Microsoft: Building & Buying

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🗓️ 27 October 2021

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Fastest revenue growth since 2018 fuels Microsoft shares to a new all-time high. Robinhood’s 3^rd-quarter revenue is much lower than expected as shares fall close to their IPO price. Bill Mann analyzes those stories, discusses Twitter’s ongoing struggles as a business, and shares why Almond Joy needs to be rebranded.

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0:00.0	It's Wednesday, October 27th, welcome to Marketfoolery, I'm Chris Hill with me today, Bill
0:07.6	Mann.
0:08.6	Good to see you.
0:09.6	Hey Chris, how are you?
0:10.6	I'm doing well.
0:11.6	I'm doing well.
0:12.6	We got the latest from Twitter, we got the latest from Robin Hood.
0:15.8	We are going to start though with big tech getting bigger.
0:19.4	Microsoft's first quarter profits were higher than expected, revenue grew 22%, which is
0:24.7	the fastest growth since 2018, shares of Microsoft up 5% and hitting a new all-time high.
0:33.3	5% is a lot.
0:34.3	5% is a lot for any company, but we were doing the math.
0:39.4	That's $100 billion.
0:40.8	$100 billion.
0:42.8	$100 billion.
0:44.8	Just conjured out of thin air.
0:48.9	But Microsoft, it's crazy how good this company is operating right now.
0:56.8	That is not just massive gains this quarter, that's 17 straight quarters of double digit
1:03.6	revenue growth.
1:04.6	And it's been accelerating, it's been getting faster and faster and faster.
1:08.3	They are growing at a rate that the tiniest of startups would kill for.
1:16.2	And it is a $45 billion revenue per quarter company right now and growing really, really
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