Goldman Sachs’ 35 AI Superstars

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2. Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT)

Number of Hedge Fund Holders: 279

Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) is a Washington-based technology company. In the first quarter of fiscal year 2025, Microsoft returned $9 billion to shareholders through dividends and share repurchases. Analysts project that for the quarter ending December 2024, Microsoft’s net income will be approximately $23.3 billion, with earnings per share expected at $3.11. Microsoft has been at the forefront of integrating AI across its product and service offerings. The company has pioneered AI breakthroughs in areas such as conversational speech recognition, machine translation, image captioning, and natural language understanding. In fiscal year 2025, Microsoft is on track to invest approximately $80 billion to build out AI-enabled data centers to train AI models and deploy AI and cloud-based applications globally.

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