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Microsoft's Stock Market Value Pulls Ahead of Apple's (reuters.com)
Microsoft's stock market value surpassed Apple's and pulled ahead by as much as $3 billion on Wednesday as the Windows software maker benefited from optimism about demand for cloud computing services. From a report: Shares of Microsoft jumped 3 percent, pushing its market capitalization up to $848 billion. With the broad market rebounding following a recent slump, Apple also rose, but less than Microsoft. Its 2.17 percent increase put Apple's market capitalization at $845 billion, just four months after the iPhone maker breached the $1 trillion mark for the first time. Microsoft and Apple briefly traded at about the same level after the bell on Monday, but Microsoft's intraday lead over Apple on Wednesday was more substantial. Further reading: 'This is Not Your Father's Microsoft': CEO Satya Nadella On Helping a Faded Legend Find a 'Sense of Purpose'.
About as well as the windows phone...
For the arbitrary base 10 number which is calculated from share price and shares outstanding. Irrelevant to anyone who knows the stock market well but fodder for sites looking for ad clicks.
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This is just as true regarding Internet Karma and Stock Values.
I guess we'll see some Microsoft Executives unloading their stock shortly.
How on earth did they do that? Is there a manual? Everybody seems to want to be the next google, when I only want to be amazon or Microsoft.
What about my Karma on slashdot? Surely that is important and real?
Nobody cares.
It doesn't appear on any official documents so you might have to wander in the desert for a while before you figure it out.
Vendor lock-in. It's guaranteed they'll continue to make money.
Our cost to upgrade our ancient Exchange infrastructure? $45k
So we moved to Linux and used Roundcube. Cost: $1,200.
Employees keep bitching they like Outlook better until I send them a quote to move just their department to Exchange.
Even Chinese drivers would've made it out of there in 10 years... either the god isn't very impressive or the worshipers aren't. Or both. Given the "holy texts" I'd say neither are worth much.
Stock values are according to what stock broker's computers think they can buy at in order to sell for a profit, according to a genetic algorithm nobody understands. Prices have no relationship to what the brokers think the stocks are worth, or what the company itself thinks it is worth. There is a slight negative relationship to what the company is actually doing. Real research and new products are more dangerous than playing it safe.
Although brokers are often thought of as investors, they invest nothing in the companies they buy shares of. They're just buying and selling shares. None of that money is seen by the company itself, unless the company itself sells shares it holds in reserve. Directors selling shares can become rich, but that money doesn't go into the company. Company finances and director finances are kept seperate.
So what this means is that a computer has decided Microsoft shares will go up in value by enough to make day trading in Microsoft shares highly profitable.
It's a small world and it smells funny; I'd buy another if it wasn't for the money; Take back what I paid (SoM)
That's because Chinese drivers may care less about running over pedestrians than in the US or the UK? :)
At least cheer for these guys if you cheered for apple when they got biggest.
Embrace, extend and extinguish the stock market?
I don't think Microsoft is the good guy. They are a For Profit company, they will do what will make them money.
However they found out they lost their monopoly hand. Not every device runs Windows, and the device that Runs Windows may not be users may not be using IE/Edge, and they will could be switching to other devices depending on what they are doing.
Microsoft is playing the Good Guy Card, because their old game plan isn't viable.
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
Many question whether stock value or profits are better for a company. Obviously Apple beats everyone in technology on profits. Microsoft probably is a better bet for a stable tech company investment as its core cloud services will probably create more stability for stock holders. Apple can be a fickle stock to own these days although it an still bring to those who buy in at the right time. Both Apple and Microsoft are more diverse in their company profiles then say a Google or Facebook who depend mostly on ads for revenue.
Go stand in the road and test your theory.
plz no bully
Clearly MS is in steep decline. They have nothing new of any real value. They have lost technological control of their flagship OS win10 and stumble from one tech failure to the next. Large enterprises (I know at least one Fortune 100 that plans to do this) plan to not ever move to win10, but move to a web-client and at least seriously consider dropping MS Office as well in the process. And the stock becomes more valuable? Are these morons creating the next big bubble?
Most ACs are not even worth the keystrokes to insult them. Be generically insulted by this and ignored otherwise.
YES! Everything M$ does is bad because M$ does it!!!11 REEEEEEE
Wow! A WHOLE 3 Billion?!?
Color me completely unimpressed.
By the time this article posts, Apple will probably be back on top.
Plus, the entire stock market is extremely volatile right now.
Non-News.
This is the top 5 market cap according to wikipedia:
1. Apple (1091B)
2. Amazon (976B)
3. Microsoft (877B)
4. Alphabet (839B)
5. Berkshire Hathaway (523B)
When you realize none of these companies have heavy industries, that's just crazy. Even Apple that sells products does not have any factory. All of their money is made without owning much actual physical matter. How come does a website has more value than, for example, a plane factory? You're right, the global economy is just as meaningful as karma points on the internet.
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Everything M$ does is bad because they do it badly... I don't see you arguing that point....
Once the leadership at Microsoft green lights the plan to make Windows a subscription only service coupled with the fact that they can't seem to get a software update right to save their f*****g life, that stock will collapse so hard it will create a singularity.
Apple will likely fall off a cliff as well, ( just not as quickly ) due to the fact that innovation doesn't appear to be in their interests any longer and they have far too many competitors in an already saturated smart phone market.
The spyware and ad-centric experience that is Windows 10 alone is enough to catalog Microsoft as a really evil company.
Apple probably has very large amounts of actual matter that they technically own - at least in terms of materials.
Not to mention Apple has a huge real estate holding at this point due to store locations.
At some point I heard they were planning to build a fab even, though have not heard much about that since.
Considering Apple's death is mostly from physical products I think they should be looked at almost the same as a company that owns more factories than they do, Apple is reliant on physical production.
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All of their money is made without owning much actual physical matter.
Because defining what to build and how to build it is more valuable than actually just following those instructions.
How come does a website has more value than, for example, a plane factory?
I don't know about a website but in terms of a plane factory the expense is in design, engineering and the materials, the labor of putting it together in a factory is much less.
So you mean you just can't understand why Foxconn isn't able to simply kick Apple to the curb and produce its own smartphone and own the market? You really don't know?
Berkshire owns lots of manufacturing; Buffet buys stable, cash-generating companies and that includes quite a few manufacturing companies.
Browsing at +1 - no ACs, I ignore their posts. So refreshing!
Computer geeks understand websites, and make money. Therefore the profitability of, say, Amazon, must be measured by its website.
Do you have any idea how complicated and far-reaching Amazon's shipping, warehousing, tracking, and packing infrastructure is?
Computer geeks understand software. Therefore the profitability of Apple must be measured by its software.
Do you have any idea how involved Apple is in the manufacturing process of its products? Any idea how involved it is in the sale of its products - training its own staff at its own brick-and-mortar stores?
Also the earth will eventually tumble into the sun! Or get eaten by it, depending on your point of view.
You heard it here first!