Microsoft: Double-Digit Earnings Growth Expected For Wide Moat Icon

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Summary

  • Microsoft has evolved into a vital infrastructure provider with strong moats, recurring revenue, and exposure to secular trends through partnerships and optionality.
  • Its friendly image and relatively lower regulatory risks versus other Big Techs offer an advantage that helps mitigate future uncertainty.
  • Despite high valuation metrics, MSFT's profitability, strategic bets like OpenAI, and ecosystem lock-in support long-term upside.
  • While the stock looks stretched short term, I maintain exposure through DIA, which gives me indirect access to this high-quality business.
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Microsoft Sales office. Microsoft plans for a future beyond the XBOX, Surface and cloud computing.

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This article is co-authored by Kenio Fontes

Microsoft's (NASDAQ:MSFT) moats are truly impressive. The company is now no longer just a software company with a sticky subscription revenue; in fact, it has become a company that offers essential infrastructure to different

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