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Microsoft Corporation
$227.56
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After Hours:(-0.23%)-$0.53
$227.03
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Financial performance
| (USD) | Q2 2021 | Year/year change |
|---|---|---|
Revenue | 43.08B | 16.72% |
Net income | 15.46B | 32.74% |
| Diluted EPS | 2.03 | 34.44% |
| Net profit margin | 35.90% | 13.75% |
| Operating income | 17.90B | 28.84% |
| Net change in cash | -2.77B | 34.80% |
| Cash on hand | 14.43B | 62.82% |
| Cost of revenue | 14.19B | 14.86% |
About
Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational technology company with headquarters in Redmond, Washington. It develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells computer software, consumer electronics, personal computers, and related services. Its best known software products are the Microsoft Windows line of operating systems, the Microsoft Office suite, and the Internet Explorer and Edge web browsers. Its flagship hardware products are the Xbox video game consoles and the Microsoft Surface lineup of touchscreen personal computers. Microsoft ranked No. 21 in the 2020 Fortune 500 rankings of the largest United States corporations by total revenue; it was the world's largest software maker by revenue as of 2016. It is considered one of the Big Five companies in the U.S. information technology industry, along with Google, Apple, Amazon, and Facebook.
Microsoft was founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen on April 4, 1975, to develop and sell BASIC interpreters for the Altair 8800. It rose to dominate the personal computer operating system market with MS-DOS in the mid-1980s, followed by Microsoft Windows. Wikipedia
Founded
Apr 4, 1975
Website
Employees
163,000
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$233.87
Day range
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$227.26 - $233.58
Year range
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$132.52 - $246.13
Market cap
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1.72T USD
Volume
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30.40M
P/E ratio
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33.89
Dividend yield
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0.98%
CDP Climate Change Score
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NASDAQ
About
Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational technology company with headquarters in Redmond, Washington. It develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells computer software, consumer electronics, personal computers, and related services. Its best known software products are the Microsoft Windows line of operating systems, the Microsoft Office suite, and the Internet Explorer and Edge web browsers. Its flagship hardware products are the Xbox video game consoles and the Microsoft Surface lineup of touchscreen personal computers. Microsoft ranked No. 21 in the 2020 Fortune 500 rankings of the largest United States corporations by total revenue; it was the world's largest software maker by revenue as of 2016. It is considered one of the Big Five companies in the U.S. information technology industry, along with Google, Apple, Amazon, and Facebook.
Microsoft was founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen on April 4, 1975, to develop and sell BASIC interpreters for the Altair 8800. It rose to dominate the personal computer operating system market with MS-DOS in the mid-1980s, followed by Microsoft Windows. Wikipedia
Founded
Apr 4, 1975
Website
Employees
163,000
