Microsoft Stock Slips as Intelligent Cloud Revenue Falls Short of Expectations | Global News Avenue

Microsoft(MSFT) Since this technology giant reports the intelligent cloud income in the second quarter, the stock moves low in the end of the weekend, which missed the expectations of analysts.

The company’s revenue increased by 12 % year -on -year to $ 69.63 billion, exceeding the consensus of analysts. The income is US $ 241.1 billion, that is, $ 3.23 per share, and a year ago, the earnings per share were US $ 21.87 billion, that is, $ 2.93 per share. This also exceeds the expectations of the quarter as of December 31.

However, the revenue of Microsoft’s intelligent cloud field (including its Azure Cloud Computing platform) slightly missed the prediction, and at the same time increased by 19 % to $ 25.54 billion. The company said that the total Azure revenue of the quarter was close to $ 41 billion.

Microsoft’s stocks fell more than 5 % in extended transactions. The stock has also fallen during a conventional meeting. So far, so far, the stock has risen by about 5 % during the closing period on Wednesday.

Microsoft expects the Intelligent Cloud Finance to revenue in the second quarter of US $ 25.9 billion to $ 26.2 billion CFO Amy Hood said on the company’s income call. Before the announcement of the results, this will be higher than the US $ 25.76 billion.

CEO Satya Nadella (Satya Nadella) said in a statement that Microsoft’s AI income Running rate Rose to $ 13 billion. Nadella (Nadella) has increased in the company’s income, and the number of daily users who call Microsoft’s side effects AI assistant doubles a quarter of the number of users.

The focus of OpenAI supported by Microsoft after this week The penetration rate of Chinese launching DeepSeek apps surgedIt operates with its claiming AI model and can express with American competitors at a small part of the cost, which has aroused concerns about the competitiveness of American companies and its expenditure.

Raymond James and Bank of American analysts said that the progress of Deepseek can Promote MicrosoftAnd letters (Googl) Google and Amazon (Amzn), Emergency action. Microsoft announced today that Deepseek’s R1 model can now be used on the Azure Ai Foundry platform, and customers can quickly run it locally on Copilot+ PC.

This article has been updated to add more information about company performance and new stock price information. The earlier version of this story covers the incident that happened on Wednesday. In an example, it was not mentioned on Thursday.