Capitalization of Microsoft for the first time exceeded a trillion dollars

In recent years, most of the profits Microsoft bring subscription services.

Yesterday Microsoft officially reached capitalization of $ 1 trillion, becoming the third most valuable company in the history of the United States after Apple and Amazon.

This happened after Microsoft announced revenue growth in the last quarter by 14%. On the closing value has decreased to $ 990 billion, but Microsoft still managed to overtake Apple with 968 billion dollars.

The first public company, reached a capitalization of $ 1 trillion in August 2018, was Apple. A month later, Amazon repeated the success of kupertinovtsy.

In recent years, most of the profits Microsoft bring subscription services. Last year, Windows brought Microsoft 18% of total revenue, and a subscription to Office – 25% of income. Cloud business, Microsoft has also makes a lot of money.

Hardware Microsoft bring a smaller portion of the profits. 9% are game division and 5% on the Surface. For comparison, iPhone sales make up more than half of Apple revenues.

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