Alphabet shares fall after cloud revenue gains fall short of expectations
) shares fell more than 5% in after-hours trading after weaker than expected gains in revenue from its cloud computing operation.
The company reported third quarter earnings of $1.55 a share on revenue of $76.7 billion. Both measures beat expectations for profit of $1.46 a share on revenue of $75.9 billion. Overall, revenue was up 11%. Cloud revenue rose 22% to $8.4 billion but was short of expectations for $8.6 billion. Google said revenue from search and other businesses rose 11% to $44 billion, and YouTube advertising revenue rose 12% to $7.9 billion.
Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai said:"I'm pleased with our financial results and our product momentum this quarter, with AI-driven innovations across Search, YouTube, Cloud, our Pixel devices and more. We're continuing to focus on making AI more helpful for everyone; there's exciting progress and lots more to come."We encourage you to use comments to engage with other users, share your perspective and ask questions of authors and each other.
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