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GOOG $1M+ Call Sweeps Strike: 120 Expiration: 9/16
By: Cheddar Flow | August 11, 2022
• $GOOG $1M+ Call Sweeps
Strike: 120
Expiration: 9/16
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$GOOG $1.5M OTM Call Strike: 130 Expiration: 1/20/23 *Above the Ask*
By: Cheddar Flow | August 10, 2022
• $GOOG $1.5M OTM Call
Strike: 130
Expiration: 1/20/23
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Exclusive-Google Fiber plans 5-state growth spurt, biggest since 2015
By: Reuters | August 10, 2022
• Google Fiber plans to bring its high-speed internet service to multiple cities in Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Nebraska and Nevada over the next several years in its first big expansion since it spun out as an independent Alphabet Inc unit in 2015.
(Reuters) – Google Fiber plans to bring its high-speed internet service to multiple cities in Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Nebraska and Nevada over the next several years in its first big expansion since it spun out as an independent Alphabet Inc unit in 2015.
In his first media interview since becoming chief executive of Google Fiber in February 2018, Dinni Jain told Reuters on Wednesday that his team was finally prepared to “add a little bit more build velocity” after over four years of sharpening operations.
The anticipated expansion to 22 metro areas across the United States from 17 today includes previously announced projects to launch in Mesa, Arizona and Colorado Springs, Colorado. The choices were based the company’s findings of where speeds lag.
“There was an impression 10 years ago that Google Fiber was trying to build the entire country,” Jain said. “What we are gesturing here is, ‘No, we are not trying to build the entire country.'”
Jain declined to comment on Fiber’s financial results or fundraising plans.
Some other Alphabet subsidiaries have raised outside funding to independently validate their value, been shut down or subsumed by other entities. Fiber could face similar choices as the expansion materializes over the next three to five years.
The growth plan comes as Alphabet and other companies slow hiring and shutter some fringe projects as worries about a global recession rise.
“The intent is to build businesses that will be successful in and of their own right and that is what we are trying to do at Google Fiber for sure,” Jain said. He added that the company could not rely on dipping into “a rich parent’s wallet.”
Google began taking on internet service stalwarts such as Comcast Corp and AT&T Inc in 2010 with co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin declaring they were tired of waiting on Congress to drive the industry toward faster speeds at lower costs.
The project worked. Competitors scrambled to match Google Fiber’s gigabit per second offerings in initial launch sites such as Austin, Texas and even in Los Angeles and other areas under consideration.
“We were so paranoid,” Jain said of his prior role as Time Warner Cable’s chief operating officer.
But Google in 2015 separated its core business from other bets such as Fiber, delivery drones and anti-aging solutions. Brin and Page also ceded some oversight.
Fiber had to pare its hundreds of millions of dollars in annual losses, which had gone toward construction, experimenting with new ways to ground fiberoptic cables and subsidizing some service.
While Wall Street cheered cost controls and transparency, Fiber over the last few years minimized expansion to West Des Moines, Iowa and within existing metropolitan areas. Jain honed processes and dumped failed ideas aimed at saving time like taping cables to sidewalks.
Last year, it did more building than the previous few years combined.
“We’ve had to go from spirit and culture of tremendous innovation to one of operational excellence,” Jain said.
Fiber maintains some edge in its view. Burying trenches less deep than others should save time, while streamlining prices and setup to limit help calls from customers should hold down costs.
Jain said customers contacted Fiber a third less than what he has witnessed at similar companies, and he described sign-ups as “very healthy” and higher than what he expected before joining.
Fiber will continue to pursue wireless service, through its Webpass brand, for multi-unit buildings, Jain added. In some cases, it will lease local fiber networks from other providers.
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Alphabet and 7 More Stocks Wall Street Loves That Aren’t Too Pricey
By: Barron's | August 9, 2022
• Investors usually have to pay up to get high-quality stocks, but it isn’t always the case.
Barron’s latest investing screen, looking for the best-loved stocks in the S&P 500 that offer significant potential gains based on the average of analysts’ price targets, yielded a surprise. Six of the eight of the companies we found were trading at valuations like that of the overall market, or better.
A screen, of course, is only a starting point, a part of the process of investment research, but this one offered a special message. The quality companies aren’t particularly expensive...
We defined the best-loved stocks as those with Buy-rating ratios of more than 90%, compared with the average for companies in the S&P 500 of about 58%. It is worth asking if Buy ratings are a good indicator of whether a stock is likely to rise, but researchers have found that Buy-rated stocks do a little better than those rated at Sell.
That makes some sense. Analysts are paid to understand industries and pick companies they believe are better positioned than others.
Each of the stocks also had to have the potential to rise more than 20% based on analysts’ average price targets. The average upside for stocks in the S&P 500, by that measure, is about 15% today. Analysts’ price targets can represent the level a stock will attain over the coming 12 months, or they can indicate a “fair” price to pay for a stock to earn a fair return in the future.
Six of the eight stocks trade for less than 18 times the per-share earnings the companies are expected to produce in 2023. The S&P 500, meanwhile, trades for about 17 times earnings.
The exceptions are Amazon and Alexandria. They trade for about 41 and 30 times estimated 2023 earnings, respectively. Still, Alexandria is a classified as a real estate investment trust, or REIT. REITs in the S&P 500 trade for about 37 times estimated 2023 earnings, meaning Alexandria is cheap relative to its peers.
Signature Bank is trading for about eight times estimated 2023 earnings. Banks in the S&P 500 are trading for about nine times.
Baker Hughes and Schlumberger trade for about 14 and 12 times estimated 2022 earnings, respectively. That isn’t too expensive on an absolute basis, but energy-services companies in the S&P 500 trade for closer than 10 times. They are a little more expensive than average.
Overall, the eight are down about 16% on average so far in 2022. Schlumberger is the only stock up substantially, with a gain of about 16%. Signature Bank stock has done the worse, falling more than 40%.
Excluding Amazon and Alexandria, the remaining six trade for about 13 times estimated 2023 earnings, on average.
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Alphabet Inc. (GOOGL) Quiet week for this one, but chart still constructive. 120 big level to clear
By: Options Mike | August 7, 2022
• $GOOGL Quiet week for this one, but chart still constructive. 120 big level to clear.
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John Kent Walker Sells 34,799 Shares of Alphabet Inc. (GOOGL) Stock
By: MarketBeat | August 6, 2022
• Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOGL - Get Rating) insider John Kent Walker sold 34,799 shares of the company's stock in a transaction that occurred on Thursday, August 4th. The stock was sold at an average price of $118.25, for a total transaction of $4,114,981.75. Following the transaction, the insider now directly owns 18,484 shares of the company's stock, valued at approximately $2,185,733. The sale was disclosed in a filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is accessible through this hyperlink...
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Alphabet Inc. (GOOGL) 118 then 120ish if it keep going
By: Options Mike | July 31, 2022
• $GOOGL Earnings miss, no guidance and what they said on the call sounded negative... but it's up!!!
118 then 120ish if it keep going.
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GOOG 1 million share #darkpool print at $115.32
By: Money Flow Mel | July 29, 2022
• $GOOG 1 million share #darkpool print at $115.32.
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Alphabet (GOOGL) Price Target Cut to $205.00
By: MarketBeat | July 28, 2022
• Alphabet (NASDAQ:GOOGL - Get Rating) had its price objective decreased by equities researchers at Rosenblatt Securities to $205.00 in a research report issued on Monday, Marketbeat.com reports. The firm presently has a "buy" rating on the information services provider's stock. Rosenblatt Securities' price objective indicates a potential upside of 79.48% from the company's previous close...
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Rosenblatt Securities Reiterates "Maintains" Rating for Alphabet (GOOGL)
By: MarketBeat | July 28, 2022
• Alphabet (NASDAQ:GOOGL - Get Rating)'s stock had its "maintains" rating reissued by research analysts at Rosenblatt Securities in a research report issued to clients and investors on Wednesday, Benzinga reports...
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Alphabet (GOOGL) Stock-Split Stock That Is Historically Cheap and Begging to Be Bought
By: Motley Fool | July 28, 2022
• Stock-split euphoria has taken hold of Wall Street, with a select few stock-split stocks standing out as incredible bargains.
It's been quite the year for Wall Street. The broad-based S&P 500 produced its worst first-half to a year in more than a half-century, while the growth stock-driven Nasdaq Composite tumbled by more than 30%. Consumers are dealing with historically high inflation (9.1% in June 2022), as well as the ripple effects on the energy supply chain of Russia invading Ukraine. To top things off, the COVID-19 pandemic is still ongoing and adversely impacting supply chains globally.
Yet amid this chaos, investors have developed a case of stock-split euphoria. A stock split is a way for a publicly traded company to alter its share price and outstanding share count without having an effect on its market cap or operating performance. A forward stock split, which is what tends to get investors most excited, reduces the nominal share price of a stock and makes it more affordable for retail investors.
Forward stock splits are almost always viewed as bullish events. The thinking here is that a company wouldn't need to split in the first place if it wasn't executing on its growth strategy and hadn't seen its share price rise as a result.
But among this veritable sea of stock-split stocks in 2022 stands two widely held companies that are historically cheaper than they've ever been and are begging to be bought by patient investors.
Alphabet
Without question, the no-brainer buy among this year's stock-split stocks is Alphabet (GOOGL 0.14%) (GOOG 0.06%), parent company of internet search engine Google and streaming platform YouTube.
Alphabet actually kicked off stock-split mania by announcing in February that, with the approval of its shareholders, it would split its shares 20-for-1. The company ultimately gained the requisite approval of its shareholders and began trading at its post-split price on July 18.
Like most FAANG stocks, Alphabet has been put through the wringer this year. There appears to be growing evidence that a recession is brewing or possibly already here. Since the lion's share of the company's sales is derived from advertising, and ad revenue is among the first things to be hit during a recession or economic contraction, there's genuine worry that Alphabet could be fighting an uphill battle in coming quarters.
However, analyzing Alphabet's operating performance over one or two quarters isn't the correct approach. If investors widen the lens and take into account its numerous sustainable competitive advantages and long-winded growth opportunities, they'd likely realize it's one of Wall Street's top bargains.
Take the company's foundational internet search engine segment as a perfect example. For the past two years, Google has practically been a monopoly. Data from GlobalStats shows that it's held between 91% and 93% of global internet search market share. This virtually insurmountable market share lead is what affords the company such impressive ad-pricing power. It also explains why Google has grown by a double-digit annual percentage (save for the initial stages of the COVID-19 pandemic) for two decades.
There's also YouTube, which has blossomed into the second most-visited social media site on the planet (2.56 billion monthly active users). Although ad sales have slowed in recent quarters as recession worries mount, YouTube appears to be pacing close to $30 billion in annual ad sales. Additionally, don't overlook YouTube's premium subscriptions as a growth driver.
But it's Alphabet's cloud service infrastructure segment, Google Cloud, which is most impressive. Google Cloud is the world's No. 3 cloud service provider by total revenue, and it's been consistently growing by 40% to 50% on an annual basis. Although it's a bottom-line drag for the moment as Alphabet invests aggressively in cloud, it could easily become the company's leading operating cash flow driver by mid-decade.
Over the past five years, Alphabet has traded at an average of 26.4 times Wall Street's forward-year earnings forecast for the company, as well as 19.2 times cash flow. You can pick up shares of Alphabet right now for less than 17 times Wall Street's forecast earnings for 2023 and less than 9 times forecast cash flow for 2025. It's a screaming buy at these levels.
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Microsoft Speaks to Google, Oracle to Help Push for MultiCloud Approach
By: Investing.com | July 27, 2022
The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday that Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) is encouraging other well-known cloud computing providers, including Oracle (NYSE:ORCL) and Alphabet's (NASDAQ:GOOGL) Google, to push the U.S. Government to spread its spending on services more widely.
The move is seen as an attempt to scale back Amazon's (NASDAQ:AMZN) dominance in such contracts. According to WSJ sources, Microsoft has reportedly spoken to other cloud companies to jointly lobby Washington to encourage significant government projects to employ more than one cloud service.
In addition, the report stated Microsoft also spoke to VMware (NYSE:VMW), Dell Technologies (NYSE:DELL), IBM (NYSE:IBM), and Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE:HPE).
According to Gartner's research, the WSJ said that Amazon's cloud had a 47% share of the 2021 U.S. and Canada public-sector market orders, with the National Security Agency picking Amazon as the sole vendor for a cloud contract worth up to $10 billion in 2021.
Amazon responded to the lobbying campaign by stating, "Public-sector customers should have the freedom and flexibility to determine how to obtain secure, reliable and cost-effective cloud services."
On the other hand, Microsoft calls for a multi-cloud approach, meaning the use of cloud infrastructure from more than one company.
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Google Sends Reassuring Signals to Wall Street
By: TheStreet | July 27, 2022
• The internet giant has announced quarterly results containing soothing signals for investors who are very worried about the economy.
Alphabet (GOOGL) financial results were eagerly awaited by investors wishing to take the true pulse of the economy.
Are we already in a recession and if so what is the extent of the damage to businesses? These are the questions that investors hoped the parent company of Google would answer.
The response given by the Mountain View, Calif. based firm is not completely clear, but there are some reassuring elements, or at least, ones that do not completely plunge investors into a deep slump.
"The economy outlook [is] uncertain," CEO Sundar Pichai told analysts during the earnings call following the release of the results.
Net income fell 13.6% to $16 billion in the second quarter ended June 30, compared to the second quarter of 2021, the company announced in a press release on July 26...
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Alphabet’s (GOOGL) Q2 revenue by segment
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Bullish Rippers | July 27, 2022
• Google’s $GOOGL Q2 revenue by segment.
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11 months later.....
Now....wow.....Split adjusted = aproximately 2180
Green Arow = After-hours earnings response.
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GOOGL revenues worldwide, broken out by business type
By: Markets & Mayhem | July 26, 2022
• $GOOGL revenues worldwide, broken out by business type.
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History of Google's $GOOGL Q2 revenue
By: Bullish Rippers | July 26, 2022
• History of Google's $GOOGL Q2 revenue
2005: $1.4B
2006: $2.5B
2007: $3.9B
2008: $5.4B
2009: $5.5B
2010: $6.8B
2011: $9B
2012: $11.8B
2013: $13.1B
2014: $16B
2015: $17.7B
2016: $21.5B
2017: $26B
2018: $32.7B
2019: $38.9B
2020: $38.3B
2021: $61.9B
2022: $69.69B
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Alphabet earnings are out – here are the numbers
By: CNBC | July 26, 2022
Alphabet reported earnings after the bell. Here are the results.
• Earnings per share (EPS): $1.21 vs $1.28 expected, according to Refinitiv
• Revenue: $69.69 billion vs $69.9 billion expected, according to Refinitiv
Wall Street is also watching other key numbers in the Alphabet report:
• YouTube advertising revenue: $7.52 billion expected, according to StreetAccount
• Google Cloud revenue: $6.41 billion expected, according to StreetAccount
• Traffic acquisition costs (TAC): $12.41 billion expected, according to StreetAccount
Alphabet is expected to report a slowing of revenue growth to 13% from 62% a year earlier, when the company was pulling out of the pandemic and the economy was flourishing.
Recently, analysts have lowered their estimates for second-quarter earnings to account for broad economic challenges now facing advertisers.
Google said last month it will slow the pace of hiring and investments through 2023, and CEO Sundar Pichai told employees in a memo, “we’re not immune to economic headwinds.”
“We need to be more entrepreneurial working with greater urgency, sharper focus, and more hunger than we’ve shown on sunnier days,” Pichai wrote.
Also during the quarter, Google said it would be raising pay and overhauling its performance evaluation system for full-time employees as the company tries to ease tension between employees and leadership.
Alphabet finance chief Ruth Porat warned Wall Street in April that the company may be in for another rough quarter after missing analysts expectations on the top and bottom lines for the first period. She cited the Russia-Ukraine war, tough comparisons from the prior year’s growth and competition from rivals like TikTok.
Snap soured the mood for ad-tech last week, when the social media company reported disappointing results on the top and bottom line and said “forward-looking visibility remains incredibly challenging.” The stock plunged 39% and pulled down other ad-tech stocks. Facebook parent Meta, which is set to report results on Wednesday, dropped more than 7%.
There’s also potential regulatory action from lawmakers related to Google’s dominant search business. The Wall Street Journal recently reported that a new antitrust lawsuit over Google’s ad-tech business could come as soon as this summer. And Google faces lawsuits from coalitions of state attorneys general tied to concerns around privacy and monopoly control.
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The Senate is expected to pass the much-awaited CHIPS Act this week
By: StockNews | July 26, 2022
• The Senate is expected to pass the much-awaited CHIPS Act this week. The $52 billion funding aims to bolster domestic manufacturing and incentivize investment in this sector. The potential passage of this bill can propel quality semiconductor stocks Intel (INTC), United Microelectronics (UMC), and Photronics (PLAB) to soar higher. Let’s discuss the stocks in detail….
The semiconductor industry remained crippled by the lingering supply chain issues, hampering optimum productivity. Moreover, the Ukraine-Russia war has further strained the accessibility of raw materials. Vinay Gupta, the International Data Corporation’s Asia-Pacific research director, said, “The semiconductor supply is not going to increase immediately.”
However, given its varied usage across industries, the global IoT Chip market is estimated to grow at a CAGR of 15.5% from 2022 to 2028.
On the other hand, the Senate is expected to pass the Creating Helpful Incentives to Produce Semiconductors (CHIPS) for America Act this week. The $52 billion bill is expected to boost U.S. domestic chip production in manifolds while also providing tax credits for investments in the sector.
The legislation “is going to advance our nation’s competitiveness and our technological edge,” President Biden said while urging Congress to “pass this bill as soon as possible.”
The forward movement in this bill could propel the fundamentally strong semiconductor stocks, Intel Corporation (INTC), United Microelectronics Corporation (UMC), and Photronics, Inc. (PLAB), to skyrocket.
Intel Corporation (INTC)
Industry leader INTC designs, manufactures, and sells computer products and technologies worldwide. It operates through CCG; DCG; IOTG; Mobileye; NSG; PSG; and All Other segments. The company serves original equipment manufacturers, original design manufacturers, and cloud service providers.
On July 25, 2022, INTC and MediaTek announced their agreement to manufacture chips using Intel Foundry Services’ advanced process technologies. This alliance is expected to fortify future growth possibilities for both companies...
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Alphabet (GOOGL) Price Target Lowered to $125.00 at KeyCorp
By: MarketBeat | July 26, 2022
• Alphabet (NASDAQ:GOOGL - Get Rating) had its price target dropped by KeyCorp from $153.00 to $125.00 in a report issued on Tuesday, Stock Target Advisor reports. The brokerage presently has an "overweight" rating on the information services provider's stock. KeyCorp's price objective would suggest a potential upside of 17.03% from the stock's previous close...
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Earnings Preview: Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOGL)
By: 24/7 Wall St. | July 25, 2022
• Here’s a look at four companies set to report results before markets open Tuesday morning.
Alphabet
Over the past 12 months, the parent of Google, Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOGL), has posted a share price decline of more than 15%. Since early April, the shares are down more than 25%. The company’s 20-for-1 stock split took effect Monday morning, dropping the per-share price to about $108.00 from more than $2,100.00. While the split places Alphabet on the short list of companies that might be added to the Dow (along with Amazon, which completed a similar split in April), investors will pay more attention to comments regarding ad spending and regulation. Ad spending is projected to be 3% to 4% lower in the second half of the year, and regulation, particularly in Europe, is tightening.
Analysts, however, remain universally bullish on the stock. Of 50 ratings, 48 give the stock a Buy or Strong Buy rating, and the other two have a Hold rating on the shares. At a recent split-adjusted price of around $107.90, the upside potential based on a median price target of $150.00 is 39%. At the high price target of $205.90, the upside potential is nearly 91%.
Second-quarter revenue is forecast at $69.95 billion, up 2.8% sequentially and up 13% year over year. Adjusted earnings per share (EPS) are pegged at $1.29, up 5.2% sequentially and down 5.1% year over year. For the full 2022 fiscal year, current consensus estimates call for EPS of $5.48, down 2.3%, on revenue of $294.51 billion, up 14.3%.
Alphabet stock trades at a multiple of 19.7 times expected 2022 EPS, 16.7 times estimated 2023 earnings of $6.47, and 14.8 times estimated 2024 earnings of $7.29. The stock’s split-adjusted 52-week range is $101.88 to $151.55. The company does not pay a dividend and the total shareholder return for the past 12 months is negative 16%.
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I am of the opinion that it will pass. They can't afford an economic slowdown.
Besides they have no intention in paying the money back...
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Alphabet (GOOGL) Down big off $SNAP earnings this week, 105 then 102 key levels to hold.. need good guidance
By: Options Mike | July 24, 2022
• $GOOGL Down big off $SNAP earnings this week, 105 then 102 key levels to hold.. need good guidance.
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Stocks To Watch This Week: Alphabet (NASDAQ:GOOGL)
By: Investing.com | July 24, 2022
• More than a third of S&P 500 companies are reporting earnings next week.
• Alphabet sales may get a hit from the possible spending cut on digital ads and Russian war.
• Amazon’s e-commerce business is facing a sharp slowdown as people shift their spending pattern after the pandemic.
Earnings releases from some of the largest US companies may help provide direction for investors this week who are looking for signs of weakness in consumer demand amid a threat of recession.
More than a third of S&P 500 companies are reporting, including tech and industrial giants that have global footprints and have the latest update on how inflationary pressures and war in Europe are impacting consumer behavior.
In addition to major earnings announcements, the US Federal Reserve will also announce its decision on interest rates this week amid expectations that a 75 basis point jump is a done deal. The Fed has been pursuing the most aggressive monetary tightening in decades to cool down the economy and tame a four-decade high rate of inflation.
Below, we've short-listed three stocks from different sectors we’re monitoring as Q2 earnings season ramps into full swing:
Alphabet
Alphabet (NASDAQ:GOOGL) (NASDAQ:GOOG), the parent company of Google, will be reporting second-quarter 2022 earnings on Tuesday, July 26, after the market close. On average, expectations are for earnings per share of $1.28 on revenue of $70.04 billion.
Google’s Q2 results are likely to be impacted by the Russian war in Ukraine, a worsening macro environment in which companies are cutting their ad spending, tougher comparisons against pandemic highs and changing foreign exchange rates.
Alphabet Earnings History
Alphabet Earnings History
Ahead of the earnings announcement, some equity analysts have lowered estimates for YouTube sales in part to reflect the heightened competition from ByteDance Ltd.’s TikTok video app.
Google is also facing a tougher regulatory environment in Europe. Google’s second-largest business line, its network system that runs ads elsewhere on the web, was likely limited by new regulations in Europe that restricted ad targeting.
Google stock, which has lost more than 25% this year, closed at $107.90 on Friday.
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Alphabet Held onto this wedge by the skin of its teeth
By: TrendSpider | July 23, 2022
• $GOOG Held onto this wedge by the skin of its teeth. Next week should be interesting!
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