Analysts were concerned that Yahoo's deferred revenue, essentially its backlog of business for the next two quarters, declined $ 10 million, to $ 110 million.
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Fourth-quarter earnings would have been higher if the company hadn't put away $ 133 million, or 7 cents a share, in deferred revenue, analysts said.
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One result was that Microsoft reported that its deferred revenue, or money that is booked from subscription sales, dropped $ 395 million in the quarter.
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With Microsoft, analysts pay particular attention to deferred revenue, which increased about $ 130 million from the September quarter to $ 4 . 26 billion.
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The company's unearned or deferred revenue rose $ 253 million to $ 1 . 67 billion from $ 1 . 42 billion in the previous quarter.
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Microsoft has $ 1.42 billion in total deferred revenue, which Berger Associates senior technology analyst Amy Felmer estimates is equal to about 70 cents a share.
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Shares of rival Viasoft Inc . fell 21 percent earlier this week after it reported declining deferred revenue coupled with sales that fell short of some analysts'targets.
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Deferred revenue, or uncounted revenue from long-term orders or sales, fell to $ 1.38 million from $ 3.26 million in the quarter ending Dec . 31, 1996.
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By the end of September, Microsoft's deferred revenue was $ 9 . 1 billion, up from $ 7 . 7 billion in the quarter ended in June.
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Microsoft has $ 1 . 42 billion in total deferred revenue, which Berger Associates senior technology analyst Amy Felmer estimates is equal to about 70 cents a share.
