In the fiscal year 2024, Microsoft Corporation reported a net income of over ***** billion U.S. dollars, an increase from fiscal year 2023 figure of ***** billion U.S. dollars. Microsoft’s sales revenue also peaked in fiscal year 2024 at *** billion U.S. dollars. Microsoft Corporation Since its foundation in 1975, Microsoft has grown into one of the most successful tech firms in the world and has experienced decades of continued success. Some of the company’s major business ventures include its Windows operating system, its software packages such as Microsoft Office, its lines of consumer electronics, as well as newer offerings such as cloud computing solutions. Since 2014, Microsoft’s intelligent cloud segment has experienced consistent growth and has become the biggest revenue earner for the company. The technology industry As technology becomes further integrated into nearly all aspects of daily life, companies such as Apple, Alphabet, and Microsoft have grown into some of the most powerful entities in the world. Spending in the IT industry alone amounts to trillions of dollars each year, meaning that these tech giants are well-positioned for continued success. The fiscal year-end of the company is June, 30th.

Microsoft net income/loss for the twelve months ending March 31, 2025 was $236.177B, a 15.26% increase year-over-year. Microsoft annual net income/loss for 2024 was $88.136B, a 21.8% increase from 2023. Microsoft annual net income/loss for 2023 was $72.361B, a 0.52% decline from 2022. Microsoft annual net income/loss for 2022 was $72.738B, a 18.72% increase from 2021.

Microsoft Corporation’s quarterly revenue quadrupled within the last 12 years, increasing from 14.45 billion U.S. dollars in the third quarter of 2008 to over 70 billion in the third quarter of their 2025 fiscal year. Over the highlighted period, the largest increase in quarterly revenue occurred between the first and second quarters of 2010, with revenue increasing by more than six billion U.S. dollars. Intelligent Cloud segment leads Microsoft’s revenues    Founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen, Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational technology company that develops and sells a wide range of consumer and enterprise software, hardware, services, and consumer electronics. In its 2021 financial year, Microsoft generated most of its revenue from its Intelligent Cloud segment, which includes Microsoft's popular cloud flatform Azure. The Productivity and Business Processes segment, including the successful line of the Office products, also brings in an increasing amount of revenues. The rapid growths in these segments contributed to making 2021 the company’s most successful year in terms of annual revenue, which amounted to more than 168 billion U.S. dollars. Microsoft's income growth is equally impressive Not only has Microsoft seen great evolution in terms of sales, the company has been making better and better profits as well. Microsoft's annual net income reached 73 billion U.S. dollars in fiscal year 2022, delivering an impressive margin of over 35 percent. In a time when the COVID-19 pandemic imposed social distancing and remote working practices onto businesses and individuals, technology companies such as Microsoft provide the essential tools that make such practices possible. Their businesses grow as a result.

Microsoft income from continuous operations for the twelve months ending March 31, 2025 was $96.635B, a 12.13% increase year-over-year. Microsoft annual income from continuous operations for 2024 was $88.136B, a 21.8% increase from 2023. Microsoft annual income from continuous operations for 2023 was $72.361B, a 0.52% decline from 2022. Microsoft annual income from continuous operations for 2022 was $72.738B, a 18.72% increase from 2021.

Microsoft's global revenue grew from fiscal year 2022 to 2024, increasing by about ***** percent year-on-year and reaching over *** billion U.S. dollars. This marks another record-setting year for the software giant in terms of sales revenue. Microsoft and Bill Gates Microsoft has become a constant figure among the world’s most valuable brands. Its founder Bill Gates is presently, and perhaps unsurprisingly, one of the richest men in the United States and among the richest billionaires worldwide, among other well-known figures such as Warren Buffet, Carlos Slim Helu, and Larry Ellison. In addition to his status as an entrepreneur, Bill Gates is also known for his philanthropy. In 2000, together with his wife, they created the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The foundation has donated a considerable amount of money, in particular in the area of research and development of treatments for neglected diseases. While Bill Gates no longer heads the Microsoft Corporation, the company itself continues to show strong results around the world, with versions of its most well-known product, the Windows operating system, consistently leading the home operating system market. The Microsoft Office suite also remains the most widely used office software around the world, with few comparable competitors in sight. The fiscal year-end of the company is June, 30th.

In 2024, Meta Platforms generated a revenue of over 164 billion U.S. dollars, up from 134 billion USD in 2023. The majority of Meta’s profits come from its advertising revenue.Meta’s total Family of Apps revenue for 2022 amounted to 114 billion U.S. dollars. Additionally, Meta’s Reality Labs, the company’s VR division, generated around 2.1 billion dollars. Meta’s marketing expenditure for 2022 amounted to just over 15 billion U.S. dollars, up from 14 billion U.S. dollars in the previous year. Increasing audience base despite privacy misgivings Meta’s user numbers have continued to grow steadily throughout past years. In the fourth quarter of 2022, there was a total of 3.74 billion worldwide users across all of Meta’s platforms. For this same time frame, the company recorded 407 million monthly active users across Europe. Downloads of Meta’s app Oculus, for which virtual reality headsets are required, increased greatly from 2020 to 2021, reaching a total of 10.62 million downloads by the end of last year. Up until 2021, downloads had grown in a steady manner but from 2020 to 2021, they more than doubled.User numbers have increased despite data security issues and past controversy such as the Cambridge Analytica scandal in 2018. There remains skepticism surrounding the idea of the metaverse in which Meta aims to immerse itself. Of surveyed adults in the United States, the majority said that they were concerned about their privacy if Meta were to succeed in creating the metaverse.

In its 2024 financial year, Microsoft generated ** billion U.S. dollars from its productivity and business processes segment and a further *** billion through its intelligent cloud segment. Thanks in part to the rapid growth in these two areas, 2024 proved to be the company’s most successful year ever in terms of annual revenue, with the total figure reaching over *** billion dollars. Microsoft Corporation Since its foundation in 1975, Microsoft has grown into one of the most successful tech firms in the world and has experienced years of continued success. In order to ensure that this growth persists, the company has added tens of thousands of employees over the past decade and invested billions into research and development. Some of Microsoft’s major business ventures include its Windows operating system, various lines of consumer electronics, software packages such as Microsoft Office, as well as newer offerings such as cloud computing capabilities. Intelligent cloud segment As Microsoft's fastest-growing business, intelligent cloud replaced the more personal computing segment in FY2020 to become the company's largest business segment. The intelligent cloud segment contains Microsoft's public, private, and hybrid server products and cloud services, such as Azure, SQL Server, etc. Together with Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Azure is one of the most popular cloud infrastructure as a service (IaaS) offerings. The intelligent cloud segment, however, does not reflect the totality of Microsoft's cloud business, as Office 365 - the company's popular cloud collaboration solution - is grouped under the productivity and business processes segment. The software giant has established a firm footing in the fast-growing cloud market.

In Microsoft's fiscal year 2024, which spanned from July 2023 to June 2024, gaming revenue reached 15.47 billion U.S. dollars, down from 21.5 billion U.S. dollars in the previous fiscal period. Microsoft's gaming segment includes revenues from Xbox hardware and Xbox content and services, comprising digital transactions, Xbox Game Pass and other subscriptions, video games, third-party video game royalties, cloud services, and advertising. Microsoft is earning the fruits of its acquisition labor In recent years, Microsoft has made many strategic acquisitions to grow its gaming segment, and these efforts have paid off. Finally closing its purchase of Activision Blizzard after about 20 months of regulatory negotiations across the globe, this success was immediately reflected in the company’s quarterly gaming revenue, which jumped from 3.9 billion U.S. dollars to 7.1 billion U.S. dollars between October and December 2023. Of course, part of this growth is also the Christmas season, which is responsible for the biggest months in gaming sales. However, revenue in the following quarter settled back to 5.4 billion U.S. dollars, which is significantly higher than the corresponding quarter of the previous year. Layoffs at Microsoft despite gaming segment growth Despite Microsoft’s financial success in its gaming segment, the company has announced and performed several rounds of layoffs at many of its owned gaming companies, as well as shuttering some game studios entirely. In January 2024, mere months after closing its record-breaking Activision Blizzard deal, Microsoft laid off 1,900 Activision Blizzard, ZeniMax, and Xbox employees, citing “areas of overlap” and an “alignment of strategy” and growth. These layoffs are on par with the current state of the industry – an early 2024 survey of game developers found that about a third of respondents had experienced layoffs in the last 12 months.

In the fiscal year 2024, Alphabet's revenue was ****** billion U.S. dollars. Comparatively, in the fiscal year of 2024, hardware-focused Apple's revenue stood at ****** billion U.S. dollars. Microsoft's revenue was *** billion U.S. dollars. Whereas all of these companies have different market strengths, there are also overlaps and thus, competition. Apple and Google are direct competitors in the mobile phone market with their iOS and Android systems.

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In the fiscal year 2024, LinkedIn's annual revenue amounted to more than ***** billion U.S. dollars, up from **** billion U.S. years during the 2022 fiscal period. The social networking site, which focuses on business contacts, was acquired by Microsoft in 2016. LinkedIn offers a job search board and a social media-style news feed. The fiscal year end of the company is June, 30th.

In 2024, the**************************************o posted the highest revenue of any company in the world before taxes, with an income of over *** billion U.S. dollars. ************************************************** rounded out the top five spots in the ranking of most profitable companies. What is net income? Net income, or net profit, which differs slightly from pre-tax income, is the figure that gives the most complete overview of a company’s profitability: It is calculated as the revenue of a company less all operating expenses, debt payments, interest paid, income from subsidiary holdings, taxes, etc. Different industries have different net profit margins. The Apple doesn’t fall far In terms of market value, Microsoft was the largest company in the world in 2024, with Apple following in second. Since the beginning of the new millennium, Apple has reported ever rising amounts of worldwide revenue, with iPhone sales leading the charge.

Microsoft was the largest software and programming company worldwide by net sales from 2017 to 2024. In the most recent year, Microsoft’s sales revenue reached *** billion U.S. dollars. Oracle and Salesforce ranked in distant second and third places, earning ** and ** billion U.S. dollars, respectively. Enterprise Software Industry In 2023, the IT spending on enterprise software amounted to *** billion U.S. dollars worldwide. The enterprise software market is the fastest-growing sector in the IT industry, in comparison to other segments such as IT services and data center systems. The market includes a wide range of applications such as human resource management (HRM), enterprise resource planning (ERP), customer relationship management (CRM), office suites, etc. However, due to the negative economic impact of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, the market witnessed a decline in 2020 but recovered quickly in 2022. Microsoft Corporation Founded in 1975 by Bill Gates and Paul Allen, Microsoft has grown into one of the most successful tech firms in the world and has experienced years of continued success. Microsoft’s core business is its productivity and business process segment, from which the company generated over *** billion U.S. dollars in its 2022 financial year. Intelligence cloud, another highly prolific segment, brought in a further *** billion U.S. dollars in that year.

With a market capitalization of 3.12 trillion U.S. dollars as of May 2024, Microsoft was the world’s largest company that year. Rounding out the top five were some of the world’s most recognizable brands: Apple, NVIDIA, Google’s parent company Alphabet, and Amazon. Saudi Aramco led the ranking of the world's most profitable companies in 2023, with a pre-tax income of nearly 250 billion U.S. dollars. How are market value and market capitalization determined? Market value and market capitalization are two terms frequently used – and confused - when discussing the profitability and viability of companies. Strictly speaking, market capitalization (or market cap) is the worth of a company based on the total value of all their shares; an important metric when determining the comparative value of companies for trading opportunities. Accordingly, many stock exchanges such as the New York or London Stock Exchange release market capitalization data on their listed companies. On the other hand, market value technically refers to what a company is worth in a much broader context. It is determined by multiple factors, including profitability, corporate debt, and the market environment as a whole. In this sense it aims to estimate the overall value of a company, with share price only being one element. Market value is therefore useful for determining whether a company’s shares are over- or undervalued, and in arriving at a price if the company is to be sold. Such valuations are generally made on a case-by-case basis though, and not regularly reported. For this reason, market capitalization is often reported as market value. What are the top companies in the world? The answer to this question depends on the metric used. Although the largest company by market capitalization, Microsoft's global revenue did not manage to crack the top 20 companies. Rather, American multinational retailer Walmart was ranked as the largest company in the world by revenue. Walmart also had the highest number of employees in the world.

In 2020, gaming software revenue for Microsoft's Xbox console series amounted to 4.79 billion U.S. dollars. However, consumer spending on Xbox gaming software is projected to jump to 6.35 billion U.S. dollars in 2021 as the fourth generation of Xbox consoles, the Xbox Series X and Series S, were released in November 2020, giving gamers more incentive to spend money on games for their new system.

IBM generated over 62 billion U.S. dollars in revenue in 2024, an increase of around 1 billion U.S. dollars on the previous year. The firm's yearly revenue has trended downward over the past decade, having previously exceeded the 100 billion U.S. dollar mark. Despite this, the firm remains one of the most valuable technology brands in the world behind the likes of Apple ,Google, Amazon, and Microsoft. IBM’s response to a shifting marketA tech giant since the nineties, IBM has faced struggles adjusting to changes in the marketplace. Recently the company has focused on what it terms “strategic imperatives”: getting rid of low-margin businesses and investing in high-margin businesses. At the end of 2018, for example, IBM sold IBM WebSphere Commerce to HCL Technologies for 1.8 billion U.S. dollars. IBM is still very profitable, although not at the level as between 2006 and 2012. Reflecting the changing demands of digital transformation, the largest source of IBM’s revenue for fiscal year 2020 now comes from its technology services and cloud platforms business segment, which specializes in helping organizations integrate their traditional infrastructure into a multicloud environment.

In 2024, tech companies ranked as the most valuable brands in the world, covering the five top spots in the source’s ranking. Apple led the list with a brand value of nearly 489 billion U.S. dollars, followed by Microsoft, Amazon, and Google – each with brand values of over 290 billion dollars. Samsung closed the top five, at over 100 billion dollars in brand value. Big techs are also huge in terms of market value The source determined brand value by combining financial information, the role the brand plays in determining consumer choice (independent of other factors such as price and convenience), and a qualitative assessment of the brand’s overall strength. Considering only financial data, Apple, Amazon, Alphabet (Google’s parent company) and Microsoft would be still on the top, as they have some of the highest global market capitalizations. However, when considering only qualitative factors regarding brand strength, the list would look very different, with Chinese app WeChat being the strongest brand worldwide in 2024. Brand value vs. profitability Brand value does not always translate into profitability. While Apple also happens to be the second most profitable company in the world, other companies with strong brands such as Google and Amazon rank lower in terms of net income. This phenomenon does not only apply to tech companies – Coca-Cola did not feature on the list of the most profitable companies worldwide. This is likely due to their franchised distribution structure, whereby manufacturing operations are handled by separate companies, each of which operates independently with an exclusive license to manufacture Coca-Cola beverages in their territory.

Cette statistique représente le chiffre d'affaires mondial de Microsoft de 2002 à 2024. En 2024, Microsoft a généré un chiffre d'affaires de plus de *** milliards de dollars.