Microsoft let yesterday presented its biggest deficit in a quarter ever, minus $ 3.2 billion. Last year at the same time the software giant had a profit of $ 4.6 billion, the figures show.
The deficit is equivalent to 26 billion.
Mobile Accident
The huge loss due to the frenetic writedown of old Nokia. Earlier this month it became clear that Microsoft terminates further 7,800 employees, and had to write down the value of Nokia’s old mobile business with $ 7.6 billion – a sum that exceeds the purchase price.
Overall, the financial statements in the last quarter charged with 8.44 billion dollars in costs related to the failed Nokia acquisition, restructuring and other restructuring measures.
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Better Than Expected
If we exclude mobile-casualty outside, the results to Microsoft quite good. And better than the market had expected. Nevertheless, the share price fell 3.9 percent, according to the Wall Street Journal (paywall).
– I am proud of the results we delivered, said Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella during a conference call with analysts and reporters yesterday.
statements that were presented Tuesday is Microsoft deviant fourth quarter and fiscal year 2015 as a whole, which ended on June 30.
Last quarter revenues fell more than five percent to 22.18 billion dollars, compared with the same quarter last year. Lite favorable exchange rates abroad, read strong dollar makes products more expensive for customers outside the United States, accounts for about three percent of the reduction, according to the accounts.
On an annual fall Microsoft’s profit heavily, again because of Nokia -divisjonen. Net they are left with $ 12.2 billion, almost ten billion US dollars less than the previous year. This despite the fact that sales in the period increased from 86.6 to 93.6 billion US dollars.
Microsoft’s revenue is distributed in six significant items, as we take in quick succession:
* “Devices and Consumer Licensing” in the quarter down 34 percent to $ 3.2 billion. Annually down roughly 23 percent to 15 billion dollars. The decline is explained by lower revenues from Windows OEM, Windows Phone and office suite Office to consumers.
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Provides gas on Land
* “Computing and Gaming Hardware” is up 44 percent to $ 1.9 billion. On an annual basis up 12 percent to $ 10.2 billion. It is especially the sale of Surface Pro 3 that draws up, but also Xbox sales are up (10 percent) much due to a price reduction.
Chief Financial Officer Kevin Turner announced yesterday that they will now give gas on Surface- initiative, when he stated that they should vigorously expand the sales force with multiple partners. The next few months will pc / tablet hybrid Surface increase from only 150 to more than 4,500 global retailers.
* “Phone Hardware» fell from 1.99 to 1.23 billion dollars last quarter, down 38 percent compared with the same quarter last year. For the full year rose this record from 1.99 to 7.5 billion US dollars (“Nokia effect” also).
Revenue falls both on smartphones and simpler feature phones. Lumia sales falling despite the fact that Microsoft sold 8.4 million units in the fourth quarter, compared with 5.8 million units last year. Customers have namely chosen the cheaper varieties in a major way.
The sale of feature phones (non-Lumia) was reduced from 30.3 million units in the same quarter last year to reach 19.4 million units.
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* “Devices and Consumer Other” increased in the quarter dropped 30 percent to $ 2.3 billion . On an annual basis this record has grown from 7 to reach $ 8.8 billion.
Most of the growth was due to increased sales of the Xbox Live store, search ads in Bing, as well as some growth of revenues from office suite Office 365 for consumers , which ended the year with 15.2 million subscribers (around three million).
* “Commercial Licensing” is Microsoft’s big pot and dairy cattle. In the last quarter, revenues fell here from 11.2 to 10.4 billion dollars, a decrease of nearly 7 percent. For the year, turnover was down here one billion to 41 billion dollars.
Both Windows and Office is included here. It labre PC sales in the world and the transition from traditional Office licenses to subscription to Office 365 pulls down.
* “Commercial Other” increased 36 percent to $ 3.1 billion (quarter on quarter ) and from 7.5 to 10.8 billion US dollars annually, an increase of 43.6 percent.
Here we see growth in the cloud, the new way of conducting business. There are sales success Office 365 Commercial and Microsoft Azure platform going up revenues. Growth in the last quarter was $ 832 million (up 88 percent from the same time last year).
– Our approach of investing in areas where we distinguish ourselves and see opportunities to pay in that Surface, Xbox, Bing, Office 365, Azure and Dynamics CRM Online are all growing by at least double-digit rates, says Satya Nadella, commenting on the results.
Microsoft’s chief executive also highlights the launch of Windows 10, which rolled out from next week, which according to him will create new opportunities for the company and its ecosystem.
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