Microsoft Corporation (MSFT) Revenue-to-Profit Sankey Flow & SEC XBRL Financials
Microsoft Corporation (MSFT) earns a Roarable Rating of B (Buy) with 73/100 RQD Confidence. Cash-backed 27% return on capital boosted by $220.0M (HC102822F0982) in obligated U.S. government contracts. Even if the broader market gets choppy, the company’s underlying cash engine and big-money support put the odds in buyers’ favor.
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Multi-Year SEC EDGAR XBRL Revenue, Net Profit & Free Cash Flow Trajectory
| Fiscal Year | Revenue | Gross Margin | Op Margin | Net Profit | Free Cash Flow | ROIC % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FY 2026 | $331.84B | 67.9% | 46.8% | $133.75B | $66.99B | 26.6% |
| FY 2025 | $281.72B | 68.8% | 45.6% | $101.83B | $71.61B | 28.5% |
| FY 2024 | $245.12B | 69.8% | 44.6% | $88.14B | $74.07B | 29.3% |
| FY 2023 | $211.91B | 68.9% | 41.8% | $72.36B | $59.48B | 32% |
| FY 2022 | $198.27B | 68.4% | 42.1% | $72.74B | $65.15B | 32.5% |
| FY 2021 | $168.09B | 68.9% | 41.6% | $61.27B | $56.12B | 29.7% |
Microsoft's FY2026 Form 10-K (accession 0001193125-26-323660) reflects material escalations across hardware supply concentration, datacenter lease and energy obligations, and sovereign regulatory scrutiny over proprietary AI models. Disclosures confirm intensifying reliance on single-vendor accelerator silicon (NVIDIA) and severe power interconnection bottlenecks limiting cloud throughput. The structural step-up in long-term take-or-pay capex and energy purchase agreements signals heightened operating leverage and vulnerability to datacenter delivery delays.
Management can no longer camouflage extreme dependence on NVIDIA's supply pipeline. Hyperscale revenue growth is directly bound by merchant silicon allocations; any fab or packaging choke point instantly curtails Azure AI revenue realization and exposes Microsoft to supplier pricing power.
Cloud gross margins face impending structural compression. Grid access constraints and utility queue backlogs are forcing Microsoft into front-loaded, long-duration take-or-pay energy and land contracts, locking in heavy fixed depreciation and power overhead before compute clusters generate cash.
Global scale efficiencies are deteriorating under regulatory pressure. Compliance with sovereign AI mandates and US-China export bans is driving capex fragmentation, forcing Microsoft to duplicate regional infrastructure and abandon unified software margins across foreign sovereign deployments.
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SEC XBRL FY2025 → FY2026: Disciplined near-zero share dilution.
vs. +17.9% actual YoY revenue growth (assuming 9.25% cost of equity & 16.5x terminal multiple).
Trigger: $534.44 • Invalidation: $499.99
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100% OPEN ACCESS • SEC EDGAR × CBOE × FREDHow profitable is Microsoft Corporation (MSFT)?
In FY 2026 (10-K), MSFT converted $331.8B of revenue into a 67.9% gross margin, 46.8% operating margin, and $67.0B in free cash flow (20.2% FCF margin).