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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A third round of indirect nuclear negotiations between Iran and the U.S. concluded in Geneva on Thursday, with Omani mediators reporting “significant progress” but no final agreement.
Iranian and U.S. negotiators concluded the third round of nuclear talks on Thursday in Geneva mediated by the Sultanate of Oman in an attempt to resolve their long-standing dispute over Tehran’s nuclear programme which is dramatically spiralling towards a military escalation.
Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum on Thursday thanked FIFA and its president, Gianni Infantino, for reaffirming that the country’s 2026 World Cup host venues will remain unchanged, following violence that erupted after the killing of a major cartel leader.
A student from Azerbaijan was detained by U.S. immigration agents inside a Columbia University residential building on Thursday morning, was released later the same day after New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani raised her case directly with President Donald Trump.
A F-16 fighter jet of the Turkish Air Force crashed near a highway in western Türkiye early on Wednesday (25 February), killing its pilot, officials and media reports confirmed.
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Australia’s Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese, was temporarily evacuated from The Lodge to safety on Tuesday night after an alleged bomb threat linked to upcoming performances in Australia by Shen Yun, a U.S.-based classical Chinese dance and music company banned in China.
The death toll from heavy rains and flooding in Brazil’s Minas Gerais state has risen to 46, authorities said, with 21 people still reported missing. The storms triggered landslides and widespread flooding, displacing thousands across Juiz de Fora and Uba.
Global debt surged to a record $348.3 trillion at the end of 2025, after nearly $29 trillion was added over the year, marking the fastest annual increase since the pandemic, according to the Institute of International Finance (IIF) report released on Wednesday.
Millions of Colombian roses have arrived in the United States just in time for Valentine’s Day, keeping the country on track as the world’s second-largest flower exporter. Between 15 January and 9 February, Colombia shipped roughly 65,000 tons of fresh-cut blooms.
Russia’s car market is continuing to receive tens of thousands of foreign-brand vehicles via China despite sanctions imposed after Moscow’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, a journalistic investigation has found.
Türkiye’s national energy company, TPAO, has struck a new cooperation deal with U.S. energy giant Chevron, signing a memorandum of understanding to explore joint oil and gas exploration and production opportunities, the Turkish Energy and Natural Resources Ministry announced on Thursday.
Wall Street ended sharply lower on Tuesday as investors worried about artificial intelligence (AI) creating more competition for software makers, keeping them on edge ahead of quarterly reports from Alphabet and Amazon later this week.
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