Oppenheimer & Co. kicked off a fresh round of bullish calls on Microsoft Corp., upgrading the stock to Outperform from Perform and assigning a $600 price objective on 9 July. Analyst Timothy Horan said accelerating monetisation of artificial-intelligence services and sustained growth in the Azure cloud platform should draw greater investor attention. The move was quickly echoed across Wall Street. Piper Sandler lifted its target to $600 from $475 on 10 July while maintaining an Overweight rating, and UBS analyst Karl Keirstead matched the $600 objective on 23 July, up from $500. Loop Capital and Wedbush, in notes dated 26 July, reiterated $600 price goals, while Raymond James nudged its target to $570 two days later. Stifel also raised its view to $550. Analysts cite robust enterprise demand for generative-AI infrastructure, improving cloud-services uptake and the prospect of positive earnings revisions ahead of Microsoft’s fiscal fourth-quarter results. The clustering of higher price objectives underscores growing conviction that the company’s heavy investment in AI can translate into meaningful revenue and profit growth.