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      Microsoft Joins Nvidia, Tesla, Meta in Most Active Options After Earnings: Options Chatter

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      Microsoft Joins Nvidia, Tesla, Meta in Most Active Options After Earnings: Options Chatter
      $Microsoft (MSFT.US)$'s options volume jumped Thursday as shares tumbled after the tech giant's revenue and outlook for its intelligent cloud business missed analysts' estimates amid data center capacity constraints.
      Shares fell 6.2% to $414.77 as of 1:01 p.m. in New York. A close at that level would wipe off more than $200 billion from Microsoft's market capital, its worst ever. That slump pushed a number of call options out of the money, accelerating the sell-off and boosting volume.
      (To see Microsoft's chain, click here. For the options ranking led by Nvidia and Tesla, click here.)
      Microsoft Joins Nvidia, Tesla, Meta in Most Active Options After Earnings: Options Chatter
      More than 806,000 call and put options changed hands so far, landing Microsoft in the fourth slot for the most active stock options, behind $NVIDIA (NVDA.US)$, $Tesla (TSLA.US)$ and $Meta Platforms (META.US)$.  Microsoft's total is almost triple its 20-day average, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.
      Weaker-than-expected results from its intelligent cloud business overshadowed a 12% growth in Microsoft's total revenue to $69.6 billion for the fiscal second quarter that ended Dec. 31. That and its 10% gain in earnings to $3.23 per share, beat analysts' estimates for an eighth straight quarter.
      Microsoft Joins Nvidia, Tesla, Meta in Most Active Options After Earnings: Options Chatter
      Intelligent cloud revenue rose 19% to $25.54 billion in the quarter, missing the $25.89 billion expected by analysts, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. Azure and other cloud services grew 31%, slower than the 31.77% Wall Street consensus.
      For the three months ending March 31, the company expects intelligent cloud revenue to reach $25.9 billion to $26.2 billion. That's lower than the average estimate of analysts that called for $26.6 billion, according to Bloomberg data.
      Data center capacity constraints have hindered Microsoft from enjoying the full benefits of increased demand from artificial intelligence applications.
      Microsoft Joins Nvidia, Tesla, Meta in Most Active Options After Earnings: Options Chatter
      "Again, in Q3, we are working from a pretty constrained capacity place, and that’s no different than it was our expectation to be in that position last October when I talk to you all," CFO Amy Hood said in the company's earnings call Thursday night.   She said the company has $300 billion of committed customer contracts that Microsoft needs to deliver on, and that's driving the rapid expansion in the company's capital expenditures.
      "And the faster we can do that and the more efficiently we can do that, the better off we are, not just the OpenAI partnership, which is a piece of that, but with the entire platform that we need to deliver for our customers," she said.
      Shares may be penalized "as the market digests the mis-execution and lack of commentary reiterating the 2H acceleration in Azure, but creates a buying opportunity" as focus likely turns back to the strong generative AI performance and prospect for accelerating free cash flow growth into fiscal year 2026," Morgan Stanley analysts Keith Weiss and Theodor Thun said in a note Thursday.
      Share your thoughts on Microsoft in the comments section. Do you see the stock recouping today's losses over the next few days? Let your voice be heard by voting below.
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