Sunday, May 2, 2021

Microsoft Q3 2021 Earnings

SuSummary
  • Revenue : $41.7 billion (up 19% from 35B in Q3 2020)
  • Operating income : $17.0 billion (up 31% from 12B in Q3, 2020)
  • Net income: $15.5 billion GAAP and $14.8 billion non-GAAP, and increased 44% and 38%, respectively (10.7B in Q3, 2020)
  • Diluted earnings per share was $2.03 GAAP and $1.95 non-GAAP, and increased 45% and 39%,respectively
  • GAAP results include a $620 million net income tax benefit explained in the Non-GAAP Definition section below
SeSegment Breakdown
PrProductivity and Business Processes
  • Office Commercial products and cloud services revenue increased 14% (up 10% in constant currency) driven by Office 365 Commercial revenue growth of 22% 

  • Dynamics products and cloud services revenue increased 26% (up 22% in constant currency) driven by Dynamics 365 revenue growth of 45% (up 40% in constant currency)

  • LinkedIn revenue increased 25% (up 23% in constant currency)

  • Office Consumer products and cloud services revenue increased 5% (up 2% in constant currency) and Microsoft 365 Consumer subscribers increased to 50.2 million

Revenue in Intelligent Cloud: $15.1 billion up 23%

  • Server products and cloud services revenue increased 26% (up 23% in constant currency) driven by Azure revenue growth of 50% (up 46% in constant currency)

Revenue in More Personal Computing was $13.0 billion and increased 19% (up 16% in constant currency)

  • Windows OEM revenue increased 10%
  • Windows Commercial products and cloud services revenue increased 10% (up 7% in constant currency)
  • Xbox content and services revenue increased 34% (up 32% in constant currency)
  • Search advertising revenue excluding traffic acquisition costs increased 17% (up 14% in constant currency)
  • Surface revenue increased 12% (up 7% in constant currency)

Subscriptions
  • Microsoft 365 Consumer subscriptions grew to 47.5 million, up 28% year over year.
  • In identity, Azure AD has more than 425 million monthly active users.
  • Xbox Live has more than 100 million monthly active users
  • Game Pass now has 18 million subscribers. 
  •  47 million Microsoft 365 personal and family subscribers



$MSFT Azure revenue growth

- Q1 2018: 90%

- Q2 2018: 98%

- Q3 2018: 93%

- Q4 2018: 89%

- Q1 2019: 76%

- Q2 2019: 76%

- Q3 2019: 73%

- Q4 2019: 64%

- Q1 2020: 59%

- Q2 2020: 62%

- Q3 2020: 59%

- Q4 2020: 47%

- Q1 2021: 48%

- Q2 2021: 50%

- Q3 2021: 50%






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