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MSFT

Microsoft

Industry
Unclassified
Exchange
NASDAQ
Leaders covered
3
Market data
1990–2025

Chief executive

Satya Nadella

Feb 2014 – present

2026 reading

Strong

2 signals, 0 drags

Strong 1 of 1 · Firm 3 of 3 · Even 4 of 5 · Soft 2 of 2 · Weak 1 of 1 rose

Satya Nadella at MSFT, by year
YearReadingStackedMSFTResult
2025Soft0 signals, 1 drag+15.6%Rose
2024Even0 signals, 0 drags+12.9%Rose
2023Firm1 signal, 0 drags+58.2%Rose
2022Even0 signals, 1 drag−28.0%Fell
2021Weak0 signals, 1 drag+52.5%Rose
2020Firm1 signal, 0 drags+42.5%Rose
2019Even0 signals, 0 drags+57.6%Rose
2018Firm1 signal, 0 drags+20.8%Rose
2017Strong3 signals, 1 drag+40.7%Rose
2016Soft0 signals, 1 drag+15.1%Rose
2015Even0 signals, 0 drags+22.7%Rose
2014Even0 signals, 0 drags+27.5%Rose

Former chief executive

Steve Ballmer

Jan 2000 – Feb 2014

15 years on record

Firm 4 of 4 · Even 4 of 9 · Soft 1 of 2 rose

Steve Ballmer at MSFT, by year
YearReadingStackedMSFTResult
2014Even0 signals, 0 drags+27.5%Rose
2013Firm1 signal, 0 drags+44.3%Rose
2012Even1 signal, 2 drags+5.8%Rose
2011Soft0 signals, 1 drag−4.5%Fell
2010Even0 signals, 0 drags−6.6%Fell
2009Soft0 signals, 1 drag+60.5%Rose
2008Even1 signal, 1 drag−44.4%Fell
2007Firm1 signal, 0 drags+20.9%Rose
2006Even0 signals, 0 drags+15.8%Rose
2005Even0 signals, 0 drags−0.9%Fell
2004Firm1 signal, 0 drags+9.1%Rose
2003Firm1 signal, 0 drags+6.9%Rose
2002Even0 signals, 1 drag−22.0%Fell
2001Even0 signals, 1 drag+52.7%Rose
2000Even0 signals, 1 drag−62.8%Fell

Founder, no longer in the role

Bill Gates

Apr 1975 – Jan 2000

6 years on record

Even 3 of 4 · Soft 2 of 2 rose

Bill Gates at MSFT, by year
YearReadingStackedMSFTResult
2000Even0 signals, 1 drag−62.8%Fell
1999Even0 signals, 1 drag+68.4%Rose
1998Soft0 signals, 2 drags+114.5%Rose
1997Soft0 signals, 1 drag+56.6%Rose
1996Even0 signals, 0 drags+88.3%Rose
1995Even0 signals, 0 drags+43.4%Rose
Readings
One of five levels a year, with how many signals and drags stacked, computed from the birth date over the thirteen possible birth hours and issued only where at least ten agree. Built 2026-10-16 from research export f0c9e40. The rules stay in-house.
Stock data
Calendar-year and monthly % change of adjusted close. Volatility % = annualised stdev of the 12 monthly returns. No prices are included. Adjusted close is split-adjusted, so a stock split never appears as a move in anything plotted here, and stock splits are not recorded as events.
Birth dates
206 of the 319 people in this dataset now have at least one source recorded here, across 207 of the 325 leader-company records — six people ran two companies and are stored once for each. Of those sources — all 207 of them — 204 are a stated age read out of an SEC proxy statement, which bounds a birth year and says nothing about the day; one is an age stated in a press report; two state the day itself, one from an official gazette read by a person and one from an encyclopedia. The day is what every reading on this site is calculated from, so for all but those two birth dates no source here backs the part that is used. The 204 records the pass produced were not reviewed by a person: each source names who read it. Six findings from the same pass are deliberately not entered, because in each one the date held here falls outside the bound the filing implies, and telling an ordinary record-date lag from a real disagreement needs a person rather than arithmetic. An absent entry still means no source is recorded here yet.
Research export
Version 2, generated 2026-10-16 from research commit 7d490ef with uncommitted changes

Research and exploration only. Not investment advice. A reading describes a leader's year from their birth date, not the stock.