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Alphabet reports better-than-expected quarterly results driven by growth in cloud
  • Alphabet second-quarter revenue rose 7% from the year prior
  • Cloud revenue climbed 28%
  • The company said Ruth Porat is leaving the CFO role to become president and chief investment officer

Alphabet $GOOGL shares rose more than 6% after hours today (Tuesday) after they reported better-than-expected revenue and profit, driven by growth in its cloud-computing unit.

  • Earnings: $1.44 per share vs. $1.34 per share, adjusted, expected by Refinitiv.
  • Revenue: $74.6 billion vs. $72.82 billion expected by Refinitiv.

The company also reported:

  • YouTube ads: $7.67 billion vs. $7.43 billion, according to Street Account
  • Google Cloud: $8.03 billion vs. $7.87 billion, according to StreetAccount
  • Traffic acquisition costs: $12.54 billion vs. $12.37 billion, according to StreetAccount
  • Revenue rose 7% to $74.6 billion for the second quarter

For the fourth straight quarter, Google’s parent company reported growth in the single digits as it reckons with a pullback in digital ad spending that reflects concerns about the economy. Analysts don’t expect growth to hit double digits again until the fourth quarter.

Google’s ad revenue came in at $58.14 billion, up from $56.29 billion last year. YouTube ads came in above analyst expectations at $7.67 billion, up from $7.34 billion the year before.

Revenue in Google’s cloud unit, which includes infrastructure and productivity apps, increased 28%.

Separately, Alphabet said in the release that Ruth Porat, the company’s finance chief, will be leaving that role after eight years to assume the newly created position of president and chief investment officer. Porat will remain CFO “while the company searches for and selects her successor,” the press release said.

The company’s Other Bet’s, which includes life sciences unit Verily and self-driving car unit Waymo, brought in $285 million in revenue, up from $193 the year prior.
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The gem of the earnings call was that Ruth said GCP is actually growing faster than the Cloud segment which grew 28%. The cloud segment is GCP + Workspace.
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Microsoft 365 Copilot to cost $30/user/month
This on top of the $12.50/user/month for Microsoft 365 Business Standard, which is required. (Their cheapest plan, Business Basic, costs $6/user/month.

Microsoft stock was +4% on the news, at $2.67T market cap, 2% away from its all-time high. $MSFT
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@heyrico07/19/2023
Will be exciting to see adoption of this feature
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I predict $TTD will hit all time highs within the next month
The Trade Desk will be added to the Nasdaq 100. They will get more analyst attention and more liquidity. All that needs to happen is for the market to keep doing what it will be doing and The Trade Desk could get back to where it was in November 2021 at $107.
$TTD will be over $107/share on 2023-08-12?
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