Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) Plans Dividend Increase – $0.91 Per Share

Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) announced a quarterly dividend on Monday, September 15th, RTT News reports. Shareholders of record on Thursday, November 20th will be paid a dividend of 0.91 per share by the software giant on Thursday, December 11th. This represents a c) annualized dividend and a yield of 0.7%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, November 20th. This is a 9.6% increase from Microsoft’s previous quarterly dividend of $0.83.

Microsoft has a payout ratio of 21.9% meaning its dividend is sufficiently covered by earnings. Research analysts expect Microsoft to earn $14.70 per share next year, which means the company should continue to be able to cover its $3.32 annual dividend with an expected future payout ratio of 22.6%.

Microsoft Price Performance

Shares of MSFT opened at $515.36 on Tuesday. Microsoft has a twelve month low of $344.79 and a twelve month high of $555.45. The company has a 50 day moving average of $510.90 and a two-hundred day moving average of $455.45. The company has a quick ratio of 1.35, a current ratio of 1.35 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.12. The company has a market cap of $3.83 trillion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 37.78, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 2.23 and a beta of 1.04.

Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) last posted its quarterly earnings data on Wednesday, July 30th. The software giant reported $3.65 EPS for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $3.35 by $0.30. Microsoft had a net margin of 36.15% and a return on equity of 32.44%. The business had revenue of $76.44 billion during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $73.79 billion. During the same period in the previous year, the firm posted $2.95 earnings per share. The business’s revenue for the quarter was up 18.1% compared to the same quarter last year. Microsoft has set its Q1 2026 guidance at EPS. As a group, analysts predict that Microsoft will post 13.08 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.

Microsoft Company Profile

Microsoft Corporation develops and supports software, services, devices and solutions worldwide. The Productivity and Business Processes segment offers office, exchange, SharePoint, Microsoft Teams, office 365 Security and Compliance, Microsoft viva, and Microsoft 365 copilot; and office consumer services, such as Microsoft 365 consumer subscriptions, Office licensed on-premises, and other office services.