Published: Feb. 9, 2026 at 5:20\u202fp.m. ET<\/p>\n
As the market digests Big Tech\u2019s ambitious artificial-intelligence spending plans for 2026, the relative cheapness of Microsoft\u2019s stock underscores a new dichotomy in technology investing. <\/p>\n
Microsoft\u2019s stock MSFT<\/a> is now cheaper than IBM\u2019s IBM<\/a>, with the two trading at 23.0x and 23.7x forward earnings, respectively. Microsoft has been trading at a lower multiple than IBM since Jan. 29. Before this recent shift, the last time this had occurred was July 25, 2013, according to Dow Jones Market Data.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published: Feb. 9, 2026 at 5:20\u202fp.m. ET As the market digests Big Tech\u2019s ambitious artificial-intelligence spending plans for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":465849,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[62,161713,161708,136610,276,96131,96135,277,45,168153,49,48,119164,168152,5431,159560,285,168162,3525,63391,190145,125498,45063,12159,106304,7160,244,161279,796,13627,39998,161287,12699,99237,7074,2940,61],"class_list":["post-465848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-analyst-comment","tag-analyst-comment-recommendation","tag-applications-software","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence-technologies","tag-artificial-intelligence-machine-learning","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-business","tag-business-consumer-services","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-capital-expenditure","tag-computer-services","tag-computers","tag-computers-electronics","tag-computing","tag-consumer-services","tag-corporate","tag-corporate-strategy","tag-corporate-strategy-planning","tag-corporate-industrial-news","tag-electronics","tag-ibm","tag-industrial-news","tag-international-business-machines-corp","tag-internet","tag-internet-online-services","tag-machine-learning","tag-microsoft-corp","tag-msft","tag-online-services","tag-planning","tag-recommendation","tag-services","tag-software","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=465848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465848\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/465849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=465848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=465848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=465848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}