Microsoft Corporation
$3.56T- Market cap
- $3.59T
- Debt
- +$49.52B
- Cash
- −$76.84B
Capital structure 99% equity / 1% debt · EV / Revenue 10.74x · EV / EBITDA 17.14x
Compare price, profitability, solvency, and SEC-reported financials side by side—before deciding which assumptions deserve a closer look.
FY 2025 · View financials
Decision snapshot: MSFT stock price vs QCOM: 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 QCOM's multiple
Needs QCOM P/E.
Implied fair value · at MSFT's multiple
Live quote
Price unavailable
Metric by metric
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) · QCOM FY 2025 (ended Sep 28, 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
QUALCOMM INC/DE · implied price per share
Bear
$95.67
Base
$112.55
Bull
$129.43
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
0.76x
Net debt / EBITDA
Leverage against operating earnings
-0.13x
0.40x
Cash and equivalents
Liquid reserves on the balance sheet
$76.84B
$10.16B
Total debt
Interest-bearing obligations outstanding
Comparable set
Where the pair sits against the wider comparable set.
Keep comparing
Open adjacent comparisons from the same industry to pressure-test the read across multiple pairs.
Apple Inc.
MSFT vs AAPL
Alphabet Inc.
MSFT vs GOOGL
AMAZON COM INC
MSFT vs AMZN
ADOBE INC.
MSFT vs ADBE
NVIDIA CORP
MSFT vs NVDA
CISCO SYSTEMS, INC.
MSFT vs CSCO
Broadcom Inc.
MSFT vs AVGO
INTEL CORP
MSFT vs INTC
TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INC
MSFT vs TXN
ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES INC
MSFT vs AMD
Qorvo, Inc.
MSFT vs QRVO
$49.52B
$16.18B
Live quote
LLM-powered synthesis
An on-demand narrative read of the same deterministic data.
Based on an earlier data snapshot. Review the filing dates below or refresh after signing in.
If you believe MSFT can sustain its superior margin structure and 17.8% revenue growth, then holding or adding on pullbacks is reasonable because MSFT trades below QCOM-implied price yet near the upper end of its historical band.
MSFT’s current price of $464.72 implies 13.8% upside to QCOM-based P/E valuation of $528.86, suggesting only a moderate discount on that framework. However, the DCF range of $213.67-$289.08 sits far below the market price, while the historical band of $435.26-$531.98 places MSFT near the upper end of its recent trading range.
Supporting Metrics