Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) Boasts Largest revenue Growth After 2018

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The shares of Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) have dropped by 3% during the extended trading session on 27th April, Tuesday. This happened soon after Microsoft, a software maker company, announced their financial 3rd quarterly earnings. In addition, they also issued guidance for quarterly revenue that revealed much better numbers than the estimated ones from the analysts.

The operating margin of the company has also narrowed a little. This might be attributable to the fact that the cloud has become a much bigger part of their business.

Better Quarterly Earnings For MSFT

MSFT has per-share earnings of $1.95 while the analysts had estimated $1.78 EPS, as reported by Refinitiv. On the other hand, the company had revenue of $41.71 billion as compared to the estimated $41.03 billion from the analysts.

The producer of both hardware and software has released an annualized 19% revenue growth during this quarter that ended on 31st March 2021. As a result, this is suggested to be the largest quarterly surge for the firm since 2018.

The main factor for this increase of the profits from the sales of PC owing to the shortages and increased demand from the COVID-19 pandemic last year. The ‘work from home’ culture had driven the sale up.

The firm also informed that their public cloud of Azure that competes again Amazon, the market leader in Web Services, has also grown by 50%. Whereas the analysts have expected a 46% growth for Azure.

For the 4th financial quarter, MSFT is anticipating their revenue ranging between $43.6 billion and $44.5 billion. The Intelligent Cloud sector earned a revenue of $15.12 in Q3, indicating a 23% annualized growth.

Finally, the S & P 500 for the company experienced almost 12% gains during yesterday’s after-hours trading.