Microsoft Corporation Q1 FY2024 Earnings Call

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Quarter Overview

  • Total revenue: $56.5B, up 13% year-over-year.
  • EPS: $2.99, up 27% year-over-year.
  • Microsoft Cloud revenue: $31.8B, up 24% (stronger than last quarter’s growth rate of ~21%).
  • Strong execution across Azure, Office 365, LinkedIn, and Gaming, particularly driven by AI demand and the Starfield launch.
  • Operating income: up 25%. Operating margin improved 5 points to 48% (6 points excluding accounting estimate changes).

Key Business Segment Highlights

Productivity & Business Processes

  • Revenue: $18.6B, up 13%.
  • Office 365 Commercial revenue: up 18% vs. 15% in the prior quarter, driven by strong E5 momentum and ARPU expansion.
  • Microsoft 365 consumer subscriptions: 76.7M, up 18% year-over-year.
  • LinkedIn revenue: up 8%. Member base now 985M; newsletter subscriptions up 3x year-over-year.
  • Dynamics 365 revenue: up 28%, continuing double-digit share gains.

Intelligent Cloud

  • Revenue: $24.3B, up 19%.
  • Azure and other cloud services: up 29% (28% constant currency), improving from a 26% run rate last quarter.
  • AI contributed ~3 points to Azure growth, boosted by increased GPU capacity and utilization.
  • Enterprise Mobility + Security seats: up 11% to 259M.

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Operator: Greetings, and welcome to the Microsoft Fiscal Year 2024 First Quarter Earnings Conference Call. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode. A question-and-answer session will follow the formal presentation. [Operator Instructions] As a reminder, this conference is being recorded. I would now like to turn the call over to your host, Brett Iversen, Vice President of Investor Relations. Mr. Iversen, please go ahead. Brett Iversen: Good afternoon, and thank you for joining us today. On the call with me are Satya Nadella, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer; Amy Hood, Chief Financial Officer; Alice Jolla, Chief Accounting Officer; and Keith Dolliver, Corporate Secretary and Deputy General Counsel. On the Microsoft Investor Relations website, you can find our earnings press release and financial summary slide deck, which is intended to supplement our prepared remarks during today's call, and provides the reconciliation of differences between GAAP and non-GAAP financial measures. More detailed outlook slides will be available on the Microsoft Investor Relations website when we provide outlook commentary on today's call. Microsoft, completed the acquisition of Activision Blizzard, on October 13, 2023. We will share more on the expected impact of the Activision acquisition during the outlook commentary portion of today's call. On this call we will discuss certain non-GAAP items. The non-GAAP financial measures provided should not be considered as a substitute

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