{"id":442432,"date":"2026-02-01T08:07:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T08:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/442432\/"},"modified":"2026-02-01T08:07:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T08:07:09","slug":"buy-microsofts-stock-while-its-down-first-ask-yourself-this-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/442432\/","title":{"rendered":"Buy Microsoft\u2019s stock while it\u2019s down? First ask yourself this question."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Published: Jan. 31, 2026 at 8:00\u202fa.m. ET<\/p>\n<p class=\"e1bc1vag0 css-1dqcy4b-StyledNewsKitParagraph\" data-type=\"paragraph\" font-size=\"16\">Microsoft\u2019s stock hasn\u2019t been this cheap in almost three years. But what, exactly, investors should do about that is increasingly a topic of Wall Street debate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"e1bc1vag0 css-1dqcy4b-StyledNewsKitParagraph\" data-type=\"paragraph\" font-size=\"16\">Sentiment toward Microsoft\u2019s stock <a data-type=\"phrase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/investing\/stock\/msft\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ekxajjj0 css-1y1y9ag-OverridedLink\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">MSFT<\/a> was already bleak heading into its latest earnings report, and it only got worse despite what Matt Stucky, chief portfolio manager for equities at Northwestern Mutual Wealth Management, called \u201creasonably good\u201d numbers. Microsoft shares <a data-type=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/story\/why-microsofts-stock-is-getting-punished-after-earnings-a0a9ef0f\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"ekxajjj0 css-1y1y9ag-OverridedLink\">slid 10% on Thursday<\/a> to log their worst day in more than 12 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published: Jan. 31, 2026 at 8:00\u202fa.m. ET Microsoft\u2019s stock hasn\u2019t been this cheap in almost three years. But&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":442433,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[188677,188628,160831,181,160832,119167,28,161350,5311,3048,160830,191,39241,161232,55387,161228,103384,161233,161239,11382,1877,1536,98809,96772,14809,7271,74],"class_list":["post-442432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-analyst-comment","tag-analyst-comment-recommendation","tag-applications-software","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence-technologies","tag-artificial-intelligence-machine-learning","tag-business","tag-ce-exclusion-filter","tag-cloud-computing","tag-computers","tag-computers-consumer-electronics","tag-computing","tag-consumer-electronics","tag-content-types","tag-corporate","tag-corporate-industrial-news","tag-equity-markets","tag-factiva-filters","tag-industrial-news","tag-information-technology","tag-machine-learning","tag-microsoft-corp","tag-msft","tag-recommendation","tag-services","tag-software","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=442432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442432\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/442433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=442432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=442432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=442432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}