Earnings Increased, Sales Weak

For the first quarter 2015 Microsoft Corporation income increased by 5.56 % of $0.57 per share compare to $0.54 a year ago and EPS turn positive from $-0.40 per share from the previous quarter.

Sales declined in double digits by -12.16 % to $20.38 billions from $23.20 billions in the same quarter a year ago and sequentially Sales deteriorated by -8.12 % from $22.18 billions.


Sales fell at Productivity Business Processes -2.84%, More Personal Computing -16.51%, while revenue growth was achieved at Intelligent Cloud +7.62%.
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 1.76 % to $4,620 millions for the first quarter 2015, compare to income of $4,540 millions achieved a year before. Microsoft Corporation also emphasized it's improving profit margins, where net margin rose to 22.67% in first quarter 2015, and operating margin edged up to 28.43%.


Microsoft Corporation is expected to report next financial results on October 23, 2017.