Microsoft Corporation Q4 FY2026 Earnings Call

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Microsoft FY2026 Q4 Earnings Summary

Overall Performance

  • Full-year revenue surpassed $331 billion, up 18% YoY.
  • Microsoft Cloud revenue surpassed $214 billion, up 27% YoY.
  • Azure revenue surpassed $100 billion, up 41% YoY.
  • Q4 revenue: $90 billion, up 18% YoY (17% in constant currency).
  • Operating income: >$155 billion for the year, up 21% YoY; Q4 operating income up 18% YoY.
  • Q4 EPS: $4.74, up 23% YoY (adjusted for OpenAI investment impact).
  • Microsoft Cloud gross margin: 65% (down YoY due to Azure mix shift and AI infrastructure investments, partially offset by efficiency gains).
  • Operating expenses: up 10% YoY in Q4, driven by R&D investments.
  • CapEx: $41 billion in Q4; operating cash flow $55.4 billion (up 30% YoY); free cash flow $19.6 billion.
  • Returned $10.2 billion to shareholders in Q4 via dividends and buybacks ($43 billion for full year).

Segment Results (Q4 YoY Comparisons)

  • Productivity and Business Processes: Revenue $37.8 billion (+14% YoY). M365 Commercial cloud +14% reported (+16% adjusted). Paid Copilot seats >30 million (net adds more than doubled QoQ). LinkedIn +12%. Dynamics 365 +13%. Operating income +15%.

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Operator: Greetings, and welcome to the Microsoft Fiscal Year 2026 Fourth Quarter Earnings Conference Call. As a reminder, this conference is being recorded. It is now my pleasure to introduce Jonathan Neilson, Vice President of Investor Relations. Please go ahead. Jonathan Neilson: Good afternoon, and thank you for joining us today. On the call with me are Satya Nadella, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer; Amy Hood, Chief Financial Officer; Alice Jolla, Chief Accounting Officer; and Brian DeFoe, Deputy General Counsel and Corporate Secretary. On the Microsoft Investor Relations website, you can find our earnings press release and financial summary slide deck, which is intended to supplement our prepared remarks during today's call and provides the reconciliation of differences between GAAP and non-GAAP financial measures. More detailed outlook slides will be available on the Microsoft Investor Relations website where we provide outlook commentary on today's call. On this call, we will discuss certain non-GAAP items. The non-GAAP financial measures provided should not be considered as a substitute for or superior to the measures of financial performance prepared in accordance with GAAP. They are included as additional clarifying items to aid investors in further understanding the company's fourth quarter performance in addition to the impact these items and events have on the financial results. All growth comparisons we make on the call today relate to the corresponding pe

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