Microsoft is the company identified by the ticker symbol MSFT and became one of the world’s first trillion-dollar companies.
MSFT is Microsoft Corporation’s stock ticker on the Nasdaq stock market. Microsoft crossed a $1 trillion market capitalization in November 2018, joining Apple in the small group of companies that had reached that valuation.
Ticker symbols are short identifiers used by exchanges and financial-data services. They are not always abbreviations of a company’s full name, which is why MSFT is a useful distinguishing fact in market-cap questions. Microsoft’s shares trade under MSFT in the United States.
The company’s valuation rose as investors placed greater emphasis on cloud services, enterprise software, and subscription products. Microsoft’s history also includes Windows, Office, Xbox, LinkedIn, and Azure, giving it several major business lines rather than a single source of revenue.