Microsoft Corporation's debt to equity: 5 definitions, 5 answers
Depending on which definition is used, Microsoft Corporation's debt to equity for FY2026 is anywhere from 0.07 to 0.71, every one of them arithmetically correct and all of them out of the same filing.
Computed from Microsoft Corporation's 10-K for fiscal 2026, the year ended 2026-06-30, filed 2026-07-29, 29 days after the books closed. Accession 0001193125-26-323660 Reported in USD.
The same filing, read 5 ways
| Definition | Formula, in filed line items | Measured over | Value |
|---|---|---|---|
| Long-term debt to equity | longTermDebt / totalStockholdersEquity | One filed fiscal year | 0.07 |
| Borrowings to equity | (shortTermDebt + longTermDebt) / totalStockholdersEquity | One filed fiscal year | 0.09 |
| Total debt to equityours | totalDebt / totalStockholdersEquity | One filed fiscal year | 0.28 |
| Total debt to total equity including minority interests | totalDebt / totalEquity | One filed fiscal year | 0.28 |
| Total liabilities to equity | totalLiabilities / totalStockholdersEquity | One filed fiscal year | 0.71 |
Highest over lowest, a factor of 10.18.
- Long-term debt to equity
- Long-term debt 31.07 bn USD, Total stockholders' equity 442.39 bn USD, giving 0.07. Reading it instead of the one the product prints moves the answer by -0.21.
- Borrowings to equity
- Short-term debt 9.23 bn USD, Long-term debt 31.07 bn USD, Total stockholders' equity 442.39 bn USD, giving 0.09. Reading it instead of the one the product prints moves the answer by -0.19.
- Total debt to equity
- Total debt 123.42 bn USD, Total stockholders' equity 442.39 bn USD, giving 0.28. This is the one the product prints.
- Total debt to total equity including minority interests
- Total debt 123.42 bn USD, Total equity 442.39 bn USD, giving 0.28. Same answer as the one the product prints, to two decimals.
- Total liabilities to equity
- Total liabilities 315.99 bn USD, Total stockholders' equity 442.39 bn USD, giving 0.71. Reading it instead of the one the product prints moves the answer by +0.43.
Our own figure for MSFT: 0.28. That is the total debt to equity line above.
The definitions disagree by 0.64 on this filer, against 0.71 between the median and the top quartile of the 2320-company cohort. So the choice moves the answer less than a quarter of the market does.
Is that a lot
Microsoft Corporation's 0.28 (FY2026, on the definition this product prints) is -0.29 against the 0.57 median of the 2320 filers holding a debt to equity on 2026-10-21. Every mark, and the distance from it:
| Mark | Every filer (2320) | Distance | Technology (372) | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| p5 | 0.00 | +0.28 | 0.00 | +0.28 |
| p10 | 0.02 | +0.26 | 0.01 | +0.27 |
| p25 | 0.16 | +0.12 | 0.08 | +0.20 |
| p50 | 0.57 | -0.29 | 0.37 | -0.09 |
| p75 | 1.28 | -1.00 | 1.03 | -0.75 |
| p90 | 2.70 | -2.42 | 2.23 | -1.95 |
| p95 | 4.96 | -4.68 | 3.99 | -3.71 |
A distance is not a verdict. What the marks mean, and what this metric hides
Nothing here is quoted from another publisher, and none of these is called wrong.
What this page leaves out
Evaluated over 10 filed fiscal years, FY2017 to FY2026. Accounts filed before this company began tagging its statements in XBRL are not machine-readable and are outside this page. No share price is involved in any figure here, so nothing on this page is limited by the depth of our price archive.
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