Microsoft had defeated Apple and the richest company

KOMPAS.com – Although it lasted only a short time, Microsoft defeated Apple and became the richest company, the highest valuation in the world.

This was due to the soaring valuation of Microsoft, while Apple had in fact declined.

The valuation of the software giant founded by Bill Gates Monday had reached the figure of $ 812.93 billion, beating Apple valued at $ 812.6 billion.

However, their valuations continue to evolve along with the stock price evolution of both companies. At the close of trading on the same day on the New York Stock Exchange, the value of Microsoft (822.90 billion US dollars) had returned to a level lower than that of Apple (828.64 billion US dollars) .

The price fluctuations of Apple and Microsoft stocks are influenced by many factors. The number of sales of products manufactured each year is a determining factor.

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Apple, which became, sometime ago, the first company to break through the $ 1 trillion US market cap, would have faced difficulties in selling its latest mobile phone products.

According to reports, the figures of the application of the trio of iPhone 2018 introduced last September did not meet Apple's expectations. For this reason, Apple's market capitalization has been reduced by $ 300 billion in recent weeks.

Apple also reportedly reduced the number of iPhone XS, iPhone XS Max and iPhone XR productions. The company that is wearing the Apple Bitten would come back to produce the best-selling iPhone X on the market in 2017.

summary KompasTekno of ArsTechnica, Tuesday (27/11/2018) Microsoft also has its own problems.

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Its Azure cloud services and Office 365 are experiencing rapid growth. But business the platform Xbox games are still far behind the PlayStation.

It is Microsoft's duty to continue to increase the value of the company on the stock market.

The value of Microsoft's stock has so far been improved. One of the factors that led to this increase is the appointment of Satya Nadella as CEO, who then changed the focus of the company to focus on services. cloud.

Microsoft last beat Apple's badessment in 2010 or 8 years ago. At that time, precisely in May 2010, Apple had overtaken Microsoft as iPhone device sales soared.