Microsoft Corp. is once again the world's most valuable company. The Redmond, Wash., software company sports a market capitalization of $262.1 billion based on last Friday's closing stock prices. That's less than half its peak value, but good enough to eclipse the sagging General Electric Co. , whose market cap is $240.9 billion. Market capitalization is computed by multiplying the current stock price by the number of shares outstanding. General Electric has about 9.49 billion shares outstanding; Microsoft has about 5.36 shares billion outstanding, according to recent company reports.
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