Microsoft (MSFT) Stock: What Wall Street Expects from Q4 Earnings on July 29

NewsFri, 24 Jul 2026 08:32:09 UTC2 hours ago
Microsoft (MSFT) Stock: What Wall Street Expects from Q4 Earnings on July 29

TLDR

  • Microsoft reports fiscal Q4 earnings on July 29, with Wall Street expecting EPS of $4.24 and revenue of $87.62 billion
  • MSFT stock is down ~21% year-to-date, pushing its forward P/E to a 10-year low of 20.61
  • BNP Paribas projects Microsoft will spend $262 billion on capex in fiscal 2027, up from $104.3 billion in the first three quarters of fiscal 2026
  • Truist analyst Terry Tillman has a Buy rating and $575 price target, calling the negative sentiment “overdone”
  • 46 of 51 analysts rate MSFT a Buy, with a mean price target of $544.92 — implying ~42.7% upside

Microsoft heads into its fiscal fourth-quarter earnings report on July 29 with a cloud hanging over it — and that cloud is capital expenditure.



Microsoft Corporation, MSFT

The backdrop isn’t great. Alphabet reported a strong Q2 on July 22, raised its capex forecast by $15 billion to $205 billion, and still saw its stock drop over 6% the next day. Investors are increasingly uneasy about the scale of AI spending across big tech, and Microsoft is next in the hot seat.

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