Stock market reporting is so weird. Headline from MarketWatch: Microsoft stock is on track to post its biggest quarterly gains in 28 years. Zoom out on the graph slightly a Microsoft stock is trading at just below its high, which was a year ago. Yes, there was a big jump in July but there was an approximately equal crash at the end of last year. Alternative headline: Microsoft stock exhibits high volatility with swings of almost 50% in one year.