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Google Search Generates $615 Million Every. Single. Day. Is Alphabet the Must-Buy Stock?
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The above button links to Coinbase. Yahoo Finance is not a broker-dealer or investment adviser and does not offer securities or cryptocurrencies for sale or facilitate trading. Coinbase pays us for certain activity generated through this link. Prices displayed are informational. Google Search generated $224.5 billion in full-year revenue for fiscal 2025, equivalent to $615 million per day, as part of Alphabet‘s (GOOG,GOOGL) first crossing of the $400 billion annual consolidated revenue milestone with $402.836 billion reported in Q4 2025 earnings filed February 4, 2026. Alphabet’s net income reached $132.170 billion with 32.01% year-over-year growth and a 32.8% profit margin, demonstrating that AI integration is expanding Search usage rather than cannibalizing it, with Q4 Search revenue up 17% year-over-year to $63.073 billion. The stock traded at $331.96 on the February 4, 2026 filing date but has since pulled back to $315.72 as of April 10, 2026, while 62 of 68 analysts maintain Buy or Strong Buy ratings with a consensus price target of $359.53. Alphabet guided for $175 billion to $185 billion in capital expenditures for 2026, up 74% year-over-year to $91.447 billion in 2025, while Google Cloud accelerated with Q4 revenue up 48% year-over-year to $17.664 billion and operating income more than doubling to $5.310 billion. The analyst who called NVIDIA in 2010 just named his top 10 AI stocks. Get them here FREE. Alphabet (NASDAQ:GOOG) generated $224.5 billion in full-year Google Search revenue in fiscal 2025, a figure that works out to roughly $615 million per day. That segment total was reported as part of Alphabet's Q4 2025 earnings filing, which landed on February 4, 2026. The number anchors an earnings report that pushed Alphabet past a milestone it had never previously reached: $400 billion in annual consolidated revenue. READ: The analyst who called NVIDIA in 2010 just named his top 10 AI stocks Search remains the financial core of Alphabet's business. In Q4 2025 alone, Google Search and other revenue reached $63.073 billion, up 17% year over year. That growth rate, sustained across a base this large, signals that AI integration is expanding usage rather than cannibalizing it. CEO Sundar Pichai framed it directly: "Search saw more usage than ever before, with AI continuing to drive an expansionary moment." For the full fiscal year, consolidated revenue hit $402.836 billion, with net income of $132.170 billion, up 32.01% year over year. The company's profit margin sits at 32.8% and return on equity at 35.7%, reflecting a business that converts revenue into earnings at a rate few companies at this scale can match. Alphabet shares were priced at $331.96 at the time of the Q4 2025 filing on Feb. 4. The stock has since pulled back, with the most recent close at $315.72 as of April 10. Over the past year, shares have gained 103.9%, rising from $154.84 on April 10, 2025. Year to date in 2026, the stock is up 0.68%, with a one-week gain of 7.22% from $294.46 to $315.72 between April 2 and April 10. The capital allocation picture is aggressive. Full-year 2025 capital expenditures totaled $91.447 billion, up 74.07% year over year, and Pichai has guided for $175 billion to $185 billion in CapEx for 2026. That level of infrastructure spending compresses near-term free cash flow, which came in at $73.266 billion for the full year, up just 0.69% despite strong operating performance. Google Cloud adds a second growth engine: Q4 Cloud revenue reached $17.664 billion, up 48% year over year, with operating income more than doubling to $5.310 billion. Pichai noted the Cloud segment ended 2025 at an annual run rate exceeding $70 billion. Against that backdrop, 62 of 68 analysts covering the stock carry a Buy or Strong Buy rating, with zero Sell ratings and a consensus price target of $359.53. The $615 million daily Search revenue figure is a measure of structural dominance sustained across the full fiscal year. With full-year EPS of $10.81 beating the $10.5951 consensus estimate and the stock trading at a forward P/E of 28x, valuation remains reasonable relative to the growth profile. The next test arrives soon: Alphabet is expected to report Q1 2026 results on April 27, 15 days from now. That report will show whether Search momentum and Cloud acceleration held through the first quarter of the new fiscal year. Wall Street is pouring billions into AI, but most investors are buying the wrong stocks. The analyst who first identified NVIDIA as a buy back in 2010 — before its 28,000% run — has just pinpointed 10 new AI companies he believes could deliver outsized returns from here. One dominates a $100 billion equipment market. Another is solving the single biggest bottleneck holding back AI data centers. A third is a pure-play on an optical networking market set to quadruple. Most investors haven't heard of half these names. Get the free list of all 10 stocks here.
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