Alphabet Q2 2024 Earnings

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Alphabet Q2 2024 Earnings

Alphabet's Revenue Soars by 14% Driven by Cloud Computing and Search Ads

Alphabet for Q2 reported revenue of $85 billion surged by 14% Year-over-Year (YoY), bolstered by strong performances in Search and Cloud and advertising. For the first time, Cloud exceeded $10 billion in quarterly revenues and achieved $1 billion in operating profit. This indicates that artificial intelligence chatbots like OpenAI's ChatGPT have yet to impact the number of queries on its dominant search engine.

Alphabet's results highlight strong demand for digital ads, fueled by major events such as the Paris Olympics and elections in various countries, including the U.S. Additionally, a rebound in enterprise spending is enhancing its software business.

Advertising revenue, which constitutes the majority of Google's total income stood at $64.62 billion, up from $58.14 billion last year, representing a growth of 11%. This demonstrates continued growth in Google's advertising business. However, this growth is slower than in the first quarter due to rising inflation and interest rates tightening marketing budgets in 2022 and 2023.

YouTube ad revenue increased to $8.66 billion from $7.66 billion in the same quarter last year. Despite being the world's largest video platform, YouTube faces growing competition from social video sites like TikTok. Meanwhile, Google Cloud's services business saw a 29% increase to $10.3 billion for the second quarter.

Even stronger growth in Alphabet's cloud computing business demonstrated the insatiable demand for computing and data services. This demand is driven by Big Tech companies and start-ups racing to develop large language models and integrate AI into their operations.

Net income rose to $23.6 billion, or $1.89 per share, compared to $18.4 billion, or $1.44 per share, in the year-ago quarter.

Alphabet's capital expenditure increased to $13 billion, $1 billion more than the previous quarter and nearly double the $6.9 billion spent in the same period in 2023. This rise is due to a significant investment in data centers, new chips for training and running AI models, and the development of its AI product suite, Gemini.

"We are at the beginning of a highly transformative phase. In tech, during such transitions, the risk of underinvesting is much greater than that of overinvesting," Pichai explained to analysts. "Failing to invest to stay at the forefront has a much more considerable downside."

The company's "Other Bets" unit, which includes its self-driving car company Waymo, generated $365 million, up from $285 million a year ago. Finance chief Ruth Porat announced during the earnings call that Alphabet is committing a new $5 billion multiyear investment in Waymo.

In the second quarter, Alphabet saw several expansion updates, including Waymo opening its service to all San Francisco users. This was its second citywide rollout, following its 2020 debut in the Phoenix metropolitan area.

CEO Sundar Pichai stated on the earnings call that Waymo is now providing 50,000 weekly paid public rides, primarily in San Francisco and Phoenix.

"Our strong performance this quarter highlights ongoing strength in Search and momentum in Cloud," Pichai said in the earnings release. "We are innovating at every layer of the AI stack. Our longstanding infrastructure leadership and in-house research teams position us well as technology evolves and as we pursue the many opportunities ahead."

The earnings report was released a day after Google decided to drop its proposed $23 billion acquisition of the Israeli cybersecurity company Wiz, which would have been the largest in its history.

Apart from that, the company announced it would pay a second-quarter dividend of 20 cents per share, totalling around $2.5 billion. This follows Google's first dividend earlier this year, marking a shift from its previous policy of solely using share buybacks to return money to investors.

On July 23, Alphabet shares declined by approximately 2% in after-hours trading.

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