Microsoft expected to post sharp profit rise
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Just imagine if Vista had been a roaring success... Microsoft expected to post sharp profit rise[^] Analysts, on average, forecast that Microsoft will post a 66 percent rise in quarterly net profit to $4.35 billion, or 46 cents per share, on a 27 percent increase in revenue to $15.93 billion, according to Reuters Estimates.
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Just imagine if Vista had been a roaring success... Microsoft expected to post sharp profit rise[^] Analysts, on average, forecast that Microsoft will post a 66 percent rise in quarterly net profit to $4.35 billion, or 46 cents per share, on a 27 percent increase in revenue to $15.93 billion, according to Reuters Estimates.
Good for them. Interesting to see if this is repeated in a years time.
regards, Paul Watson Ireland & South Africa
Fernando A. Gomez F. wrote:
At least he achieved immortality for a few years.
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Just imagine if Vista had been a roaring success... Microsoft expected to post sharp profit rise[^] Analysts, on average, forecast that Microsoft will post a 66 percent rise in quarterly net profit to $4.35 billion, or 46 cents per share, on a 27 percent increase in revenue to $15.93 billion, according to Reuters Estimates.
on the other hand, the general market troubles are going to kill their stock price. a good time to buy :)
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Just imagine if Vista had been a roaring success... Microsoft expected to post sharp profit rise[^] Analysts, on average, forecast that Microsoft will post a 66 percent rise in quarterly net profit to $4.35 billion, or 46 cents per share, on a 27 percent increase in revenue to $15.93 billion, according to Reuters Estimates.
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on the other hand, the general market troubles are going to kill their stock price. a good time to buy :)
What do you think of buying Google stock? It is down 150 points or so.
regards, Paul Watson Ireland & South Africa
Fernando A. Gomez F. wrote:
At least he achieved immortality for a few years.
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What do you think of buying Google stock? It is down 150 points or so.
regards, Paul Watson Ireland & South Africa
Fernando A. Gomez F. wrote:
At least he achieved immortality for a few years.
it's still at 584. :omg: i bought some in 06 for close to 250 (and sold it shortly thereafter). personally, i could never bring myself to buy again at 2x what i paid previously. but if i had some cash and didn't have that irrational block, i might consider it.
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What do you think of buying Google stock? It is down 150 points or so.
regards, Paul Watson Ireland & South Africa
Fernando A. Gomez F. wrote:
At least he achieved immortality for a few years.
Paul Watson wrote:
What do you think of buying Google stock? It is down 150 points or so.
Not in the bear market that appears to be taking hold, IMO. I'm waiting to see what happens to the recession, credit crunch, housing market, and energy issues before risking my money in the stock market. I still own a bit of VMWare stock which I figure I'll hold on to, other than that, it's all been moved to money market accounts. Marc
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Just imagine if Vista had been a roaring success... Microsoft expected to post sharp profit rise[^] Analysts, on average, forecast that Microsoft will post a 66 percent rise in quarterly net profit to $4.35 billion, or 46 cents per share, on a 27 percent increase in revenue to $15.93 billion, according to Reuters Estimates.
Kevin McFarlane wrote:
Just imagine if Vista had been a roaring success...
Although people make fun of MS spreading into other markets/areas like the "Borg" buying up companies, or pushing them out of business to take over, this is the main reason. Although they don't post huge profits from keyboards or mice, or all the other little tiny MS activities, they weight the bottom line with enough steady income that MS can learn from (or at the very least survive) failures/mistakes/problems with major products. And they do have several major products from dev software, office software, to Operating systems (mobile, server, and desktop) add to that stable contracts with various enterprise level organizations (and the US government/military) to buy OS and office software, and you have a pretty stable profit for the bottom line. So no, I am not surprised at all. However, the other issue is that had Vista been a roaring success, these stable low-profit contracts and other deals would hold the profit down instead of up. MS has gone for stability of profit, not the ups and downs associated with good/bad releases. All in all you will see little fluxuation from good/bad releases of software, rather the profit is related far more to MS's current market foot-print which they continue to expand.
_________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)
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Tomz_KV wrote:
Wish all companies profit like microsoft.
In a market economy driven by capitalistic principles, that's impossible. Conversely, in a socialistic economy driven by government control of prices and production, profit is entirely impossible. The more interesting question is, what defines "profit", when you look at profit globally and take into account the losers and the winners. And don't forget to also consider natural resources, the environment, and so forth. Because "profit" ultimately comes from utilizing resources and adding value. If we were to create a holding company for, say, the planet's natural resources, and tried to manage it so that this company yielded a profit, what would that do to our economic models? Similarly, with people. Marc
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on the other hand, the general market troubles are going to kill their stock price. a good time to buy :)
I have this urge to sell. Gold, that is. I own about 10 ounces of gold, all bought by my grandfather, and all of a sentimental value (several 1 ounce and 1/2 ounce coins). Damnit, if I only had that idea a few years ago... buy gold for cheap and sell in early 2008. Dammit. He bought in 2001, and he (correctly) said that Gold would never be that cheap again in the new future. Around 2500 dollars (1800 EUR or such) for 10 ounces, madness. He died in 2005, and I've seen the price rise through the 900 dollar barrier (which means the gold is worth around 8000 dollars right now). You won't get that in interest over 6 1/2 years, for sure. I've already had them examined and tested. Pure gold. Damn, I guess I'll keep them for their sentimental value. But right now, I am considering renting a bank box for the first time in my life....
Cheers, Sebastian -- "If it was two men, the non-driver would have challenged the driver to simply crash through the gates. The macho image thing, you know." - Marc Clifton
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I have this urge to sell. Gold, that is. I own about 10 ounces of gold, all bought by my grandfather, and all of a sentimental value (several 1 ounce and 1/2 ounce coins). Damnit, if I only had that idea a few years ago... buy gold for cheap and sell in early 2008. Dammit. He bought in 2001, and he (correctly) said that Gold would never be that cheap again in the new future. Around 2500 dollars (1800 EUR or such) for 10 ounces, madness. He died in 2005, and I've seen the price rise through the 900 dollar barrier (which means the gold is worth around 8000 dollars right now). You won't get that in interest over 6 1/2 years, for sure. I've already had them examined and tested. Pure gold. Damn, I guess I'll keep them for their sentimental value. But right now, I am considering renting a bank box for the first time in my life....
Cheers, Sebastian -- "If it was two men, the non-driver would have challenged the driver to simply crash through the gates. The macho image thing, you know." - Marc Clifton
Keep them! I invest in gold as well, for the long haul. Realize that in 1980 gold was only *marginally* less expensive than it is now. People are just starting to realize that if the price of gold was like *anything* else it should have risen to somewhere between $2500 and $3000 per ounce today. Combine that with deteriorating world market conditions and dwindling gold supply, and I think we'll see those numbers in the next 20 years.
... Hudey123 ...
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Just imagine if Vista had been a roaring success... Microsoft expected to post sharp profit rise[^] Analysts, on average, forecast that Microsoft will post a 66 percent rise in quarterly net profit to $4.35 billion, or 46 cents per share, on a 27 percent increase in revenue to $15.93 billion, according to Reuters Estimates.
The problem with this is that if they miss that mark (let's say they post a 50 percent rise, or 39 cents per share), even though they *still posted a rise* their stock will fall because they "didn't meet analysts' estimates". The stock market sucks. It's controlled by too much institutional trading and big money investors. Too bad we really don't have a way to increase our retirement pot except for "playing" it.
... Hudey123 ...