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Microsoft Is Now More Valuable Than Alphabet (cnbc.com)
Microsoft has surged 40 percent over the past 12 months to become more valuable than Alphabet. "As of Tuesday's close, Microsoft was worth $749 billion and Alphabet's market capitalization stood at $739 billion," reports CNBC. From the report: Microsoft's latest rally has been sparked by growth in its cloud computing business, which is bigger than Google's though it still trails Amazon Web Services. In March, Microsoft reorganized its Windows and Devices Group and moved its engineering resources into other units, including one focusing on cloud and artificial intelligence. Both Microsoft and Alphabet beat analysts' expectations in the first quarter. Microsoft still trails behind Apple's market valuation of $923 billion and Amazon's $782 billion market cap.
This seems entirely academic to me. They're about the same size and neither is out for your good.
And the difference seems to be mostly from re-arranging things on paper to boot. Colour me suitably impressed.
Comparing Microsoft to Google is embarrassing. Google makes much of its revenue from ads, Microsoft is extremely well rounded tech company selling a OS, Azure, Xbox, Office Suite, Cloud services, and hardware. Now comparing Apple to Microsoft would be a much more equal comparison.
That's slightly less wrong than the original dumbass, but still rather out to lunch.
In very simple terms stocks are just a representation of ownership. If I start a business, I own 100% of the stock. If I then decide I would like some cash instead of ownership, I can sell you 50% of my stock. Now you and I own an equal share of the business. If the business earns a profit, we each get 50% of the profit (this is known as dividends). When a major business decision needs to be made, we each get an equal say. If the business gets bought up by an outside entity, we split the price of the sale. Etc.
Of course each of us is free to further sell our one half to as many people as we like. And if we agree to it together, we can split our shares to slow for a finer grain of subdivision. This is where the other guy was confused. If you and I each own 50% of 1000, worth $100 each, we can agree that we each own 50% of 10,000 worth $10 each. The number of shares doesn't affect the goal value of the company, nor does it have anything to do with debt; it only affects the unit price of the stock.
One evil empire just pulled ahead of another evil empire.
Did you know 80 to 90% of the moderators on slashdot wouldn't recognize a troll even if one dragged them under a bridge.
Sure thing fanboi. Let's pretend that they got there based on a super good operating system, super not buggy software, and super not bending or constantly failing hardware!
It totally has nothing to do with tax evasion scams, aggressive lawsuits, patent trolling, and a mindless army of fucking morons like you to run defense.
Yeah, it's terrible that their products are easy to use and tend to work well. Horrible.
I don't respond to AC's.