A Golf Clap for Google
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🗓️ 30 October 2024
⏱️ 30 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Is it a dumpster fire or a buying opportunity? You're listening to Motley Full Money. |
| 0:18.6 | I'm Mary Long joined on this fine Wednesday morning by a Mr Tim buyers. Tim how you doing |
| 0:25.9 | partially caffeinated ready to go Mary? You're partially caffeinated I will admit that I am fully caffeinated so together hopefully we're gonna bring the energy this morning there we go |
| 0:29.0 | so let's get right to it, we got lots of big earnings coming this week. |
| 0:36.3 | The first of the hyperscalers reported yesterday after the bell. |
| 0:39.7 | Again, that's Alphabet, boasting beats across the board, revenue up with gains across all business |
| 0:45.2 | segments. This is a $2 trillion company. Growing revenue by 15% all things considered is pretty significant. |
| 0:54.3 | Operating margins also improved. |
| 0:56.3 | Like so many of its peers, |
| 0:57.4 | Google has faced scrutiny for spending a boatload of money on AI. |
| 1:02.0 | Are these results, Tim, an indicator that that AI spend is |
| 1:05.0 | starting to pay off? |
| 1:06.0 | It's way too early to say that, Mary, but it is clear that the push for AI |
| 1:12.4 | build-out is well underway. |
| 1:15.0 | You put in the notes before the show that |
| 1:17.8 | CAPEX was up 62% versus the same period last year, |
| 1:21.5 | last quarter I believe it was up 90% so they are just |
| 1:25.2 | spending a boatload of cash to build out their their AI capabilities and they |
| 1:31.3 | need to Google does stand to benefit most from the shift |
| 1:35.0 | from search engines to answer engines. |
| 1:37.0 | And we know that this is a thing. |
| 1:40.0 | Open AI wants to move the industry to what we're calling answer engines. |
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