Microsoft holds its range as AI spending stays in focus
MSFT is trading around $493 on September 18 and is still moving sideways inside a broad $480–515 range after a strong summer run. The latest results give the stock plenty of fundamental support. Revenue rose 18% year over year to $90.0 billion in the fourth fiscal quarter, operating income grew at the same pace, and adjusted EPS increased 23% to $4.74.
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Cloud growth still does the heavy lifting
Microsoft Cloud revenue reached $59.3 billion, up 27% from a year earlier, while Azure and other cloud services grew 43%. Commercial RPO climbed to $678 billion, giving Microsoft a sizable backlog and a fairly clear line of sight on future revenue.
The bigger issue now is how much spending it will take to keep that growth rate intact. Microsoft plans to roughly double its computing capacity over the next two years, is expanding its own Maia and Cobalt AI chips, and is already preparing infrastructure for NVIDIA Vera Rubin and AMD Helios. That buildout is starting to show up in the numbers. Microsoft Cloud gross margin slipped to 65%, partly because Azure carries more weight in the mix and partly because AI infrastructure spending remains heavy. For the next quarter, management is guiding for $89.85–90.95 billion in total revenue, $40.95–41.25 billion from Intelligent Cloud, Azure growth of roughly 44–45% in constant currency, and CapEx above $50 billion.
Monetization becomes the next test
There has also been a noticeable shift in the AI narrative. The conversation is moving beyond chips, GPUs and data centers and toward how Microsoft actually uses and monetizes the technology. The company recently introduced a humanist AI code of conduct, with more emphasis on human oversight and model safety. Copilot, meanwhile, is being pushed deeper into Word, Excel, PowerPoint and enterprise workflows, while first-party agent usage continues to rise. That is where the next test lies: turning a huge infrastructure buildout into recurring revenue across an already massive customer base.
$500 remains the key technical hurdle
On the chart, not much has changed yet. Buyers are still stepping in around $490–488, while $500 remains the first level MSFT needs to clear. The setup is constructive as long as that support zone holds, but a break below it would weaken the structure and put $480–475 back in focus. Until then, as also noted in Microsoft consolidates near $500 as Azure growth offsets valuation pressure, the stock looks more like a consolidation story than a clean breakout.
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