Microsoft Corporation (MSFT) Beats EPS Estimates, Stock Soars

Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) earnings for the three months through March 31 arrived this afternoon after the market closed on Wall Street. The company showed earnings of $0.68 for the quarter the company records as its third of 2014. Revenue in the same period came in at $20.4 billion. On today’s market shares in the Windows-seller trended down and finished the day trading at $39.86. In the run-up to the release of the earnings report on Thursday afternoon, analysts studying Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) were looking for earnings per share of 63 cents from the company. The 25 analysts surveyed by Bloomberg said…