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FY 2025 · View financials
Decision snapshot: MSFT stock price vs MAN: inconclusive Relative valuation is incomplete for this pair. Review the available filing metrics before drawing a conclusion.
Quick read
Each company valued on the other's multiple, then compared with the market price.
Implied fair value · at MAN's multiple
Needs MAN P/E.
Implied fair value · at MSFT's multiple
Needs EPS (TTM) is negative.
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Where each company leads, and how wide the gap is.
Growth edge
Pricing power
Operating leverage
Lower is better
Not comparable
Lower leverage
Statements
Core statements aligned to each company's latest fiscal year.
SEC periods: MSFT FY 2026 (ended Jun 30, 2026) · MAN FY 2025 (ended Dec 31, 2025). Fiscal years are not aligned.
Trendline
Six fiscal years of revenue, earnings, and margins before underwriting a re-rating.
Price framework
Market cap plus debt, less cash.
Capital structure 99% equity / 1% debt · EV / Revenue 10.74x · EV / EBITDA 17.14x
Price framework
Discounted free cash flow, then bridged to a per-share price. Same assumptions applied to both companies.
MICROSOFT CORPORATION · implied price per share
Bear
$216.80
Base
$255.06
Bull
$293.32
MANPOWERGROUP INC. · implied price per share
Bear
-$162.08
Base
-$190.68
Bull
-$219.28
Balance sheet health
Financial health checks to separate durable balance sheets from potential value traps.
Financial strength on a 0–9 scale.
Bankruptcy-risk signal from balance sheet and earnings power.
Debt / equity
Total debt against shareholders' equity
0.11x
1.10x
Net debt / EBITDA
Leverage against operating earnings
-0.13x
9.93x
Cash and equivalents
Liquid reserves on the balance sheet
$76.84B
$871.40M
Total debt
Interest-bearing obligations outstanding
Comparable set
Where the pair sits against the wider comparable set.
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If you believe MSFT's premium margins, 17.8% revenue growth, and 37.4% ROIC will persist, then use MAN gap as a caution against naive relative valuation rather than a sell signal, because MAN's weak profitability and high leverage make the -98.7% implied downside mechanically misleading.
On the provided P/S basis, MSFT's current price of $464.72 is far above MAN-implied price of $6.07, implying -98.7% downside; however, that gap is driven by an extreme mismatch between MSFT's scale and profitability versus MAN's weak earnings profile. The broader valuation range shows MSFT trading above the DCF range ($213.67-$289.08) but within its historical band ($435.26-$531.98), suggesting the stock is expensive on a discounted cash flow view but not obviously stretched versus its own history.
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