nsane.forums Posted July 19, 2013 Share Posted July 19, 2013 Microsoft's stock price went down 11.40 percent in trading today on the NASDAQ stock market, as the company deals with the fallout of its latest financial results that failed expectations.You would think that champagne bottles would be popping if you owned stock in a company that announced it had $19.90 billion in revenue and a net profit of $4.97 billion for its last fiscal quarter, which is what Microsoft reported for its second quarter 2013 calendar earnings on Thursday.Instead, those financial results failed to meet the expectations of analysts, who were expecting higher numbers from the team at Redmond. As a result, Microsoft's stock price took a beating today on the NASDAQ stock market. After going down as much as 12.2 percent in trading, the price recovered a little bit at the end of the day to settle at $31.40 a share. That's down $4.04, or 11.40 percent, from Thursday's close. It's also the biggest single day dip in its share price in 13 years.Part of the reason for the downturn might have been the one time $900 million charge Microsoft put into its revenues Thursday because of the new price cuts on the Surface RT tablet. Indeed, the Internet seems to be full of editorials and analysts reports today proclaiming that Surface RT, and Windows RT as a whole, is a big failure.Microsoft seems to know it needs to make some changes, which is why it announced a major corporate reorganization earlier this month. On Thursday, Microsoft CFO Amy Hood tried to make the best of the company's current situation, stating, "We know we have to do better."View: Original Article Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jalaffa Posted July 20, 2013 Share Posted July 20, 2013 Moskowitz said Windows sales fell about $400 million short of his own estimates, calling it, The biggest miss we have seen in quite some time. Microsoft has been touting its upcoming Windows 8.1 upgrade, which is supposed to be released commercially later this year. However, Moskowitz said he was now skeptical about the upgrade spurring significant new Windows sales. Say no more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
majithia23 Posted July 20, 2013 Share Posted July 20, 2013 I am not a financial expert , but from the news and stuff on Business channels i have seen when profits drop by even 2% or 3% , the company CEOs are seen panicking and going in a tizzy and then there are discussions and debates among analysts and reporters as to why this happened .So , now when a Multi Billion dollar corp like M$ looses more than 11% market , thats some BIG Loss !To be precise its about $ 34 Billion ! :oIf this doesnt make M$ get up from its slumber and rethink there policies , i dont know what will ! <_<Then May be, Literally sand in their eyes or stones in their mouth ! But it may well be too late by then ! -_- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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