Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT)

Software - Infrastructure · Redmond, WA, United States · Founded 1975

$3100.0B

Market Cap

$62.48B

Revenue

228,000

Employees

$101.83B

Net Income

📊 Key Statistics for Microsoft Corporation (MSFT)

Market capitalization: $3100.0 billion
Annual revenue: $62.48 billion
Net income: $101.83 billion
Employees: 228,000
Sector: Technology
Headquarters: Redmond, United States
Founded: 1975

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📋 About Microsoft Corporation

Microsoft pulls in over $230 billion in annual revenue, making it one of the two most valuable companies on Earth. It dominates enterprise software with Office 365 and Azure, its cloud platform that's now neck-and-neck with AWS. Windows still runs roughly 72% of desktops worldwide. The company's $69 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard in 2023 made it the third-largest gaming company by revenue, and its multi-billion-dollar OpenAI partnership has put it at the center of the AI arms race.

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💰 How Microsoft Corporation Makes Money

Three segments drive the machine: Intelligent Cloud (Azure, server products) at ~43% of revenue, Productivity and Business Processes (Office, LinkedIn, Dynamics) at ~33%, and More Personal Computing (Windows, Xbox, Surface, ads) at ~24%. Cloud and AI are growing fastest, with Azure consistently posting 25-30% growth quarters.

📜 Key Milestones

Bill Gates and Paul Allen founded Microsoft in 1975 in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The 1985 Windows launch and the 1986 IPO turned it into a juggernaut. Satya Nadella took over as CEO in 2014 and pivoted hard to cloud — arguably the best CEO succession in tech history. The Activision Blizzard deal closed in October 2023 after a brutal regulatory fight.

📊 Financial Overview

Market Capitalization	$3100.0B
Annual Revenue	$62.48B
Net Income	$101.83B
Profit Margin	163%
Revenue per Employee	$274035K
Stock Exchange	NASDAQ
Ticker Symbol	MSFT

Financial data is approximate and based on most recent annual filings.

💡 Did You Know?

Microsoft tried to buy Nintendo in 2000. Nintendo's team literally laughed them out of the meeting. Also, LinkedIn — which Microsoft bought for $26.2 billion in 2016 — now generates more revenue than many standalone public companies. Bing, long a punchline, suddenly matters because it's the consumer front-end for OpenAI's models.

📝 Analyst Take

Nadella's AI-everywhere bet is working, and the Azure + OpenAI combo gives Microsoft a distribution advantage nobody else can match. They're in the best strategic position of any mega-cap tech company right now.

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