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    Microsoft Reports Lowest Revenue in Five Years, Forecasts Spook Investors

    By AdminFebruary 6, 2023
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    Microsoft Reports Lowest Revenue in Five Years, Forecasts Spook Investors

    Microsoft on Tuesday projected second-quarter revenue below Wall Street targets across its business units, stoking fear that macroeconomic headwinds are impacting the cloud business in addition to the PC unit.

    Revenue growth in the first quarter was Microsoft‘s lowest in five years, and shares of the software giant fell 7 percent in extended trading.

    Microsoft’s cloud business, called Azure, has supercharged revenue growth at the software giant for years. But in its first fiscal quarter of 2023, that growth dropped to 35 percent and the company projects that to drop again in the current quarter, which is its second quarter. Microsoft missed the 36.5 percent analyst target compiled by Visible Alpha due to a stronger dollar.

    “If this growth deceleration continues, it could harm an investment case in the company’s stock which is considered a safe-haven amid the market turmoil,” said Haris Anwar, senior analyst at Investing.com.

    The company said it expects the Intelligent Cloud business to pull in revenue of $21.25 billion (roughly Rs. 1.75 lakh crore) to $21.55 billion (roughly Rs. 1.77 lakh crore) in the second quarter, slightly below analysts’ estimates of $22.01 billion (roughly Rs. 1.81 lakh crore), according to Refinitiv IBES data.

    “We expect Azure revenue growth to be sequentially lower by roughly five points on a constant currency basis,” Chief Financial Officer Amy Hood told analysts on a conference call. That would be a growth of 37 percent on a constant currency basis, and much lower taking into account foreign exchange rates.

    “In a weird way, everyone expected there to be a disaster when the pandemic hit. And it was the exact opposite. But at some point, that impact was going to hit and it’s hitting now,” said Bob O’Donnell, an analyst for TECHnalysis Research, adding that even businesses like the cloud can’t escape the impact. Still, he said Microsoft has diversified its business and is in a good position to ride out the hard times.

    The maker of Windows has seen demand slide for its ubiquitous computer software as the spike in inflation forces businesses and consumers to pull back on spending.

    Current-quarter revenue from the personal computing unit was projected between $14.5 billion (roughly Rs. 1.19 lakh crore) and $14.9 billion (roughly Rs. 1.22 lakh crore), below estimates of $16.96 billion (roughly Rs. 1.4 lakh crore).

    “The PC market was worse than we expected in Q1,” Brett Iversen, head of Microsoft’s investor relations, told Reuters. “We continued to see that deteriorate throughout the quarter, which impacted our Windows OEM business.”

    Windows OEM business, which includes the operating software Microsoft sells to PC makers, dropped 15 percent year-on-year. Iversen said that part of the business did not have much of an impact from foreign-exchange headwinds and the drop was mainly PC-market driven.

    Still, demand held up for its diverse portfolio of products including Outlook and Teams that have made Microsoft essential to businesses adopting flexible work models.

    Revenue growth in the first quarter was $50.12 billion (roughly Rs. 4.13 lakh crore), up 11 percent year-on-year. The figure was slightly above analysts’ expectations of $49.61 billion (roughly Rs. 4.08 lakh crore).

    Net income fell to $17.56 billion (roughly Rs. 1.44 lakh crore), or $2.35 (roughly Rs. 200) per share, during the quarter ended Sept. 30, from $20.51 billion (roughly Rs. 1.7 lakh crore), or $2.71 (roughly Rs. 230) per share, a year earlier.

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