Stock Comparison
Apple Inc. vs Microsoft Corporation
Compare moat strength, market structure, and segment coverage to understand how each company defends its edge.
Apple Inc.
AAPL · The Nasdaq Stock Market LLC
Weighted across the company's segments.
Microsoft Corporation
MSFT · The Nasdaq Global Select Market
Weighted across the company's segments.
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- Moat score: both at 95 / 100.
- Segment focus: Apple Inc. has 5 segments (50.4% in iPhone); Microsoft Corporation has 2 segments (80.8% in Agents and Infra).
- Moat breadth: Apple Inc. has 6 moat types across 3 domains; Microsoft Corporation has 8 across 4.
Primary market context
Apple Inc.
iPhone
Global smartphones, with premium-smartphone over-index
Global
Consumers, carriers, enterprises, and government buyers
Branded device OEM, operating-system owner, and platform gateway
50.4%
Microsoft Corporation
Agents and Infra
Cloud infrastructure, commercial and consumer productivity and AI applications, developer tools, business solutions and server licensing
Global
Enterprises, governments, developers, households and individual productivity subscribers
Integrated application, model and infrastructure platform
80.8%
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Moat coverage
Shared moat types
Apple Inc. strengths
Microsoft Corporation strengths
Segment mix
Apple Inc. segments
Full profile >iPhone
Oligopoly
Mac
Oligopoly
iPad
Oligopoly
Wearables, Home and Accessories
Oligopoly
Services
Quasi-Monopoly
Microsoft Corporation segments
Full profile >Agents and Infra
Oligopoly
Devices and Consumer
Competitive
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