Microsoft Shares Hits An All-Time High, Courtesy Cloud Computing; Surpasses Its 1999 Record With A Surge Of 5%

Microsoft shares hit an all-time high this Friday and closed with a surge of 5 per cent in early trading. It surpassed it records since 1999 supported by the frenzy triggered due to its growth in its cloud business. The shares closed at $59.96 that's 4 per cent higher than $58.72 back in December 1999.

According to USA Today, Microsoft recorded a gain of $0.76 per share on adjusted tax basis, as opposed to the researcher's assumption of $0.68 for each share, and revenue of $22.3 billion on a non-adjusted tax basis. The freshly recorded income also defines a marked surge of 2.3 percent which is contrary to the same time last year. After Microsoft released its financial report for its first budgetary report for the year 2017, the company shares reached an all-time high surpassing $60 per share.

As stated by the Microsoft CFO and the executive VP, Amy Hood, "Our first quarter results showed continued demand for our cloud-based services." She added "We continue to invest, position ourselves for long-term growth, and execute well across our businesses."

The Windows sale revenue of approximately $1.9 billion is included in the elevated adjusted income of $22.3 billion. Microsoft has set aside this revenue for the upcoming years in compliance with the accounting rules. With Microsoft's steady progression towards usage-based software and subscription selling segment, investors are now anticipating a sustained growth in its cloud computing business space.

While with an eight percent growth the company has reached $6.4 billion income in the Intelligent Cloud (consists of the the cloud comuputing service, Microsoft Azure and the other data center and server tools), it also witnessed a six percent growth in income for it Productivity division that went upto $6.7 billion, reports Tech Times.The chief propeller in this category was the Microsoft Office 365 cloud productivity service incited huge amount of subscriptions from the consumers and businesses alike.

In spite of the all the marked achievements by Microsoft, there was still a dip in the More Persona Computing division that witnessed a 2 percent decline and closed at $9.3 billion. However, that's still good considering the slowdown of the PC market.