Microsoft Corporation
NASDAQMicrosoft reports Q4 2026 results tonight with options defensiveness locked at its most extreme reading of the earnings cycle, even as the rest of the enterprise software complex has broken sharply higher. The peer divergence is the story that frames everything else heading into the print. SAP gained 16.7% on the week. GWRE added 11.8%…
MSFT cost to borrow climbs to 0.35% as of July 28, up 329% over the past week from near-zero levels, marking sharp re-pricing ahead of tomorrow's earnings report despite minimal short interest at 1.2% of float.
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Read on ORTEX →Sign up for premiumMicrosoft reports Q4 2026 results tonight with options defensiveness locked at its most extreme reading of the earnings cycle, even as the rest of the enterprise software complex has broken sharply higher. The peer…
Snapshot as of 5 Aug 2026
Microsoft heads into its Q4 2026 earnings release tonight with the stock recovered to $393.35, but a stark contrast has opened up with close peers that makes the bounce look modest at best. The peer divergence is the…
Microsoft enters the final week before its July 29 Q4 results with options defensiveness back at its most extreme reading in months — a sharp reversal from the calm that briefly returned just two days ago. The options…
Microsoft arrives at the July 15 session with options traders abruptly reversing the calm that defined last week — and analysts cutting targets en masse on the same day. The options signal is the sharpest data point…
Microsoft heads into the final three weeks before its July 30 earnings date with the options defensiveness that dominated June now meaningfully unwound — and a borrow market that has done a sharp U-turn from the note…
Microsoft closes the first half of 2026 with a familiar contradiction: options traders have turned sharply defensive again, even as the stock nudges higher and analysts sit 50% above the current price. The options read…
Microsoft heads into the final week of June with its options market firing a fresh alarm, even as the stock logs its first meaningful bounce in weeks. The standout this session is the put/call ratio, which has jumped…
Microsoft closed Monday at $393.83, down 2.4% on the week and 6.7% lower on the month — and the options market, which appeared to calm last week, has just reignited. The most striking development is in options…
Microsoft has now shed 7% in a week to $397.36. The options market is screaming louder than anything in the lending data. The put/call ratio hit 0.47 on June 10. That is four standard deviations above the 20-day mean…
Microsoft has now dropped another 3.4% since Sunday's note, closing at $403.41 — extending a brutal eight-session slide that has taken the stock down nearly 9% on the week — and the sharpest signal this time comes not…
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