board of directors	SEC Form 10-K SEC Form DEF 14A
Key Developments	10 years	Company announcements	SEC Form 8-K

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Analyst Sources

Microsoft Corporation is covered by 99 analysts. 52 of those analysts submitted the estimates of revenue or earnings used as inputs to our report. Analysts submissions are updated throughout the day.

Analyst	Institution
Harshit Gupta	Accountability Research Corporation
Kadambari Daptardar	Accountability Research Corporation
Adam Shepherd	Arete Research Services LLP