In late March this year, Amazon's market value surpassed that of Google's parent company, Alphabet, making it the world's second-largest company by market value after Apple.
Trump is "obsessed" with Amazon and is considering taking a series of measures against the e-commerce giant, including antitrust sanctions, regulation and potential tax adjustments. The entire Wall Street was worried that the war between Trump and Amazon would become a reality, causing Amazon's stock price to drop by more than 4% on that day.
Morgan Stanley has raised Microsoft's target share price for the next 12 months from $110 to $130. At a price of $130, Microsoft's market value will exceed $10,000.
Tencent Technology News: According to foreign media reports, Microsoft's market value quietly surpassed that of Google's parent company, Alphabet, on Monday, becoming the world's second-largest company by market value after Apple.
Microsoft's share price rose by $1.09, or 1.17%, to close at $94.17 in regular trading on the Nasdaq Stock Market on Monday. Based on this closing price, Microsoft's market value has reached 725.1 billion US dollars, making it the world's second-largest company by market value, only behind Apple's 892.1 billion US dollars. Based on Monday's closing price of $1,037.98, Alphabet's market capitalization is approximately $723.7 billion, which is about $1.4 billion less than that of Microsoft. Amazon is currently the world's fourth-largest company by market capitalization, with a market value of approximately 697.8 billion US dollars based on Monday's closing price.
When it comes to which company's market value will first exceed one trillion US dollars, investors mainly focus on Amazon and Apple. In late March this year, Amazon's market value surpassed that of Google's parent company, Alphabet, making it the world's second-largest company by market value after Apple. Before this, an incident involving the leakage of personal information of over 86 million Facebook users led to a collective plunge in US technology stocks. But after that, investors began to treat tech companies differently - that is, separating those they thought were vulnerable to Facebook's selling pressure from other tech companies. It is precisely against this backdrop that Amazon's market value has surpassed that of Alphabet, making it the world's second-largest company by market value.
However, shortly after that, Axios, a new and emerging news website in the United States, reported on March 28 that Trump was "obsessed" with Amazon and was considering taking a series of measures against the e-commerce giant, including antitrust sanctions, regulation, and potential tax adjustments. The entire Wall Street was worried that the war between Trump and Amazon would become a reality, causing Amazon's stock price to drop by more than 4% on that day. Subsequently, in a tweet posted on March 29th, Trump said: "Long before the election, I had already stated my concerns about Amazon." Unlike other companies, they pay only a small amount of tax to state and local governments, or even no tax at all. They also use our postal system as their "delivery person" (which has caused huge losses to the United States) and led to the bankruptcy of thousands of retailers!
Since then, Trump has tweeted four more times to attack Amazon, claiming that the company has caused heavy losses to the US Postal Service and criticizing The Washington Post for indiscriminating on fake news. As a result, Amazon's stock price plummeted, hitting rock bottom from $1,566.57 on March 27 to $1,361.28. The company's share price closed at $1,441.50 on Monday, still more than 8% lower than the price before Axios exposed that Trump was considering sanctioning Amazon.
Compared with Amazon, Microsoft's stock price has not experienced significant fluctuations in the past month. In a research report released in late March, KeithWeiss, an analyst at investment bank Morgan Stanley, said: "Microsoft's favorable position in the public cloud services market, extensive revenoe-sharing channels, large user base, and improving profit margins will drive its market value to exceed $1 trillion." The analyst believes that Microsoft's ability to outperform Amazon and Google in this field is also attributed to its analytical technology, machine learning, and office applications, among others.
Morgan Stanley has raised Microsoft's target share price for the next 12 months from $110 to $130. At a price of $130, Microsoft's market value will exceed $10,000. At the time of releasing this research report, Microsoft's market value was 671 billion US dollars, lagging behind Apple's 856 billion US dollars, Amazon's 747 billion US dollars and Alphabet's 730 billion US dollars.
Microsoft announced a major restructuring decision at the end of last month, re-establishing two new departments, each focusing on experience and devices, as well as cloud computing and artificial intelligence platforms. TerryMyerson, the former executive vice president of Microsoft's Windows business, will leave the company. RajeshJha, the current executive vice president in charge of products, will be in charge of the Experience and Devices department, while ScottGuthrie, the current executive vice president in charge of the Cloud Computing and Enterprise Group, will be in charge of the Cloud Computing and Artificial Intelligence department. This major reorganization by Microsoft will focus on building a cloud-based business rather than centering around traditional Windows.
Microsoft's current reorganization focuses on the cloud business and no longer pays particular attention to the Windows business. This reform also means that the "Gates" style will no longer exist in the new Microsoft company.
