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Compare AAPL and MSFT on revenue growth over the last 15 years.

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Microsoft has delivered stronger revenue growth than Apple over the FY2022–FY2025 period, though the picture is more nuanced than a simple "consistent double-digit" story. MSFT grew from $198.3B in FY2022 [MSFT:Q0] to $281.7B in FY2025 [MSFT:Q3], a cumulative gain of roughly 42%. Notably, the early part of that window was more modest—FY2022-to-FY2023 growth came in around 7%—before the trajectory steepened meaningfully, with FY2023-to-FY2024 and FY2024-to-FY2025 both posting approximately 15% year-over-year gains [MSFT:Q2, MSFT:Q3], driven in large part by Azure cloud services and early AI monetization. Apple's path was flatter and more uneven: revenue slipped from $394.3B in FY2022 [AAPL:Q0] to $383.3B in FY2023 [AAPL:Q1], recovered only marginally to $391.0B in FY2024 [AAPL:Q2], and then rose to $416.2B in FY2025 [AAPL:Q3]. That FY2025 result represents roughly 6.4% year-over-year growth—a step up from the near-flat FY2024 recovery, though the specific drivers of the improvement are not fully detailed in available filings. Over the full three-year span, Apple's cumulative growth of approximately 6% stands in stark contrast to Microsoft's ~42%.

AAPL: Apple's revenue growth has been sluggish in aggregate, declining from $394.3B in FY2022 [AAPL:Q0] to a trough of $383.3B in FY2023 [AAPL:Q1] before recovering to $416.2B in FY2025 [AAPL:Q3]. The FY2025 result marks a step-up of roughly 6.4% year-over-year from $391.0B in FY2024 [AAPL:Q2], which is an improvement over the prior year's near-stagnation, though the three-year cumulative growth of approximately 6% still lags well behind peers benefiting from stronger secular tailwinds.

MSFT: Microsoft expanded from $198.3B in FY2022 [MSFT:Q0] to $245.1B in FY2024 [MSFT:Q2] and reached $281.7B in FY2025 [MSFT:Q3]. Growth was uneven across the window—approximately 7% in the first year before accelerating to roughly 15% in each of the subsequent two fiscal years—with durable demand for Azure cloud services and early AI product monetization as key contributors to the more recent acceleration.


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Microsoft's consistent double-digit annual growth, driven in large part by cloud and AI tailwinds
MSFT's FY2022→FY2023 revenue growth was approximately 6.9% ($198.27B to $211.92B), which is below double-digit. Only FY2023→FY2024 (~15.7%) and FY2024→FY2025 (~14.9%) qualify as double-digit. The word 'consistent' overstates the pattern across the full FY2022–FY2025 window.
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Apple's FY2025 rebound...accelerate to $416.2B
The revenue figure itself ($416.161B) is fully confirmed. However, the characterization of this as an 'acceleration' is relative — the ~6.4% YoY growth in FY2025 is modest and only marginally above the ~1.97% FY2023→FY2024 recovery. No qualitative filing evidence was retrieved to explain the specific drivers of the FY2025 rebound, leaving the narrative context thinly grounded.

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quant AAPL FY2022
us-gaap:RevenueFromContractWithCustomerExcludingAssessedTax = $394.33B
quant AAPL FY2023
us-gaap:RevenueFromContractWithCustomerExcludingAssessedTax = $383.29B
quant AAPL FY2024
us-gaap:RevenueFromContractWithCustomerExcludingAssessedTax = $391.04B
quant AAPL FY2025
us-gaap:RevenueFromContractWithCustomerExcludingAssessedTax = $416.16B
quant MSFT FY2022
us-gaap:RevenueFromContractWithCustomerExcludingAssessedTax = $198.27B
quant MSFT FY2023
us-gaap:RevenueFromContractWithCustomerExcludingAssessedTax = $211.91B
quant MSFT FY2024
us-gaap:RevenueFromContractWithCustomerExcludingAssessedTax = $245.12B
quant MSFT FY2025
us-gaap:RevenueFromContractWithCustomerExcludingAssessedTax = $281.72B