Microsoft Corporation Q3 FY2020 Earnings Call

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Overview

  • Microsoft delivered double-digit top- and bottom-line growth, supported mainly by cloud strength and surging COVID-19-related demand.
  • Revenue was $35 billion, up 15% year-over-year (16% in constant currency).
  • Operating income rose 25% year-over-year; EPS reached $1.40, up 23%.
  • COVID-19 drove massive increases in remote work, learning, and gaming usage, accelerating digital transformation “two years in two months.”

Key Business Segment Performance

Productivity and Business Processes

  • Revenue: $11.7 billion, up 15% year-over-year.
  • Office 365 Commercial: Revenue grew 25%, with paid seats up 20% to 258 million.
  • Office 365 Consumer: Subscribers reached 39.6 million, growing from the prior quarter’s 37.2 million.
  • Dynamics 365: Revenue up 47%, driven by cloud-based business applications and new remote-work-driven scenarios.
  • LinkedIn: Revenue up 21% but impacted by reductions in hiring demand and advertising spend in late March.

Intelligent Cloud

  • Revenue: $12.3 billion, up 27% year-over-year.
  • Azure: Revenue grew 59%, supported by consumption spikes for remote work, Teams, Windows Virtual Desktop, and Power Platform.
  • Server products/on-premises: Revenue grew 11% due to hybrid demand and Windows Server 2008 end-of-support cycle.

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Operator: Greetings, and welcome to the Microsoft Fiscal Year 2020 Third Quarter Earnings Conference Call. [Operator Instructions]. As a reminder, this conference is being recorded. I would now like to turn the conference over to your host, Mr. Mike Spencer, General Manager of Investor Relations for Microsoft. Thank you. You may begin. Michael Spencer: Good afternoon, and thank you for joining us today. On the call with me are Satya Nadella, Chief Executive Officer; Amy Hood, Chief Financial Officer; Frank Brod, Chief Accounting Officer; and Keith Dolliver, 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 a reconciliation of differences between GAAP and non-GAAP financial measures. Unless otherwise specified, we will refer to non-GAAP metrics on the call. 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 third 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 last year, unless otherwise noted. We also provide growth rates in constant currency

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