Newsgroup: it.economia.borsa
Titolo: Microsoft

Batte le stime: 0.43$ contro 0.39$ attesi. Prevede un aumento tra il 15% ed
il 20% del fatturato e del 15$ dell'utile netto.
Outlook del 2002 positivo.
Per ora Corning e SUN hanno riportato perdite in linea.
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Bloomberg dice il contrario,23 contro 39!
      Giallonelcuore

USA: MICROSOFT BATTE WALL STREET MA ABBASSA STIME DI VENDITA
   (ANSA) - NEW YORK, 18 OTT - La Microsoft ha battuto le stime 
di Wall Street. La piu' grande 'software house' del mondo ha 
chiuso il terzo trimestre con utili operativi per 2,16 miliardi 
di dollari, pari a 43 centesimi ad azione, in lieve calo 
rispetto ai 46 centesimi di utili per azione dello stesso 
periodo del 2000 ma superiori ai 39 centesimi ad azione previsti 
dagli analisti.
   Il fatturato si e' attestato a quota 6,13 miliardi di 
dollari, in rialzo del 6% rispetto ai 5,77 miliardi del terzo 
trimestre 2000, e sostanzialmente in linea con i 6,16 miliardi 
di dollari attesi da Wall Street. La Microsoft ha pero' 
avvertito che le vendite negli ultimi 3 mesi dell'anno 
risulteranno inferiori alle previsioni. Il titolo Microsoft 
perde lo 0,25% nelle contrattazioni del dopomercato. (ANSA).
     EMC
18-OTT-01 22:56 

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Da CNN:
Microsoft tops estimates
Microsoft on Thursday reported a fiscal first-quarter profit that beat the
Street's estimates on sales that rose modestly from the same quarter a year
earlier.
After the close of trading, Microsoft (MSFT: Research, Estimates) said it
earned 43 cents per share during the quarter ended Sept. 30. That excludes
special charges and compares with a profit of 46 cents per share during the
same quarter last year. Analysts generally had expected the company to
report an operating profit of 39 cents per share, according to a survey
conducted by First Call.
At $6.1 billion, Microsoft's fiscal first-quarter revenue rose 5.1 percent
from $5.8 billion during the year-ago quarter. By First Call's count, Wall
Street generally had expected revenue nearer $6.2 billion, with some
estimates ranging as high as $6.5 billion.
Microsoft is the world's largest supplier of computer software and is the
dominant supplier of PC operating systems with its various versions of
Windows.
Before the company released its earnings report, some analysts said they
were confident the company would meet the Street's earnings expectations,
even when many other PC-related companies - including Compaq and Gateway -
warned of shortfalls in the wake of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on the
United States.
Because they occurred near the end of the quarter, executives of Compaq and
Gateway said the attacks had prevented them from closing much of the
business they had expected to record on the September quarter's income
statement, and therefore caused them to miss the Street's consensus
estimates.
SG Cowen analyst Drew Brousseau on Thursday said he expected the impact on
Microsoft to be limited since its quarters tend to be less back-end loaded.
Still, Brousseau and some other analysts expect Microsoft executives to
provide a less optimistic forecast for the December quarter as a weakening
economy and declining consumer confidence continue to weigh on demand for
PCs.
The company is expected to provide its outlook for the current quarter
during a teleconference later Thursday evening.
When Microsoft reported its previous quarterly results, executives said for
all of fiscal 2002 they expected sales to range between $28.8 billion and
$29.5 billion and earnings to come in between $1.91 and $1.95 per share.
They made those forecasts under the assumption that the economy would not
deteriorate any further and that PC units sales growth would be in the
"mid-single digits."
Since that time, many economists have become less optimistic, and PC
industry observers have been reining in their expectations for PC sales
growth in 2002
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