Microsoft seen among world's most valuable stocks by 2050

7 articles · Updated · The Motley Fool · May 4

The $3.1tn company is projected to benefit from fast-growing Copilot uptake, a $627bn customer backlog and 40% annual Azure revenue growth in its latest quarter.
Copilot add-ons for Microsoft 365 rose 250% year on year to 20 million licences, while the company plans to double its global data-centre footprint within two years.
The report says Microsoft trades at about 24.6 times trailing earnings, below the Nasdaq-100 average, and could be worth roughly $10tn by 2050 with 5% annual growth.

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