Microsoft Corporation Q4 FY2020 Earnings Call
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Quarter Overview
- Q4 revenue reached $38 billion, up 13% year-over-year (15% in constant currency), driven by strong cloud demand and work/learn/play-from-home trends.
- Commercial Cloud revenue surpassed $50 billion for the fiscal year for the first time, growing 36% year-over-year.
- Operating income grew 8% (12% in constant currency), while EPS increased 7% (9% in constant currency).
- Microsoft saw record multi-million-dollar cloud agreements and strong long-term Azure contract growth, pushing commercial remaining performance obligations to $107 billion (up 23%).
Key Business Segment Highlights
Productivity and Business Processes
- Revenue: $11.8 billion, up 6% (8% in constant currency).
- Office 365 Commercial revenue: up 19% (22% in constant currency), driven by strong E5 upsell and security/voice component adoption.
- Office 365 Consumer subscribers: up 3 million QoQ to 42.7 million; revenue up 6% year-over-year.
- Dynamics 365 revenue: up 38% (40% CC); Dynamics revenue overall surpassed $3 billion for FY20.
- LinkedIn revenue: up 10% despite weak job market hitting Talent Solutions bookings.
Intelligent Cloud
- Revenue: $13.4 billion, up 17% (19% CC).
- Azure revenue: grew 47% (50% CC), consistent with prior quarter trends.
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