Microsoft Corporation
Microsoft · MSFT · Redmond, Washington
Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) is the publicly traded software, cloud-services, gaming, and enterprise-AI company behind Windows, Microsoft 365, Azure, Xbox, and LinkedIn. With $245B+ in FY2024 revenue, Microsoft sits in our coverage as the original ad-tech backbone for Netflix's 2022 ad tier (now programmatic-only), the largest financial backer of OpenAI, and the historical employer of Stagwell CEO Mark Penn.
Microsoft is the publicly traded software, cloud-services, gaming, and enterprise-AI company that sits in our coverage on three intersecting vectors: as the original ad-tech backbone for Netflix’s 2022 ad-supported tier launch (now a programmatic partner only after Netflix Ads Suite went live in April 2025), as the largest financial backer of OpenAI through a multi-year, multi-billion-dollar partnership announced in January 2023, and as the historical employer of Stagwell CEO Mark Penn, who served as Microsoft’s Executive Vice President and Chief Strategy Officer in 2014–2015 before founding The Stagwell Group with backing from former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer.
The company was founded April 4, 1975 by Bill Gates and Paul Allen and is headquartered in Redmond, Washington. Fiscal-year 2024 (ending June 30, 2024) revenue was $245.1 billion with net income of approximately $88.1 billion, reported across three segments — Productivity and Business Processes (Office / Microsoft 365, LinkedIn), Intelligent Cloud (Azure, server products), and More Personal Computing (Windows, Surface, Xbox, Activision Blizzard). The two largest acquisitions of the past decade — LinkedIn in December 2016 for approximately $26.2 billion and Activision Blizzard in October 2023 for approximately $68.7 billion — shaped the segment composition Microsoft now reports against.
Microsoft trades on the Nasdaq under MSFT. Standard SEC filings — 10-K, 10-Q, 8-K — are maintained on the Microsoft Investor Relations site and on EDGAR.