MSFT vs NVDA.

→No axis separates them by more than 2 of six checks, and the widest is Value. They score identically on 4 of the six, so the difference between them is narrower than a headline suggests.

	MSFT	NVDA
Value	1/6	3/6
Financial health	5/6	6/6
Growth	5/6	5/6
Quality	5/6	5/6
Shareholder returns	5/6	5/6
Trend	4/6	4/6
All checks	25/36	28/36

→Microsoft turns over $331.8B to NVIDIA's $303.0B, 1.1 times as much. Microsoft keeps 40.3% of revenue as profit against 63.7% at NVIDIA.

→Microsoft is the cheaper of the two on earnings, 27.6x against 27.7x. Against their own histories, Microsoft is above its 26.9x median and NVIDIA is below its 33.9x.

	MSFT	NVDA
Share price	$495.63	$218.29
Market cap	$3.68T	$5.26T
P/E	27.6x	27.7x
P/E, own median own 11-year median / own 11-year median	26.9x	33.9x
P/S	11.1x	17.4x
Free cash flow yield	1.8%	2.4%

→Both lean on debt to a similar degree, 0.09x to equity at Microsoft and 0.15x at NVIDIA.

	MSFT	NVDA
Debt / equity	0.09x	0.15x
Interest coverage	50.9x	426.7x
Cash and short-term investments	$76.8B	$56.6B

→NVIDIA grew revenue faster over the last twelve months, +83.4% against +17.8% at Microsoft - 66 points apart. Over three years the order is reversed: NVIDIA compounds at +100.0% against +16.1%.

	MSFT	NVDA
Revenue (TTM)	$331.8B	$303.0B
Revenue growth, 1 year	+17.8%	+83.4%
Revenue CAGR, 3 years	+16.1%	+100.0%
Net income (TTM)	$133.7B	$192.9B
Free cash flow (TTM)	$67.0B	$127.0B

→NVIDIA keeps more of each sale: gross margin of 74.7% against 67.9%, a gap of 7 points that flows into everything below it.

	MSFT	NVDA
Gross margin	67.9%	74.7%
Operating margin	46.8%	65.2%
Return on equity	30.2%	84.2%

→Both pay: Microsoft yields the more at 0.7% against 0.5%. A yield rises when a price falls, so read it beside the payout checks in each report.

	MSFT	NVDA
Dividend yield	0.7%	0.5%
Payout ratio	19.8%	3.5%
Years of unbroken dividend	-	-