$60,000 of MICROSOFT lobbying was just disclosed, from Q4 of 2024, in a new Lobbying Disclosure Act filing.
This included lobbying on issues like:
"Competition issues, cross border data issues, the Electronic Communications Privacy Act; Broadband Funding; Energy, environmental & sustainability issues generally.
Antitrust issues, generally
Comprehensive Immigration Reform, generally.
Privacy Issues, generally, including COPPA 2.0 & KOSA legislation, AI & cyber security issues generally."
You can find more data on corporate lobbying on Quiver Quantitative.
MSFT Congressional Stock Trading
Members of Congress have traded $MSFT stock 21 times in the past 6 months. Of those trades, 8 have been purchases and 13 have been sales.
Here’s a breakdown of recent trading of $MSFT stock by members of Congress over the last 6 months:
- REPRESENTATIVE JAMES COMER purchased up to $15,000 on 01/02.
- REPRESENTATIVE MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE has traded it 3 times. They made 3 purchases worth up to $45,000 on 12/24, 11/25, 10/21 and 0 sales.
- REPRESENTATIVE PETE SESSIONS has traded it 2 times. They made 2 purchases worth up to $30,000 on 12/18, 09/09 and 0 sales.
- SENATOR SHELLEY MOORE CAPITO has traded it 2 times. They made 0 purchases and 2 sales worth up to $30,000 on 12/16, 09/20.
- REPRESENTATIVE JOSH GOTTHEIMER has traded it 6 times. They made 1 purchase worth up to $50,000 on 08/12 and 5 sales worth up to $110,000 on 11/14, 11/12, 10/03, 10/02, 09/12.
- REPRESENTATIVE MORGAN MCGARVEY sold up to $15,000 on 11/13.
- REPRESENTATIVE WILLIAM R. KEATING purchased up to $15,000 on 10/31.
- SENATOR TOMMY TUBERVILLE sold up to $50,000 on 10/29.
- REPRESENTATIVE JOHN JAMES sold up to $50,000 on 09/04.
- REPRESENTATIVE SUZAN K. DELBENE sold up to $250,000 on 08/31.
- REPRESENTATIVE C. SCOTT FRANKLIN sold up to $50,000 on 08/06.
- REPRESENTATIVE NANCY PELOSI sold up to $5,000,000 on 07/26.
To track congressional stock trading, check out Quiver Quantitative's congressional trading dashboard.
MSFT Insider Trading Activity
MSFT insiders have traded $MSFT stock on the open market 21 times in the past 6 months. Of those trades, 0 have been purchases and 21 have been sales.
Here’s a breakdown of recent trading of $MSFT stock by insiders over the last 6 months:
- SATYA NADELLA (Chief Executive Officer) has made 0 purchases and 9 sales selling 92,751 shares for an estimated $38,027,122.
- BRADFORD L SMITH (Vice Chair and President) has made 0 purchases and 2 sales selling 40,000 shares for an estimated $16,103,553.
- AMY HOOD (EVP, Chief Financial Officer) sold 38,000 shares for an estimated $15,600,793
- JUDSON ALTHOFF (EVP, Chief Commercial Officer) sold 25,000 shares for an estimated $10,425,000
- KATHLEEN T HOGAN (EVP, Chief Human Resources Off) sold 17,377 shares for an estimated $7,156,892
- TAKESHI NUMOTO (EVP, Chief Marketing Officer) has made 0 purchases and 6 sales selling 11,500 shares for an estimated $4,936,154.
- CHRISTOPHER DAVID YOUNG (EVP, Business Development) sold 7,200 shares for an estimated $3,050,340
To track insider transactions, check out Quiver Quantitative's insider trading dashboard.
MSFT Hedge Fund Activity
We have seen 2,516 institutional investors add shares of MSFT stock to their portfolio, and 2,284 decrease their positions in their most recent quarter.
Here are some of the largest recent moves:
- INTERNATIONAL ASSETS INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT, LLC removed 38,409,988 shares (-99.8%) from their portfolio in Q4 2024, for an estimated $16,189,809,942
- STATE STREET CORP removed 10,529,444 shares (-3.5%) from their portfolio in Q3 2024, for an estimated $4,530,819,753
- BLACKROCK, INC. added 7,505,803 shares (+1.4%) to their portfolio in Q3 2024, for an estimated $3,229,747,030
- APG ASSET MANAGEMENT N.V. removed 6,242,164 shares (-86.0%) from their portfolio in Q3 2024, for an estimated $2,686,003,169
- BILL & MELINDA GATES FOUNDATION TRUST removed 5,932,350 shares (-17.0%) from their portfolio in Q3 2024, for an estimated $2,552,690,205
- CAPITAL WORLD INVESTORS removed 5,775,884 shares (-7.7%) from their portfolio in Q3 2024, for an estimated $2,485,362,885
- FMR LLC removed 5,056,730 shares (-2.3%) from their portfolio in Q3 2024, for an estimated $2,175,910,919
To track hedge funds' stock portfolios, check out Quiver Quantitative's institutional holdings dashboard.
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