
Alphabet and Meta both poured tens of billions into AI data centers last quarter, but only one has customers writing checks in return. The gap between their payback stories is wider than the spending numbers suggest.
Alphabet Inc. is an American multinational conglomerate headquartered in Mountain View, California. It was created through a restructuring of Google on October 2, 2015, and became the parent company of Google and several former Google subsidiaries. The two co-founders of Google remained as controlling shareholders, board members, and employees at Alphabet. Alphabet is the world's fourth-largest technology company by revenue and one of the world's most valuable companies.
| Revenue (TTM) | $445.87B |
| Gross Profit (TTM) | $271.52B |
| EBITDA | $173.16B |
| Operating Margin | 34.00% |
| Return on Equity | 48.70% |
| Return on Assets | 13.00% |
| Revenue/Share (TTM) | $36.84 |
| Book Value | $50.90 |
| Price-to-Book | 6.58 |
| Price-to-Sales (TTM) | 9.36 |
| EV/Revenue | 8.98 |
| EV/EBITDA | 12.25 |
| Quarterly Earnings Growth (YoY) | 294.00% |
| Quarterly Revenue Growth (YoY) | 24.20% |
| Shares Outstanding | $5.53B |
| Float | $10.88B |
| % Insiders | 0.52% |
| % Institutions | 62.13% |
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