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>Microsoft has 8329956402 shares outstanding. Do you honestly believe that MSFT stock price can rise to value in the trillions, making the MSFT market cap ten sextillion dollars?

He said the market cap would be trillions, not the share price.

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That was a later edit; when I first read it (after the post you about the # of shares outstanding and the resulting calculated market cap), it said "stock" not "market cap".

dragonwriter's right, I should have put that as an edit. But even from 'stock price', a reasonable person would infer market cap.

When something is vague you can infer. "stock price" is too specific.

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