5:00PM After the close in New York trading, Google reported second quarter earnings gain of 28%.
Google reported second quarter earnings of $925.1 million from $721.1 million a year ago. The earnings per share climbed to $2.93 from $2.33. Net revenue soared 58% to 3.84 billion from $2.46 billion on higher advertising revenue, improved market share, and added revenue from eight acquisitions.
Excluding cost of traffic acquisition and marketing partners, revenue rose 60% to $2.72 billion from $1.67 billion in the quarter beating consensus estimate of $2.71 billion in the survey of four analysts conducted by 123jump.com.
Stock fell 8% in the after hours trading to as low as $505.30 from $548.59 close at the regular hours in trading.
Second quarter Google earnings has increased to $2.93 per share in 2007 from $2.33 in 2006, $1.19 in 2005, $0.30 in 2004, and $0.12 in 2003. |