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This 7 page paper examines Microsoft's financial performance. The paper starts by looking at the revenue, profit and profit margins between 2004 – 2008 and then considers where the revenues come from in terms of business units and geographical sales between the years 2006 – 2008. The paper ends by looking at the stick price performance. The bibliography cites 4 sources.
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File: TS14_TEmicro08.rtf
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When a company has such a dominant passion it may be expected that the financial performance will be good, but this is not always the case dominant firms can sometimes
be inefficient. In order to look at the financial performance of Microsoft the performance over a period of time and over different areas of interest can be considered. The
firm does appears to be increasing the level of its revenues, looking at the performance over the last 5 years there have been increasing levels of revenues earned, All figures
are taken from Microsoft Annual reports unless otherwise specified. This is seen in table 1 . All figures are given in US millions with the exception of any per
share figures, given. Table 1 Revenues 2004 - 2008 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 Revenue 36,835 39,788 44,282 51,122 60,420 Increase over previous
8% 11% 15% 18% This increase is rising. However, it is not only the level of the increase that is important. It is interesting to note that the industry average
growth rate for revenues is currently 10.2% (MSN Money, 2008), as such it appears Microsoft is doing better than average. However, revenues
do not necessarily lead to profits. Unless a firm is making profits it is unlikely to survive in the long term. One of the most important figures is the net
profit and the net profit margin. The basic calculation is the net profit the total revenue after all costs have been
deducted, sometimes before interest and tax but mostly after tax and interest by the turnover. It is often used as a benchmark by which the company can be compared with
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