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News articleYahoo Finance· January 29, 2026

Microsoft Q2 Earnings Beat Estimates as Cloud and AI Drive Results

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Microsoft Q2 Earnings Beat Estimates as Cloud and AI Drive Results Microsoft MSFT reported second-quarter fiscal 2026 earnings of $4.14 per share on a non-GAAP basis (excluding OpenAI investment impacts), which beat the Zacks Consensus Estimate by 6.7% and increased 24% on a year-over-year basis and 21% in constant cur…
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  • Microsoft is a Zacks Rank #2 (Buy)

    80% confidence
  • Capital expenditure expected to decrease sequentially in fiscal Q3 due to normal variability from cloud infrastructure buildouts and timing of finance lease delivery

    80% confidence
  • Management emphasized it would provide future outlook excluding any impact from OpenAI investments

    80% confidence
  • Company expects to remain capacity-constrained through at least fiscal year-end, with demand exceeding current infrastructure buildout, resulting in lost revenue opportunities for Azure

    80% confidence
  • Microsoft Fabric customer base expanded to 28,000 paid subscribers

    80% confidence
  • Microsoft counts 900 million monthly active users of AI features across its products, with over 150 million monthly active users of first-party Copilots

    80% confidence
  • Microsoft 365 consumer subscriptions expanded to more than 90 million users

    80% confidence
  • Azure AI Foundry serves a customer base exceeding 80,000 organizations, including 80% of Fortune 500 companies

    80% confidence
  • More than 90% of Fortune 500 organizations now utilize Microsoft 365 Copilot

    80% confidence
  • Azure AI Foundry provides access to over 11,000 models from various providers

    80% confidence
  • Fiscal 2026 operating margins expected to rise slightly for the full year, aided by first-half investment prioritization and favorable impacts from revenue mix shifts

    80% confidence

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