

Many analysts believed that shareholders of Volvo and the Swedish people found it unacceptable to sell one of its prized companies to the French government. The merger would have left Volvo shareholders with a 35% stake in the combined company while the French government controlled the remainder of the shares.

However, the two companies failed to consider the problems of combining an investor-owned entity with a government-owned company. The merger was expected to save the companies $5 billion. Instead, the two companies began their relationship as joint venture partners, which allowed them to acclimatize to each other. Unlike the Daimler and Chrysler merger, this automotive deal lacked executive and cultural clashes. The attempted merger of Volvo (OTC: VOLVY) and Renault SA (OTC: RNLSY) in 1993 encountered trouble because the two parties failed to address the ownership structure at the outset. The company is organized into three equally sized broad segments: productivity and business processes (legacy Microsoft Office, cloud-based Office 365, Exchange, SharePoint, Skype, LinkedIn, Dynamics), intelligence cloud (infrastructure- and platform-as-a-service offerings Azure, Windows Server OS, SQL Server), and more personal computing (Windows Client, Xbox, Bing search, display advertising, and Surface laptops, tablets, and desktops).Ĭlick Here to get the full Stock Report for Microsoft Corporation stock.The value of global M&A deals in 2020, according to the latest data by the Institute for Mergers, Acquisitions, and Alliances. It is known for its Windows operating systems and Office productivity suite. Microsoft develops and licenses consumer and enterprise software.

So far 7,339,612 shares have traded compared to average volume of 27,090,277 shares.

The stock has traded between $229.14 and $234.56 so far today. Price/Cash Flow: Latest closing price divided by the last 12 months revenue/cash flow per share. Price/Sales: Latest closing price divided by the last 12 months of revenue/sales per share. Microsoft Corporation (MSFT) stock is trading at $229.15 as of 10:51 AM on Monday, Oct 10, a loss of -$5.10, or -2.18% from the previous closing price of $234.24. It is based on a 60-month historical regression of the return on the stock onto the return on the S&P 500.
