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Microsoft Corp. MSFT

19 fiscal years on record · USD · FY2025 reported · SEC filings only
16 YEARS OF DIVIDEND GROWTH
$331.8B
▲ 17.8% YoY
$133.7B
▲ 31.3% YoY
$67.0B
▼ 6.5% YoY

Slide the table for earlier years · "·" marks a figure not available in our data for that year.

In brief

What this company does

Microsoft sells cloud-based services that provide customers with AI, software, platforms and content, and its products include operating systems, server applications, business solution applications, software development tools and video games. As of June 30, 2026, it employed approximately 223,000 people on a full-time basis, 121,000 in the United States and 102,000 internationally. The business is operated and its financial performance reported using three segments: Productivity and Business Processes, Intelligent Cloud, and More Personal Computing. The Productivity and Business Processes segment consists of productivity, communication and information services spanning a variety of devices and platforms. LinkedIn offers Talent Solutions, Marketing Solutions, Premium Subscriptions and Sales Solutions alongside its free services. The Intelligent Cloud segment consists of public, private and hybrid server products and cloud services, among them Azure, GitHub cloud services and server products such as SQL Server, Windows Server and Visual Studio. The More Personal Computing segment covers Windows and Devices, which takes in Windows OEM licensing and the Surface line and PC accessories; XBOX, which takes in hardware, content, subscriptions and cloud gaming; and Search advertising through Bing, Copilot, Microsoft News and Microsoft Edge. Microsoft was founded in 1975.

Written from the business description in MICROSOFT CORP's annual report to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, filed 29 July 2026. Every sentence was checked against that document before publication.

Growth

USD 331.8B
Revenue, FY2025 · full 19-year series below
Revenue $B Net income $B
FY2025 · Revenue 331.8 · Net income 133.7
150B300B
2007201020132016201920222025
Compound annual growth
+16.1%
+14.6%
+13.8%
+10.9%
+22.7%
+16.9%
+20.6%
+12.4%
+22.9%
+17.4%
+21.5%
+13.5%
+10.2%
+10.2%
+9.7%
+12.3%
+5.1%
+2.0%
+5.9%
+8.2%
3 yrs
5 yrs
10 yrs
15 yrs

Revenue compounded at +14.6% a year over the five years to FY2025 — but profit grew faster: net income at +16.9%, earnings per share at +17.4%.

The share count fell from 7.52B to 7.43B — the buyback concentrates the same profit into fewer slices.

Compound annual rates per period — left blank where that exact year isn't on file, the series crosses a loss, or (per-share rows) a split falls inside the window.

Profitability

40 cents
of every revenue dollar became profit
Operating margin Net margin
FY2025 · Operating 46.8% · Net 40.3%
20%40%
200720162025
ROE
FY2025 · ROE 34.0%
20%40%
200720162025
Three returns, three denominators.
Gross margin67.9%
Operating margin46.8%
Net margin40.3%
EBITDAUSD 189.5B

Each USD of equity produced 34 cents of profit this year.

Cash & shareholders

USD 46.7B
returned in FY2025 · dividends + net buybacks
Free cash flow $B
FY2025 · FCF 67.0
30B60B
200720162025
Net buybacks $B Dividends $B
FY2025 · Dividends 26.4 · Net buybacks 20.3
20B40BDividendsNet buybacks
2007201020132016201920222025
Dividends paidUSD 26.4B
Net buybacksUSD 20.3B
Share of profit34.9%
Consecutive raises16 years

USD 26.4B in dividends and USD 20.3B in buybacks — 35% of the year's profit went back to shareholders.

Total assetsUSD 758.4B
EquityUSD 442.4B
CashUSD 20.9B
Gross debtUSD 40.3B
Net debtUSD 19.4B
Current ratio1.23×

Net debt stands at 4% of equity.

The 19-year record

19 fiscal years
Every figure from documents filed with the SEC · USD
row low → row highnegative—not applicable◌not available in our data
MSFT, 19-year financial record
Metric 2025202420232022202120202019201820172016201520142013201220112010200920082007
Revenue $B331.8281.7245.1211.9198.3168.1143.0125.8110.496.691.293.686.877.873.769.962.558.460.4
Operating income $B155.2128.5109.488.583.469.953.043.035.129.026.118.227.826.821.827.224.120.422.3
EBITDA $B189.5150.5124.699.596.079.263.752.742.835.131.022.331.229.424.029.225.922.123.7
Income tax $B32.221.819.716.911.09.88.84.419.94.45.16.35.75.25.34.96.35.36.1
Net income $B133.7101.888.172.472.761.344.339.216.625.520.512.222.121.917.023.118.814.617.7
Free cash flow $B67.071.674.159.565.156.145.238.332.331.425.023.727.024.629.324.622.115.918.4
EPS, diluted $17.9513.6411.809.689.658.055.765.062.133.252.561.482.632.582.002.692.101.621.87
Dividend / sh $3.643.323.002.722.482.242.041.841.681.561.441.241.120.920.800.640.520.520.44
Payout %20242527252734357746548140343822243123
ROE %34.033.337.138.847.247.140.142.419.429.825.214.426.230.127.544.843.838.448.7
Shares out B7.437.437.437.437.467.527.577.647.687.717.818.038.248.338.388.388.678.919.15

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Provenance

Company facts, as filed

How we verify · 0 failures in 93 reconciliationsAUDITED

Reconciled in 19 of the 19 fiscal years we could check. Two checks were skipped: the balance sheet is not tagged before 2008.

EPS recomputationBalance-sheet identityGross profitBalance-sheet liquidityCurrency consistency0 failures
ActivityServices-Prepackaged Software
Listed onNASDAQ
Incorporated inWashington
Fiscal year endsJune 30
Data on record since2007

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