Microsoft just completed a fiscal year in which it earned $101.8 billion in net income. That is not a typo. One hundred and one point eight billion dollars in profit. No software company in the history of capitalism has ever done that.
Now, free cash flow. This is the number I care about most because it represents the actual cash a business generates after it has paid for everything it needs to keep running. Microsoft's came in at $71.6 billion. That is not revenue. That is not operating income. That is cash left over after paying every employee, every supplier, every tax bill, and every capital expenditure. Seventy-one billion in cash that the company can do whatever it wants with.
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