Microsoft’s position in the software industry today is defined by a rare combination of enormous scale, accelerating cloud-and-AI revenue, and a conservative balance sheet — a profile that helps explain why the company is being valued like a growth platform even as some headline ratios appear...
Benzinga’s automated snapshot of Microsoft’s standing inside the software sector delivers a clear headline: Microsoft appears both richly priced on revenue and comparatively inexpensive on earnings and book value versus a mixed peer group — but a closer inspection reveals timing, definitional...