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Microsoft profits fall after Nokia handsets acquisition

2014-07-23 08:41:00| Telecompaper Headlines

(Telecompaper) Microsoft reported pressure on quarterly profits in its fiscal fourth quarter after completing the acquisition of Nokia's handset business. Earnings for the three months to June fell 7 percent from a year earlier to USD 0.55 per share, including a loss of USD 0.08 per share from the phone business. Revenues rose 18 percent year-on-year to USD 23.38 billion, with USD 1.99 billion coming from the former Nokia business, and operating profit improved 7 percent to USD 6.48 billion, with a loss of USD 692 million from the handset activities. Microsoft's revenue growth was otherwise supported by a recovering PC market, with Windows OEM revenue up 3 percent. Office 365 added another 1 million consumer subscribers in the quarter, and Bing increased advertising revenues by 40 percent. In the commercial market, server product revenues, including Azure, were up 16 percent, and Windows licensing volume rose 11 percent. Overal, consumer and device revenues increased 42 percent to USD 10.0 billion, and commercial revenues were up 11 percent to USD 13. billion. 

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