Neil Carvin submits:
Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) earned $0.40 per share in the first quarter of fiscal 2010, which ended 30 September 2009. Net income was $0.48 per share in the year-earlier quarter.
In October, we examined Microsoft’s Income Statement for the September quarter and compared the entries on each line to our "look-ahead" estimates. We later performed a financial gauge analysis of Microsoft, which determined that the GCFR Overall gauge slipped from 60 of the 100 possible points to 56.