Alphabet Q2 2018 earnings: Google revenue, EPS, analysis

Google
CEO Sundar Pichai at the 2018 I/O developer
conference.
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• Google’s parent company, Alphabet, is due to report its
  Q2 earnings after markets close on Monday.
• Investors are eager to see how Google weathered the
  many challenges the company faced in the second quarter,
  including being the subject of a major European  antitrust
  investigation that resulted in a $5 billion fine.
• Shares of Alphabet were up slightly ahead of
  earnings.

Wall Street will hear from one of the technology sector’s
main financial bellwethers on Monday, when Google’s parent
company, Alphabet, is scheduled to post its second-quarter
earnings after markets close.

Excluding traffic acquisition costs (TAC) associated with
ad revenue, a poll of analysts showed that most are expecting
Google to report revenue of $25.6 billion, a 22% increase from
last year, according to 
TheStreet.com
.

On a GAAP basis, analysts expect the company’s earnings per
share to come in at around $9.66.

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