Microsoft’s primacy and ubiquity in portfolios reflects the way it exemplifies nearly every characteristic that today’s market is rewarding richly.

Microsoft enjoys mid-30s percent profit margins, has repeatedly reloaded a $40 billion buyback plan and pays out more than $15 billion a year in dividends.

Microsoft is among the top 10 holdings in the most hedge funds, according to Goldman Sachs.

But has the acclaim for Microsoft become a bit extreme and uncomfortably unanimous.?