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Microsoft lost $357 billion in market cap as stock plunged most since 2020 (www.cnbc.com)
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Microsoft shares slid about 10% on Thursday following an earnings report that disappointed some investors, prompting the stock’s sharpest daily decline since March 2020.

Microsoft’s finance chief, Amy Hood, argued that the cloud result could have been higher if it had allocated more data center infrastructure to customers rather than prioritizing its in-house needs.

“If I had taken the GPUs that just came online in Q1 and Q2 in terms of GPUs and allocated them all to Azure, the KPI would have been over 40,” she said.

Analyst Ben Reitzes of Melius Research, with a buy rating on Microsoft stock, said during CNBC’s “Squawk on the Street” on Thursday that Microsoft should double down on data center construction.

“I think that there’s an execution issue here with Azure, where they need to literally stand up buildings a little faster,” he said.

LMAO, the analysts and C level execs are going to accelerate the fall of Micro$lop.

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[–] mintiefresh@piefed.ca 22 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

It's actually insane how much money these companies have.

[–] tal@lemmy.today 11 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (1 children)

Ehhh...that's their market capitalization, not their cash on hand.

The market capitalization is just what the company is worth, based on what investors are currently willing to pay for ownership of shares in the company.

EDIT: Here's Microsoft's cash on hand:

https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/MSFT/microsoft/cash-on-hand

Looks like about $100 billion.

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 6 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

They can turn their market cap into liquid cash by borrowing against it. They can also pay directly in stock. E.g. how some pay their employees with more stock than salary. They can use their stock to buy other firms. The stock price and therefore market cap is not just an abstract number.

[–] jj4211@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

It's not just an abstract number, but leveraging it changes the value. If they hypothetically tried to leverage 2 trillion with of their stock, it wouldn't be worth 2 trillion.

Of course the needle would probably barely move if they tried to leverage 50 billion.

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 hours ago

Exactly. They can't get anything they want out of it but they can get a lot. Especially if it's moving upwards.