Microsoft regains the most valuable position of the company in the world from Nvidia

American multinational corporation and technology company Microsoft has regained the top position as the world’s most valuable company from artificial intelligence chipmaker Nvidia. This comes after Nvidia’s share price fell 3.5 percent on Thursday.

Nvidia shares fell to $130.78. This dropped its value to approximately $3.22 trillion. On the other hand, Microsoft shares held steady above $3.3 trillion after closing at $445.70, down 0.14%.

Nvidia took the top spot after a share price surge that raised its value to $3.34 trillion. Despite the slight decline, Nvidia continues to maintain incredible growth, with its price almost doubling since the beginning of this year. Eight years ago, the company’s stock was worth less than 1 percent of its current price.

Microsoft, Nvidia and Apple are in a three-horse race for the company’s most valuable position. All three giants have market valuations of over $3 trillion.

According to analysts at Wedbush Securities, the three companies are expected to push their fierce competition into a $4 trillion market in the coming year.

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“We believe the race for the $4 trillion market capitalization in the technology industry will be the main topic next year between Nvidia, Apple and Microsoft,” Wedbush Securities analysts said.

Headquartered in Redmond, Washington, Microsoft is best known for its software products that make up the Windows line of operating systems, the Microsoft 365 suite of productivity applications, and the Edge web browser.

Nvidia Corporation is an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Santa Clara, California and incorporated in Delaware. It was founded on April 5, 1993 by Jensen Huang (CEO since 2024), a Taiwanese-American electrical engineer.

The company describes itself as a fabless software and technology company that designs and supplies graphics processing units (GPUs), application programming interfaces (APIs) for data analytics and high-performance computing, and systems on chips (SoCs) for the mobile computing market and automotive.

Nvidia is also a dominant supplier of artificial intelligence (AI) hardware and software. A random check on the official website shows that over 40,000 companies are using NVIDIA AI technology, and 15,000 global startups are participating in NVIDIA Inception.

On the other hand, Apple Inc is a multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Cupertino, California, in Silicon Valley. It designs, develops and sells consumer electronics, computer software and online services. Her share is valued at $209.68.