The market value exceeded $2.5 trillion for the first time and has surpassed Apple

Recently, Microsoft’s US stock market closed on Friday successfully surpassed Apple’s market value, which was close to 2.49 trillion US dollars. It is reported that Microsoft’s first-quarter revenue and profit both exceeded analysts’ expectations, and the single-quarter profit exceeded 20 billion US dollars for the first time.

Microsoft’s latest financial report shows that Microsoft’s total revenue in the first fiscal quarter was US$45.3 billion, an increase of 22% over the same period last year, which was the fastest growth since 2018; net profit was US$20.5 billion, an increase of 48% over the same period last year. %.

According to Wisdom Buds data, as of the latest, Microsoft and its affiliates have a total of 164,034 patent applications in 126 countries/regions. It is worth noting that, among the applicants, the vast majority of applicants are Microsoft Technology Licensing Co., Ltd. and Microsoft Corporation. LinkedIn, a Microsoft-owned company, has 1,066 patents, ranking third on the company’s patent filing list. In addition, according to the target market country database of Wisdom Buds, the United States is still Microsoft’s largest market. According to the company’s innovation word cloud, the company’s technology currently focuses on applications, computers, computing equipment, processors, memories, storage, user equipment and other technical fields.

(Remarks: The data included in the Wisdom Buds global patent database includes patents that have been published in 126 countries/regions. Generally speaking, it takes 4 to 18 months for patents to be queried from application to publication)