Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) is a publicly listed company headquartered in Redmond, Washington, United States that owns 15 consumer brands across 2 categories, and has 3 recorded transactions.[1][2]
Microsoft was founded in 1975 writing a BASIC interpreter for an early hobbyist computer and became dominant by licensing an operating system to every PC maker rather than building the machines. It has since bought several of the largest consumer internet properties, including the biggest acquisition in the history of video games.
Read from Microsoft's latest annual filing[1]. Each line gives the sentence the filing uses, copied word for word.
We operate our business and report our financial performance using three segments: Productivity and Business Processes, Intelligent Cloud, and More Personal Computing.
For example, in October 2023 we completed our acquisition of Activision Blizzard , Inc.
Headline figures from Microsoft's annual reports filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission, in USD as reported, fiscal years ending 2021–2026. Revenue moved from $168.1bn to $331.8bn, an average of 14.6% a year (calculated).
| Fiscal year ended | Revenue | Operating income | Operating margin | Net income | Total assets | Long-term debt | Filing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| $331.8bn | $155.2bn | 46.8% | $133.7bn | $758.4bn | $31.1bn | 10-K | |
| $281.7bn | $128.5bn | 45.6% | $101.8bn | $619bn | $40.2bn | 10-K | |
| $245.1bn | $109.4bn | 44.6% | $88.1bn | $512.2bn | $42.7bn | 10-K | |
| $211.9bn | $88.5bn | 41.8% | $72.4bn | $412bn | $42bn | 10-K | |
| $198.3bn | $83.4bn | 42.1% | $72.7bn | $364.8bn | $47bn | 10-K | |
| $168.1bn | $69.9bn | 41.6% | $61.3bn | $333.8bn | $50.1bn | 10-K |
Source: SEC XBRL company facts. A dash means the company did not report that line in a form we could read. Figures for a year can be restated in a later filing; the latest filing's number is shown.
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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Microsoft acquired Activision Blizzard for $95 per share in cash, about $68.7 billion, the largest acquisition ever made in the video games industry. It closed twenty-one months after announcement following contested reviews in the United States, the United Kingdom and the European Union.
Microsoft acquired GitHub for $7.5 billion in stock. The European Commission cleared the deal unconditionally in October 2018, finding no risk that the buyer would degrade the platform for rival developer tools.
Microsoft acquired LinkedIn for $196 per share in cash, valuing it at about $26.2 billion. It was the largest acquisition in Microsoft history until Activision Blizzard.
| Case | Regulator | Decision | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Microsoft / Activision Blizzard merger inquiry | cma | blocked | 26 April 2023 |
| FTC Matter 2210077 | ftc | investigating | 11 July 2023 |
| Microsoft / Activision Blizzard (ex-cloud streaming rights) merger inquiry | cma | cleared with remedies | 6 October 2023 |
The Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF) keeps an open register of legal entities. Each entity reports its own parents. We show it as a cross-check on the ownership recorded on this page, which is built from filings.
The documents behind the figures on this page, as listed in the SEC's EDGAR index. Each links to the filing itself.
| Filed | Form | What it declares |
|---|---|---|
| 8-K | Regulation FD disclosure | |
| 8-K | Results of operations and financial condition | |
| 8-K | Departure or appointment of directors or officers | |
| 8-K | Departure or appointment of directors or officers | |
| 10-Q | Quarterly report | |
| 8-K | Results of operations and financial condition | |
| 10-Q | Quarterly report | |
| 8-K | Results of operations and financial condition | |
| 8-K | Departure or appointment of directors or officers; Results of a shareholder vote | |
| 10-Q | Quarterly report | |
| 8-K | Results of operations and financial condition; Regulation FD disclosure | |
| 8-K | Departure or appointment of directors or officers |
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Microsoft owns 15 consumer brands tracked here, including Skype, Bing, GitHub, Xbox, LinkedIn and Minecraft.
Yes. Microsoft is headquartered in Redmond, Washington, United States and was founded in 1975.
Microsoft is a publicly listed company owned by its shareholders; it trades as MSFT on the NASDAQ.
The most recent completed acquisition recorded here is Activision Blizzard on 13 October 2023.
Last verified . Every ownership fact above is backed by one of these primary documents. Numbers in brackets in the text refer to this list.
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