QBTS vs MSFT
Side-by-side quantum stock comparison: market cap, share price, classification, and thesis.
Market cap, head to head
Stat-by-stat
| Metric | QBTS | MSFT |
|---|---|---|
| Type | Pure-play | Diversified |
| Segment | Hardware | Hardware + Software |
| Exchange | NYSE | NASDAQ |
| Country | CA | US |
| Market cap | $10.21B | $3.09T |
| Share price | $27.81 | $416.03 |
| Employees | 216 | 228,000 |
| Sector | Technology | Technology |
| Industry | Computer Hardware | Software - Infrastructure |
Quantum thesis
D-Wave is the only public pure-play on quantum annealing, an approach optimized for combinatorial-optimization problems rather than universal gate-based computation. The company also offers a gate-model roadmap and a Leap cloud service, but its differentiator is annealing hardware that is already in commercial deployment with customers in logistics and finance.
Full QBTS page →Quantum thesis
Microsoft is pursuing topological qubits with its Majorana hardware program while offering Azure Quantum as a cloud aggregator of partner hardware. The topological bet is high-risk and high-reward: if the underlying physics holds up, the resulting qubits would be intrinsically more stable than any competing approach. Software side: the Q# language and Azure Quantum job orchestration.
Full MSFT page →