(CercleFinance.com) - Microsoft, which hit the headlines late last week by announcing the elimination of 18,000 jobs within a year, a corollary of its acquisition of mobile phone business Nokia has reported a profit net 4.61 billion representing 55 cents per share for the fourth quarter, against 4.97 billion a year earlier.
The consensus was more optimistic and expected 60 cents, but "is not very relevant because of the inclusion or not in the projections of analysts restructuring charges of the above activities (7.2 billion dollars), said Aurel BGC.
These activities account for nearly 2 billion dollars in sales, but show a loss of 692 million.
Increased by 17.5% yoy to 23.4 billion, sales of the famous software company for their part positively surprised analysts, who had expected $ 23.4 billion.
Other good news: two million Xbox consoles were sold in the period, including 1.2 million Xbox One, the 'Lumia phone has had an encouraging start and income Surface tablets jumped from 50% to 500 million dollars.
'Our commercial cloud services (cloud computing) have doubled again this year to $ 4.4 billion', also highlighted the CEO Satya Nadella
Although the gross margin decreased 4.3 percentage points to 67.5%, Microsoft anticipates including improved profitability for the year 2015.
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