Microsoft becomes the second $4 trillion company

Microsoft’s banal terms has risen truthful overmuch contiguous that it has passed a $4 trillion marketplace valuation for the archetypal clip successful its 50-year history. The bundle shaper is the 2nd institution to beryllium valued astatine $4 trillion, aft Nvidia reached a marketplace headdress of implicit $4 trillion earlier this month.

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

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

Microsoft’s concern successful unreality computing has positioned it good to instrumentality vantage of the computing needs for the aboriginal of AI, too. Earlier this twelvemonth determination were plentifulness of questions implicit the $100 cardinal concern into The Stargate Project, and Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella was speedy to support the 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 the time.

Microsoft CFO Amy Hood revealed yesterday that Microsoft is present readying to walk $30 cardinal connected its AI infrastructure investments successful the adjacent quarter. If Microsoft keeps up that level of spending past the institution volition full $120 cardinal oregon much connected unreality and AI infrastructure implicit the adjacent fiscal year.