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ShadowofYahrnam said:
Teeqoz said:
MoHasanie said:

They would have made a usual $5bn profit if it wasn't for that writedown. And revenue was expected to be down since people might be waiting for Windows 10 to come out.


Actually, revenue wasn't forecast to be down this much, and that lead to the stock dropping 3.5% in after hours trading.

 

Oh my! 3.5%!? What ever will they do!?


3.5% of a company worth 350 billion dollars is quite a lot. And I was just explaining to him that even though revenue was expected to be down, it wasn't expected to be down by that much.



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MoHasanie said:
Ruler said:


so would Sony, they were also just writing off erricson

They were writing off Erricson for 6 years? Sony was very unprofitable between 2008 and 2014. Were all those losses due to the write off? 


last year it was



binary solo said:
5.1% of MS revenue is probably > Sony's total revenue.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_largest_information_technology_companies

 

nope



ShadowofYahrnam said:
Hahahaha this post is hilarious. Microsoft has 4.5X more cash on hand ($90B) than Sony is worth as an entire comapny. You sound like the people saying 'But Xbox won sales the week of E3!' It's one quarter when MS dumped Nokia. MS will bounce back and crush Sony's revenue and profit margins next quarter just like they always do.

http://money.cnn.com/2015/05/11/technology/overseas-cash-tech/

and release anotehr exclusive on PC like they always do



Like you wrote, beacuse of a $7.6 billion dollar writedown in the nokia division. Next quarter they will be in profit like usual.



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Microsoft actually lost money? Has that ever happened before?



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MS is just doing a donation, they can pay the debt of the US government to China if they want to.

Okay maybe not... but still!



binary solo said:
5.1% of MS revenue is probably > Sony's total revenue.


Unless I missed something, Microsoft's revenue for a year isn't close to 1540 billion USD, which it would have to be for that statement to be true.



Sooooo Xperia > Nokia ??????



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real one time non-recourring vs highly inflated without non recourring?

sony has to grow more than 20% to just outgrow the collapse of the Yen...