CLAIM #44667 · Microsoft Corporation (MSFT) · 2024Q4 earnings call · Jul 30, 2024 · due Sep 30, 2024
“Growth in our per-user business will continue to moderate.”
Amy Hood · CFO
How to check this claim
Look at: Growth rate of Azure per-user business (as described qualitatively in management commentary, since exact figure not separately disclosed)
It came true if: Management commentary on Q1 FY2025 earnings call describes per-user business growth as continuing to slow versus Q4 FY2024 pace
Where: Management commentary on Q1 FY2025 earnings call (October 2024)
In context
“s, we expect revenue growth in the low to mid-teens driven by Dynamics 365. For Intelligent Cloud we expect revenue to grow between 18% and 20% in constant currency, or US$28.6 billion to US$28.9 billion. Revenue will continue to be driven by Azure which, as a reminder, can have quarterly variability primarily from our per-user business and in-period revenue recognition depending on the mix of contracts. In Azure, we expect Q1 revenue growth to be 28% to 29% in constant currency. Growth will continue to be driven by our consumption business, inclusive of AI, which is growing faster than total Azure. We expect the consumption trends from Q4 to continue through the first half of the year. This includes both AI demand impacted by capacity constraints and non-AI growth trends similar to June. Growth in our per-user business will continue to moderate. And in H2, we expect Azure growth to accelerate as our capital investments create an increase in available AI capacity to serve more of the growing demand. In our on-premises server business, we expect revenue to decline in the low single digits as continued hybrid demand will be more than offset by lower transactional purchasing. And in Enterprise and partner services, revenue should decline in the low single digits. In More Personal Computing, we expect revenue to grow between 9% and 12% in constant currency, or US$14.9 billion to US$15.3 billion. Windows OEM revenue growth should be relatively flat, roughly in line with the PC market. In Windows commercial products and cloud services, customer demand for Microsoft 365 and our advanced security solutions should drive revenue growth in t”
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SEC filings for MSFT ↗ · Claim quote is verbatim from the 2024Q4 earnings call.