For the second quarter 2019 profits soared by 39.81 % to $1.51 per share, followed by Sales increase of 13.66 % to $
36.91 billions, compared with the prior year period.
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From first quarter 2019, income improved by 9.42 % from $1.38 per share and Sales advanced by 11.65 % from $33.06 billions.
Only one section improved Intelligent Cloud +7.62%, while following segments recorded decrease in revenues Productivity Business Processes
-2.84%, More Personal Computing
-16.51%.
Intelligent Cloud segment with 13.96% is solely responsible for the income gain, Microsoft Corporation continued, while company logged declining profits in Productivity Processes
-6.98%, More Personal Computing
-3.52%. Earnings grew
38.35 % to $11,649 millions for the second quarter 2019, compare to income of $8,420 millions achieved a year before. Microsoft Corporation also emphasized it's improving profit margins, where net margin rose to 31.56% in second quarter 2019, and operating margin edged up to 37.64%.
Microsoft Corporation is expected to report next financial results on April 21, 2020.
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