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Microsoft hits $40 billion in quarterly sales for first time

Microsoft shares increase from record close after easily beating expectations for the holiday period

Microsoft hits $40 billion in quarterly sales for first time

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Microsoft stock has increased 40.8% in the past 12 months, as the Dow Jones Industrial Average  -- which counts Microsoft as a component -- has increased 6.8%.</p><p>The product that has most excited investors and analysts in recent years has been Azure, Microsoft's cloud-computing rival to Amazon.com Inc.'s <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/AMZN\">$(AMZN)$</a> Amazon Web Services, or AWS.  The company said Tuesday that Azure grew 50% in the second quarter -- Microsoft does not provide actual financial performance of Azure even as rivals such as Amazon and Alphabet Inc. <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/GOOGL\">$(GOOGL)$</a>(GOOGL) break out the performance of their cloud-computing offerings -- and that sales in its \"intelligent cloud\" segment grew to $14.6 billion from $11.87 billion a year ago. Analysts on average expected cloud revenue of  $13.77 billion, according to FactSet.</p><p>\"This is a shot across the bow at Amazon and Bezos, they're gaining more and more shares vs. AWS,\"  Wedbush analyst Dan Ives told MarketWatch in a brief interview after the numbers hit Tuesday. \"A year from now, this could start to be a head-to-head battle.\"</p><p>Ives said that even those bullish on Microsoft weren't expecting Azure to grow by 50%. 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Microsoft stock has increased 40.8% in the past 12 months, as the Dow Jones Industrial Average  -- which counts Microsoft as a component -- has increased 6.8%.</p><p>The product that has most excited investors and analysts in recent years has been Azure, Microsoft's cloud-computing rival to Amazon.com Inc.'s <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/AMZN\">$(AMZN)$</a> Amazon Web Services, or AWS.  The company said Tuesday that Azure grew 50% in the second quarter -- Microsoft does not provide actual financial performance of Azure even as rivals such as Amazon and Alphabet Inc. <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/GOOGL\">$(GOOGL)$</a>(GOOGL) break out the performance of their cloud-computing offerings -- and that sales in its \"intelligent cloud\" segment grew to $14.6 billion from $11.87 billion a year ago. Analysts on average expected cloud revenue of  $13.77 billion, according to FactSet.</p><p>\"This is a shot across the bow at Amazon and Bezos, they're gaining more and more shares vs. AWS,\"  Wedbush analyst Dan Ives told MarketWatch in a brief interview after the numbers hit Tuesday. \"A year from now, this could start to be a head-to-head battle.\"</p><p>Ives said that even those bullish on Microsoft weren't expecting Azure to grow by 50%. Azure growth had been slowing steadily, and Microsoft reported growth of 48% and 47% in the two previous quarters; Ives said expectations were closer to 44% to 45%.</p><p>Microsoft is \"firing on all cylinders and these numbers start to drive the stock to a $2 trillion market cap,\" Ives said.</p><p>As personal-computer sales spiked due to work-from-home needs and Microsoft began selling new Xbox consoles in the holiday season, sales in Microsoft's \"more personal computing\" segment grew to $15.12 billion from $13.21 billion in the same quarter a year ago. Analysts on average expected segment sales of $13.47 billion.  Microsoft said that revenue from Xbox grew 40% in the quarter, while sales of its Surface lines of PCs increased 3%.</p><p>Microsoft's \"productivity and business services\" division, which includes cloud software assets such as its Office suite as well as LinkedIn and other properties, reported revenue of $13.35 billion, up from  $11.83 billion a year ago. Analysts on average expected sales of $12.89 billion.</p><p>For the fiscal third quarter, Microsoft projected sales topping $40 billion yet again, with guidance for $40.35 billion to $41.25 billion. 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Analysts on average expected cloud revenue of  $13.77 billion, according to FactSet.\"This is a shot across the bow at Amazon and Bezos, they're gaining more and more shares vs. AWS,\"  Wedbush analyst Dan Ives told MarketWatch in a brief interview after the numbers hit Tuesday. \"A year from now, this could start to be a head-to-head battle.\"Ives said that even those bullish on Microsoft weren't expecting Azure to grow by 50%. Azure growth had been slowing steadily, and Microsoft reported growth of 48% and 47% in the two previous quarters; Ives said expectations were closer to 44% to 45%.Microsoft is \"firing on all cylinders and these numbers start to drive the stock to a $2 trillion market cap,\" Ives said.As personal-computer sales spiked due to work-from-home needs and Microsoft began selling new Xbox consoles in the holiday season, sales in Microsoft's \"more personal computing\" segment grew to $15.12 billion from $13.21 billion in the same quarter a year ago. 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Microsoft hits $40 billion in quarterly sales for first time

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