Alphabet shares gain as Google search boosts profits

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The alphabet shares have increased when the first trimester profit has increased by 46 percent, increasing the demand for artificial intelligence for its search business and artificial intelligence for cloud computing power.

Google’s main agency on Thursday said that a net income of $ 23.7 billion stood at $ 34.5 billion in the same three months ago a year ago.

CEO, CEO, Pichai, referring to the AI-exposed replies, “Search has seen the continued strong growth by the busyness that we are seeing with features like AI Overview,” it now shows the top of the pages of many results. “Clouds have increased rapidly with significant demand for our solution.”

Google’s original search and advertising business increased by about 10 percent in the quarter of $ 50.7 billion, which exceeded the estimate between 8 and 9 percent.

These statistics have provided investors who are closely monitored for any tenderness in the search – for 56 percent of the group’s revenue and the popularity of the AI ​​chatboat, such as OpenAE’s Chatzept, ethnic Claud and Elon Mask’s popularity.

They were also careful to prove that Google’s own Gemny Chattbot and AI Overview Answers reducing the number of clicks in advertising that the original business was being nourished.

The results were “Healthy ads and the clouds were better than fear with the cloud [revenue]”, Jefferries analyst Brent Thill said. He had earlier warned that“ the macroeconomics and tariffs [would] The second and third quarters have fired a smoke “and Chinese vendors reduce the cost as that ad” faces headwinds “.

The Cloud computing Division AI shows the continued demand for data centers and network services from boom, the revenue has increased by 20 percent. However, it is slower than 30.1 percent in the previous quarter.

Chief Financial Officer Anat Ashkanazi warned that “we are in a strict demand/supply environment” that can lead to “variability of cloud revenue growth throughout the year.” He also added that “we expect to deploy relatively higher power at the end of 2025” with more data centers coming online.

Alphabet The shares have increased by about 5 percent in trading after the market. The company says it will buy the same amount of $ 70bn shares the same as last year.

Google is the second largest technology company in terms of US President Donald Trump’s global trade war. Alphabet shares have dropped by about 17 percent this year. Like most of its rivals, the company disrupts the supply chains and softens consumer expenses, promotes the fear of US downturn, disrupts the chains of tariffs and has been affected by anxiety over consumer expenses.

At the beginning of this week, Tesla warned that one of the tariffs would be “Outsized” effects Its battery business that depends on the material from China. Chief Executive Elon Mask promised Trump to continue on behalf of the free-trade policies.

The cost of the alphabet in data centers, chips and other AI infrastructure continues to increase. The first-quarter capital expenditure jumps at $ 17.2bn, which is more than $ 12 billion last year and a bit higher than 17.1bn estimates. The company’s forecast cost will reach $ 75BN this year, more than $ 53 billion in 2024.

According to the capital IQ, the overall income increased to 12 percent in three months to $ 90.2 billion, in the end of March, losing the sens camma expectations at $ 89.2 billion.

The alphabet has lost its exploration, digital advertisement and the legacy of disbelief cases against US regulators against the Play App Store business. It faces Possibility About selling its Chrome browser, finish the exclusive search engine partnership with Apple and share more data with rivals.