Alphabet first-quarter results likely to show continued growth, boosted by cloud

Cnbc · 🇮🇷 public Iran · Apr 29, 2026 · 558 words · By Jennifer Elias

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What to know about Alphabet first-quarter results likely to show continued growth, boosted by cloud

Alphabet is set to report its first-quarter earnings after the bell Wednesday.

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What happened

Alphabet is set to report its first-quarter earnings after the bell Wednesday.

Why it matters

Here's what Wall Street is looking for, according to analysts polled by LSEG: - Earnings per share: $2.63 - Revenue: $107.2 billion Wall Street is also watching several other numbers in the report: - Google Cloud: $18.05 billion estimated, according to…

Common ground

The company is getting a boost from its Gemini artificial intelligence models and services, as well as its cloud infrastructure business, which sells capacity to developers and users of AI tools.

Perspective signals

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Claim 1: “The company began fully autonomous operations in Nashville, ahead of a planned commercial launch with Lyft later this year.”

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Claim 2: “YouTube advertising: $9.99 billion estimated, according to StreetAccount”

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The claim cites a specific estimate ($9.99 billion) and a specific source (StreetAccount). While the web search results discuss YouTube advertising revenue and estimates (web_search 1), none of the provided evidence explicitly confirms the $9.99 billion figure attributed to StreetAccount. The evidence is insufficient to corroborate the precise number.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — YouTubers are people mostly known for their work on the video sharing platform YouTube. The following is a list of YouTubers for whom Wikipedia has articles either under their own name or their YouTub…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — YouTube is an American online video sharing platform owned by Google. YouTube was founded on February 14, 2005, by Chad Hurley, Jawed Karim, and Steve Chen who were all former employees of PayPal. He…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — A YouTuber is a content creator and social media influencer who uploads or creates videos on the online video-sharing website YouTube, typically posting to their personal YouTube channel. The term was…
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Claim 3: “Google Cloud: $18.05 billion estimated, according to StreetAccount”

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The claim cites a specific estimate ($18.05 billion) and a specific source (StreetAccount). While the web search results discuss Google Cloud revenue and estimates (web_search 2), none of the provided evidence explicitly confirms the $18.05 billion figure attributed to StreetAccount. The evidence is insufficient to corroborate the precise number.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — A Google Account is a user account that is required for access, authentication and authorization to certain online Google services. It is also often used as single sign-on for third party services.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Google Cloud Platform (GCP) is a suite of cloud computing services offered by Google that provides a series of modular cloud services including computing, data storage, data analytics, and machine lea…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Google Street View is a technology featured in Google Maps and Google Earth that provides interactive panoramas from positions along many streets in the world. Google Street View displays street-level…
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Claim 4: “Revenue: $107.2 billion”

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The claim specifies an estimate of $107.2 billion. One web search result mentions $107 billion (web_search 1), and another mentions $113.8 billion (web_search 2). While these sources provide estimates, they are not consistent enough to corroborate the exact figure of $107.2 billion.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Alphabet Inc. is an American multinational technology conglomerate holding company headquartered in Mountain View, California. It was created through a restructuring of Google on October 2, 2015, and …
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Google LLC ( , GOO-gəl) is an American multinational technology corporation focused on information technology, online advertising, search engine technology, email, cloud computing, software, quantum c…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Ruth Porat (born 1957) is a British-American business executive who is the president and chief investment officer of Alphabet and its subsidiary Google LLC and prior to that was the chief financial of…
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Claim 5: “Google announced during the quarter that it will allow users to connect Google apps with its Gemini chatbot to do things like create personal images based on the user's private Google Photos.”

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Claim 6: “Waymo said recently it's ready to bring its self-driving vehicles to Dallas, Houston, San Antonio and Orlando.”

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Claim 7: “At its annual Google Cloud Next conference last week, the company said it's making a change for the eighth generation of its tensor processing unit, or TPU, which is central to Google's effort to challenge Nvidia in AI chips.”

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Claim 8: “Google is separating those tasks [training AI models and handling inference work] into distinct processors.”

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Claim 9: “Alphabet's stock has been the top performer over the past year among the tech megacaps, soaring 118% as of Tuesday's close.”

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The claim provides a highly specific performance metric (soaring 118% as of Tuesday's close). The available web search results are general stock information pages (web_search 1, web_search 2) and do not contain the specific percentage or date required to verify this claim. Therefore, the claim cannot be corroborated.

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web search NEUTRAL — Alphabet Inc. is an American multinational technology conglomerate holding company headquartered in Mountain View, California. It was created through a restructuring of Google on October 2, 2015, and …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alphabet_Inc.

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web search NEUTRAL — Alphabet - 19 Year Stock Price History | GOOGL.
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web search NEUTRAL — Get detailed information about the Alphabet Inc. stock (GOOGL) including Price, Charts, Technical Analysis, Historical data, Alphabet Reports and more.
https://www.investing.com/equities/google-inc

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Claim 10: “Analysts are projecting 18.7% revenue growth from $90.2 billion a year earlier, which would be the company's highest rate of growth for any quarter since 2022.”

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The claim provides specific growth percentages (18.7%) and revenue figures ($90.2 billion). While web search results discuss revenue growth and historical data (web_search 1, web_search 2), they do not consistently or specifically confirm the exact figures of 18.7% or $90.2 billion. The evidence is not strong enough for corroboration.

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web search NEUTRAL — Current and historical revenue information for Alphabet Inc. (GOOGL) stock, including a chart and comparison to related stocks.
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web search NEUTRAL — Alphabet revenue for the twelve months ending September 30, 2024 was...
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Claim 11: “Revenue is expected to jump 47% from $12.26 billion in the same quarter a year ago [for Google Cloud].”

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Claim 12: “The Google parent said in January it expects 2026 capital expenditures to be in the range of $175 billion to $185 billion.”

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Claim 13: “As part of that deal, Alphabet gave up its controlling stake and is now just a minority investor.”

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Claim 14: “Traffic acquisition costs: $15.3 billion estimated, according to StreetAccount”

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The claim cites a specific estimate ($15.3 billion) and a specific source (StreetAccount). While the web search results discuss Traffic Acquisition Costs (TAC) and estimates (web_search 2), none of the provided evidence explicitly confirms the $15.3 billion figure attributed to StreetAccount. The evidence is insufficient to corroborate the precise number.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — An alphabet is a writing system that uses a standard set of symbols, called letters, to more or less represent particular sounds in a spoken language. Specifically, letters largely correspond to phone…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — David Carl Drummond (born March 6, 1963) is an American business executive and former lawyer. He served as senior vice president of corporate development and chief legal officer for Alphabet Inc., and…
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Claim 15: “Alphabet is set to report its first-quarter earnings after the bell Wednesday.”

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Multiple web search results provide conflicting information regarding the day and even the year of the earnings report. One source states 'Wednesday' (web_search 1), another states 'Thursday' (web_search 2), and a third source mentions a specific date (April 29) and time (web_search 3). Because the day and timing are inconsistent across the available reports, the claim cannot be definitively corroborated.

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web search NEUTRAL — Google will report its first quarter earnings after the bell on Wednesday.For the first quarter, Alphabet is expected to report earnings per share of $2.62 on revenue of $107 billion, according to Blo…
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web search NEUTRAL — Alphabet is scheduled to report its first-quarter financial results after the market close on Thursday. The company is expected to report EPS of $1.51 on revenue of $78.594 billion, per Benzinga Pro.
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web search NEUTRAL — Alphabet will post its first-quarter results on April 29, ahead of a conference call scheduled for 1:30 p.m. Pacific, 4:30 p.m. Eastern.Alphabet reports earnings Wednesday after market close.
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Claim 16: “The company said during the quarter that it plans to commit up to $40 billion to Anthropic in a deal that includes massive TPU compute commitments, not just cash.”

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Claim 17: “Earnings per share: $2.63”

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The claim specifies an estimate of $2.63. While one web search result mentions an estimate of $2.62 (web_search 1), and another mentions $2.64 (web_search 2), there is no single, consistent, and authoritative source confirming the exact figure of $2.63. The evidence is too varied to corroborate the precise number.

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Claim 18: “Alphabet-owned Waymo in February announced it raised $16 billion in a new round led by outside investors, valuing the company at $126 billion.”

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Claim 19: “Google sold partial holdings in fiber optic broadband business GFiber, and became a minority owner of a new venture.”

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Claim 20: “Alphabet's health sciences unit Verily announced a $300 million investment round led by Series X Capital.”

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Claim 21: “Microsoft, Amazon and Meta are also scheduled to report quarterly results after the bell Wednesday.”

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