Microsoft Stock Predictions: JEDI Cloud Contract Win Is A Big Boost To Microsoft
The article was written by Motek Moyen Research Seeking Alpha’s #1 Writer on Long Ideas and #2 in Technology – Senior Analyst at I Know First.
Summary
- Investors should increase their long-term position on Microsoft.
- Microsoft outplayed IBM, Amazon, and Google. Microsoft recently won the hotly contested 10-year $10 billion U.S. Joint Enterprise Defense Initiative or JEDI cloud-computing contract.
- Going forward, this contract win can add $1 billion/year in new revenue to Microsoft’s fastest-growing segment, Intelligent Cloud.
- The halo effect of the JEDI cloud computing contract victory will attract more enterprise/government customers away from Amazon Web Services.
- The U.S. government’s JEDI contract obviously needed the best security and reliability. Microsoft Azure’s reputation therefore was greatly enhanced from this contract win.