What Happened
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Alphabet Seeing Rapid Growth
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This is the fastest that the company has ever made $100 billion. The company grew from $800 to $900 billion in two years, the data shows.
The increase in growth pace comes as Alphabet posted a 22% year-on-year growth in revenue in the third quarter of 2019, with revenue from advertising and cloud computing on the rise.
The revenue from the cloud business doubled, reaching $2 billion by July 2019 from February 2018, CNBC noted.
Alphabet is expected to post the fourth-quarter results after the market’s close on February 3, and analysts are expecting the company to post $46.9 billion in revenue, up 19.5% compared to the same quarter last year.
The fourth-quarter results will be important to Alphabet, as it faces increased pressure to justify its valuation after joining the trillion dollar club.
Pichai Inspires Investor Confidence
According to the Journal, the company’s investors have also expressed greater confidence in Sundar Pichai, who took over as the conglomerate’s CEO in December, when founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page stepped down from managerial roles.
Most of Pichai’s additional earnings, who gets a $2 million paycheck, are tied to the company’s stock performance, as a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission last December had shown.
This could mean that Pichai might increase share buybacks or institute a dividend payment for the first time in Google’s history, the Journal noted.
Price Action
Alphabet’s Class A shares closed 0.76% higher at $1,450.16 on Thursday. The shares added another 0.28% in after-hours trading.
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