Alphabet Inc Class C

Alphabet closed out the first quarter of 2025 with a commanding earnings beat, as the Google parent posted diluted EPS of $2.81 — a 39.75% beat against the $2.01 consensus estimate — while revenue climbed 12.0% year over year to $90.23 billion, edging past the $89.15 billion Wall Street had anticipated. Investors <a href="https://247wallst.com/investing/2025/10/29/live-alphabet-googl-up-2-before-earnings-will-shares-soar-after-hours/">watching the stock closely</a> got a clear answer: the results were broadly strong, though a significant piece of the earnings upside stemmed from $8.00 billion in unrealized gains on non-marketable equity securities that sent other income and expenses soaring to $11.18 billion from $2.84 billion a year earlier. Beneath that windfall, the operating story remained compelling — operating income rose 20% to $30.61 billion, Google Cloud's operating income more than doubled to $2.18 billion, and AI Overviews in Search reached 1.5 billion monthly users. The quarter arrives against a backdrop of intensifying antitrust scrutiny over Google's search dominance, adding a note of caution to an otherwise strong print.