The stock-market ticker for Microsoft Corporation is MSFT.
Microsoft trades on the Nasdaq stock exchange under the four-letter symbol MSFT. A ticker symbol is a short identifier used by exchanges, financial data services, and investors to distinguish a listed company’s shares.
Microsoft was founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen in 1975 and became widely known for operating systems such as MS-DOS and Windows. It later expanded into enterprise software, cloud computing through Azure, gaming through Xbox, and productivity services including Microsoft 365.
Because Microsoft has frequently ranked among the world’s companies with the largest market capitalizations, its ticker appears often in financial coverage. MSFT identifies the common stock; it is not the company’s legal name, product name, or stock-exchange name.