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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
IBM International Business Machines	$243.49 -2.6%	$251.41	$162.62 ▼ $266.45	$225.77B	0.67	4.11 million shs	5.31 million shs
MS Morgan Stanley	$107.70 -9.7%	$127.83	$85.01 ▼ $142.03	$173.70B	1.35	6.57 million shs	15.18 million shs
MSFT Microsoft	$373.11 -2.4%	$400.77	$355.27 ▼ $468.35	$2.77T	0.92	20.56 million shs	30.13 million shs
VMW VMware	$143.00 +0.4%	$147.84	$109.00 ▼ $181.14	$61.75B	0.71	1.57 million shs	200 shs

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Compare Price Performance

Company	1-Day Performance	7-Day Performance	30-Day Performance	90-Day Performance	1-Year Performance
IBM International Business Machines	-2.57%	-1.14%	-3.79%	+9.36%	+27.52%
MS Morgan Stanley	-9.76%	-9.62%	-11.22%	-14.48%	+15.81%
MSFT Microsoft	-2.36%	-4.47%	-3.99%	-11.87%	-11.26%
VMW VMware	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%

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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
IBM International Business Machines	4.2141 of 5 stars	2.2	2.0	3.3	3.5	3.4	1.7	1.9
MS Morgan Stanley	4.7605 of 5 stars	3.2	3.0	4.2	2.4	2.8	2.5	2.5
MSFT Microsoft	4.9034 of 5 stars	4.5	4.0	3.3	2.9	2.8	1.7	1.9
VMW VMware	0.8194 of 5 stars	0.0	0.0	0.0	3.1	0.0	2.5	1.3

Compare Analyst Forecasts

Company	Consensus Rating Score	Consensus Rating	Consensus Price Target	% Upside from Current Price
IBM International Business Machines	2.41	Hold	$231.13	-5.08% Downside
MS Morgan Stanley	2.33	Hold	$129.87	20.58% Upside
MSFT Microsoft	2.90	Moderate Buy	$508.86	36.38% Upside
VMW VMware	0.00	N/A	N/A	N/A

Current Analyst Ratings Breakdown

Latest MS, IBM, MSFT, and VMW Analyst Ratings

Date	Company	Brokerage	Action	Rating	Price Target
4/3/2025	MS Morgan Stanley	JPMorgan Chase & Co. Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Lower Price Target	Neutral ➝ Neutral	$129.00 ➝ $125.00
4/2/2025	MS Morgan Stanley	Bank of America Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Lower Price Target	Buy ➝ Buy	$150.00 ➝ $144.00
4/1/2025	MS Morgan Stanley	Evercore ISI Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Lower Price Target	Outperform ➝ Outperform	$150.00 ➝ $138.00
4/1/2025	MSFT Microsoft	Westpark Capital Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Initiated Coverage	Hold
3/31/2025	IBM International Business Machines	Jefferies Financial Group Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Lower Price Target	Hold ➝ Hold	$270.00 ➝ $265.00
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
3/28/2025	MS Morgan Stanley	Wells Fargo & Company Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Lower Price Target	Equal Weight ➝ Equal Weight	$142.00 ➝ $130.00
3/25/2025	MS Morgan Stanley	JPMorgan Chase & Co. Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Boost Price Target	Neutral ➝ Neutral	$124.00 ➝ $129.00
3/24/2025	MS Morgan Stanley	Citigroup Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Lower Price Target	Neutral ➝ Neutral	$135.00 ➝ $125.00
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

(Data available from 4/4/2022 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
IBM International Business Machines	$62.75B	3.60	$14.27 per share	17.06	$29.62 per share	8.22
MS Morgan Stanley	$57.62B	3.01	$6.74 per share	15.97	$55.58 per share	1.94
MSFT Microsoft	$261.80B	10.59	$13.32 per share	28.01	$40.72 per share	9.16
VMW VMware	$13.35B	4.63	$7.04 per share	20.30	$3.59 per share	39.83

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
IBM International Business Machines	$6.02B	$6.41	37.99	20.99	5.81	9.60%	38.99%	7.14%	4/23/2025 (Estimated)
MS Morgan Stanley	$13.39B	$7.94	13.56	11.42	1.18	12.48%	14.39%	1.09%	4/15/2025 (Estimated)
MSFT Microsoft	$88.14B	$12.42	30.04	25.38	2.21	35.43%	33.36%	18.07%	4/24/2025 (Estimated)
VMW VMware	$1.31B	$3.31	43.20	25.86	N/A	10.48%	113.34%	6.27%	N/A

Latest MS, IBM, MSFT, and VMW Earnings

Date	Quarter	Company	Consensus Estimate	Reported EPS	Beat/Miss	Gap EPS	Revenue Estimate	Actual Revenue
4/24/2025	N/A	MSFT Microsoft	$3.20	N/A	N/A	N/A	$68.54 billion	N/A
4/23/2025	N/A	IBM International Business Machines	$1.43	N/A	N/A	N/A	$14.41 billion	N/A
4/15/2025	N/A	MS Morgan Stanley	$2.22	N/A	N/A	N/A	$16.81 billion	N/A
1/29/2025	Q4 2024	IBM International Business Machines	$3.77	$3.92	+$0.15	$3.10	$17.60 billion	N/A
1/29/2025	Q2 2025	MSFT Microsoft	$3.15	$3.23	+$0.08	$3.23	$68.86 billion	N/A
1/16/2025	Q4 24	MS Morgan Stanley	$1.54	$2.22	+$0.68	$2.22	$15.03 billion	$16.23 billion

Compare Dividends

Company	Annual Payout	Dividend Yield	3-Year Dividend Growth	Payout Ratio	Years of Consecutive Growth
IBM International Business Machines	$6.68	2.74%	+0.61%	104.21%	29 Years
MS Morgan Stanley	$3.70	3.44%	+19.13%	46.60%	12 Years
MSFT Microsoft	$3.32	0.89%	+10.22%	26.73%	23 Years
VMW VMware	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A

Latest MS, IBM, MSFT, and VMW 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
1/28/2025	IBM International Business Machines	Quarterly	$1.67	2.92%	2/10/2025	2/10/2025	3/10/2025
1/16/2025	MS Morgan Stanley	quarterly	$0.9250	2.82%	1/31/2025	1/31/2025	2/14/2025

(Data available from 1/1/2013 forward)

Compare Debt

Company	Debt-to-Equity Ratio	Current Ratio	Quick Ratio
IBM International Business Machines	1.82	1.04	1.00
MS Morgan Stanley	3.14	0.80	0.80
MSFT Microsoft	0.13	1.35	1.34
VMW VMware	3.71	0.87	0.87

Compare Ownership

Institutional Ownership

Company	Institutional Ownership
IBM International Business Machines	58.96%
MS Morgan Stanley	84.19%
MSFT Microsoft	71.13%
VMW VMware	46.70%

Insider Ownership

Company	Insider Ownership
IBM International Business Machines	0.18%
MS Morgan Stanley	0.24%
MSFT Microsoft	0.03%
VMW VMware	40.30%

Compare Miscellaneous Stats

Company	Employees	Shares Outstanding	Free Float	Optionable
IBM International Business Machines	311,300	927.26 million	924.00 million	Optionable
MS Morgan Stanley	82,400	1.61 billion	1.61 billion	Optionable
MSFT Microsoft	228,000	7.43 billion	7.43 billion	Optionable
VMW VMware	38,300	431.79 million	257.78 million	Optionable

MS, IBM, MSFT, and VMW Headlines

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VMware: Companies will have to license 72 instead of 16 cores in future

April 2 at 5:53 PM | heise.de

VMware Aria Operations: Vulnerability allows privilege escalation

April 2 at 5:53 PM | heise.de

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April 2 at 5:53 PM | it-daily.net

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April 1 at 8:05 AM | techradar.com

VMware Workstation auto-updates broken after Broadcom URL redirect

March 31, 2025 | bleepingcomputer.com

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March 30, 2025 | msn.com

Broadcom VMware Ups Minimum Core Purchase ‘Substantially,’ Levies Late Renewal Penalties

March 28, 2025 | crn.com

1400 instances without a license? VMware files suit against Siemens

March 27, 2025 | heise.de

VMware NAT Service service terminated unexpectedly, Event ID 7031

March 27, 2025 | thewindowsclub.com

VMware tools enable rights extension in VMs

March 27, 2025 | heise.de

VMware sues Siemens for “unlicensed software”

March 27, 2025 | it-daily.net

VMware sues Siemens for playing fast and loose with licenses

March 27, 2025 | fudzilla.com

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March 27, 2025 | benzinga.com

Broadcom Teams with Audi to Deliver Next-Generation IT-Based Factory Automation Powered by VMware Cloud Software

March 27, 2025 | markets.businessinsider.com

Broadcom introduces updates to VMware vDefend product

March 26, 2025 | msn.com

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March 26, 2025 | benzinga.com

VMware plugs a high-risk vulnerability affecting its Windows-based virtualization

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Broadcom warns of worrying security flaws affecting VMware tools

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MS, IBM, MSFT, and VMW Company Descriptions

International Business Machines NYSE:IBM

$243.48 -6.50 (-2.60%)

Closing price 04/3/2025 03:59 PM Eastern

Extended Trading

$234.05 -9.44 (-3.87%)

As of 07:48 AM Eastern

International Business Machines Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, provides integrated solutions and services worldwide. The company operates through Software, Consulting, Infrastructure, and Financing segments. The Software segment offers a hybrid cloud and AI platforms that allows clients to realize their digital and AI transformations across the applications, data, and environments in which they operate. The Consulting segment focuses on skills integration for strategy, experience, technology, and operations by domain and industry. The Infrastructure segment provides on-premises and cloud based server, and storage solutions, as well as life-cycle services for hybrid cloud infrastructure deployment. The Financing segment offers client and commercial financing, facilitates IBM clients' acquisition of hardware, software, and services. The company has a strategic partnership to various companies including hyperscalers, service providers, global system integrators, and software and hardware vendors that includes Adobe, Amazon Web services, Microsoft, Oracle, Salesforce, Samsung Electronics and SAP, and others. The company was formerly known as Computing-Tabulating-Recording Co. International Business Machines Corporation was incorporated in 1911 and is headquartered in Armonk, New York.

Morgan Stanley NYSE:MS

$107.70 -11.57 (-9.70%)

Closing price 04/3/2025 03:59 PM Eastern

Extended Trading

$101.00 -6.70 (-6.22%)

As of 07:47 AM Eastern

Morgan Stanley, a financial holding company, provides various financial products and services to corporations, governments, financial institutions, and individuals in the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Asia. It operates through Institutional Securities, Wealth Management, and Investment Management segments. The Institutional Securities segment offers capital raising and financial advisory services, including services related to the underwriting of debt, equity, and other securities, as well as advice on mergers and acquisitions, restructurings, real estate, and project finance. This segment also provides equity and fixed income products comprising sales, financing, prime brokerage, and market-making services; foreign exchange and commodities; corporate and commercial real estate loans, commercial mortgage and secured lending facilities, and financing for sales and trading customers, and asset-backed and mortgage lending; and wealth management services, investment, and research services. The Wealth Management segment offers financial advisor-led brokerage, custody, administrative, and investment advisory services; self-directed brokerage services; financial and wealth planning services; workplace services, including stock plan administration; annuity and insurance products; securities-based lending, residential real estate loans, and other lending products; banking; and retirement plan services to individual investors and small to medium-sized businesses and institutions. The Investment Management segment provides equity, fixed income, alternatives and solutions, and liquidity and overlay services to benefit/defined contribution plans, foundations, endowments, government entities, sovereign wealth funds, insurance companies, third-party fund sponsors, corporations, and individuals through institutional and intermediary channels. The company was founded in 1924 and is headquartered in New York, New York.

Microsoft NASDAQ:MSFT

$373.11 -9.03 (-2.36%)

Closing price 04/3/2025 04:00 PM Eastern

Extended Trading

$356.84 -16.27 (-4.36%)

As of 07:49 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.

VMware NYSE:VMW

VMware, Inc. provides software solutions in the areas of modern applications, cloud management and infrastructure, networking, security, and workspaces in the United States and internationally. It offers VMware multi-cloud solutions, including VMware vSphere, a data center infrastructure that provides the fundamental compute layer; and vSAN and VxRail, which offers holistic data storage and protection options to applications running on vSphere; as well as VMware Cloud Foundation, a cloud platform that combines its vSphere, vSAN, and NSX with VMware Aria Cloud Management into an integrated stack that delivers ready cloud infrastructure for private and public clouds. The company also provides networking solutions, such as VMware NSX, NSX Distributed and Gateway Firewalls, NSX Network Detection and Response Engine, NSX Advanced Load Balancer, Tanzu Service Mesh, HCX, and VMware SASE; security solutions consisting of VMware Carbon Black Endpoint, Workload, and Container; and anywhere workspace solutions comprising Workspace ONE Unified Endpoint Management, Access, Intelligent Hub, Horizon, Mobile Threat Defence, and Digital Employee Experience Management. In addition, it offers application modernization solutions, such as Tanzu Application and Operations Platform, Tanzu Application Service, Tanzu Data Suite, and Tanzu Labs; and cloud management solutions, including VMware Aria Cloud Management, VMware Aria Suite, VMware Aria Universal Suite, and vCloud Suite. The company sells its products through distributors, resellers, system vendors, systems integrators, and contractors. VMware, Inc. has a strategic alliance with Amazon Web Services to build and deliver an integrated hybrid solution. VMware, Inc. was incorporated in 1998 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, California.

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