Five major US IT companies have been able to complete their financial results for the three months up to last month, and while Apple and Microsoft have increased their profits, Amazon has been in the final deficit for the first time in seven years.
In the United States, on the 28th, the financial results for the three months from January to last month for the five major IT companies were completed.
Looking at the final profit, Apple's Japanese yen was 3,270 billion yen, an increase of more than 5% compared to the same period of the previous year, and it set a new record high for the three-month settlement of accounts until March. , Microsoft also increased by 8% from the same period of the previous year to about 2.19 trillion yen.
On the other hand, Amazon posted a final deficit of about 500 billion yen due to a decrease in the valuation of the shares of the emerging electric vehicle manufacturer in which it invested, and the final deficit for the first time in seven years in three months.
Former Facebook Meta has a virtual space on the Internet, investment related to Metaverse has increased, and the final profit has decreased by 21% to about 970 billion yen, and the alphabet that owns Google has also decreased by 8% to about 2.15 trillion yen. bottom.
Major IT companies in the United States have maintained good financial results even in the Corona disaster, but their business performance has been uneven since then.
Meta said that after the military invasion of Ukraine, services in Russia were suspended, affecting the online advertising business, and Apple also said that it would be watching the impact of the suspension of sales of products in Russia. The future focus will be on how far the impact of the military invasion will spread in the three-month settlement of accounts until June.