Microsoft’s market capitalization surpassed $4 trillion in after-hours trading on Wednesday following a stronger-than-expected earnings report for its fiscal fourth quarter, driven by robust growth in its cloud business.
Shares of the U.S. tech giant jumped 8.28% to $555.74 after the company reported a 24% rise in net income and an 18% increase in revenue for the April–June period.
If gains hold in Thursday trading, Microsoft would become the second company to exceed a $4 trillion valuation, following Nvidia.
The company posted net income of $27.23 billion for the quarter ended June 30, up from $22.04 billion a year earlier.
Revenue rose to $76.44 billion from $64.7 billion. Earnings per share climbed 24% to $3.65.
Microsoft's server products and cloud services revenue grew 27%, with Azure and other cloud services up 39%.
Revenue from its Productivity and Business Processes division, which includes LinkedIn and Office software, rose 16% to $33.11 billion.
The More Personal Computing segment, which covers video games, Windows, devices, and search ads, brought in $13.45 billion, up 9%.
The company also reported $1.71 billion in other expenses for the quarter, including known losses on equity method investments such as OpenAI.
That compares with $623 million in other expenses in the previous quarter.
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