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Summary
Microsoft (MSFT) rose 2.74% to close at $520.99 on November 3, 2026, 1.91 percentage points ahead of the Nasdaq Composite.
Coverage named no Microsoft-specific trigger, and 24/7 Wall St. grouped the gain with a wider AI cloud rally after Oracle priced a $20 billion stock and bond sale.
The stock closed 5.47% below its 52-week high of $551.15, on volume 11.30% below average.
Gotrade News - In the latest Microsoft stock news, Microsoft (MSFT) shares rose 2.74% to close at $520.99 in the US session on Tuesday, November 3, 2026, outpacing the broader market. Coverage of the session named no Microsoft-specific trigger, and 24/7 Wall St. grouped the gain with a wider rally in AI cloud stocks after Oracle priced a $20 billion stock and bond sale.
MSFT Trading Data
Data
Value
Closing price
$520.99
Change
+$13.87 (+2.74%)
Previous close
$507.12
Open
$509.01
Day range
$507.85 to $523.44
Volume
20.0 million shares
30-day average volume
22.6 million shares
52-week range
$349.20 to $551.15
Market cap
$3.87 trillion
Regular-session close on Tuesday, November 3, 2026, 4:00 p.m. New York time. Stock prices: Yahoo Finance, cross-checked against the closing price on Nasdaq.com. Volume and 30-day average volume: Nasdaq.com. 52-week range: Yahoo Finance daily highs and lows since November 4, 2025. Indices and the 10-year Treasury yield: Yahoo Finance daily closes for the same date.
Microsoft opened at $509.01 and traded between $507.85 and $523.44, finishing $13.14 above the day's low and close to the top of its range. Volume came in at 20.0 million shares, 11.30% below the 22.6 million share average, so the gain arrived on lighter than usual trading.
The move put Microsoft 1.91 percentage points ahead of the Nasdaq Composite, which rose 0.83% to 25,372.01. The S&P 500 added 0.36% to 7,568.92, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average slipped 0.38% to 51,786.72. The US 10-year Treasury yield closed at 4.95%, up 5.8 basis points.
AI infrastructure names led the peer group. Oracle (ORCL) rose 5.85%, CoreWeave (CRWV) gained 7.16% and Nvidia (NVDA) added 2.29%, while Apple fell 1.90%. After the close, Microsoft stood 5.47% below its 52-week high of $551.15 and 49.20% above its 52-week low of $349.20.
No source covering the session tied the November 3 gain to a Microsoft announcement, so the move is best read against its AI peers and the indices. Late on November 2, Oracle announced it had priced $20 billion of common stock and senior notes, split equally between stock and bonds, according to 24/7 Wall St., which reported that the sale spooked investors one day and rallied them the next.
The same report said CoreWeave's bigger move outpaced Microsoft's gain, signaling "broader AI cloud optimism, not an Oracle-only story." It also noted that Oracle databases run inside Microsoft Azure through a multicloud partnership.
Per The Motley Fool, semiconductor stocks rebounded and tech stocks broke their recent losing streak on Tuesday, while the US midterm elections took a back seat to earnings in a mixed session.
The same earnings report showed revenue of $92.3 billion, up 19%, Microsoft Cloud revenue up 30% to $63.9 billion, and Azure revenue up 48%.
24/7 Wall St. noted that Microsoft spreads its AI spending across a broad base of software, productivity tools and Azure cloud services.
Risks
Microsoft's additions to property and equipment reached $39.4 billion in the quarter, per its release, while The Motley Fool said investors remain cautious about AI valuations and revenue generation.
24/7 Wall St. reported that JPMorgan said a Democratic sweep in this fall's elections could trigger a selloff in AI stocks, while Bernstein argued the political risk to US data center builds may be overstated.
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