“Interest expense increased primarily due to higher finance lease interest expense, offset in part by higher capitalization of debt interest expense.”10-K · Jul 29, 2026 ↗
Microsoft Corporation
MSFT
Market read
Microsoft Corporation's current read is isolated; its market group is not confirming.
No new filing conclusion is available. 0 of 12 group members are active now; 0 filing-linked outsiders are moving with the group, and 0 of 26 directly disclosed connections are confirming.
- Monitor R&D expense changes tied to investments in compute capacity, AI talent, and data supporting product development.
Invalidation: The isolated read changes if MSFT's group or a disclosed connection begins moving with it.
Research brief
The story so far
No new filing conclusion is available. 0 of 12 group members are active now; 0 filing-linked outsiders are moving with the group, and 0 of 26 directly disclosed connections are confirming.
No thresholded supportive filing evidence is available yet.
No thresholded adverse filing evidence is available yet.
- Monitor R&D expense changes tied to investments in compute capacity, AI talent, and data supporting product development.
Company research
Understand the business, not just the ticker
Use the company’s filings to identify the few operating, demand, cost, capital and regulatory variables that determine its earnings power.
- Which operating variable is changing?
- Is that change durable, cyclical or one-off?
- What evidence would disprove the current interpretation?
- Latest annual revenue changed +17.8% year over year.
- Operating margin changed +1.2 percentage points in the latest annual period.
- Net margin changed +4.2 percentage points in the latest annual period.
- Operating cash flow covered net income at 1.37x in the latest annual period.
- Demand and volume has repeated favorable evidence across 5 filings.
- Product pipeline and R&D has repeated favorable evidence across 5 filings.
- Restructuring and cost reductions has repeated favorable evidence across 5 filings.
- Tariffs and trade policy has repeated adverse evidence across 5 filings.
No credible peer-relative valuation comparison is available yet.
Price as of Sep 11, 2026
495.58Reported annual revenue and per-share history. This is accounting history, not a forecast.
What management says matters
Persistent and emerging business drivers
“Cost of revenue increased $17.7 billion or 44% driven by investments in AI infrastructure to support growing customer demand.”10-K · Jul 29, 2026 ↗
“Non-compliance with sanctions as well as general ecosystem disruptions could result in reputational harm, operational delays, monetary fines, loss of revenue, increased costs, loss of export privileges, or criminal sanctions, which could adversely affect our…”10-K · Jul 29, 2026 ↗
“Fiscal Year 2026 Compared with Fiscal Year 2025 Research and development expenses increased $3.1 billion or 9% driven by continued investments in compute capacity, AI talent, and data to support product development that benefits the entire portfolio, as well…”10-K · Jul 29, 2026 ↗
Valuation discipline
Peer-relative valuation withheld
Jodie found no industry-matched filing peers suitable for a valuation comparison. It will not substitute broader financial-sector names.
Mechanical 2.0-year scenarios are available as editable assumptions, not consensus.
Price action
How the market is pricing the story
Jodie does not have enough daily observations to draw a useful short-term chart for this asset. The latest quoted price was checked 11 Sept, 15:55 GMT-4; this is a coverage limitation, not a flat-price conclusion.
Developments
No sourced recent-development timeline yet
Jodie has not returned a relevant primary source or news item for MSFT. This is an evidence-coverage gap, not a conclusion that nothing material happened.
Business and financial condition
Reported financial figures are not available yet
Jodie has not returned structured SEC XBRL fundamentals for this asset. This is a coverage limitation, not an assessment of the business or its financial health.
Filing analysis
No comparable filing assessment is available yet
Jodie has not yet found a suitable current-versus-prior filing comparison for MSFT. This does not mean the latest filing was neutral or immaterial.
Business ecosystem
The relationships behind MSFT
Customers, suppliers, partners and competitors named in company filings—not inferred from headlines.
Depends on
CISOFiling-linked namepartnerJul 30, 2025 ▾
“Presentations to the Board of Directors are made by senior management, including our Chief Information Security Officer (“CISO”), our EVP of Microsoft Security, our EVP of Cloud + AI, and the head of our Customer Security and Trust organization.”
Depended on by
CRWV67.0% of CRWVcustomerMay 8, 2026 ▾
“We recognized an aggregate of approximately 67% and 65% of our revenue for the three months ended September 30, 2025 and 2024, from our largest customer, Microsoft.”
Filing peers
Companies whose filings use similar operating language.
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What is moving around it
Live connections
MSFT is currently a Participant in the organic co-movement group Mixed Technology and Finance. This group is discovered from market behaviour rather than assigned from an industry taxonomy. 2 filing-linked names are in the relationship map; none is currently confirmed as moving with the group.
This group is retained as the last observed read for MSFT; it is not active in the latest market snapshot.
Context history
Theme membership history
No durable theme membership has been observed for this name yet.