Quick Thought on Microsoft Earnings

Michael Gartenberg | April 27, 2007, 11:40 AM

Spent some time looking at the Microsoft earnings numbers (which were excellent and shows just how well VIsta is doing) and listening to some of the analysis that the financial analysts were offering (most of it related to where is the growth going to come from) and how the stock was essentially flat for the last five years.

Now, I'm not a financial analyst myself but I will comment that five years ago 90% of the financial analysts rated Microsoft as a "buy" and only about 10% of those same analysts rated Apple as a "buy". My Dad once told me he thought economists were put on the planet to make the astrologers look good.