{"id":111983,"date":"2021-02-09T21:27:30","date_gmt":"2021-02-09T21:27:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/?p=111983"},"modified":"2021-02-09T21:27:30","modified_gmt":"2021-02-09T21:27:30","slug":"google-parent-alphabet-q4-results-top-wall-street-view-shares-up-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/business\/google-parent-alphabet-q4-results-top-wall-street-view-shares-up-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Parent Alphabet Q4 Results Top Wall Street View; Shares Up 7%"},"content":{"rendered":"
Alphabet Inc. (GOOG,GOOGL), the parent company of Google, Tuesday reported a fourth-quarter profit and revenues that trumped Wall Street estimates, sending its shares up 7% in after-hours trading.<\/p>\n
Alphabet reported fourth-quarter profit of $15.23 billion or $22.30 per share, up from last year’s profit of $10.67 billion or $15.35 per share. On average, 29 analysts polled by Thomson Reuters estimated earnings of $15.99 per share for the quarter. Analysts’ estimates typically exclude one-time items.<\/p>\n
Revenues for the quarter grew 23 percent to $56.90 billion from $46.08 billion last year. Analysts had a consensus revenue estimate of $53.15 billion for the quarter.<\/p>\n
Google advertising revenues rose to $46.20 billion from $37.93 billion last year, while Google other revenues increased to $6.67 billion from $5.26 billion. Google cloud revenues increased to $3.83 billion from $2.61 billion last year.<\/p>\n
CEO Sundar Pichai said: “Our strong results this quarter reflect the helpfulness of our products and services to people and businesses, as well as the accelerating transition to online services and the cloud.” <\/p>\n
CFO Ruth Porat said: “Our strong fourth quarter performance, with revenues of $56.9 billion, was driven by Search and YouTube, as consumer and business<\/span> activity recovered from earlier in the year. Google Cloud revenues were $13.1 billion for 2020, with significant ongoing momentum, and we remain focused on delivering value across the growth opportunities we see.” <\/p>\n GOOG closed Tuesday’s trading at $1,927.51, up $26.16 or 1.38%, on the Nasdaq. The stock further gained $2,068.00, up $140.49 or 7.29%, in the after-hours trade. <\/p>\n