AI is growing much faster than the other components of MS and Alphabet's business, and OAI is 100% dedicated to AI while the other two only have small portions on AI
Let's say Company 1 has $1B revenue and has grown 5x in the last year, and 20x the last 2 years.. Let's say Company 2 has $1B revenue and that's the same as it was last year and the year before.
Public money is looking for profits. Dividends are one way to get there. A better way to get to larger profits is selling the stock after it gets much more valuable. In the example above the growing company has a good chance of being worth much more a few years later, and that increases the value.
> why is Amazon, a company that has never paid a dividend, such a valuable company?
You'd hope every publicly-traded long term minded company operates the same way Amazon does. Reinvestment of money they themselves earn in "growth" and still retain a trickle in profits.
Alphabet: ~$4.5T value / ~$403B revenue ≈ 11× revenue
Microsoft: ~$2.9T value / ~$282B revenue ≈ 10× revenue
OpenAI: ~$850B value / ~$13B revenue ≈ 65× revenue
Can someone explains that logic?