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Financial Report Preview: Microsoft's cloud business moves frequently, is it expected to return to high-speed growth?
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stocks saw a wave of gains following Biden's inauguration as president on Jan. 20. Microsoft rose by more than 3% and Google rose by more than 5% on the same day. In addition to the stimulation of the news, Microsoft will also announce its financial report for the second quarter of fiscal year 2021 (as of December 30, 2020) on Tuesday, January 26th, after the U.S. stock market closed (Wednesday morning, January 27th, Beijing time). After the main financial indicators in the previous quarter exceeded market expectations, is Microsoft's performance expected to exceed market expectations in this quarter? Can the growth rate of Azure cloud business return to high-speed growth?</p><p>According to the latest Bloomberg consensus<b>Microsoft's revenue growth rate and gross profit margin decreased in Q2 fiscal quarter of 2021</b>。 Specifically:</p><p><ul><li>Estimated revenue of $40.201 billion, up 8.9% year-over-year;</li><li>Adjusted net income was US$12.441 billion, up 6.8% year-on-year;</li><li>Adjusted earnings of $1.64 per share, up 8.3% year over year.</li></ul><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/b2d7159c7dba398a5fd8769cebc36a09\" tg-width=\"1918\" tg-height=\"428\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"></p><p><b>Fiscal Q1 2021 Results Review:</b></p><p>Microsoft's performance in Q1 was quite satisfactory, with revenue, net profit and segment revenue of various departments higher than market expectations. In terms of revenue, Microsoft's revenue in Q1 quarter was USD 37.154 billion, a year-on-year increase of 12.4%, once again exceeding Wall Street's expectations; Adjusted net profit was US$13.794 billion, up 30.7% year-on-year; Adjusted earnings per share of $1.81, up 30.4% year-over-year and at a new 2020 high; In addition, Microsoft's gross profit margin also reached a record high of 70.4%.</p><p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/7757067fef705b48f29184ebc87f1f5f\" tg-width=\"623\" tg-height=\"404\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"></p><p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/2535fc74ed671cecd935817f1912a8c8\" tg-width=\"570\" tg-height=\"319\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"></p><p>However, due to the slowdown of revenue growth and the similar growth rate of smart cloud and Azure business as the previous quarter, it failed to regain the high growth of previous quarters. Under the combined influence, Microsoft turned from an increase of 1% to a fall after the release of the financial report, and finally closed down 1.66%.</p><p>In terms of business,</p><p><ul><li>Microsoft including Azure, Enterprise Services, GitHub, and server products such as SQL Server and Windows Server<b>Intelligent Cloud Business</b>It contributed revenue of $12.99 billion, up 20% year-over-year and beat the average analyst estimate of $12.73 billion.</li><li>Including Dynamics, LinkedIn, and Office suites<b>Productivity and Business Process Business</b>It generated revenue of $12.32 billion, up 11% year over year and above the average analyst estimate of $11.78 billion.</li><li>As part of the Office 365 collaboration app package, Teams has now grown to 115 million daily active users, up from 75 million in April. Including Search Ads, Surface, Windows and Xbox<b>Personal computer business</b>Revenue was $11.85 billion, up 6% year over year and above the average analyst estimate of $11.18 billion.</li><li>Licensing revenue from Windows device makers fell 5% year-over-year in the quarter, and licensing revenue from commercial devices in particular fell about 22% year-over-year, compared with a 4% drop in the previous quarter, the worst performance in more than five years.</li></ul>Analysts generally believe that among them, benefiting from the telecommuting and stay-at-home economy brought by the COVID-19 epidemic, Microsoft's productivity, cloud computing, games and other businesses have increased significantly year-on-year, but the traditional Office software licensing and upgrade revenue will be hit by Microsoft's no longer supporting the old version, and LinkedIn and search advertising will also be negatively affected by the slowdown of employment and economic growth.</p><p><b>What factors to keep an eye on in fiscal Q2 2021</b></p><p>Benefiting from the telecommuting and stay-at-home economy brought by the COVID-19 pandemic, Microsoft's productivity, cloud computing and gaming businesses increased significantly year-on-year. However, looking back at the company's business in various market segments in the past two years, most of the business has entered a mature stage. Excluding the occasional factor of the epidemic, the game business has declined significantly since Q4 fiscal quarter of 2019. Therefore, the market generally believes that Azure Cloud is the main driver of the company's growth.</p><p>Actually,<b>Microsoft's actions in the fourth quarter also mainly focused on Azure business.</b>First, Microsoft cut into the field of autonomous driving. On January 19, Microsoft announced that it had cooperated with General Motors (GM) and GM's autonomous driving startup Cruise to promote the commercialization of autonomous vehicles. Cruise will leverage Microsoft's cloud computing platform Azure to enable large-scale commercialization of its autonomous vehicle solutions. GM is also using Azure as its preferred public cloud provider. Microsoft's cloud deal with Cruise could generate substantial revenue for Azure.</p><p>Secondly, Microsoft has another heavy news in the fourth quarter, that is, the company is likely to \"develop its own chips\". Bloomberg reported that Microsoft is designing processor chips for cloud service data centers based on Arm architecture. The company is also considering equipping the Surface series of personal computers with the company's own chips.</p><p>What does it mean for a software company to start developing hardware? We know that Microsoft has relied on the Wintel Alliance for the past few decades, and the Wintel Alliance has relied on the X86 ecosystem. However, with the rise of ARM in the mobile space, X86 has no advantage in some areas where compatibility is not required. ARM has obvious advantages in computing cost and power consumption, and cloud computing vendors have switched to ARM solutions. At the practical level, with TSMC's process surpassing Intel. The improvement of the performance of ARM's public version processor architecture, and ARM's authorization to add TSMC manufacturing, have greatly lowered the threshold of chip manufacturing. Like Apple, it may be difficult to design its own high-performance microarchitecture, but it is not difficult to use the architecture and core building blocks of ARM public version. In addition, it can reduce its dependence on Intel, better adapt to its own products, improve efficiency, reduce costs, and build an ecosystem of cloud integration and software and hardware collaboration.</p><p>It cannot be overlooked that cloud computing is a huge market. Carlyle's previous report showed that cloud computing spending by large companies will grow at an average compound annual growth rate of 17.5%, and the cloud computing market size is expected to grow from the current $371.4 billion to $832.1 billion by 2025. As of Q3 2020 (fiscal Q1 2021), Azure's market share was 19%, second only to Amazon AWS's 32%.</p><p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/53109ad6219e578e70664555c23fa256\" tg-width=\"528\" tg-height=\"297\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\">However, it is worth noting that,<b>Microsoft's latest fiscal quarter, Azure grew by 48% year-on-year, and its year-on-year growth rate was below 50% for two consecutive quarters. Investors need to pay attention to whether Azure can resume high-speed growth in the latest fiscal quarter.</b></p><p><b>Is cloud gaming worth looking forward to?</b></p><p>Benefiting from the COVID-19 pandemic, Microsoft's gaming business revenue maintained positive growth for two consecutive quarters, including a year-on-year increase of 64% in Q4 2020 and a year-on-year increase of 22% in Q1 2021. From the past fiscal quarter, Microsoft's game business has declined significantly since Q4 fiscal quarter of 2019. However, First Shanghai Finance said that with the progress of chip performance and the development of 5G and cloud computing technology, cloud games have become possible.</p><p>First Shanghai Finance said: \"As a leading cloud service vendor, Microsoft has strong strength in the field of cloud infrastructure and cloud computing. At the same time, Microsoft also has Xbox game ecology that other cloud service vendors such as Google don't have. We believe that Microsoft has a high-quality foundation in cloud game services compared with other competitors. In the future, cloud games may bring new revenue growth points to the company, and investors can pay attention to relevant progress.\"</p>","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>Financial Report Preview: Microsoft's cloud business moves frequently, is it expected to return to high-speed growth?</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; line-height:1.5; color:#999; background:transparent; }\n.wrapper{ overflow:hidden;word-break:break-all;padding:10px; }\nh1,h2{ font-weight:normal; line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:.6em; }\nh3,h4,h5,h6{ line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:1em; }\nh1{ font-size:24px; }\nh2{ font-size:20px; }\nh3{ font-size:18px; }\nh4{ font-size:16px; }\nh5{ font-size:14px; }\nh6{ font-size:12px; }\np,ul,ol,blockquote,dl,table{ margin:1.2em 0; }\nul,ol{ margin-left:2em; }\nul{ list-style:disc; }\nol{ list-style:decimal; }\nli,li p{ margin:10px 0;}\nimg{ max-width:100%;display:block;margin:0 auto 1em; }\nblockquote{ color:#B5B2B1; border-left:3px solid #aaa; padding:1em; }\nstrong,b{font-weight:bold;}\nem,i{font-style:italic;}\ntable{ width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:1px;margin:1em 0;font-size:.9em; }\nth,td{ padding:5px;text-align:left;border:1px solid #aaa; }\nth{ font-weight:bold;background:#5d5d5d; }\n.symbol-link{font-weight:bold;}\n/* header{ border-bottom:1px solid #494756; } */\n.title{ margin:0 0 8px;line-height:1.3;color:#ddd; }\n.meta {color:#5e5c6d;font-size:13px;margin:0 0 .5em; }\na{text-decoration:none; color:#2a4b87;}\n.meta .head { display: inline-block; overflow: hidden}\n.head .h-thumb { width: 30px; height: 30px; margin: 0; padding: 0; border-radius: 50%; float: left;}\n.head .h-content { margin: 0; padding: 0 0 0 9px; float: left;}\n.head .h-name {font-size: 13px; color: #eee; margin: 0;}\n.head .h-time {font-size: 12.5px; color: #7E829C; margin: 0;}\n.small {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.9); -webkit-transform: scale(0.9); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.smaller {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.8); -webkit-transform: scale(0.8); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.bt-text {font-size: 12px;margin: 1.5em 0 0 0}\n.bt-text p {margin: 0}\n</style>\n</head>\n<body>\n<div class=\"wrapper\">\n<header>\n<h2 class=\"title\">\nFinancial Report Preview: Microsoft's cloud business moves frequently, is it expected to return to high-speed growth?\n</h2>\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n<a class=\"head\" href=\"https://laohu8.com/wemedia/102\">\n\n<div class=\"h-thumb\" style=\"background-image:url(https://static.tigerbbs.com/8274c5b9d4c2852bfb1c4d6ce16c68ba);background-size:cover;\"></div>\n\n<div class=\"h-content\">\n<p class=\"h-name\">老虎资讯综合 </p>\n<p class=\"h-time smaller\">2021-01-25 17:51</p>\n</div>\n</a>\n</h4>\n</header>\n<article>\n<p>Big-cap tech stocks saw a wave of gains following Biden's inauguration as president on Jan. 20. Microsoft rose by more than 3% and Google rose by more than 5% on the same day. In addition to the stimulation of the news, Microsoft will also announce its financial report for the second quarter of fiscal year 2021 (as of December 30, 2020) on Tuesday, January 26th, after the U.S. stock market closed (Wednesday morning, January 27th, Beijing time). After the main financial indicators in the previous quarter exceeded market expectations, is Microsoft's performance expected to exceed market expectations in this quarter? Can the growth rate of Azure cloud business return to high-speed growth?</p><p>According to the latest Bloomberg consensus<b>Microsoft's revenue growth rate and gross profit margin decreased in Q2 fiscal quarter of 2021</b>。 Specifically:</p><p><ul><li>Estimated revenue of $40.201 billion, up 8.9% year-over-year;</li><li>Adjusted net income was US$12.441 billion, up 6.8% year-on-year;</li><li>Adjusted earnings of $1.64 per share, up 8.3% year over year.</li></ul><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/b2d7159c7dba398a5fd8769cebc36a09\" tg-width=\"1918\" tg-height=\"428\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"></p><p><b>Fiscal Q1 2021 Results Review:</b></p><p>Microsoft's performance in Q1 was quite satisfactory, with revenue, net profit and segment revenue of various departments higher than market expectations. In terms of revenue, Microsoft's revenue in Q1 quarter was USD 37.154 billion, a year-on-year increase of 12.4%, once again exceeding Wall Street's expectations; Adjusted net profit was US$13.794 billion, up 30.7% year-on-year; Adjusted earnings per share of $1.81, up 30.4% year-over-year and at a new 2020 high; In addition, Microsoft's gross profit margin also reached a record high of 70.4%.</p><p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/7757067fef705b48f29184ebc87f1f5f\" tg-width=\"623\" tg-height=\"404\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"></p><p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/2535fc74ed671cecd935817f1912a8c8\" tg-width=\"570\" tg-height=\"319\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"></p><p>However, due to the slowdown of revenue growth and the similar growth rate of smart cloud and Azure business as the previous quarter, it failed to regain the high growth of previous quarters. Under the combined influence, Microsoft turned from an increase of 1% to a fall after the release of the financial report, and finally closed down 1.66%.</p><p>In terms of business,</p><p><ul><li>Microsoft including Azure, Enterprise Services, GitHub, and server products such as SQL Server and Windows Server<b>Intelligent Cloud Business</b>It contributed revenue of $12.99 billion, up 20% year-over-year and beat the average analyst estimate of $12.73 billion.</li><li>Including Dynamics, LinkedIn, and Office suites<b>Productivity and Business Process Business</b>It generated revenue of $12.32 billion, up 11% year over year and above the average analyst estimate of $11.78 billion.</li><li>As part of the Office 365 collaboration app package, Teams has now grown to 115 million daily active users, up from 75 million in April. Including Search Ads, Surface, Windows and Xbox<b>Personal computer business</b>Revenue was $11.85 billion, up 6% year over year and above the average analyst estimate of $11.18 billion.</li><li>Licensing revenue from Windows device makers fell 5% year-over-year in the quarter, and licensing revenue from commercial devices in particular fell about 22% year-over-year, compared with a 4% drop in the previous quarter, the worst performance in more than five years.</li></ul>Analysts generally believe that among them, benefiting from the telecommuting and stay-at-home economy brought by the COVID-19 epidemic, Microsoft's productivity, cloud computing, games and other businesses have increased significantly year-on-year, but the traditional Office software licensing and upgrade revenue will be hit by Microsoft's no longer supporting the old version, and LinkedIn and search advertising will also be negatively affected by the slowdown of employment and economic growth.</p><p><b>What factors to keep an eye on in fiscal Q2 2021</b></p><p>Benefiting from the telecommuting and stay-at-home economy brought by the COVID-19 pandemic, Microsoft's productivity, cloud computing and gaming businesses increased significantly year-on-year. However, looking back at the company's business in various market segments in the past two years, most of the business has entered a mature stage. Excluding the occasional factor of the epidemic, the game business has declined significantly since Q4 fiscal quarter of 2019. Therefore, the market generally believes that Azure Cloud is the main driver of the company's growth.</p><p>Actually,<b>Microsoft's actions in the fourth quarter also mainly focused on Azure business.</b>First, Microsoft cut into the field of autonomous driving. On January 19, Microsoft announced that it had cooperated with General Motors (GM) and GM's autonomous driving startup Cruise to promote the commercialization of autonomous vehicles. Cruise will leverage Microsoft's cloud computing platform Azure to enable large-scale commercialization of its autonomous vehicle solutions. GM is also using Azure as its preferred public cloud provider. Microsoft's cloud deal with Cruise could generate substantial revenue for Azure.</p><p>Secondly, Microsoft has another heavy news in the fourth quarter, that is, the company is likely to \"develop its own chips\". Bloomberg reported that Microsoft is designing processor chips for cloud service data centers based on Arm architecture. The company is also considering equipping the Surface series of personal computers with the company's own chips.</p><p>What does it mean for a software company to start developing hardware? We know that Microsoft has relied on the Wintel Alliance for the past few decades, and the Wintel Alliance has relied on the X86 ecosystem. However, with the rise of ARM in the mobile space, X86 has no advantage in some areas where compatibility is not required. ARM has obvious advantages in computing cost and power consumption, and cloud computing vendors have switched to ARM solutions. At the practical level, with TSMC's process surpassing Intel. The improvement of the performance of ARM's public version processor architecture, and ARM's authorization to add TSMC manufacturing, have greatly lowered the threshold of chip manufacturing. Like Apple, it may be difficult to design its own high-performance microarchitecture, but it is not difficult to use the architecture and core building blocks of ARM public version. In addition, it can reduce its dependence on Intel, better adapt to its own products, improve efficiency, reduce costs, and build an ecosystem of cloud integration and software and hardware collaboration.</p><p>It cannot be overlooked that cloud computing is a huge market. Carlyle's previous report showed that cloud computing spending by large companies will grow at an average compound annual growth rate of 17.5%, and the cloud computing market size is expected to grow from the current $371.4 billion to $832.1 billion by 2025. As of Q3 2020 (fiscal Q1 2021), Azure's market share was 19%, second only to Amazon AWS's 32%.</p><p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/53109ad6219e578e70664555c23fa256\" tg-width=\"528\" tg-height=\"297\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\">However, it is worth noting that,<b>Microsoft's latest fiscal quarter, Azure grew by 48% year-on-year, and its year-on-year growth rate was below 50% for two consecutive quarters. Investors need to pay attention to whether Azure can resume high-speed growth in the latest fiscal quarter.</b></p><p><b>Is cloud gaming worth looking forward to?</b></p><p>Benefiting from the COVID-19 pandemic, Microsoft's gaming business revenue maintained positive growth for two consecutive quarters, including a year-on-year increase of 64% in Q4 2020 and a year-on-year increase of 22% in Q1 2021. From the past fiscal quarter, Microsoft's game business has declined significantly since Q4 fiscal quarter of 2019. However, First Shanghai Finance said that with the progress of chip performance and the development of 5G and cloud computing technology, cloud games have become possible.</p><p>First Shanghai Finance said: \"As a leading cloud service vendor, Microsoft has strong strength in the field of cloud infrastructure and cloud computing. At the same time, Microsoft also has Xbox game ecology that other cloud service vendors such as Google don't have. We believe that Microsoft has a high-quality foundation in cloud game services compared with other competitors. 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