So Microsoft just made a sh!t ton of money! Shares officially worth 500 billion dollars!

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barneystinson69 on 26 January 2017

nanarchy said:

barneystinson69 said:

https://www.google.ca/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=msft

Microsoft's market cap (its valuation on the stock market) has just surpassed 500 billion. Last time it was this high was in 1999.

It never actually got quite that high in 99 (I had shares at the time), topped out at the time just below 120 a share (equivalent of 60 a share today)

I mean in terms of market cap. There where more shares of the company back in 2000 than now, though the price is already beyond the 99 high,

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DonFerrari on 26 January 2017

That is a shit ton of money... and on a related note I'm yet to see that being used to make X1 dominate PS4.

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nanarchy on 26 January 2017

barneystinson69 said:

nanarchy said:

It never actually got quite that high in 99 (I had shares at the time), topped out at the time just below 120 a share (equivalent of 60 a share today)

I mean in terms of market cap. There where more shares of the company back in 2000 than now, though the price is already beyond the 99 high,

Sorry my bad reading. yeah their market cap back in 99 peaked over 600 billion.

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KLAMarine on 26 January 2017

DonFerrari said:
That is a shit ton of money... and on a related note I'm yet to see that being used to make X1 dominate PS4.

Not sure video games are a priority for Microsoft at the moment. I'm no business major but I think they're seeing more money in other industries.

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COX on 26 January 2017

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FunFan on 26 January 2017

Time to invest that money. A bit of Ryzen with Vega would do.

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