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Investing.com - TD Cowen has reiterated its Buy rating and $655.00 price target on Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) following the company’s Ignite conference in San Francisco. This target represents a significant upside from Microsoft’s current trading price of $494.24. The tech giant, currently valued at $3.67 trillion, enjoys a strong analyst consensus rating of 1.24 (Strong Buy), with the most optimistic analyst target reaching $730.
The firm highlighted Microsoft’s expansion of AI solutions with various product releases designed to democratize access to intelligence, integrate AI into workflow, and address implementation challenges. InvestingPro data shows Microsoft’s revenue growing at 15.59% year-over-year, underscoring the company’s continued expansion. InvestingPro also notes that 26 analysts have recently revised their earnings expectations upward for the upcoming period.
TD Cowen noted that Microsoft’s new Intelligence and Agent 365 control planes were particularly significant, as they ground AI in data and provide a hub for monitoring return on investment and governance.
The firm expressed confidence in Microsoft’s leading position in the AI era across multiple layers of the technology stack, citing its comprehensive solution set across Microsoft 365 applications and the Fabric data platform, paired with native integrations into partner data stores.
TD Cowen believes the Agent 365 platform will help organizations overcome key adoption obstacles such as ROI measurement, governance, and security concerns, with Foundry IQ serving as a crucial middleware layer to control AI agent orchestration.
In other recent news, Microsoft has been in the spotlight following its annual Ignite conference in San Francisco, where the company made significant announcements. KeyBanc reiterated its Overweight rating on Microsoft, emphasizing the company’s investment of up to $5 billion in Anthropic, which is tied to a $30 billion commitment to Azure spending. Guggenheim also maintained its Buy rating and a price target of $675, highlighting Microsoft’s efforts to position enterprises as "AI frontier firms." In addition to these developments, Microsoft is among the major tech companies that have issued a record $121 billion in investment-grade debt this year, significantly surpassing their five-year average. This includes $81 billion in U.S. dollar investment-grade supply from Microsoft and other tech giants since September.
Furthermore, Microsoft, alongside Amazon, is facing scrutiny from the European Commission under the Digital Markets Act. Investigations will determine if Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services should be classified as gatekeepers in the cloud computing sector. The probes will also assess whether the Act effectively addresses competitive fairness in the EU’s cloud computing market. These developments highlight the dynamic landscape of Microsoft’s operations and strategic initiatives.
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