Dimitry Nakhla | Babylon Capital®
RT @DimitryNakhla: A quality valuation analysis on $MSFT 🧘🏽‍♂️

•NTM P/E Ratio: 27.29x
•3-Year Mean: 30.51x

•NTM FCF Yield: 2.09%
•3-Year Mean: 2.46%

As you can see, $MSFT appears to be trading below fair value on a forward earnings basis

Going forward, investors can expect to receive ~12% MORE in earnings per share & ~18% LESS in FCF per share🧠***

Before we get into valuation, let’s take a look at why $MSFT is a super business

BALANCE SHEET✅
•Cash & Equivalents: $102.01B
•Long-Term Debt: $35.38B

$MSFT has an excellent balance sheet, an AAA S&P Credit Rating & 58x FFO Interest Coverage Ratio

RETURN ON CAPITAL✅
•2021: 31.1%
•2022: 34.0%
•2023: 30.9%
•2024: 29.7%
•2025: 28.0%

RETURN ON EQUITY✅
•2021: 47.1%
•2022: 47.2%
•2023: 38.8%
•2024: 37.1%
•2025: 33.3%

$MSFT has strong return metrics, highlighting the financial efficiency of the business

REVENUE✅
•2021: $168.09B
•2026E: $326.83B
•CAGR: 14.22%

FREE CASH FLOW🆗*
•2021: $56.12B
•2026E: $75.05B
•CAGR: 5.98%

*This is largely due to heavy AI-related reinvestment — current 2028 FCF estimate $116.45B — worth noting operating cash flow increases underscore $MSFT efficient AI infrastructure scaling validating high ROI-potential

NORMALIZED EPS✅
•2021: $7.97
•2026E: $16.26
•CAGR: 15.32%

SHARE BUYBACKS✅
•2016 Shares Outstanding: 8.01B
•LTM Shares Outstanding: 7.46B

By reducing its shares outstanding ~7%, $MSFT increased its EPS by ~8% (assuming 0 growth)

MARGINS✅
•LTM Gross Margins: 68.8%
•LTM Operating Margins: 46.3%
•LTM Net Income Margins: 35.7%

PAID DIVIDENDS✅
•2015: $1.24
•2025: $3.32
•CAGR: 10.34%

***NOW TO VALUATION 🧠

As stated above, investors can expect to receive ~12% MORE in EPS & ~18% LESS in FCF per share

Using Benjamin Graham’s 2G rule of thumb, $MSFT has to grow earnings at a 13.65% CAGR over the next several years to justify its valuation

Today, analysts anticipate 2026 - 2028 EPS growth over the next few years to be more than the (13.65%) required growth rate:

2026E: $16.26 (19% YoY) *FY Jun

2027E: $18.75 (15% YoY)
2028E: $22.31 (19% YoY)

$MSFT has an excellent track record of meeting analyst estimates ~2 years out, so let’s assume $MSFT ends 2028 with $22.31 in EPS & see its CAGR potential assuming different multiples

30x P/E: $669💵 … ~17.9% CAGR

29x P/E: $647💵 … ~16.3% CAGR

28x P/E: $625💵 … ~14.7% CAGR

27x P/E: $602💵 … ~13.0% CAGR

26x P/E: $580💵 … ~11.3% CAGR

As you can see, we’d have to assume ~28x multiple for $MSFT to have attractive return potential

At 26x - 27x earnings $MSFT has ok CAGR potential

If $MSFT multiple expands slightly, >15% CAGR

$MSFT is one of the highest quality companies in the world & is firing on all cylinders

Today at $454💵 $MSFT appears to be a strong consideration for investment with a decent margin of safety

$MSFT has large margin of safety at $420💵, where I can reasonably expect ~13% CAGR while assuming a more conservative 25x
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That installed base has roughly doubled over the last 6 years.

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Total orders were $27 billion this quarter, up 74% YoY.

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They will win $178K if correct. https://t.co/3CwvzTmBld
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Dimitry Nakhla | Babylon Capital®
RT @DimitryNakhla: $MSFT Quarterly Cloud Revenue ☁️ — has delivered >20% YoY growth for 12 straight quarters https://t.co/aEC66FKInG
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God of Prompt
Jeff Weiner built LinkedIn into THE professional network.

Now he's betting your calendar is next.

Think about it. Your calendar already knows who you actually spend time with. Who matters. Who you're avoiding.

Blockit wants to unlock that with AI agents that schedule instantly. Zero back-and-forth.

When the guy who built LinkedIn says "this is the next network"... I'm listening.

Congrats @blockitAI 🔥

BIG NEWS: Today we are launching @blockitAI -- the first AI scheduling agent that actually understands your time.

After spending my career as a partner at @sequoia, I stepped back to build this. Why?

Because I believe the calendar is the last untouched social network, and it can only now be unlocked through AI.

Our scheduling agent can handle any degree of complexity and has spread purely through virality to date.

Blockit now works for 200+ companies and has coordinated 100,000+ meetings — all with zero humans in the loop.

We're excited to emerge from stealth and announce our $5M raise from @sequoia led by Pat Grady (@gradypb) with participation from @haystackvc, @adjacent, Original, and NPV, i.e. Jeff Weiner, the former CEO of Linkedin.

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God of Prompt
RT @godofprompt: the window is closing

there's a 12-18 month gap happening right now that most people won't realize existed until it's gone.

ai is unregulated.

the tools are superhuman.

the barriers are zero.

and everyone's still asking "what prompt should i use" instead of building empires.

this is the last unpoliced frontier. no licenses. no gatekeepers. no "you need 10 years experience" bullshit.

just you, a laptop, and models smart enough to 10x anything you throw at them.

claude thinks in chains of reasoning you'd pay a consultant $500/hr for.

gemini deep research pulls from the entire internet in seconds.

notebooklm turns any document into an expert you can interrogate.

these aren't tools. they're superpowers handed out for free.

and we're complaining about rate limits.

here's what nobody's telling you:

the moment regulation kicks in... the moment ai gets "safety frameworks" and "compliance requirements"... the gap between people who learned to think with ai and people who just used ai closes forever.

right now you can build things that won't be possible to build the same way in 2 years.

you can access reasoning that will be paywalled or restricted.

you can move faster than companies with 50 lawyers reviewing every ai output.

the window isn't closing slowly. it's closing quietly.

so what do you actually do with the window?

stop prompting like you're searching google.

start thinking like a strategist.

add game theory to your prompts. ask claude to model the incentives of every player in your market. ask it what move your competitor will make after you make yours. ask it where the equilibrium settles.

suddenly you're not reacting. you're predicting.

add first principles. break every problem down to its atoms before building solutions. ask "what would this look like if we started from zero" instead of "how do we improve what exists."

most people copy. you'll invent.

add systems thinking. every input creates outputs that become inputs for something else. ask the model to map second and third order effects. ask what happens downstream when you change something upstream.

you stop solving symptoms. you start solving root causes.

the formula

game theory = anticipate moves before they happen

first principles = build solutions nobody's seen before

systems thinking = understand consequences most people miss

stack all three in your prompts and you're not using ai anymore.

you're thinking with it.

the gratitude part

i genuinely feel lucky to be alive right now.

not because ai is cool. because the opportunity is absurd.

a kid with no connections and a claude subscription can outthink an entire research team from 2015.

that's not normal. that's not permanent.

and too many people are wasting it asking chatgpt to write their emails.

the tools exist.

the window is open.

but windows close.
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