The price of Microsoft shares has increased so much today that for the first time it underwent a valuation of the $ 4 trillion market in its 50-year history. The software manufacturer is the second company to be valued at USD 4 trillion, after NVIDIA reached market capital worth over $ 4 trillion at the beginning of this month.
Microsoft has achieved this milestone thanks to better than expected earnings, and the company for the first time reporting its revenues from Azure. Microsoft revealed last night that his activities in the field of Azure Cloud calculated over $ 75 billion in 2025, and the price of the company’s shares immediately began to grow in trade after hours on Nasdaq. The price of Microsoft shares has now increased by about 4 percent, which helps maintain a market valuation worth $ 4 trillion.
Microsoft has spent over a decade on the construction of his activities of Azure Cloud, which is ahead of Google in revenues, but still second in Amazon Web Services. Azure is now affected by every corner of Microsoft, including power supply AI, office software, part of Windows, Xbox and others.
The Microsoft investment in cloud processing has established it well to take advantage of the computing needs for the future of AI. At the beginning of this year there were many questions about investments in the amount of $ 100 billion in the Stargate project, and the general director of Microsoft, Satya Nadella, quickly defended the company’s own expenses for Cloud and AI Data Center. “I only know that I’m good at my $ 80 billion,” said Nadella.
Microsoft CFO Amy Hood revealed yesterday that Microsoft is now planning to spend $ 30 billion on investments in AI infrastructure in the next quarter. If Microsoft maintains this level of spending, then the company will be $ 120 billion or more for Cloud and AI infrastructure over the following financial year.