Microsoft Becomes The Second $4 Trillion Company

Microsoft’s banal value has risen truthful overmuch coming that it has passed a $4 trillion marketplace valuation for nan first clip successful its 50-year history. The package shaper is nan 2nd institution to beryllium weighted astatine $4 trillion, aft Nvidia reached a marketplace headdress of complete $4 trillion earlier this month.

Microsoft has reached this milestone acknowledgment to better-than-expected earnings, and nan institution reporting its Azure gross for nan first time. Microsoft revealed past nighttime that its Azure unreality computing business had generated much than $75 cardinal during its 2025 fiscal year, and nan company’s banal value instantly started soaring successful after-hours trading connected nan Nasdaq. Microsoft’s stock value is up astir 4 percent today, helping it support its $4 trillion marketplace valuation.

Microsoft has spent much than a decade building up its Azure unreality business, which is up of Google’s successful gross but still 2nd spot to Amazon Web Services. Azure now touches each area of Microsoft’s businesses, including powering its AI projects, its Office software, parts of Windows, Xbox, and more.

Microsoft’s finance successful unreality computing has positioned it good to return advantage of nan computing needs for nan early of AI, too. Earlier this twelvemonth location were plentifulness of questions complete nan $100 cardinal finance into The Stargate Project, and Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella was speedy to take sides nan company’s ain $80 cardinal walk connected unreality and AI information halfway projects. “All I cognize is, I’m bully for my $80 billion,” said Nadella astatine nan time.

Microsoft CFO Amy Hood revealed yesterday that Microsoft is now readying to walk $30 cardinal connected its AI infrastructure investments successful nan adjacent quarter. If Microsoft keeps up that level of spending past nan institution will full $120 cardinal aliases much connected unreality and AI infrastructure complete nan adjacent fiscal year.