What is Microsoft Worth?

When Steve ballmer announced last month he’d be quitting as CEO of Microsoft, its stock was trading at little more than half its adjusted 1999 peak. Maybe the way to finally get shareholders more value is to do voluntarily what the Feds never could: Break up the company. Here’s what, on the high end, Goldman Sachs analyst Heather Bellini thinks Microsoft could be worth in pieces: $340 billion, or $40 a share, a 21 percent premium over its recent price of $33.