Microsoft jumped more than 2% in premarket trading as its cloud business performed brilliantly.The financial report showed that during the period from July 1, 2021 to September 30, 2021, Microsoft achieved revenue of 45.317 billion US dollars, an increase of 22% compared with 37.154 billion US dollars in the same period last year.
Operating profit was US $20.238 billion, an increase of 27% compared with US $15.876 billion in the same period of the previous fiscal year, which was higher than the year-on-year increase in revenue.
By business, during the reporting period, the personal computing business including Windows, devices, games and search advertisements achieved revenue of US $13.314 billion, a year-on-year increase of 12%, which was higher than the market expectation of US $12.72 billion.
Including Azure public cloud, enterprise services, GitHub and so onIntelligenceThe cloud service business achieved revenue of US $16.964 billion, up 31% year-on-year, higher than the market expectation of US $16.51 billion.
The productivity and business process departments including Dynamics, LinkedIn and Office achieved revenue of US $15.039 billion, up 22% year-on-year, which also exceeded the market expectation of US $14.67 billion.