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By Dan Gallagher --Microsoft MSFT -0.35% ’s comeback is no longer tech’s best-kept secret. That sets up a new kind of challenge for the software giant. When Microsoft reports its fiscal year-end results Thursday afternoon, it should mark the first time in more than a decade that the company has managed to grow revenue by double digits for two years in a row. Moreover, Wall Street expects that to continue for at least the next two years, which would be a pace not seen since the early 2000s, when the company had less than one-third of its current revenue.

That stands out against recent decelerating growth trends at Big Tech peers such as Apple Inc., Google parent Alphabet Inc. and even turbocharged Amazon.com . As a result, Microsoft has spent most of the past three months as the world’s most valuable company and more than a month with a market value in excess of $1 trillion. That serves as a strong validation for the company’s transformation under Chief Executive Satya Nadella, but it also means Microsoft no longer has the relative comfort of being an underdog. At 28 times forward earnings, Microsoft’s shares not only carry a premium to Alphabet’s, Facebook ’s and Apple’s; they also carry the highest multiple the stock has commanded in more than 15 years, according to FactSet.