Microsoft could soon become the second American company to exceed a market capitalization of two trillion dollars, according to Business Insider.
The price of a share increased by 1.34% at the end of the last trading session, the market value of the company thus reaching 1.91 trillion dollars, writes Mediafax.ro.
In total, shares have increased by 17% since the beginning of the year, after an increase of 60% in 2020. Shares have also increased fivefold since its inception. Satya Nadella as CEO, ie in February 2014.
However, the chances of Microsoft surpassing Apple and becoming the most valuable public company in the world remain small, as the iPhone maker has a market capitalization of 2.2 trillion dollars and reached a point in February in $ 2.4 trillion.
Microsoft, founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen In 1975, it was one of the strongest corporations in the world. Its main products include the Windows operating system, Office software, Azure cloud service, Surface tablets and Xbox consoles.
In the last decade, the giant has made tens of billions of dollars in purchases, highlighting names such as Skype, Mojang (creator of the game Minecraft) and the social business network LinkedIn.
The first company to reach a capitalization of 2,000 billion dollars is the Saudi Aramco group, the most powerful player in the world’s oil industry.
The other companies that can reach such a threshold are Amazon and Alphabet, whose market values reach 1.6 and 1.5 billion dollars, respectively, ZF also reports.
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