The market capitalization of Microsoft exceeds Google and returns to "the third largest company in the world"

Microsoft's market capitalization reached 749 billion dollars (about 81.5 trillion yen) as of May 29, 2018, about 10 billion dollars (about 1 trillion yen) exceeding the market capitalization of Google parent company Alphabet about It was revealed that it returned to the third largest enterprise in the world for the first time in three years.

Microsoft passes Alphabet by market cap
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/05/29/microsoft-passes-alphabet-by-market-cap.html

Microsoft is now more valuable than Google - The Verge
https://www.theverge.com/2018/5/30/17408254/microsoft-google-alphabet-market-cap-value

Microsoft has succeeded in raising more than five times the benefit of Alphabet in about one year since May 2017. As a result, Microsoft's market capitalization reached 749 billion dollars (about 81.5 trillion yen) as of May 29, 2018. Microsoft surpassed Alphabet's market capitalization of 739 billion dollars (about 80 trillion yen) by about 10 billion dollars (about 1 trillion yen), and Microsoft, following Apple and Amazon, ranked third in the world with market capitalization It returned to a high company.

Microsoft has doubled its share price since Mr. Satia Nadera took over as CEO in 2014. One of the initiatives that greatly increased the stock price is to break away from the business centered on Windows. Mr. Nadera has transferred engineers belonging to the Windows division etc which has boasted high sales by Microsoft to other divisions such as cloud and AI and this effect is thought to lead to the improvement of profit.

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As of May 29, 2018, Apple with the market capitalization top is 923 billion dollars (about 100 trillion yen), second place Amazon is 782 billion dollars (about 85 trillion yen), Microsoft is pursuing it is. However, Apple is about 60% of revenue on iPhone sales alone, and Google is currently relying on revenues from only one advertisement revenue and about 90% of revenue by advertisement revenue, It is difficult situation. As of 2018, Microsoft has earned revenues of about 35% in the Surface and Game category of the tablet device, about 30% in the cloud, about 30% in Microsoft Office and so on, and has multiple business areas that generate revenue , We have the potential to continue growing in the future.

Some analysts expect Microsoft's cloud-related sector to double the revenue over the next few years, suggesting that the market capitalization is likely to reach 1 trillion dollars (about 109 trillion yen) thinking about.