Alphabet (GOOG, GOOGL)

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"I Have Difficult News To Share": Google CEO Tells Employees 12,000 Jobs Will Be Cut
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/i-hav ... ill-be-cut

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Google Tumbles As Ad Sales Slide, Earnings Miss Street Forecasts

Google GOOGL shares moved lower after the ad-focused tech group posted softer-than-expected fourth quarter sales, amid an ongoing pullback in marketing spending from clients around that world, and said its recent round of job cuts would produce multi-billion hit to current quarter earnings.

Google said revenues from YouTube, its signature non-search platform, fell 7.7% to around $7.9 billion over the three months ending in December, while overall ad sales were down 3.6% to $59.04 billion.

Group revenues came in at just over $76 billion, around $620 million shy of the Street consensus forecast.

Google's bottom line came in at $1.05 per share over the three months ending in December, compared to last year's split-adjusted figure of $1.53 per share, a tally that also missed Street forecasts by around $1.20 per share.

Google, which unveiled plans last month to cut around 12,000 jobs from its global workforce, said the layoffs would likely cost between $1.9 billion and $2.3 billion in severance and related charges, most of which will be recognized over the current quarter.

Source: The Street

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Alphabet, Inc. (GOOG) – Announced Thursday, February 2

Alphabet, Inc. disappointed Wall Street on Thursday evening with its fourth-quarter earnings and sales.

The company reported earnings of $1.05 per share and sales of $76.05 billion. Analysts were calling for earnings of $1.18 per share and $76.53 billion.

Full-year 2022 earnings of $4.56 per share were down from $5.61 per share in full-year 2021.

Full-year 2022 revenue increased 10% to $282.8 billion, up from full-year 2021 revenue of $257.6 billion.

Digging a little deeper into the report… Alphabet noted a nearly 8% decrease in its YouTube advertising revenue. Google Cloud sales jumped 32% to $7.3 billion in the fourth quarter.

CEO Sundar Pichai stated, “There’s great momentum in Cloud, YouTube subscriptions, and our Pixel devices. We’re on an important journey to re-engineer our cost structure in a durable way and to build financially sustainable, vibrant, growing businesses across Alphabet.”

Source: Market 360

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Alphabet Inc. – Focused on reducing expense base

PSR Recommendation: BUY
Target Price: 131

4Q22 results was within expectations on both revenue and earnings.

FY22 revenue/PATMI is at 99%/95% of our FY22e forecasts.

Adj. PATMI (excl. unrealised losses) is at 100% of our forecasts.

Revenue was dragged by 2% YoY decline in ad revenue, and 6% FX headwinds.

Cloud momentum is still strong with 32% YoY growth for 4Q22. But there was a -US$480mn operating loss.

Cloud accounts for only 10% of total revenue.

Slowing FY23e expenses growth with 12,000 job cuts in 1Q23e, reducing office facilities, and more prudent investments.

Guidance for FY23e CAPEX is roughly in line with FY22 We cut our FY23e revenue forecast by 9% to account for continued weakness in digital advertising demand, while reducing CAPEX spend by 20% to reflect a general slowdown in expenses.

Our FY23e EBITDA forecasts are also cut by 17% to reflect slower-than- anticipated margin expansion due to expected US$2.3bn severance-related charges.

We maintain BUY with a raised DCF target price of US$131.00 (prev. US$124.00) due to potential upside from increasing YouTube Shorts monetisation, continued strength in Cloud, and margin expansion in FY24e from the slowing pace of expense growth as a % of revenue, with a WACC of 7.3% and terminal growth of 3.5%.

Source: Phillips

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Google To Roll Out ChatGPT Rival Powered By 'Sentient' AI
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/goo ... entient-ai

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Alphabet Loses Over $110 Billion Market Cap After AI ChatBot 'Glitch'

BY TYLER DURDEN

"What new discoveries from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) can I tell my 9-year old about?"

BARD responds with a number of answers, including one suggesting the JWST was used to take the very first pictures of a planet outside the Earth’s solar system, or exoplanets.

This is inaccurate.

The first pictures of exoplanets were taken by the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) in 2004, as confirmed by NASA.

The falsehood will raise further questions about the accuracy of search engines and of AI-generated answers to humans’ questions.

Fears have been raised about inaccuracies generated by artificial intelligence systems which are not easily spotted by humans.

Source: Zero Hedge

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/googl ... -ai-glitch

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Can Bing and OpenAI Challenge Google? Microsoft's Satya Nadella Weighs In (Exclusive) | WSJ
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bsFXgfbj8Bc

$MSFT CEO is declaring war:
"From now on, the [gross margin] of search is going to drop forever...There is such margin in search, which for us is incremental. For Google it’s not, they have to defend it all"
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A No-Brainer Stock to Buy No Matter What Happens With the Stock Market

by Neil Patel

After posting a stellar annual revenue gain of 41% in 2021, Alphabet hit the brakes in 2022, increasing overall sales by only 9.8% for the year.

A sizable chunk of Alphabet’s total revenue — 78% in 2022 — comes from advertising.

Source: The Motley Fool

https://dailytradealert.com/2023/02/14/ ... ck-market/

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Bard AI Is Boring: Google Explains Why They Want It That Way | WSJ
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=J9rMC33Kpo8

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If I Could Only Buy 1 Stock, This Would Be It

by Anders Bylund

The stock trades at 24 times trailing earnings and free cash flow (FCF).

At the same time, the revenue line shows a five-year compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 20.6%.

For bottom-line earnings, the five-year CAGR stands at 23.3%.

Source: The Motley Fool

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