At Google, Earnings Soar, and Share Price Follows
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Google Inc.&#39;s already soaring stock price rocketed even higher on Thursday after reporting strong growth in its first quarter as a public company, prompting skeptics
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Despite a drop in Google Inc. share price after its Wednesday earnings announcement, investor confidence in the IT sector appears to be high as earnings season winds down.
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With shares of Google (GOOG:Nasdaq - news - research) soaring ever higher, the popular Internet search engine is winning praise for sticking with guns and using an unconventional auction system to sell its shares to the public.
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NEW YORK/SAN FRANCISCO  - Shares of Google Inc.  rose as much as 20 percent on Friday, to trade at more than  twice the level of its cut-price IPO, after the Web search  leader posted strong quarterly results in its first reported  quarter as a public company.
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Few companies can offer Wall Street a 28 percent gain in profit and a 58 percent increase in revenue and then have their stock prices drop. But that's exactly what happened to Google, which had repeatedly exceeded the quarterly targets set by financial analysts -- until now.
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In its first earnings report as a public company, Google posted a third-quarter profit of $52 million, more than doubling its profits year-over-year thanks to booming online-advertising revenue.
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SAN JOSE, Calif. _ In a measure of the extraordinarily high expectations investors have for Google, the Internet giant reported that quarterly profits soared above $1 billion for the first time _ and disappointed investors promptly sold the stock.
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Google Inc.&#39;s shares surged to more than twice its initial public offering price after third-quarter profit and sales more the doubled and the company said the market for Web advertising shows no signs of slowing.
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Continuing a recent surge driven by Wall Street's high expectations for the company, Google's shares rose $9.67, or nearly 2 percent, to $504.72 in morning trading on the Nasdaq
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Internet search firm Google sees third quarter profits more than double on the back of strong advertising revenues.
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Internet search giant Google, which raised &#36;1.7 billion in a highly publicized IPO, announced its first quarterly earnings as a public company Thursday, and the results were stellar. Google reported revenue of &#36;805.9 million, more than double last year's &#36;393.3 million.
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Shares of Google Inc. gained more than 15 percent on Friday, to trade at more than twice the level of its cut-price IPO, after the Web search leader delivered strong quarterly results in its first reported quarter as a public company.
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For Silicon Valley's most dynamic company there is no ceiling, apparently. Google reports another robust quarter, with profits up 46 percent.
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SAN FRANCISCO - Google's third-quarter revenue jumped 57%, but a hiring binge and product speculation left Wall Street wondering what the search giant wasn't revealing.
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(InfoWorld) - Google beat Wall Street's expectations for its fourth quarter, ended Dec. 31, 2006, as the company continues on a tear, selling search engine advertising much faster than its biggest rivals and than the industry average. Google generated revenue of $3.21 billion, an increase of 67 percent compared to the fourth quarter of 2005. Subtracting the commissions it pays to its advertising partners, revenue came in at $2.23 billion, topping the consensus expectation of $2.195 billion from analysts polled by Thomson Financial. Net income was $1.03 billion, or $3.29 per share, compared with $372.2 million, or $1.22 per share, in 2005's fourth quarter. On a pro forma basis, which excludes certain items, net income was $997 million, or $3.18 per share, topping analysts' expectation of $2.92 per share.
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Shares in Google rise more than 12% in  New York following the announcement of its huge rise in profits.
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Web search leader Google Inc  reported on Thursday a 46 percent rise in profit that topped Wall Street expectations, fueled by accelerating market share gains and tighter cost controls.