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Microsoft Financial Results: Q1 FY24


Microsoft have announced their financial results for Q1 FY24 (July – Sept 2023) so let’s dive in and take a look.

Overall revenue was $56.5 billion, a 13% increase Year on Year (YoY), while net income was up 27% to $22.3 billion. The “Microsoft Cloud” revenue hit $31.8 billion which was a 24% increase.

Productivity & Business Processes

  • Revenue = $18.6 billion, up 13%
  • Office 365 Commercial = up 13%
  • Dynamics 365 = up 29%

Office 365 growth is primarily driven by SMB and Frontline SKUs.

Intelligent Cloud

Revenue = $24.3 billion, up 19%

Azure growth was 29% which is the first time for 2 year that the rate of growth has increased quarter on quarter. Q4 FY23 was 26% and now it’s at 29% which shows that spend in Azure is picking up at a newly increased speed.

Earnings call highlights

  • Azure Arc up to 21,000 customers – a 140% increase YoY. <– How much of this is driven by the new PAYG ESUs and Microsoft’s push?
  • 16,000+ customers using Microsoft Fabric.
  • 20 million Monthly Active Users (MAU) for Power Apps.
  • Total headcount is 7% lower than 1 year ago.
  • Satya Nadella gives a shoutout to the newly announced Oracle@Azure program as a driver of cloud growth:

“Once we announced that the Oracle databases are going to be available on Azure, we saw a bunch of unlock from new customers who have a significant Oracle estate that have not yet moved to the cloud, because they needed to rendezvous with the rest of the app estate in one single cloud”

Interesting to see Oracle contributing to Microsoft’s growth!

  • Lots of talk of AI throughout, looking ahead to the launch of M365 Copilot on November 1st.

It’s clear that Microsoft are in a strong position and it looks like growth will continue for the foreseeable. Yes there’s a lot of volatility in the world, both economically and politically, but Microsoft have first mover advantage on per-user generative AI for business users with Copilot as well as several other growing products.

See more info on the Microsoft site here.

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Microsoft FY23 Financial Results


June 31st saw the end of another financial year for Microsoft and, despite there being many 1000’s of layoffs, the final numbers were very positive indeed for Redmond – yet again.

Full year FY23 results

  • Overall revenue = $211.9 billion, up 7%
  • Operating Income = $88.5 billion, up 6%

For specific product areas:

  • Dynamics 365 surpassed $5 billion
  • Microsoft Cloud hit $111 billion
  • Azure Virtual Desktop & Windows 365 combined for $1 billion

Q4 FY23 results

  • Revenue = $56.2 billion, up 8%
  • Operating Income = $24.3 billion, up 18%

Then looking at the individual business units we see:

Productivity & Business Processes

Revenue was up 10% to $18.3 billion and within that:

  • Office 365 Commercial up 15%
  • Dynamics 365 up 26%
  • LinkedIn up 5%

Intelligent Cloud

Revenue was up 15% to $24 billion and this included Azure (and other cloud services) growth of 26%. Nadella mentioned that optimisation is continuing within Azure and there were a record number of contracts over $10 million as well as the highest annualized value for long-term Azure contracts.

Microsoft Cloud

This isn’t a Business Unit but rather a grouping of various cloud products including:

  • Azure
  • O365 Commerical
  • Dynamics 365
  • Parts of LinkedIn
  • “Other cloud properties”

and this hit $30.3 billion for the quarter (up 21%) and $111 billion for the year. Satya Nadella mentioned that Azure was over 50% of this for the first time…which puts a number of just over $55 billion on annual sales for Azure. That means (according to this list) if Azure became its own company, it would be approx. the 64th biggest company in the US, surpassing Novartis, Cisco, Nike, Oracle, and Coca-Cola among others.

Earnings call comments

recognition from Copilot will be weighted towards the 2nd half of this financial year, which suggests M365 Copilot won’t be generally available until later in 2023 – perhaps October?

  • Azure Arc now has 18,000 customers, a 150% Year on Year (YoY) increase
  • Microsoft Fabric has over 8,000 trial customers
  • Viva has over 35 million Monthly Active Users (MAU)
  • EMS has over 256 million users (up 11%)
  • Teams Premium has over 600,000 seats
  • Teams Phone PSTN users increased 45% YoY to 17 million
  • Making it the “market leader in cloud calling” according to Nadella
  • Teams Revenue more than doubled YoY
  • Microsoft 365 saw a record number of $10 million+ contracts
  • They saw “particular strength” in Office 365 upsell at renewal

Things are all going in the right direction and there’s plenty of room for growth in areas like Azure Arc, Fabric, Windows 365, and Teams Premium.

See more at the Microsoft site here.

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Microsoft financial results: Q2 FY22


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Microsoft’s financial results are, once again, fantastic. For Q2 FY22 (Oct – Dec 21) their headline results are:

  • Revenue = $51.7 billion, an increase of 20%
  • Operating Income = $22.2 billion, an increase of 24%
  • Net Income = $18.8 billion, an increase of 21%

That’s over $51 billion in 3 months – a single quarter bigger than recent annual revenues for companies like Oracle, Nike, and Coca Cola.

Looking at the separate business units we see the following…

Productivity & Business Processes

  • Revenue = $15.9 billion, up 19%
  • Office 365 Commercial up 19%
    • “Continued momentum” for E5
  • LinkedIn up 37%
  • Dynamics 365 up 45%
  • Power Apps up 161%
  • Office Commercial (i.e on-premises) down 17%

Intelligent Cloud

  • Revenue = $18.3 billion
  • Azure up 46%
    • “Significant growth” in long-term contracts (again)
  • Enterprise Mobility up to 209 million+ seats

Yet more strong double digit growth across all these product divisions, as we’ve seen so many times before over the last few years. Although the growth is still very strong with Azure, it’s perhaps worth noting that the % increase is dropping slightly over time…from 50 in Q1 to now 46…although this makes sense – as the base grows, maintaining the same % increase becomes more difficult.

We also saw that the security business surpassed $15 billion in revenue, up almost 45% YoY.

“Digital technology is the most malleable resource at the world’s disposal to overcome constraints and reimagine everyday work and life.”

Earnings Call

There is always plenty of great info in the earnings call and this quarter was no different.

  • Azure Arc has tripled its user base YoY as organisations expand hybrid environments.
  • New Azure customers include:
    • CVS Health
    • Johnson & Johnson Medical Devices
    • Kyndryl
    • Wells Fargo
  • Cosmos DB transactions increased 100% YoY
  • Industry Clouds are driving “significant usage” across Microsoft Cloud
  • Teams has 270 million+ monthly active users
  • Microsoft Viva has over 1,000 paying customers already
  • Microsoft Sentinel has over 15,000 customers – a 70% increase YoY

Satya Nadella also discussed “Dynamics 365 Connected Spaces” (currently in preview) which is focused on automating and managing physical processes. This is part of their “Metaverse” play for business.

Note that many of the new “exotic” products are being name checked here:

  • Azure Arc
  • Cosmos DB
  • Industry Clouds
  • Power Apps
  • Microsoft Sentinel

This really helps to highlight Microsoft’s future plans and the successful growth they’re seeing there already. It also seems that there’s plenty of room for growth over the next few years so it doesn’t seem that Microsoft’s growth will be slowing any time soon.

Further Reading

Microsoft Earnings Press Release & documents

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Microsoft Financial Results FY21


$168.1 billion.

That was Microsoft’s revenue for FY21, which ended June 30, 2021, and it is a pretty staggering number! In fact, it’s about 40% bigger than the revenues of Oracle, SAP, and IBM combined!

Equally impressive was their Operating Income number of $69.9 billion but let’s dive a bit deeper and look at the numbers for Q4 FY21 (April – June 2021).

Q4 FY21

Overall for the final quarter, Microsoft saw:

  • Revenue = $46.2 billion – up 21%
  • Operating Income = $19.2 billion – up 42%

(As a comparison – Microsoft’s Q4 revenue was bigger than the individual total year revenue for both Oracle and SAP!)

Productivity & Business Processes

This division had revenue of $14.7 billion, an increase of 25% and within that:

  • Office 365 Commercial increased 25%
  • LinkedIn increased 46%
  • Dynamics 365 increased 49%

Intelligent Cloud

Here Microsoft saw revenue of $17.4 billion, a 30% increase, which was mainly driven by a 51% increase in Azure revenue.

More Personal Computing

This section saw a 9% increase to $14.1 billion with Windows Commercial products rising by 20%; however – Surface revenue dropped 20%…likely impacted by the ongoing chip shortage.

Other areas

The investor calls and information can give great insights beyond simply revenue figures, some of these tidbits include:

  • Another increase in long term Azure deals
  • Office 365 E5 comprises 8% of the total commercial installed base
  • Almost 250 million monthly active users on Teams
  • Almost 80 million monthly active Teams phone users
  • Over 1 billion Teams calls in a single month
  • Almost 600,000 orgs using Microsoft security products – with a 70% increase in SMB

Microsoft continue to grow and Satya Nadella seems confident they will be able to keep this up going forward. It certainly feels that there is a lot of expansion space available for Microsoft across several product areas – both winning business from rivals but, probably more so, creating brand new sectors in the cloud and across business applications too.

Further Reading

Microsoft Investor Info

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