Microsoft Is About to Return an Absurd Amount of Cash to Shareholders

While high-growth, meme, and cryptocurrency stocks get all the attention these days, cloud giant Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) just continues to do what it's always done under CEO Satya Nadella: mint money and return it to shareholders.

While younger investors can definitely afford to take more risks, they shouldn't discount the tech behemoth from Redmond. Similarly, older investors looking for value stocks and dividends shouldn't dismiss Microsoft either. Is the stock cheap? At a 38 price-to-earnings ratio, one may be hard-pressed to say that. Does it have a high dividend? At 0.81%, that payout may leave dividend investors underwhelmed.

Yet both younger and older investors would do well to own Microsoft shares. The company's recent buyback and dividend hike just illustrated why.

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