New York: Microsoft hit the trillion-dollar value mark on Thursday for the first time, becoming the third technology giant to reach the symbolic milestone.
Prior to this, Apple and Amazon also received revenues of USD 1,000 billion. iPhone maker Apple received the figure on September 2, 2018, and the world's largest online salesperson Amazon on 4 September 2018.
Shares in Microsoft rallied some five per cent to USD 130.59 in early Wall Street trade after a robust earnings report a day earlier.
That gave Microsoft a market capitalization of just over USD 1 trillion, before dipping back slightly.
At its current levels, Microsoft is the world's most valuable company, ahead of Apple and Amazon, which last year topped USD 1 trillion before slipping back.
On Wednesday, Microsoft said profits in the quarter to March 31 rose 19 per cent to USD 8.8 billion on revenues of USD 30.8 billion, an increase of 14 per cent from the same period a year earlier.
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The results were driven by growth in cloud computing and business services, the new focus for Microsoft after a long run as a leader in consumer software.
"This quarter was an absolute 'blow out quarter' across the board with no blemishes and in our opinion speaks to an inflexion point in deal flow as more enterprises pick (Microsoft) for the cloud," said Daniel Ives of Wedbush Securities.
"While the stock has been very strong and a trillion dollar market cap is now reached, we believe the cloud party is just getting started in Redmond."
