US$812.93 BILLION

MARKET CAP REACHED BY MICROSOFT ON 27 NOVEMBER, MAKING IT – BRIEFLY – THE WORLD’S MOST VALUABLE COMPANY AFTER A HIATUS OF EIGHT YEARS.

The company snatched the slot from Apple, whose own market cap had slipped from a peak of US$1 trillion in August 2018 to US$812.60 billion on that same day in November, largely as a result of investor concerns over iPhone sales.