More than 1 trillion yen of profit of Microsoft Facebook more than doubled 12:24 on April 30
Amidst a series of companies whose performance has deteriorated under the influence of the new coronavirus, the US major IT company, Microsoft, has exceeded 1 trillion yen in profit for the past three months, and Facebook has more than doubled its profits. IT service companies are prominent.
Facebook announced on January 29 that its sales from January to last month increased by 17% over the same period of the previous year to $ 17,737 million, with a final profit of $ 4.9 billion in Japan. It has more than doubled to ¥ 520 billion in yen.
The advertising business expanded and continued to support the performance. As of the end of last month, the number of users was 2,603 million, an increase of 4% from three months ago.
In addition, Microsoft increased its sales and profits as its cloud-related business grew due to an increase in work from home, and in particular, the final profit increased 22% to $ 10,752 million, and the Japanese yen exceeded 1.1 trillion yen.
Microsoft's Nadera CEO commented that "the digitization equivalent to two years has occurred in the last two months" against the backdrop of the spread of work from home.
While many companies are deteriorating their performance due to the spread of the new coronavirus, IT-related companies are prominent and the market is drawing attention to the financial results of Amazon and Apple scheduled to be announced on the 30th. I will.