Microsoft
American multinational technology corporation
Ownership
Microsoft has no majority owner. Its largest known holders are all institutional investors:
Index funds and asset managers hold stakes in most listed companies, so these are listed separately from strategic owners.
- BlackRock, Inc. 8.0%
- Vanguard Capital Management 7.5%
- BlackRock 7.1%
- The Vanguard Group 6.0%
- Capital Group Companies 5.0%
- State Street Corporation 4.1%
- Fmr LLC 2.6%
- Geode Capital Management 2.5%
- Vanguard Portfolio Management 2.3%
- JPMorgan Chase 1.7%
These holders account for 68% of Microsoft. The remainder is free float or not yet recorded.
Formed from
What Microsoft owns
Wholly owned
Part-owned
- OpenAI Group PBC 27%
Share not stated
Recorded as owned, but no source gives the size of the stake — it may be all of the company or a small part of it.
- The Coalition
- So.cl
- Digital Anvil
- Office Web Apps
- Corbel
- Bing Health
- Windows Live Spaces
- Ms. Dewey
- Windows Live
- Hotmail Calendar
- Docs.com
- Cambria
- Bing News
- BigPark
- Microsoft Bing
- MSN China
- Microsoft Popfly
- Xbox Game Studios
- Microsoft OneDrive
- Live Search Books
- MSN Music
- Live Search Academic
- Microsoft-account
- Microsoft TechNet
- Microsoft Network
- Microsoft Pinpoint
- OpenAI Global
- Microsoft Global Finance
- Microsoft Research Asia
- Microsoft Morocco
- Fast Search & Transfer
- Clipchamp Pty Ltd
- Sysinternals
- Turn 10 Studios
- Microsoft Switzerland
- LinkedIn Ireland
- Microsoft Mobile
- Nuance Communications
- Ensemble Studios
- Microsoft (Ukraine)
- Powerset
- Microsoft (Netherlands)
- Microsoft Operations
- Microsoft Sweden
- Microsoft Research
- Xbox
- Microsoft AI
- Microsoft South Africa
- Canesta
- Intentional Software
- GameBank Corp.
- MSN Internet Access
- Microsoft India
- Microsoft Services Asia
- ADRM Software
and 123 more.
Brands Microsoft owns
These are brand names rather than separate companies, so they have no owner of their own beyond Microsoft.
Similar companies
In Software, under different ownership.
Websites
- microsoft.com
Sources
- SCHEDULE 13G — Vanguard Capital Management — SEC EDGAR
- Microsoft — Wikidata