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🤔 If Microsoft Is Winning The AI Race, Why Is The Stock Down More Than 20% This Year?

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Edward Corona
Jun 28, 2026
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Sometimes the market sends mixed signals.

Microsoft continues signing major AI customers.

Azure keeps expanding.

Copilot adoption continues growing.

The company is spending tens of billions building data centers around the world.

Yet the stock has been one of the weakest mega-cap technology names this year.

That raises an obvious question.

If Microsoft’s AI strategy is working, why are investors selling the stock?

The answer has very little to do with demand.

Instead, it comes down to one word.

Patience.

Wall Street knows Microsoft is investing aggressively.

The debate now centers on how long investors will have to wait before those investments begin producing the kind of returns the market expects.

Let’s dig in.

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