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Microsoft is having its 'iPhone moment' this week – Piper Sandler By … – Investing.com


Piper Sandler analysts reiterated an Overweight and a $425 per share price target on Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT).

The analysts see the formal release of iPhone moment’ for the Redmond-based tech titan. This event is important and is a part of a broader strategy to capitalize on a first-mover advantage in generative AI.

“Similar to the Microsoft Cloud opportunity that began in 2008 that has now grown into a $125B+revenue franchise, we see Microsoft AI having similar $100B+ scale potential longer-term,” the analysts wrote in a client note.

“While Microsoft AI revenue is small at an estimated $0.5B last quarter, the unprecedented pace of innovation, aggressive AI investments, and broad enterprise reach could result in Microsoft AI scaling to $10B+ in revenue within three years (ARR would be even higher).”

For instance, the analysts note that it took Azure and AWS as many as 10 years to see their revenues eclipse $10 billion.

Another positive is that GitHub Copilot has quickly scaled to 1 million paid users.

“We remain buyers of MSFT on positive news flow into year-end on new AI products and user events across Microsoft, OpenAI, and GitHub,” the analysts concluded.


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