The More "Market Share" Microsoft Loses, The Higher the Shares Go
Recent: Definitely Not a Ponzi Scheme | Microsoft's Debt Exploded by 15.4 Billion Dollars in the Past 9 Months Alone (Despite All the Layoffs)
About a week ago SimilarWeb revealed further declines in Microsoft's main domain (in other ones as well):
It's not that SimilarWeb is accurate (we'll cover this in the future; Microsofters like to use SimilarWeb as a yardstick). Based on statCounter, Windows' market share decreased 1.65% this past month alone. It's even worse when it comes to search and the GPT-5 hype turned out to be such a disaster that they're now doing a partial rollback.
So on what basis did the stock (share price) go up? Nothing at all.
See, the more mass layoffs and other losses (and debt) like shutdowns - not to mention decreases in "market share" - the higher the share price goes.
Welcome to Wall Street. People joke about the same sort of thing in relation to IBM. █