Q4 earnings brief - MSFT

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MSFT

MSFT stock was up about 5% after hours yesterday as soon as their Q4 earnings report was published. But then, gloomy forward guidance that the CFO provided during the earnings call brought the stock down, lower than where it closed for the day. This is a great example of why I don’t want to react to AH stock price action before truly digesting the earnings numbers, call transcript and other analyses.

Now was MSFT’s earnings report really as bad as the market is perceiving it to be? Let’s find out…