Microsoft's second quarter revenue of 21.456 billion dollars, an increase of 3% from 20.885 billion dollars in the same period last year; The net profit was 6.377 billion dollars, down 4% from 6.624 billion dollars last year. Microsoft's fiscal second-quarter per share earnings exceeded Wall Street analysts' expectations, but the revenue was less than expected, and the stock fell by nearly 2%.
By the end of the quarter in December 31st, Microsoft's net profit was 6.377 billion dollars, and per share earnings was 76 cents, the performance was less than the same period last year, but exceeded what the analysts had expected. The second quarter of the 2012 fiscal year, Microsoft's net profit was 6.624 billion dollars and per share earnings was 78 cents. Microsoft's second quarter operating profit was 7.771 billion dollars, which is less than the 7.994 billion dollars in the same period last year.
Microsoft's second quarter revenue were 21.456 billion dollars, an increase of 3% from 20.885 billion dollars in the same period last year, the results was less than the analysts' expectations. Microsoft expected that the operating expenses were 30.3 billion to 30.9 billion dollars in fiscal 2013.