Microsoft Corporation Q1 FY2025 Earnings Call

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Microsoft Fiscal Q1 2025 Earnings Summary

Overall Performance

  • Revenue reached $65.6B, up 16% year-over-year, showing a strong start to FY25.
  • Earnings per share were $3.30, up 10% compared to Q1 FY24.
  • Microsoft Cloud revenue hit $38.9B, growing 22% and surpassing internal expectations.
  • AI business remains a major growth engine, expected to exceed a $10B annual revenue run rate in Q2—fastest growing business in company history.

Segment Highlights

Productivity & Business Processes

  • Revenue: $28.3B, up 12% (13% in constant currency).
  • M365 Commercial Cloud revenue rose 15%, driven by E5 upsell and M365 Copilot adoption.
  • M365 Consumer reached 84.4M subscribers, up 10% YoY.
  • LinkedIn revenue grew 10%, with significant video engagement expansion (weekly immersive video views up 6x QoQ).
  • Dynamics 365 revenue up 18%, continuing to take market share.

Intelligent Cloud

  • Revenue: $24.1B, up 20% (21% in constant currency).
  • Azure and other cloud services grew 33% (34% CC), including ~12 points from AI services.
  • Non-AI Azure growth decelerated slightly by ~1 point sequentially.
  • AI demand remains higher than capacity; power and datacenter supply constraints affected short-term growth pacing.

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Operator: Greetings, and welcome to the Microsoft Fiscal Year 2025 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. It is now my pleasure to introduce your host, Brett Iversen, Vice President of Investor Relations. 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. We have recast certain prior period amounts to reflect the FY '25 changes to the composition of our segments announced in August 2024. Additional details, including FY '23 and FY '24 recast segment revenue, operating income and product and service level revenue can be found in the financial statements filed on the Investor Relations website. More detailed outlook slides will also be available on the Microsoft Investor Relations website when we provide outlook commentary on today's call. On this call, w

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