Microsoft
#84
#87
Microsoft board hikes dividend 11%, OKs $40 billion in buybacks
https://finance.yahoo.com/m/7730ad37...ard-hikes.html
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#1 STUNNA (09-18-2019)
#90
They are making enough money because people have no choice and they will continue to make plenty of money on it. There is zero motivation to fix it.
https://www.thenation.com/article/am...-and-its-huge/
"Firms like Microsoft led in the innovation in creating new barriers to entry. How could one compete with a browser provided at a zero price? New forms of predation were created, and pre-emptive mergers—buying cheap potential competitors before they could be a competitive threat and before an acquisition would receive antitrust scrutiny—became the norm. Even after Microsoft’s anti-competitive practices were barred, their legacy of market concentration continued."
https://www.thenation.com/article/am...-and-its-huge/
"Firms like Microsoft led in the innovation in creating new barriers to entry. How could one compete with a browser provided at a zero price? New forms of predation were created, and pre-emptive mergers—buying cheap potential competitors before they could be a competitive threat and before an acquisition would receive antitrust scrutiny—became the norm. Even after Microsoft’s anti-competitive practices were barred, their legacy of market concentration continued."
Last edited by anoop; 10-05-2019 at 01:27 AM.
#91
MSFT: $144.50 : +$3.77 (+2.68%)
After hours: 7:38PM EDT
New all time high
https://www.wsj.com/articles/pentago...on-11572045221
After hours: 7:38PM EDT
New all time high
https://www.wsj.com/articles/pentago...on-11572045221
Pentagon Picks Microsoft for JEDI Cloud-Computing Contract Over Amazon
Oct. 25, 2019
The Pentagon on Friday awarded Microsoft Corp. a hotly contested and controversial contract to build a large cloud-computing system for the U.S. military.
The so-called JEDI contract could be worth up to $10 billion to Microsoft over a 10-year period if the Pentagon exercises all options under the deal.
The only other remaining finalist was Amazon.com Inc. Several other firms were eliminated from the bidding earlier.
Defense Secretary Mark Esper this week said he was withdrawing from reviewing the contract to avoid the appearance of a conflict of interest. His son worked for one of the original bidders that was no longer in the running for the deal.
Oct. 25, 2019
The Pentagon on Friday awarded Microsoft Corp. a hotly contested and controversial contract to build a large cloud-computing system for the U.S. military.
The so-called JEDI contract could be worth up to $10 billion to Microsoft over a 10-year period if the Pentagon exercises all options under the deal.
The only other remaining finalist was Amazon.com Inc. Several other firms were eliminated from the bidding earlier.
Defense Secretary Mark Esper this week said he was withdrawing from reviewing the contract to avoid the appearance of a conflict of interest. His son worked for one of the original bidders that was no longer in the running for the deal.
#96
^^^^ 4 days later: $188.70 !!!!! This shit is too easy
And someone is betting huge on another 6.3% rise (over $200) by mid-June...
https://www.forbes.com/sites/kramerm.../#5189ad58b634
That dude who bought the June $195 contracts is probably going to make at least $9M if not $18M, but the dude who bought the April $190 contracts probably stands to make more percentage wise....
And someone is betting huge on another 6.3% rise (over $200) by mid-June...
https://www.forbes.com/sites/kramerm.../#5189ad58b634
That dude who bought the June $195 contracts is probably going to make at least $9M if not $18M, but the dude who bought the April $190 contracts probably stands to make more percentage wise....
Last edited by nfnsquared; 02-10-2020 at 10:46 PM.
#97
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/update-2-on-microsoft-cloud-services-continuity/
- We have seen a 775 percent increase of our cloud services in regions that have enforced social distancing or shelter in place orders.
- We have seen a very significant spike in Teams usage, and now have more than 44 million daily users. Those users generated over 900 million meeting and calling minutes on Teams daily in a single week. You can read more about Teams data here.
- Windows Virtual Desktop usage has grown more than 3x.
- Government use of public Power BI to share COVID-19 dashboards with citizens has surged by 42 percent in a week.
#100
Closing a lot of retail stores, stock still doing relatively ok though
https://www.digitaltrends.com/news/m...ysical-stores/
https://www.digitaltrends.com/news/m...ysical-stores/
#101
Closing a lot of retail stores, stock still doing relatively ok though
https://www.digitaltrends.com/news/m...ysical-stores/
https://www.digitaltrends.com/news/m...ysical-stores/
#103
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/micro...132008488.html
Microsoft blows past Wall Street estimates, earnings boosted by cloud revenue
Microsoft (MSFT) reported quarterly earnings on Wednesday that exceeded Wall Street’s expectations, as the still-raging coronavirus outbreak proved no match for the tech giant’s booming cloud computing business.
However, the company’s stock — one of a clutch of high-flying tech stocks that pushed Microsoft’s market cap well over $1 trillion — fell by nearly 3% in after-hours trading.
Here are the most important fiscal Q4 2020 numbers from the report compared to what analysts were expecting as compiled by Bloomberg:
Revenue: $38 billion vs. $35.5 billion expected.
Earnings per share: $1.46 vs. $1.36 expected.
Intelligent Cloud: $13.4 billion vs. $13.1 billion expected.
More Personal Computing: $12.9 billion vs. $11.5 billion expected.
The story of Microsoft’s growth over the past several years has been its Intelligent Cloud business, which includes its powerful Azure platform. In fiscal Q4 2020, Microsoft reported $13.4 billion in revenue from Intelligent Cloud, a 17% increase over the same quarter last year.
“The last five months have made it clear that tech intensity is the key to business resilience. Organizations that build their own digital capability will recover faster and emerge from this crisis stronger,” said Satya Nadella, Microsoft’s CEO.
The company doesn’t break out its Azure revenue, but reported 47% growth for the cloud platform.
Microsoft’s Productivity and Business Processes unit, which includes its commercial and consumer Office 365 businesses and LinkedIn, grew 6% to $11.8 billion.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, Microsoft’s gaming business saw robust growth on work-from-home demand. The company saw growth of 1.3 billion, or 64%, with Xbox hardware revenue jumping 49%. Microsoft is set to launch a new console, the Xbox Series X, in November, which would normally mean slower sales of hardware at this point in the current Xbox One cycle.
While Microsoft’s growth has been impressive, BMO Capital Markets analyst Keith Bachman says the coming quarters will offer tough margin comparisons between fiscal year 2020 and fiscal year 2021.
According to Bachman, end-of-support for Microsoft’s Windows Server and Windows 7 helped push growth in the company’s Intelligent Cloud and More Personal Computing segments. That benefit, however, should drop off in fiscal Q4 2020.
Still, he says that Microsoft is well positioned for the next five years, despite trading at 1.15 times the S&P 500 based on free cash flow valuation.
However, the company’s stock — one of a clutch of high-flying tech stocks that pushed Microsoft’s market cap well over $1 trillion — fell by nearly 3% in after-hours trading.
Here are the most important fiscal Q4 2020 numbers from the report compared to what analysts were expecting as compiled by Bloomberg:
Revenue: $38 billion vs. $35.5 billion expected.
Earnings per share: $1.46 vs. $1.36 expected.
Intelligent Cloud: $13.4 billion vs. $13.1 billion expected.
More Personal Computing: $12.9 billion vs. $11.5 billion expected.
The story of Microsoft’s growth over the past several years has been its Intelligent Cloud business, which includes its powerful Azure platform. In fiscal Q4 2020, Microsoft reported $13.4 billion in revenue from Intelligent Cloud, a 17% increase over the same quarter last year.
“The last five months have made it clear that tech intensity is the key to business resilience. Organizations that build their own digital capability will recover faster and emerge from this crisis stronger,” said Satya Nadella, Microsoft’s CEO.
The company doesn’t break out its Azure revenue, but reported 47% growth for the cloud platform.
Microsoft’s Productivity and Business Processes unit, which includes its commercial and consumer Office 365 businesses and LinkedIn, grew 6% to $11.8 billion.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, Microsoft’s gaming business saw robust growth on work-from-home demand. The company saw growth of 1.3 billion, or 64%, with Xbox hardware revenue jumping 49%. Microsoft is set to launch a new console, the Xbox Series X, in November, which would normally mean slower sales of hardware at this point in the current Xbox One cycle.
While Microsoft’s growth has been impressive, BMO Capital Markets analyst Keith Bachman says the coming quarters will offer tough margin comparisons between fiscal year 2020 and fiscal year 2021.
According to Bachman, end-of-support for Microsoft’s Windows Server and Windows 7 helped push growth in the company’s Intelligent Cloud and More Personal Computing segments. That benefit, however, should drop off in fiscal Q4 2020.
Still, he says that Microsoft is well positioned for the next five years, despite trading at 1.15 times the S&P 500 based on free cash flow valuation.
#104
https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-t...ok-11596219920
Microsoft in Talks to Acquire TikTok, as U.S. Considers Banning the App
July 31, 2020
Microsoft Corp. is in talks to acquire the U.S. operations of TikTok, the Chinese-owned video app, according to people familiar with the matter, as President Trump said on Friday that he was considering taking steps that would effectively ban the app from the U.S.
A sale to Microsoft, likely for billions of dollars, would be a win for both TikTok and Bytedance, where executives had feared that the U.S. government would force device makers to take TikTok out of their app stores, according to another person familiar with the matter.
News of the talks, earlier reported by Fox Business, came as the U.S. was concluding a security review that was expected to recommend a divestiture of TikTok by its Chinese owner, Beijing-based Bytedance Ltd.
“We’re looking at TikTok. We may be banning TikTok,” Mr. Trump told reporters as he prepared to leave on a trip to Florida. “We may be doing some other things, there are a couple of options. But a lot of things are happening. So we’ll see what happens. We are looking at a lot of alternatives with respect to TikTok.”
Microsoft didn’t immediately return calls for comment.
For the Trump administration, an acquisition of TikTok would also eliminate potential legal challenges—and public backlash—should the wildly popular app be forced off of millions of American smartphones.
U.S. officials have expressed concerns that TikTok could pass on the data it collects from Americans streaming videos to China’s authoritarian government. TikTok has said it would never do so.
In a statement posted online this week, TikTok CEO Kevin Mayer, who was hired away from Walt Disney Co. earlier this year, said the company was committed to transparency.
“TikTok has become the latest target, but we are not the enemy,” he said.
A person familiar with the matter said earlier that U.S. officials had ordered Bytedance to divest its ownership.
The app known for its catchy dancing and lip-syncing videos has soared in popularity this year amid the pandemic. About 315 million users downloaded TikTok in the first quarter of the year, the most downloads ever for an app in a single quarter, according to research firm Sensor Tower, bringing its total to more than 2.2 billion world-wide.
In addition to concerns that TikTok could collect data on Americans, U.S. officials have been concerned that the app could be used to spread Chinese propaganda and that the platform’s moderators could be censoring content to appease Beijing.
The review of TikTok has centered around ByteDance’s 2017 acquisition of a similar video-sharing platform called Musical.ly, a Shanghai-based platform that had built a strong U.S. user base. After the acquisition, Musical.ly’s platform was discontinued, and users who wanted to share videos could continue to do so on TikTok’s platform.
ByteDance, whose secondary shares have valued the firm at $150 billion in recent weeks, counts big-name U.S. investors such as Coatue Management and Sequoia Capital among its backers.
The Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S. began its probe into TikTok last year, amid concerns from members of Congress and others about the data it might be collecting.
The investigation into TikTok is taking place as the national security review panel has increasingly focused on deals that put U.S. citizens and their privacy at risk, a focus that Congress ordered in a 2018 law.
Under the new law, regulators will investigate deals involving foreign money if that business has access to data on more than one million people, including certain genetic and biometric data, financial data and health data. The rules also apply to investments in U.S. businesses that track users’ locations or target U.S. military or national security personnel.
The Treasury-led Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S., or Cfius, is a panel of federal agencies that reviews deals involving foreign money to ensure they don’t put the country’s national security at risk. The panel has the power to review deals that involve U.S. companies, such as the 2017 acquisition.
Earlier this year, Mr. Trump ordered another Chinese company to sell its stake in a Maryland property management software firm, a platform that hotels and casinos use to enable guests to check into rooms using smartphones. That order marked the sixth time a U.S. president has either blocked a deal or ordered a corporate selloff since Congress authorized the power to intervene in 1988.
July 31, 2020
Microsoft Corp. is in talks to acquire the U.S. operations of TikTok, the Chinese-owned video app, according to people familiar with the matter, as President Trump said on Friday that he was considering taking steps that would effectively ban the app from the U.S.
A sale to Microsoft, likely for billions of dollars, would be a win for both TikTok and Bytedance, where executives had feared that the U.S. government would force device makers to take TikTok out of their app stores, according to another person familiar with the matter.
News of the talks, earlier reported by Fox Business, came as the U.S. was concluding a security review that was expected to recommend a divestiture of TikTok by its Chinese owner, Beijing-based Bytedance Ltd.
“We’re looking at TikTok. We may be banning TikTok,” Mr. Trump told reporters as he prepared to leave on a trip to Florida. “We may be doing some other things, there are a couple of options. But a lot of things are happening. So we’ll see what happens. We are looking at a lot of alternatives with respect to TikTok.”
Microsoft didn’t immediately return calls for comment.
For the Trump administration, an acquisition of TikTok would also eliminate potential legal challenges—and public backlash—should the wildly popular app be forced off of millions of American smartphones.
U.S. officials have expressed concerns that TikTok could pass on the data it collects from Americans streaming videos to China’s authoritarian government. TikTok has said it would never do so.
In a statement posted online this week, TikTok CEO Kevin Mayer, who was hired away from Walt Disney Co. earlier this year, said the company was committed to transparency.
“TikTok has become the latest target, but we are not the enemy,” he said.
A person familiar with the matter said earlier that U.S. officials had ordered Bytedance to divest its ownership.
The app known for its catchy dancing and lip-syncing videos has soared in popularity this year amid the pandemic. About 315 million users downloaded TikTok in the first quarter of the year, the most downloads ever for an app in a single quarter, according to research firm Sensor Tower, bringing its total to more than 2.2 billion world-wide.
In addition to concerns that TikTok could collect data on Americans, U.S. officials have been concerned that the app could be used to spread Chinese propaganda and that the platform’s moderators could be censoring content to appease Beijing.
The review of TikTok has centered around ByteDance’s 2017 acquisition of a similar video-sharing platform called Musical.ly, a Shanghai-based platform that had built a strong U.S. user base. After the acquisition, Musical.ly’s platform was discontinued, and users who wanted to share videos could continue to do so on TikTok’s platform.
ByteDance, whose secondary shares have valued the firm at $150 billion in recent weeks, counts big-name U.S. investors such as Coatue Management and Sequoia Capital among its backers.
The Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S. began its probe into TikTok last year, amid concerns from members of Congress and others about the data it might be collecting.
The investigation into TikTok is taking place as the national security review panel has increasingly focused on deals that put U.S. citizens and their privacy at risk, a focus that Congress ordered in a 2018 law.
Under the new law, regulators will investigate deals involving foreign money if that business has access to data on more than one million people, including certain genetic and biometric data, financial data and health data. The rules also apply to investments in U.S. businesses that track users’ locations or target U.S. military or national security personnel.
The Treasury-led Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S., or Cfius, is a panel of federal agencies that reviews deals involving foreign money to ensure they don’t put the country’s national security at risk. The panel has the power to review deals that involve U.S. companies, such as the 2017 acquisition.
Earlier this year, Mr. Trump ordered another Chinese company to sell its stake in a Maryland property management software firm, a platform that hotels and casinos use to enable guests to check into rooms using smartphones. That order marked the sixth time a U.S. president has either blocked a deal or ordered a corporate selloff since Congress authorized the power to intervene in 1988.
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doopstr (08-03-2020)
#108
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/07/17/walm...y-both-ba.html
Walmart and Microsoft link up on cloud technology as they both battle Amazon
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/08/27/walm...iktok-bid.html
- Walmart confirmed it’s teaming up with Microsoft in a bid for TikTok.
- The app is nearing an agreement to sell its U.S., Canadian, Australian and New Zealand operations in a deal that’s likely to be in the $20 billion to $30 billion range, sources say.
- In a statement, the big-box retailer said TikTok’s integration of e-commerce and advertising “is a clear benefit to creators and users in those markets.”
#109
https://www.npr.org/2020/09/20/91403...l-his-blessing
TikTok Ban Averted: Trump Gives Oracle-Walmart Deal His 'Blessing'
#110
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/artic...-more-than-10b
Microsoft in Talks to Buy Discord for More Than $10 Billion
#111
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/03/31/micr...r-us-army.html
Microsoft wins U.S. Army contract for augmented reality headsets, worth up to $21.9 billion over 10 years
- Microsoft will deliver to the U.S. Army more than 120,000 devices based on its HoloLens augmented reality headset.
- The deal, which could be worth as much as $21.88 billion over 10 years, follows a contract Microsoft received to build prototype headsets for the Army.
- The contract comes a year and a half after Microsoft won a cloud contract from the Pentagon that could be worth up to $10 billion.
#112
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/04/11/micr...ny-nuance.html
Microsoft in advanced talks to buy Nuance for about $16 billion, announcement could come Monday
#113
Looks like Lord Bezos got his JEDI.
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/07/06/pent...-contract.html
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/07/06/pent...-contract.html
- The Department of Defense said it’s calling off the $10 billion cloud contract that was the subject of a legal battle involving Amazon and Microsoft.
- But the Pentagon is launching a new multivendor cloud computing contract.
- Amazon and Microsoft will both be solicited for proposals.
#115
https://www.barrons.com/articles/mic...?siteid=yhoof2
Microsoft Hikes Dividend and Unveils $60 Billion Stock Buyback Program
raised its quarterly dividend rate by 11%, to 62 cents from 56 cents.
#116
Still killing it
316.30+6.19 (+2.00%)
After hours: 07:59PM EDT
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/micro...162719993.html
Here are the most important numbers from the report compared with what analysts were expecting, as compiled by Bloomberg.
316.30+6.19 (+2.00%)
After hours: 07:59PM EDT
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/micro...162719993.html
Microsoft smashes earnings expectations with strong cloud performance
Microsoft (MSFT) reported its fiscal Q1 2022 earnings after the closing bell on Tuesday, easily beating analysts' expectations on the top and bottom line, with cloud revenue up 36% year-over-year. The stock was flat on the news.Here are the most important numbers from the report compared with what analysts were expecting, as compiled by Bloomberg.
- Revenue: $45.3 billion versus $43.93 billion expected
- Earnings per share: $2.71 versus $2.07 expected
- Intelligent Cloud: $16.98 versus $16.58 billion expected
- Productivity & Business processes: $15.04 versus $14.70 billion expected
- More personal computing: $13.31 versus $12.68 billion expected
#117
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/01/18/micr...ctivision.html
Microsoft to buy Activision in $68.7 billion all-cash deal
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Mizouse (01-18-2022)
#119
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/01/25/micr...s-q2-2022.html
Microsoft beats on earnings and revenue, delivers upbeat forecast for fiscal third quarter
Here’s how the company did:Earnings: $2.48 per share, adjusted, vs. $2.31 per share as expected by analysts, according to Refinitiv.
Revenue: $51.73 billion, vs. $50.88 billion as expected by analysts, according to Refinitiv.
#120
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/04/26/micr...s-q3-2022.html
Microsoft earnings beat across the board, stock up on outlook
270.22-10.50 (-3.74%)At close: 04:00PM EDT
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