This analyst makes Microsoft gaining over $500B in market cap seem so easy. It can't be that easy or there would be plenty of companies up in the stratosphere. Right now, Microsoft barely makes half the revenue of Apple. I'm a believer in anything being able to happen with the stock market because there are so many crooks in that system. I've heard analysts say Amazon would reach $1T in market cap. I've heard them say Alphabet will reach $1T in market cap. They make it seem so easy for a company to make that mark despite the fact it has never been done before. I say, let the analysts have their fun misleading naive investors. Even if those analysts are seriously wrong they won't have to take any responsibility for people losing money. I can see Microsoft is doing quite well in terms of share gains but their P/E is a bit on the high side.
Microsoft shareholders are very lucky considering Windows sales aren't all that robust and their mobile initiative is pretty much dead. Microsoft took a fairly deep charge for Nokia's losses and shareholders didn't even care. I guess if shareholders have faith in a company, it can do no wrong. Linked-In never seemed like a big money-making company, so I'm not sure what Microsoft got for $26B. However, now that Microsoft has it, all these people are claiming Linked-In going to earn Microsoft a huge amount of money. Maybe I'm just stupid but I really don't understand what makes Linked-In such a great company/division. Now Microsoft is constantly being praised for its Azure cloud services but I thought they still trailed behind Amazon's cloud services. Whatever. Wall Street absolutely loves "The Cloud."
