{"id":988928,"date":"2026-01-30T12:23:57","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T06:53:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=988928"},"modified":"2026-01-30T13:16:39","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T07:46:39","slug":"why-microsofts-stock-dropped-today-analyst-lists-core-issue-for-investors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/30\/why-microsofts-stock-dropped-today-analyst-lists-core-issue-for-investors\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Microsoft&#8217;s stock dropped today. Analyst lists core issue for investors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft&#8217;s stock plunged as much as 11% to $429.24 on Thursday, fueling investor concerns. This was the biggest intraday slide for the company since March 2020. On Wednesday, the Satya Nadella-led tech conglomerate reported its second-quarter earnings, with cloud revenue topping $50 billion for the first time. Capital expenditures hit $37.5 billion in the period, up 66% from a year earlier and exceeding analyst estimates for $36.2 billion.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft\u2019s Azure cloud division reported a 38% increase in quarterly revenue on a constant-currency basis. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft&#8217;s stock plunged as much as 11% to $429.24 on Thursday, fueling investor concerns. This was the biggest intraday slide for the company since March 2020. On Wednesday, the Satya Nadella-led tech conglomerate reported its second-quarter earnings, with cloud revenue topping $50 billion for the first time. Capital expenditures hit $37.5 billion in the period, up 66% from a year earlier and exceeding analyst estimates for $36.2 billion. Microsoft\u2019s Azure cloud division reported a 38% increase in quarterly revenue on a constant-currency basis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,51,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-988928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hindustantimes","category-it-2-hindustantimes","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=988928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988928\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=988928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=988928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=988928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}