Re:Google Announces Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2023 Resu...
by matwood on Tuesday January 30, 2024 @07:43PM
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Ok, I divided the search revenue into the revenue number above, but it’s missing TAC. 76% is still the vast majority of revenue.
Re:Google Announces Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2023 Resu...
by jsnell on Tuesday January 30, 2024 @07:55PM
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TAC shouldn't be part of that computation. It's an expense, not revenue. (Yes, it's confusing that it's in the same table as the revenue numbers, but so is the headcount and you wouldn't try to work it into the equation somehow.)
Also, if you only consider the search revenue you'll err in the opposite direction. It's 55% of their revenue, so pretty soon not even a normal majority. You should look at the "Google Advertising" line.
Re:Google Announces Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2023 Resu...
by matwood on Wednesday January 31, 2024 @05:21AM
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Thank you!
Re:Google Announces Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2023 Resu...
by westhanover on Tuesday January 30, 2024 @06:41PM
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What do you think the covering analysts talk to google executives about? The weather?
Re:Google Announces Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2023 Resu...
by jsnell on Tuesday January 30, 2024 @07:04PM
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From your misplaced sarcasm, it seems that you might not know what "guidance" means in this context. It's the company predicting what their financials will be in the future, such as "our revenue will be in the range $X-$Y in the next quarter". There's a lot of space for discussion between those kinds of predictions and the weather. For example, they could discuss what happened in the previous quarter. They could discuss future plans, without making any exact claims on the impact of those plans.
If you truly believe Google releases guidance, how about you just find a quote for what that supposed guidance was for Q4? You won't find it, because Google does not release guidance. The GP just made it up, just like they made up the numbers.
That's not true, and hasn't been for a decade. For this earnings release, the proportion of revenue from ads was 76%.
> The company gives guidance
No, they don't. As far as I know they've literally never given guidance.