Jim Cramer Says Microsoft (MSFT) Stock Has Been ‘Abysmal’

We recently published a list of 10 Stocks Analysts are Talking About Amid Trump’s Tariff War. In this article, we are going to take a look at where Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) stands against other stocks analysts are talking about amid Trump’s tariff war.

Markets saw some glimmer of hope as President Donald Trump indicated that he does not plan to fire Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell and showed openness to engage in talks with China. However, China has said in a statement that the US should dial back all unilateral duties if it’s serious in negotiations.

Andrew Slimmon, Morgan Stanley Investment Management senior portfolio manager, explained in a recent program on CNBC what made Trump blink:

“I think…April 9th was an important day because on that day Trump came out and said I didn’t like what I saw in the bond market, I didn’t like Jamie Diamon saying there’s a recession coming and he said “So I’m putting a 90-day pause on.” So in my opinion, what he really said is tariffs are important to me but a recession’s worse and so there’s the priority which he basically gave you the indication there is a Trump put out there. I don’t think it’s down 10 15 but it was when the market was almost down 20 right, credit spread started to quake.”

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Number of Hedge Fund Investors: 279

Jim Cramer in a latest program on CNBC talked about Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) and said the company has been out of the limelight. Cramer thinks the company “wrecked” the data center story by putting a pause on its data center projects in Ohio. He also mentioned a latest analyst note pointing to slowing Azure growth:

“But Morgan Stanley comes out with a piece… talking about how Azure is going to probably not make the number. Azure has been the swing point. We thought that Azure might—that know that’s their big cloud business. We thought it might accelerate. That was the key to betting why you want to be in the stock was acceleration, because the stock’s just been abysmal.”