After seeing the latest results from Apple and IBM rivals, Microsoft announced that a major increase in computer sales worldwide will increase its quarterly revenue allowed in 35 %.
Despite this strong growth, it appears that the gains were not enough for investors, who were expecting a further increase after the recovery that has seen the market in recent months.
As reported between January and March,
Microsoft was 4.01 billion dollars or 45 cents per share. This exceeds by 3 cents to the predictions of analysts by 12 cents to earnings last year.
In total numbers, revenues increased 6% to 14.5 billion dollars, a minimum difference with the 14.4 billion expected by analysts, and a major difference from the 13.6 billion achieved in 2009.
Referring to the pessimism of investors, the CFO of Microsoft
Peter Klein explained that the crisis in the early costs to be eliminated are in hardware, so that during the recovery are the first to return.
If we go into the details we need to emphasize the entertainment division, which makes the console
Xbox 360 and the OS Windows Mobile , as it grew 2% during the quarter to reach 1.7 billion dollars.
On the other hand we must name the software division, responsible for all programs, which fell 6% to 4.2 billion dollars, although we must say that
Microsoft decided to wait to report $ 305 million in revenue by the Office .
Finally I must say that during this quarter
Microsoft began to pay Yahoo for its Web search agreement. In the first three months of the year Microsoft paid $ 78 million under the agreement.
Despite winning more than four billion dollars in just three months, the
Microsoft shares fell 3.7% up to 30.24 dollars. This post was originally published in
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