Microsoft Q4 Earnings Highlights: Revenue Beat, EPS Beat, Cloud Revenue Up 21% YoY, 'Ensuring We Lead The AI Era'

Technology giant Microsoft Corporation MSFT reported fourth-quarter financial results after the market close Tuesday.

Here are the key highlights.

What Happened: Microsoft reported fourth-quarter revenue of $64.7 billion, up 15% year-over-year. The revenue total beat a Street consensus estimate of $64.36 billion, according to data from Benzinga Pro.

The company reported earnings per share of $2.95 in the fourth quarter, beating a Street consensus estimate of $2.92.

Intelligent Cloud segment revenue was $28.5 billion, up 19% year-over-year. Within the segment, server products and cloud services revenue was up 21% year-over-year. Azure and other cloud services revenue posted year-over-year growth of 29% in the segment.

The Azure growth missed expectations, according to Reuters, sending Microsoft stock lower in after-hours trading Tuesday.

Revenue in the Productivity and Business Processes segment was $20.3 billion, up 11% year-over-year. Office Commercial products and cloud services revenue in the segment were up 12% year-over-year with Office 365 Commercial revenue growth of 13% year-over-year. Office Consumer products and cloud services revenue was up 3% year-over-year.

The company said Microsoft 365 Consumer subscribers grew to 82.5 million.

LinkedIn revenue was up 10% year-over-year in the fourth quarter.

The company's Dynamics products and clouds services revenue was up 16% year-over-year.

Revenue in the More Personal Computing segment revenue totaled $15.9 billion in the fourth quarter, up 14% year-over-year. The segment was led by Windows revenue, up 7% year-over-year, and Windows Commercial products and cloud services revenue growth of 11% year-over-year. Xbox content and services revenue was up 61% year-over-year in the segment thanks to the net impact of the Activision Blizzard acquisition.

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"Our strong performance this fiscal year speaks both to our innovation and to the trust customers continue to place in Microsoft," Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said.

"As a platform company, we are focused on meeting the mission-critical needs of our customers across our at-scale platforms today, while also ensuring we lead the AI era."

The company said it returned $8.4 billion to shareholders in the fourth quarter via share buybacks and dividends.

Microsoft reported record bookings and Microsoft Cloud quarterly revenue of $36.8 billion, up 21% year-over-year.

For the full fiscal year, Microsoft reported revenue of $245.1 billion, up 16% year-over-year. Full year earnings per share were $11.80, up 22% year-over-year.

What's Next: Microsoft will host a conference call and webcast that can be viewed below. The company said it will provide forward-looking guidance during the conference call.

MSFT Price Action: Microsoft shares are down 6% to $395.02 in after-hours trading Tuesday versus a 52-week trading range of $309.45 to $468.35.

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