Here’s Wedgewood Partners’ View on Microsoft (MSFT)

Wedgewood Partners, an investment management company, released its third-quarter 2025 investor letter. The letter is available for download here.  AI stocks remain the favorite topic of Wall Street in the third quarter. In the third quarter, Wedgewood Composite’s net return was 5.9% compared to the Standard & Poor’s 8.1%, the Russell 1000 Growth Index’s 10.5%, and the Russell 1000 Value Index’s 5.3% return for the same period. In addition, you can check the fund’s best 5 holdings to know its best picks in 2025.

In its third-quarter 2025 investor letter, Wedgewood Partners highlighted stocks such as Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT). Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) is a multinational software company that develops and supports software, services, devices, and solutions. The one-month return of Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) was 1.47%, and its shares gained 21.92% of their value over the last 52 weeks. On October 21, 2025, Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) stock closed at $517.66 per share, with a market capitalization of $3.848 trillion.

Wedgewood Partners stated the following regarding Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) in its third quarter 2025 investor letter:

“Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) has also spent quite heavily on capex over the past several years, having stood up more than 2 gigawatts of data center capacity over the past 12 months alone, yet it has also produced very attractive cash low returns. It exited its fiscal 2025 with almost $370 billion in gross property plant and equipment and capitalized leases, up a remarkable $260 billion from fiscal 2020. Meanwhile, gross cash low grew from $60 billion a year in 2020 to more than $140 billion per year in 2025. When we add in the rest of the assets on Microsoft’s balance sheet, we calculate its gross cash lows to be a consistent returns on capital in the high 20s. That is an extraordinary attractive return for such massive amounts of investing.”

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Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) is in the second position on our list of 30 Most Popular Stocks Among Hedge Funds. As per our database, 294 hedge fund portfolios held Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) at the end of the second quarter compared to 284 in the previous quarter. In the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2025, Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) reported revenue of $76.4 billion, representing an 18% increase, or 17% when adjusted for constant currency. While we acknowledge the risk and potential of Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) as an investment, our conviction lies in the belief that some AI stocks hold greater promise for delivering higher returns and doing so within a shorter time frame. If you are looking for an AI stock that is more promising than Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) and that has 10,000% upside potential, check out our report about this cheapest AI stock.

In another article, we covered Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) and shared the list of best big tech stocks to invest in. In addition, please check out our hedge fund investor letters Q3 2025 page for more investor letters from hedge funds and other leading investors.

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