Microsoft explained meta and IBM balance sheets, technology giants exceeded expectations
Microsoft, which accepted the second quarter of the 2025 financial year, which ended in the financial calendar on December 31st, announced its balance sheet.
Accordingly, the company’s income increased by 12 percent annually in the October-December period of last year, increased to 69.6 billion dollars. Microsoft had earned $ 62 billion in the same period of the previous year.
Microsoft’s net profit increased by 10 percent in the same period to 24.1 billion dollars. The company’s net profit was $ 21.9 billion in the same period of the previous year.
The company’s profit per share rose from $ 2.93 to $ 3.23 during this period.
Microsoft’s income and profit left behind expectations in the period in question.
The income of the company from Azure and other cloud services in this period increased by 31 percent. The rate of increase in the income from cloud services slowed down compared to the previous quarter.
Microsoft top manager Satya Nadella said in his assessment of the company’s balance sheet, that they have innovations in all areas of the technology infrastructure and that the company’s customers have helped to capture the great opportunity of artificial intelligence by revealing all the investment returns.
Nadella said that artificial intelligence works have already increased the annual income rate above $ 13 billion and increased by 175 percent compared to the previous year.
Meta’s income increased by 21 percent
Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp owner Meta also published the balance sheet for last year’s fourth quarter.
Accordingly, the company’s income in the last quarter of last year increased by 21 percent to the same period of the previous year to 48.4 billion dollars. In the same period of 2023, Meta had incurred 40.1 billion dollars.
Meta’s net profit, increased by 49 percent in the last quarter of last year to $ 20.8 billion. The company announced a profit of $ 14 billion in the same period of 2023.
In the fourth quarter of the company’s fourth quarter of the company, the profit per share, which was $ 5.33, rose to $ 8.02 in the same period last year.
Meta’s income and profit exceeded market expectations during this period.
In the first quarter of this year, the company reported that income is expected between $ 39.5 billion and $ 41.8 billion.
“We continue to make good progress on the future of artificial intelligence, glasses and social media. These efforts will grow further in 2025,” Mark Zuckerberg, Mark Zuckerberg, Mark Zuckerberg, Mark Zuckerberg, is excited. He said.
IBM’s financial results above expectations
Explaining the balance sheet of the fourth quarter of last year, IBM’s income increased by 1 percent to $ 17.6 billion compared to the same period of the previous year. In the same period of 2023, IBM had earned $ 17.4 billion in revenue.
The company’s net profit declined to 2.9 billion dollars with a decrease of 11 percent in the last quarter of last year. IBM’s net profit was $ 3.3 billion in the same period of 2023.
The institution’s profit per share, which was $ 3.54 in the fourth quarter of 2023, was recorded as $ 3,11 in the last quarter of last year.
IBM’s income and profit were above market expectations in the period in question.
IBM’s top manager (CEO) Arvind Krishna said that they completed the year with a double -digit increase in the software area. Krishna said that the company’s productive artificial intelligence business volume has exceeded $ 5 billion so far and increased from a quarter to a quarter.