Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) stock has tumbled recently, but is up from recent lows. Has MSFT become too cheap? After all, analyst price targets are significantly higher. One play is to sell short one-month MSFT put options to set a lower buy-in potentially.

A new business within Microsoft has quietly grown to massive scale. The company's AI segment has crossed a $37 billion annual run rate.

Microsoft and Chipotle both crushed the market over the past decade, but their recent stumbles reveal two very different problems.

Microsoft stock looks like a screaming deal at these levels.

Microsoft's stock has declined this year despite record Q3 earnings, driven by its robust cloud and AI sectors. Investors face a dilemma: an opportunity to buy into a transformational growth story, or a caution about the significant costs of building its AI future.

The layoffs are not the catalyst; the setup is that the market is pricing in AI capex pain and AI disruption at the same time. Wolfe’s capex/FCF cut is real, but the stock is already down ~18% YTD, leaving room for a “capex growth slowing + Azure acceleration” earnings surprise on July 29.

Microsoft is doing well as a company, but the stock isn't following suit.

Analyses of MSFT today are based less on fundamentals and more on whether it can exceed already-high expectations.

Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) and Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) are two heavyweights in the technology world and key players in artificial intelligence (AI). Microsoft seems to have its hand in every tech market segment,

Amid concerns about returns on AI investments, Microsoft wasn't the only tech company that suffered a bruising June.