Microsoft is doing well with net profit up 47%, Xbox recording sales up 172%, Windows up 7%, Surface down 20%, sluggish



Microsoft has released its financial report for the fourth quarter of 2021 (April 1, 2021 to June 30, 2021). Total sales increased 21% year-on-year to $ 46.2 billion, operating income increased 42% to $ 19.1 billion, and net income increased 47%. It was 16.5 billion dollars (about 1.81 trillion yen).

FY21 Q4 --Press Releases --Investor Relations --Microsoft

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/Investor/earnings/FY-2021-Q4/press-release-webcast

Microsoft Q4 2021 earnings: $ 46.2 billion in revenue, beating expectations | Windows Central
https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft-q4-2021-earnings-462-billion-revenue-crushing-wall-street-expectations

Microsoft reports weaker Surface and Windows revenue amid global chip shortage --The Verge
https://www.theverge.com/2021/7/27/22596578/microsoft-q4-2021-earnings-revenue-xbox-cloud-services-surface-gaming

According to a newly released earnings report, Microsoft set a new record high in net profit of $ 16.5 billion, up 47% year-over-year.



The Productivity and Business Process division supported this strong performance. In the division, Office's enterprise products and related cloud services in the software suite increased by 20%, Office consumer products and related cloud services increased by 18%, LinkedIn's sales increased by 46%, and Microsoft. Dynamics products and related cloud services recorded a 33% increase, and overall division sales increased 25% year-on-year to $ 14.7 billion.



In addition, the Intelligent Cloud division also recorded sales of 17.4 billion dollars (about 1.91 trillion yen), up 30% from the same period of the previous year. Among them, Azure achieved a large growth of 51% in sales and contributed to the breakthrough of the division.



On the other hand, the light and dark parts of the department are the More Personal Computing department, which manages Windows license revenue, devices such as Surface, and gaming-related products such as Xbox. All of the following are year-over-year, OEM Windows sales down 3%, commercial Windows and related cloud services up 20%, games related up 11%, and search ads excluding traffic acquisition costs 53% Increased, Surface sales were down 20%. Regarding games, Xbox content and services decreased by 4%, and sales of Xbox itself increased by 172%, showing a polarization between software and hardware. Although sales of Surface were strong, it is noted that sales fell sharply due to supply chain constraints.



Based on the above results of the fourth quarter financial results, total sales increased 18% year-on-year to 168.1 billion dollars (about 18.46 trillion yen), and operating income increased 32% to 69.9 billion dollars (about 7.6800). Net income increased 38% to 61.3 billion yen (approximately 6.73 trillion yen), and non-GAAP net income increased 37% to 60.7 billion yen (6.67 trillion yen).

Microsoft Chairman and CEO Satya Nadella said, 'We are innovating across the technology stack to enable companies to drive new levels of technology consolidation across their businesses. Our performance is in a differentiated way. It shows that if we can meet the needs of our customers well, we can continue to grow in large and growing markets, which will be achieved in newly built franchises such as commercial clouds, games, security and LinkedIn. It's happened, and these divisions have exceeded $ 10 billion in annual revenue over the last three years. '

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