Another revenue milestone for Google. Alphabet/Google CEO Sundar Pichai posted on X/Twitter, "We delivered our first-ever $100B quarter driven by double-digit growth across every major part of our business. (Five years ago, our quarterly revenue was at $50 🚀 " with the accompanying image:
WSJ elaborated and clarified that sales reached a record $102.3 billion for Google-parent Alphabet, and net income was about $35 billion, a 33% increase over the same period a year ago. What does Alphabet attribute these continued revenue gains to? The TL;DR from their official quarterly earnings release says:
- Google Services revenues increased 14% to $87.1 billion, reflecting robust performance across Google Search & other, Google subscriptions, platforms, and devices, and YouTube ads.
- Google Cloud revenues increased 34% to $15.2 billion, led by growth in Google Cloud Platform (GCP) across core products, AI Infrastructure and Generative AI Solutions.
- Total operating income increased 9% and operating margin was 30.5%. Excluding the $3.5 billion charge related to the European Commission (EC) fine, operating income increased 22% and operating margin was 33.9%, benefitting from strong revenue growth and continued efficiencies in the expense base.
- Other income reflected a net gain of $12.8 billion, primarily the result of net unrealized gains on our nonmarketable equity securities.
- Net income increased 33% and EPS increased 35% to $2.87.
- With the growth across our business and demand from Cloud customers, we now expect 2025 capital expenditures to be in a range of $91 billion to $93 billion.