Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT)
Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) on the public record today: 21 items across Options, Companies, AI, Markets, Bonds, Courts, Federal contractors, Lobbying, News…
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Options
- MSFT gamma conditions +2 of ±5: the kind that came with smaller moves in this record — positive gamma · size-adjusted GEX at percentile 85 of its year · price 16.1% above zero gamma · implied volatility -4.9 pts against 20-day realised · after this reading the next session's median move, up or down, was… (U.S. options exchanges, 6 Nov 2026) MSFT
- MSFT: positive gamma, dealer hedging of $1.26B per 1% move — 9.34% of a normal day's share trading (0.00% the session before) · rank 1 of 212 tickers by size-adjusted GEX · assumes dealers are long the calls and short the puts investors trade (U.S. options exchanges, 6 Nov 2026) MSFT
- 32% of MSFT's net GEX sits in the 18 Dec 2026 expiry — $546M per 1% move in that expiry · the expiry carrying the most net GEX of each ticker, the five largest shares among SPY and the ten largest companies · the 06 Nov session · assumes dealers are long the calls and short… (U.S. options exchanges, 6 Nov 2026) MSFT
- MSFT's dealer net share exposure (DEX) is $23.4B, at percentile 83 of its past year — the line is its DEX in $ billions · VEX at percentile 81 · CEX at percentile 42 · the five highest DEX percentiles among SPY and the ten largest companies · the 06 Nov session · assumes dealers are long the calls and… (U.S. options exchanges, 6 Nov 2026) MSFT
- MSFT's size-adjusted GEX is 9.34% of a normal day's share trading, above its usual against its past year — percentile 85 of 252 sessions, 5.72 points above its average over the year · the five highest among SPY and the ten largest companies · the 06 Nov session · assumes dealers are long the calls and short the puts… (U.S. options exchanges, 6 Nov 2026) MSFT
Companies
- Microsoft: 31 incidents on its official status pages in the last 30 days, against 27 in the 30 days before — 10 major or critical · Services: npm, GitHub · Planned maintenance not counted (npm, GitHub, Azure status pages, 8 Nov 2026) MSFT
- Desktop operating systems: Windows leads with 74.8% (Oct 2026), +2.3 points on Sep 2026 — #2 macOS 15.3% · #3 Linux 5.5% · share of page views, worldwide; 66.3% a year earlier (StatCounter Global Stats, 30 Oct 2026) MSFT
- Microsoft Azure: 14 major listed companies on record as customers — 14 name it in their own annual report · Largest by revenue: BlackRock, Inc., Palo Alto Networks, Roper Technologies Inc, NetApp · Major: profitable, $10B+ revenue or 10M+ users (SEC filings, 30 Jul 2026) MSFT
- Microsoft Corp is named as a competitor in 28 companies' annual reports — Named by ACIW, CSCO, EGAN, ESTC, EXTR, FTNT, GDDY, GEN, HPE, HPQ and 18 more (SEC filings, 24 Jul 2026) MSFT
AI
- Microsoft: 2 officer or director departures filed with the SEC in 12 months — 8-K item 5.02, every role, in the 12 months to 7 Nov 2026 · one of the AI Trajectory page's inputs (SEC filings, 7 Nov 2026) MSFT
- Microsoft is the latest institution on record for 78 of the 8,494 AI researchers the terminal tracks — latest employer on Wikidata, else the latest institution on their papers · people chosen by stated rules: field of work, awards, citations (OpenAlex and Wikidata, 8 Nov 2026) MSFT
- Microsoft: 132,934 H100-equivalents of AI supercomputers on record, 100,000 added in the year to Jul 2025 — 18 clusters it owns or trains on (a shared one counts for each company) · Epoch's record runs to Jul 2025 (Epoch AI Supercomputers, 21 Jul 2025) MSFT
Markets
- MSFT: 77 trading patterns flagged in 20 sessions — Newest 6 Nov: Repeated breaks of a price level, then recovery, down. Flagged for review, not a finding about anyone. (Market behavior measured by the terminal, 5 Nov 2026) MSFT
- MSFT: $70M of shares not delivered on time on 5 Oct — 135,349 shares at $517.53 · SEC file for 2026-10-01 to 2026-10-15 · most fails clear within days (SEC (fails-to-deliver data), 4 Oct 2026) MSFT
Bonds
- MSFT sold $25B of bonds — 10 tranches · coupons 4.85%-6.35% · due 2028-2066 (SEC filings, 29 Oct 2026) MSFT
Courts
- Judgment entered: Microsoft — Jones v. Microsoft Corporation · District Court, W.D. Arkansas (Federal courts, 25 Oct 2026) MSFT
Federal contractors
- Microsoft: $532M in federal contracts in FY2025, +3% on FY2024 — $518M in FY2024 (USAspending.gov, 30 Sep 2025) MSFT
Lobbying
- Microsoft spent $2.44M lobbying in Q3 2026, +21% on a year earlier — issues: CPI, CPT, IMM, POS, TEC, TRD · $2.02M a year earlier (Lobbying Disclosure Act reports, 21 Oct 2026) MSFT
News
- Older Nvidia Chips Just Cost Oracle Its Microsoft AI Deal — 23 outlets carried it, including 24/7 Wall St., Yahoo Finance (News outlets and Media Bias search (Google News, Bing, GDELT, Media Cloud, GNews), 7 Nov 2026) NVDA MSFT ORCL
Price levels
- MSFT: closed at $555.80 on 4 Nov, its highest close since at least Jan 2014, when the record starts — Previous record $543.45 (NASDAQ, 4 Nov 2026) MSFT
What the spending is buying
- Microsoft: capex was 69% of operating cash flow over the last four quarters to 2026 Q3, up from 47% a year earlier — Free cash flow after capex $60.0B · Capex up 97% and operating income up 20% on the four quarters before · Contracted backlog up 72% on a year earlier · Backlog is the company's own filed figure for signed, undelivered… (SEC 10-Q and 10-K filings (cash flow statements), 29 Sep 2026) MSFT
Coming up
- 18 Nov 2026: Microsoft ex-dividend
- 26 Oct 2026: Satya Nadella on AI Podcast Summaries from Transcripted.ai (VIDEO)
- 26 Oct 2026: Satya Nadella on The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
- 21 Oct 2026: Satya Nadella on Future Proof from Semafor Technology
- 13 Oct 2026: Satya Nadella on Confession with Ali Partovi
- 12 Oct 2026: Satya Nadella on Les Voix de l'IA
In the data tables
- Biggest stock trades by members of Congress, last 45 days (House disclosures and Senate disclosures)
- Big Tech's political money: who gave the most in the 2025–2026 cycle (FEC)