Becker's Healthcare January 25, 2019
Jessica Kim Cohen

Amazon and Microsoft are two of the world’s most valuable companies, and they have one common growth engine compared to their “big tech” peers — cloud services, according to the Wall Street Journal.

Five notes:

1. Amazon is the most valuable company in the world as of market close Jan. 11 at $802.6 billion. Microsoft trails not far behind at a market value of $786.7 billion, while the third most valuable company, Alphabet, sits at $736.8 billion.

2. Technology firms such as Apple, Facebook and Alphabet are experiencing costs rising faster than their revenues. Many technology companies are expected to report earnings growth that lags behind revenue growth in their fourth-quarter earnings, which companies are releasing in the...

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