Alphabet, Shopify, Pinterest
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🗓️ 28 April 2021
⏱️ 15 minutes
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For the 2nd quarter in a row Alphabet posts record revenue. Shopify hits an all-time high after everything in the 1st quarter goes up. Pinterest falls 12% despite better-than-expected results in Q1. Brian Feroldi analyzes those stories and highlights the appeals of YouTube.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Wednesday, April 28th. |
| 0:04.5 | Welcome to Marketfoolery. |
| 0:05.5 | I'm Chris L. with me today, Brian Faraldi in the house. |
| 0:08.9 | Good to see you. |
| 0:09.9 | Good to be back, Chris. |
| 0:11.7 | We have the latest from Pinterest and Shopify, but we're going to start today with the |
| 0:16.2 | behemoth that is Alphabet shares of Google's parent company up 4% and hitting an all-time |
| 0:22.6 | high this morning. |
| 0:24.3 | This quarter profits were much higher than expected. |
| 0:26.6 | Alphabet's revenue was north of $55 billion. |
| 0:31.5 | There is a lot to get to with the company of this size. |
| 0:34.6 | Where do you want to start, Brian? |
| 0:36.1 | Well, let's start with that top line that you just mentioned. |
| 0:39.3 | Not only was it $55 billion, that figure was up 34% when compared to the year OGO period. |
| 0:47.8 | That is enormous growth, and $55.3 billion just blew past Wall Street's estimate of $51.7 |
| 0:54.6 | billion. |
| 0:55.6 | If you dig into the details of that number, basically everything worked for Google this |
| 1:00.0 | quarter. |
| 1:01.0 | Search revenue was up 30%, YouTube advertising revenue was up 50% to $6 billion, networking |
| 1:08.0 | revenue up 30%. |
| 1:10.0 | Even their other revenue, which includes like Google Play and YouTube non-advertising |
| 1:14.7 | revenue, so if you're a paying subscriber like I am to YouTube, that was up 46%. |
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