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Comparative Price Performance Over Time

Compare Price & Volume

Company	Current Price	50-Day Moving Average	52-Week Range	Market Cap	Beta	Avg. Volume	Today's Volume
MSFT Microsoft	$372.27 +4.0%	$397.55	$344.79 ▼ $468.35	$2.77T	1	20.85 million shs	7.29 million shs
PANW Palo Alto Networks	$161.22 +5.8%	$184.86	$132.83 ▼ $208.39	$105.95B	1.07	5.89 million shs	5.51 million shs
QCOM QUALCOMM	$135.06 +4.1%	$160.91	$120.80 ▼ $230.63	$148.81B	1.28	8.69 million shs	1.77 million shs

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Compare Price Performance

Company	1-Day Performance	7-Day Performance	30-Day Performance	90-Day Performance	1-Year Performance
MSFT Microsoft	-0.55%	-4.67%	-9.01%	-15.27%	-15.90%
PANW Palo Alto Networks	-0.74%	-10.67%	-15.75%	-13.14%	+13.33%
QCOM QUALCOMM	+1.77%	-15.55%	-19.54%	-19.19%	-24.37%

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Compare MarketRank™

Company	Overall Score	Analyst's Opinion	Short Interest Score	Dividend Strength	ESG Score	News and Social Media Sentiment	Company Ownership	Earnings & Valuation
MSFT Microsoft	4.9019 of 5 stars	4.5	4.0	3.3	2.9	3.3	1.7	1.9
PANW Palo Alto Networks	4.6367 of 5 stars	4.3	2.0	0.0	3.8	3.4	2.5	1.9
QCOM QUALCOMM	4.9235 of 5 stars	4.3	3.0	4.2	3.4	3.4	2.5	1.9

Compare Analyst Forecasts

Company	Consensus Rating Score	Consensus Rating	Consensus Price Target	% Upside from Current Price
MSFT Microsoft	2.90	Moderate Buy	$508.00	36.46% Upside
PANW Palo Alto Networks	2.67	Moderate Buy	$204.27	26.70% Upside
QCOM QUALCOMM	2.50	Moderate Buy	$205.32	52.02% Upside

Current Analyst Ratings Breakdown

Latest MSFT, QCOM, and PANW Analyst Ratings

Date	Company	Brokerage	Action	Rating	Price Target
4/7/2025	MSFT Microsoft	Jefferies Financial Group Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Reiterated Rating	Buy ➝ Buy	$500.00 ➝ $475.00
4/1/2025	MSFT Microsoft	Westpark Capital Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Initiated Coverage	Hold
4/1/2025	PANW Palo Alto Networks	Stephens Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Initiated Coverage	Equal Weight	$205.00
3/31/2025	MSFT Microsoft	Jefferies Financial Group Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Lower Price Target	Buy ➝ Buy	$550.00 ➝ $500.00
3/31/2025	PANW Palo Alto Networks	Stephens Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Upgrade	Strong-Buy
3/31/2025	PANW Palo Alto Networks	Jefferies Financial Group Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Lower Price Target	Buy ➝ Buy	$240.00 ➝ $215.00
3/31/2025	PANW Palo Alto Networks	Truist Financial Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Lower Price Target	Buy ➝ Buy	$213.00 ➝ $205.00
3/31/2025	PANW Palo Alto Networks	Rosenblatt Securities Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Reiterated Rating	Buy ➝ Buy	$235.00 ➝ $235.00
3/20/2025	MSFT Microsoft	Tigress Financial Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Boost Price Target	Buy ➝ Buy	$550.00 ➝ $595.00
3/20/2025	MSFT Microsoft	Wedbush Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Reiterated Rating	Outperform ➝ Outperform	$550.00 ➝ $550.00
3/20/2025	MSFT Microsoft	Scotiabank Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Initiated Coverage	Sector Outperform	$470.00

(Data available from 4/8/2022 forward. View 10+ years of historical ratings with our analyst ratings screener.)

Compare Sales & Book Value

Company	Annual Revenue	Price/Sales	Cashflow	Price/Cash	Book Value	Price/Book
MSFT Microsoft	$261.80B	10.57	$13.29 per share	28.01	$40.72 per share	9.14
PANW Palo Alto Networks	$8.57B	12.45	$2.19 per share	73.63	$9.63 per share	16.74
QCOM QUALCOMM	$40.70B	3.67	$7.87 per share	17.17	$24.30 per share	5.56

Compare Profitability & Earnings

Company	Net Income	EPS	Trailing P/E Ratio	Forward P/E Ratio	P/E Growth	Net Margins	Return on Equity (ROE)	Return on Assets (ROA)	Next Earnings Date
MSFT Microsoft	$88.14B	$12.42	29.97	25.32	2.21	35.43%	33.36%	18.07%	4/24/2025 (Estimated)
PANW Palo Alto Networks	$2.58B	$1.77	90.16	76.77	5.64	14.64%	21.93%	6.07%	5/19/2025 (Estimated)
QCOM QUALCOMM	$10.14B	$9.36	14.38	13.70	2.01	25.94%	39.51%	18.65%	4/30/2025 (Estimated)

Latest MSFT, QCOM, and PANW Earnings

Date	Quarter	Company	Consensus Estimate	Reported EPS	Beat/Miss	Gap EPS	Revenue Estimate	Actual Revenue
4/30/2025	N/A	QCOM QUALCOMM	$2.79	N/A	N/A	N/A	$10.58 billion	N/A
4/24/2025	N/A	MSFT Microsoft	$3.20	N/A	N/A	N/A	$68.54 billion	N/A
2/13/2025	Q2 2025	PANW Palo Alto Networks	$0.75	$0.81	+$0.06	$0.38	$2.24 billion	$2.26 billion
2/5/2025	Q1 2025	QCOM QUALCOMM	$2.93	$2.86	-$0.07	$2.83	$10.90 billion	N/A
1/29/2025	Q2 2025	MSFT Microsoft	$3.15	$3.23	+$0.08	$3.23	$68.86 billion	N/A

Compare Dividends

Company	Annual Payout	Dividend Yield	3-Year Dividend Growth	Payout Ratio	Years of Consecutive Growth
MSFT Microsoft	$3.32	0.89%	+10.22%	26.73%	23 Years
PANW Palo Alto Networks	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
QCOM QUALCOMM	$3.40	2.52%	+7.19%	36.32%	22 Years

Latest MSFT, QCOM, and PANW Dividends

Announcement	Company	Period	Amount	Yield	Ex-Dividend Date	Record Date	Payable Date
3/11/2025	MSFT Microsoft	quarterly	$0.83	0.87%	5/15/2025	5/15/2025	6/12/2025
1/10/2025	QCOM QUALCOMM	quarterly	$0.85	2.06%	3/6/2025	3/6/2025	3/27/2025

(Data available from 1/1/2013 forward)

Compare Debt

Company	Debt-to-Equity Ratio	Current Ratio	Quick Ratio
MSFT Microsoft	0.13	1.35	1.34
PANW Palo Alto Networks	N/A	0.84	0.84
QCOM QUALCOMM	0.49	2.62	1.99

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Institutional Ownership

Company	Institutional Ownership
MSFT Microsoft	71.13%
PANW Palo Alto Networks	79.82%
QCOM QUALCOMM	74.35%

Insider Ownership

Company	Insider Ownership
MSFT Microsoft	0.03%
PANW Palo Alto Networks	2.50%
QCOM QUALCOMM	0.08%

Compare Miscellaneous Stats

Company	Employees	Shares Outstanding	Free Float	Optionable
MSFT Microsoft	221,000	7.43 billion	7.43 billion	Optionable
PANW Palo Alto Networks	12,600	662.10 million	645.55 million	Optionable
QCOM QUALCOMM	51,000	1.11 billion	1.11 billion	Optionable

MSFT, QCOM, and PANW Headlines

Recent News About These Companies

Rathbones Group PLC Has $10.51 Million Position in QUALCOMM Incorporated (NASDAQ:QCOM)

April 8 at 6:45 AM | marketbeat.com

Cerity Partners LLC Sells 9,557 Shares of QUALCOMM Incorporated (NASDAQ:QCOM)

April 8 at 6:21 AM | marketbeat.com

Sierra Summit Advisors LLC Trims Position in QUALCOMM Incorporated (NASDAQ:QCOM)

April 8 at 6:14 AM | marketbeat.com

QUALCOMM Incorporated (NASDAQ:QCOM) CFO Sells $235,270.10 in Stock

April 8 at 4:32 AM | marketbeat.com

China's DeepRoute.ai to team up with Qualcomm to develop advanced driver assistance solutions

April 8 at 12:13 AM | reuters.com

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QUALCOMM (NASDAQ:QCOM) Shares Down 4.7% - Here's What Happened

April 7 at 8:10 AM | marketbeat.com

Legal & General Group Plc Sells 2,614,556 Shares of QUALCOMM Incorporated (NASDAQ:QCOM)

April 7 at 7:20 AM | marketbeat.com

Invesco Ltd. Has $1.48 Billion Stock Holdings in QUALCOMM Incorporated (NASDAQ:QCOM)

April 7 at 7:17 AM | marketbeat.com

Certior Financial Group LLC Buys Shares of 2,828 QUALCOMM Incorporated (NASDAQ:QCOM)

April 7 at 6:58 AM | marketbeat.com

Polymer Capital Management HK LTD Buys 7,800 Shares of QUALCOMM Incorporated (NASDAQ:QCOM)

April 7 at 6:51 AM | marketbeat.com

Bell Asset Management Ltd Boosts Stock Holdings in QUALCOMM Incorporated (NASDAQ:QCOM)

April 7 at 6:50 AM | marketbeat.com

Unigestion Holding SA Sells 3,050 Shares of QUALCOMM Incorporated (NASDAQ:QCOM)

April 7 at 6:42 AM | marketbeat.com

Federated Hermes Inc. Increases Position in QUALCOMM Incorporated (NASDAQ:QCOM)

April 7 at 6:33 AM | marketbeat.com

Trek Financial LLC Purchases 2,150 Shares of QUALCOMM Incorporated (NASDAQ:QCOM)

April 7 at 6:32 AM | marketbeat.com

QUALCOMM Incorporated (NASDAQ:QCOM) Shares Sold by Fmr LLC

April 7 at 6:25 AM | marketbeat.com

QUALCOMM Incorporated (NASDAQ:QCOM) Shares Sold by Sepio Capital LP

April 7 at 6:24 AM | marketbeat.com

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MSFT, QCOM, and PANW Company Descriptions

Microsoft NASDAQ:MSFT

$372.27 +14.41 (+4.03%)

As of 10:35 AM Eastern

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. This segment also provides LinkedIn; and dynamics business solutions, including Dynamics 365, a set of intelligent, cloud-based applications across ERP, CRM, power apps, and power automate; and on-premises ERP and CRM applications. The Intelligent Cloud segment offers server products and cloud services, such as azure and other cloud services; SQL and windows server, visual studio, system center, and related client access licenses, as well as nuance and GitHub; and enterprise services including enterprise support services, industry solutions, and nuance professional services. The More Personal Computing segment offers Windows, including windows OEM licensing and other non-volume licensing of the Windows operating system; Windows commercial comprising volume licensing of the Windows operating system, windows cloud services, and other Windows commercial offerings; patent licensing; and windows Internet of Things; and devices, such as surface, HoloLens, and PC accessories. Additionally, this segment provides gaming, which includes Xbox hardware and content, and first- and third-party content; Xbox game pass and other subscriptions, cloud gaming, advertising, third-party disc royalties, and other cloud services; and search and news advertising, which includes Bing, Microsoft News and Edge, and third-party affiliates. The company sells its products through OEMs, distributors, and resellers; and directly through digital marketplaces, online, and retail stores. The company was founded in 1975 and is headquartered in Redmond, Washington.

Palo Alto Networks NASDAQ:PANW

$161.22 +8.78 (+5.76%)

As of 10:35 AM Eastern

Palo Alto Networks, Inc. provides cybersecurity solutions worldwide. The company offers firewall appliances and software; and Panorama, a security management solution for the global control of network security platform as a virtual or a physical appliance. It also provides subscription services covering the areas of threat prevention, malware and persistent threat, URL filtering, laptop and mobile device protection, DNS security, Internet of Things security, SaaS security API, and SaaS security inline, as well as threat intelligence, and data loss prevention. In addition, the company offers cloud security, secure access, security operations, and threat intelligence and security consulting; professional services, including architecture design and planning, implementation, configuration, and firewall migration; education services, such as certifications, as well as online and in-classroom training; and support services. It sells its products and services through its channel partners, as well as directly to medium to large enterprises, service providers, and government entities operating in various industries, including education, energy, financial services, government entities, healthcare, Internet and media, manufacturing, public sector, and telecommunications. Palo Alto Networks, Inc. was incorporated in 2005 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, California.

QUALCOMM NASDAQ:QCOM

$135.06 +5.34 (+4.12%)

As of 10:35 AM Eastern

QUALCOMM Incorporated engages in the development and commercialization of foundational technologies for the wireless industry worldwide. It operates through three segments: Qualcomm CDMA Technologies (QCT); Qualcomm Technology Licensing (QTL); and Qualcomm Strategic Initiatives (QSI). The QCT segment develops and supplies integrated circuits and system software based on 3G/4G/5G and other technologies for use in wireless voice and data communications, networking, computing, multimedia, and position location products. The QTL segment grants licenses or provides rights to use portions of its intellectual property portfolio, which include various patent rights useful in the manufacture and sale of wireless products comprising products implementing CDMA2000, WCDMA, LTE and/or OFDMA-based 5G standards and their derivatives. The QSI segment invests in early-stage companies in various industries, including 5G, artificial intelligence, automotive, consumer, enterprise, cloud, IoT, and extended reality, and investments, including non-marketable equity securities and, to a lesser extent, marketable equity securities, and convertible debt instruments. It also provides development, and other services and related products to the United States government agencies and their contractors. The company was incorporated in 1985 and is headquartered in San Diego, California.

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