Microsoft Earnings, can the tech giant continue it’s winning streak?

Microsoft, Inc reported its earnings today and the analysts at Wall Street found it quite disappointing. Microsoft’s Azure cloud growth slowed to 31%, barely beating the analysts expectations and instead of a $52 Billion revenue for the next quarter, managements calls for a $50.5 to $51.5 Billion revenue with Azure’s growth slowing down.

During the earnings call, the company saw a decline in the operations for the core of its’s business, Office and Windows, told to the analysts by the CEO Satya Nadella.

Here’s how the numbers line up-

Earnings- $2.32 per share, adjusted, vs. $2.29 per share as expected by analysts, according to Refinitiv.

Revenue- $52.75 billion, vs. $52.94 billion as expected by analysts, according to Refinitiv.

The tech giant saw a decline in the PC business and the company said that it expects it to contract even more. Microsoft is having a hard time competing with Amazon’s AWS and they also battle Apple in the personal computer sector. The stock shot up upto 4% after hours, but came back to earth after pre market opened.

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