Microsoft Corporation Q1 FY2026 Earnings Call

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Quarter Overview

  • Microsoft delivered a stronger-than-expected start to FY2026, driven by accelerating AI demand, surging cloud commitments, and broad adoption of Copilot across enterprise and consumer markets.
  • Total revenue reached $77.7 billion, up 18% year-over-year (17% in constant currency).
  • Operating income grew 24% year-over-year; EPS rose 23% to $4.13.
  • Microsoft Cloud revenue surpassed $49.1 billion, growing 26% year-over-year.
  • Commercial bookings grew 112% year-over-year, driven heavily by Azure commitments including OpenAI. (This quarter’s results excluded the additional $250 billion OpenAI commitment announced the day prior.)
  • Commercial RPO rose 51% to $392 billion, nearly doubling over two years. Weighted average duration remained ~2 years.

AI and Cloud Highlights

  • Microsoft announced a new definitive agreement with OpenAI, extending exclusive Azure rights and IP agreements through at least 2030–2032.
  • OpenAI has contracted an incremental $250 billion in Azure services.
  • Total AI datacenter capacity will increase more than 80% this year; total footprint expected to double over two years.
  • Microsoft deployed the first large-scale NVIDIA GB300 cluster and increased GPT‑4.1 and GPT‑5 token throughput by 30% per GPU.
  • Azure took market share again this quarter.

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Operator: Greetings, and welcome to the Microsoft Fiscal Year 2026 First Quarter Earnings Conference Call. [Operator Instructions] As a reminder, this conference is being recorded. It is now my pleasure to introduce Jonathan Neilson, Vice President of Investor Relations. Please go ahead. Jonathan Neilson: 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, we will provide our earnings press release and financial summary slide deck, which is intended to supplement our prepared remarks 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. On this call, we will discuss certain non-GAAP items. The non-GAAP financial measures provided should not be considered as a substitute for, or superior, to the measures of financial performance prepared in accordance with GAAP. They are included as additional clarifying items to aid investors in further understanding the company's first quarter performance in addition to the impact these items and events have on the financial results. All growth comparisons we make on the call today relate to the corresponding period of last year, unless otherwise noted.

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