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Forex Plays Part, but Only Part, in Mixed Google Earnings and Revenues
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Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOGL) has reported its first-quarter earnings for 2015. Our earnings preview showed that Google’s stock was at a critical juncture going into earnings, and that options traders were not calling for a big move. Earnings came in at $6.57 per share, while revenues grew 12% gross to $17.258 billion. Google’s ex-TAC revenue was $13.913 billion, versus $12.188 billion a year ago.
The king of Internet search was expected to report $6.60 in EPS and $17.52 billion in revenue. This compares to $6.27 EPS a year ago, and would have been a revenue gain of more than 13%.
Google ended the quarter with $65.436 billion in cash and equivalents. Also, Google did address foreign exchange. Yes, the company was among the myriad U.S. companies hit by a strong U.S. dollar impact on revenues. Google said:
Excluding hedging gains of $311 million related to our foreign exchange risk management program, had foreign exchange rates remained constant from the first quarter of 2014 through the first quarter of 2015, our revenues in the first quarter of 2015 would have been $795 million higher. Additionally, our constant currency revenue growth in the first quarter of 2015 was 17% year over year.
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Google does not offer guidance. Its source-by-source revenues are of course dependent on ad sales. 24/7 Wall St. has highlighted several key metrics from Google’s breakdown, with references to year-ago and sequential levels, as follows:
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Google’s A shares closed up 1.5% at $557.46, and their 52-week trading range is $490.91 to $608.91. The consensus analyst price target is $622.92. The shares were trading up 3.5% at $577.40 about 30 minutes after its report.
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