DA Davidson analyst Gil Luria downgraded Microsoft (MSFT) to Neutral from Buy with an unchanged price target of $475. The firm believes competition has “largely caught up with Microsoft on the AI front,” which reduces the justification for the current premium valuation, the analyst tells investors. Noting that Amazon’s (AMZN) AWS already is adding nearly as much cloud business as Azure after a period of a few quarters of Microsoft adding more business and that Google’s (GOOGL) GCP’s growth has also seen its business accelerate to comparable growth rates as Azure last quarter, the firm argues that Microsoft’s lead is now diminished in both the cloud business and code generation business, which it contends will make it hard for shares to continue to outperform.
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