Dividends and Alphabet revenue, profit best analyst estimates

The biggest company bringing advertising dollars through Google and YouTube had a very good quarter. In an aricle from Reuters, revenue was up 19% to $38.94 billion, well ahead of estimates of 16.82% and $38.15 billion.

Costs at Alphabet remained about the same at $29.764 billion. However margins in the 2nd quarter increased from 18% to 24%.

Net income rose to $9.95 billion or $14.21 per share up from $4.54 a year earlier.

Linking to dividend paying stocks, the results from Alphabet show higher growth and higher margins  which investors love.

There are more questions than answers, till the next time- to raising questions.

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