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- Azure Growth: +48% YoY vs. +44.7% est. - CapEx: $39.4B vs. $46.6B est. MICROSOFT $MSFT Q1’27 EARNINGS HIGHLIGHTS 🔹 Revenue: $92.3B (Est. $90.69B) 🟢; +19% YoY 🔹 Adj. EPS: $4.89 (Est. $4.73) 🟢; +18% YoY 🔹 Oper Income: $45.9B (Est. $44.06B) 🟢; +21% YoY 🔹 Adj. Net Income: $36.4B (Est. $35.13B) 🟢 🔹 Azure: $33.2B (Est. $32.32B) 🟢; +48% YoY 🔹 Azure Growth ex-FX: +48% (Est. +45.2%) 🟢 🔹 Azure Growth: +48% YoY (Est. +44.7%) 🟢 🔹 Microsoft Cloud: $63.9B; +30% YoY 🔹 Commercial RPO: $677B (Est. $705.6B) 🔴 Financials: 🔹 CapEx: $39.4B (Est. $46.59B) 🟢 🔹 CapEx to Revenue: ~42.7% Key Updates: 🔹 OpenAI Impact: $207M net gain; $0.03 EPS impact Capital Return: 🔹 Returned $10.2B to shareholders via dividends & share repurchases CEO Commentary – Satya Nadella: 🔸 “By helping organizations build and own their own intelligence, and earning trust through agent safety and security, we are translating our innovation into growing adoption and real-world impact across every industry.” CFO Commentary – Amy Hood: 🔸 “Results exceeded expectations across revenue, operating income, and earnings per share.” Source. Wall St Engine

Microsoft ($MSFT) will reportedly offer voluntary buyouts to around 60,000 employees, according to Bloomberg, as it cuts costs and reorganises around AI. That is the number eligible—not the number expected to leave. Meanwhile, headcount stands at roughly 223,000, largely unchanged since 2022. Revenue has risen more than 500% since 2007. Two different timeframes. One striking shift in spending priorities. Microsoft is pouring billions into chips, data centres and AI infrastructure while keeping a tight grip on hiring elsewhere. This goes beyond AI automating individual tasks. The infrastructure race is also changing where companies allocate their next dollar. Revenue growth once fuelled workforce expansion. In the AI era, more of that money is going into compute. Source: Global Markets Investor, CNBC, Bloomberg

$META and $MSFT are cutting internal Claude use as AI bills climb with Microsoft slashing per employee budgets from $100K to $10K a month and Meta pushing Muse Code even as Claude spend stays massive. More companies are going to start treating tokens like a real budget which keeps AI usage growing but puts a lot more pressure on OpenAI and Anthropic pricing. Source: Shay Boloor @StockSavvyShay

Microsoft plans to unveil Maia 300 as soon as September and ultimately wants capacity for 1M+ chips. The goal is to reduce reliance on Nvidia and win major Azure customers like Anthropic. Its current Maia 200 chips are already 30%-40% cheaper to operate than cutting-edge Nvidia chips for OpenAI and Microsoft models. Source: The Information, Wall St Engine

The company just set a new record for the largest single-day-market-value increase in history. Source: Yahoo Finance

Microsoft beat on the top line and saw a gain from its Anthropic stake. The software company’s Azure cloud business now exceeds $100 billion. Customers other than large model builders helped to expand Microsoft’s backlog. Meta shares dropped after the company reported second-quarter earnings that missed on earnings per share. The company’s revenue forecast also came in light. Meta narrowed its guidance for capital expenditures, keeping the top end of the range. Source: Stocktwits

Microsoft delivered impressive headline numbers, with revenue jumping 17% to $81.3 billion and Azure cloud growth accelerating to 39%, driven by fierce AI demand. The Intelligent Cloud segment is now a massive engine, crossing $32.9 billion in sales. However, capital expenditure nearly doubled to ~$30 billion, raising fears about cash burn. Second, the massive 60% profit jump can be misleading as it includes a $7.6 billion paper gain from the OpenAI investment. Stripping that out, real profit growth was much lower, leaving investors worried that the costs of the AI boom are rising faster than the immediate cash returns. 🔹 EPS: $4.14 vs. $3.91 est. ✅ 🔹 Revenue: $81.27B vs. $80.31B est. ✅ Key takeaways: 🔸 Intelligent Cloud rev: +29% YoY 🔸 Productivity rev: +16% YoY 🔸 Computing rev: -3% YoY 🔸 MSFT Cloud rev: +26% YoY 🔸 Azure/Cloud: +39% YoY Source: KaizenInvestor @Kaizen_Investor Barchart

$AMZN is building AI demand without that dependence which makes AWS growth cleaner while the other two look like a leveraged bet on OpenAI. Source: Shay Boloor @StockSavvyShay FT