Jim Cramer’s Week Ahead: 17 Stocks in Focus, Including Alphabet and Bloom Energy

8. Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT)

Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) was on Jim Cramer’s Mad Money game plan for the week ahead. Cramer noted that coming Wednesday is an important day as many significant tech companies report on the day, including Microsoft, and said:

Let’s go to Wednesday. Wednesday is about as consequential as any day I’ve ever seen in my career… After the close, where do I begin? We have Microsoft, which I think can surprise us with a spectacular data center number, even as I’m betting demand for Copilot remains not-so-hot. Microsoft’s been doing buyouts. We need to find out what that’s all about.

Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) develops software, hardware, and cloud-based solutions. The company provides products like Windows, Azure, Office, LinkedIn, and Xbox. On April 21, Cramer expressed relief that his Charitable Trust stuck with the stock, as he explained:

Or how about Microsoft? Now, we’ve owned it for the Charitable Trust for ages. I’ve been looking pretty silly, frankly. We’re aware that Copilot has issues, but we’re also aware that Azure cloud infrastructure business is robust. Windows franchise remains second to none. So we held on to it. Stock’s been ugly, fell from $555 at its heights last summer to $356 at the end of March, where it began a sustained run during which all I heard was derision and how could you be so stupid to own it?… Then today, after the beginning of a nice rumble higher, an incredibly positive Citi piece of research emerges and ignites the stock… This is the first positive piece I’ve seen on Microsoft since the negativists took over the microphone… Microsoft’s enterprise software is doing incredibly well. Some product lines, sure, some are going to get hurt by Anthropic or even OpenAI, which is their partner, but it’s got a fantastic balance sheet. It can improve its AI offering, and it can take some hits, for heaven’s sake. I’m glad we didn’t dump it. First day I’ve said that in a long time. It could have been a big mistake. Stock’s back up to $424, up six bucks today. I bet you analysts come out of the woodwork and say, you know what, we really like Microsoft.