Microsoft Corporation (MSFT): Among Billionaire Ken Fisher's Top Growth Stock Picks
We recently published a list of . In this article, we are going to take a look at where Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) stands against other Billionaire Ken Fisher's top growth stock picks.
'Who am I to tell you anything, much less anything that counts? Or that there are only three questions that count and I know what they are? Why should you bother reading any of this? Why listen to me at all?'
This is the opening paragraph in one of Kenneth Lawrence Fisher's books, 'The Only Three Questions That Count: Investing by Knowing What Others Don't.' Fisher has over ten books to his name, but that is not why investors pay attention to what he has to say whenever he says it. Known to many as Ken Fisher, the 74-year-old is ranked at position 212 in the latest Forbes Billionaires list (as of March 11, 2025). This is thanks to the $11.2 billion of wealth he has amassed through Fisher Investments, a firm that has more than $270 billion in assets under management.
Fisher has a lot to say about the market, and he is an active commentator on current events. As you'd expect, he had something to say about Trump's tariffs. On Tuesday, March 11, 2025, President Trump doubled down on tariff talks, threatening to double the planned tariff on Canada-imported aluminum and steel to 50%. He said the levies would be effected in 24 hours and that if Canada doesn't play ball, he 'would set tariffs on cars from Canada so high that they would permanently shut down the Canadian car industry,' the New York Times reported.
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President Trump has given four reasons for the tiff with Canada. On raising tariffs on Canadian aluminum and steel, the president argued that the move is a response to Ontario bumping up prices on the electricity exported to the United States. He has also mentioned concerns about fentanyl trafficking, high levies on dairy imports, and that the tariffs are the current administration's 'broader strategy to use economic leverage to address national security concerns and promote domestic manufacturing.'
Fisher agrees with President Trump but only as far as the tariffs are negotiating tools. In a recent video posted on YouTube, he explains that tariffs are rarely fully enforced and argues that the actual impact of tariffs is often much smaller than people fear. The levies might be set at, say, 10-15%, but the real cost impact on goods is usually around 1.5%. He also emphasizes that markets often overreact to tariff announcements, causing unnecessary fear and volatility.
In other words, Fisher's mind is clear that the current selloff in the US stock market is an overreaction that will settle. It is impossible to argue with a person whose stock picks have generated so much value in so many years. Fisher Asset Management, the investment vehicle of Fisher Investments, currently has 975 holdings, with a calculated portfolio value of $251 billion. This value has increased drastically over the past 10 years, with a slight dent during the COVID-19 pandemic.
We combed Fisher Asset Management's Q4 2024 13F filings to identify the top growth stocks in which the firm is invested in. From the resultant data, we settled on the top 13 growth stock picks and analyzed them to determine why they stand out as growth picks. Finally, we ranked the stocks in ascending order based on the value of Fisher Asset Management equity stakes while also detailing hedge fund sentiment around each stock.
Why are we interested in the stocks that hedge funds pile into? The reason is simple: our research has shown that we can outperform the market by imitating the top stock picks of the best hedge funds. Our quarterly newsletter's strategy selects 14 small-cap and large-cap stocks every quarter and has returned 373.4% since May 2014, beating its benchmark by 218 percentage points ().
Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) is a technology company that develops and licenses software, services, and hardware. The company has also invested significantly in artificial intelligence as it looks to accelerate growth on its cloud unit Azure and search engine Bing. The investments are already bearing fruit as the annual revenue run rate of $13 billion is already up 175% for the current fiscal year, surpassing expectations.
In its fiscal second quarter for fiscal 2025, Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) delivered a 12% year-over-year revenue increase to $69.6 billion as net income rose 10% to $24.1 billion. The cloud business is increasingly playing a central role in driving growth as revenue under the intelligent cloud segment grew 21% to $40.9 billion. The unit got a boost of 13%, based on the fast-growing demand for AI applications that the company offers.
Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) is positioned for sustained growth as cloud adoption accelerates and AI integration expands across all the product suites. Sales of cloud computing are expected to climb at a rate of 21% per year through 2030, while sales of enterprise software are expected to grow at a rate of 12% per year. With that, Microsoft has a good chance of increasing its earnings by double digits by the end of the decade. Analysts expect Microsoft's earnings to grow at 13% annually through fiscal 2026.
Overall, MSFT ranks 3rd on our list of billionaire Ken Fisher's top growth stock picks. While we acknowledge the potential of MSFT as an investment, our conviction lies in the belief that 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 MSFT but that trades at less than 5 times its earnings check out our report about the
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