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Alphabet 2025 Q1 earnings report

2025 Q1 · 2025-03-31Release date 2025-04-24B$ · USD billions

Historical earnings report · Management guidance reflects expectations at the time of the release, not subsequent outcomes. The financial comparison uses the site’s normalized dataset, including comparative figures restated in later filings.

AI usage expansion should be tested against Search, subscription and Cloud outcomes.

Revenue
90.234 B$
Operating income
30.606 B$
FCF · calculated
18.953 B$

Assessment · AI usage expansion should be tested against Search, subscription and Cloud outcomes. An operating margin of 33.9% alongside quarterly FCF of 18.953 B$ distinguishes earnings from the investment burden.

01 Business performance

The segment table uses the comparison basis disclosed at the time. Cloud includes GCP and Workspace and is not a generative-AI-only revenue measure. Shared costs and reporting changes mean the sum of segment profit is not automatically consolidated operating profit.

The difference between segment revenue and consolidated revenue includes currency-hedging gains/losses of +0.260 B$. Segment revenue has not been arbitrarily adjusted to match the consolidated figure.

Business segmentRevenue B$Year over yearOperating income B$
Google Services77.2649.8%32.682
Google Cloud12.26028.1%2.177
Other Bets0.450-9.1%-1.226
Evidence · 1 ↗

02 Earnings quality

Consolidated operating income of 30.606 B$ on revenue of 90.234 B$ implies a 33.9% operating margin. Net income was 34.540 B$; the +3.934 B$ difference from operating income combines nonoperating and tax effects. The entire difference is not classified as cash earnings or a one-off item.

Evidence · 1 ↗ · 2 ↗

03 Cash flow, investment and financial position

On the common quarterly comparison basis, OCF of 36.150 B$ less cash CapEx of 17.197 B$ produced FCF of 18.953 B$. CapEx/revenue was 19.1% and FCF margin was 21.0%. Cash remained after capital investment, but this is before dividends, repurchases, acquisitions and debt repayment.

Quarter-end cash and current investments were 95.328 B$, interest-bearing borrowings at carrying amount were 14.386 B$, and net cash was 80.942 B$. Borrowings include current and noncurrent debt and exclude separately disclosed lease liabilities. Negative net cash means net debt. Total liabilities, which also include trade payables and leases, are a different measure.

Evidence · 1 ↗ · 2 ↗

04 Management commentary and contemporaneous outlook

Pichai cited 1.5 billion monthly AI Overviews users and more than 270 million paid subscriptions. User and subscription counts are not standalone AI revenue.

The outlook here is limited to the reviewed earnings release. No unreported next-quarter revenue range or standalone generative-AI revenue forecast is inserted.

Evidence · 1 ↗

05 Interpretation and follow-up checks

Connect advertising cash generation to Cloud and AI infrastructure investment. Cloud revenue growth alone does not establish investment returns; examine whether segment profit and consolidated FCF improve together.

On the same dataset basis, year-over-year revenue changed by +9.695 B$, operating margin by +2.3 percentage points and FCF by +2.117 B$. First test whether sales, earnings and cash move together. Use this absolute FCF change rather than a growth rate when the comparison period had negative FCF.

Evidence · 1 ↗ · 2 ↗

Quarterly results · CY-aligned presentation

Metric · B$2024 full-year total1Q
2024 Q1
2024-03-31
2Q
2024 Q2
2024-06-30
3Q
2024 Q3
2024-09-30
4Q
2024 Q4
2024-12-31
2025 total of 1 included quarters1Q
2025 Q1
2025-03-31
QoQ ΔYoY Δ
Revenue350.01880.53984.74288.26896.46990.23490.234−6.2359.695
Operating income112.39025.47227.42528.52130.97230.60630.606−0.3665.134
Operating margin (%)32.11031.62732.36332.31232.10633.91833.9181.813 pp2.292 pp
Net income100.11823.66223.61926.30126.53634.54034.5408.00410.878
FCF · calculated72.76416.83613.45417.63724.83718.95318.953−5.8842.117
Operating cash flow · total125.29928.84826.64030.69839.11336.15036.150−2.9637.302
Net cash CapEx · common52.53512.01213.18613.06114.27617.19717.1972.9215.185
Cash CapEx · Chinese company definition—————————
FCF · total calculation72.76416.83613.45417.63724.83718.95318.953−5.8842.117
Net cash · liquid assets less borrowings81.475———81.47580.94280.942−0.533—
Liquid assets · including short-term investments95.657108.090100.72593.23095.65795.32895.328−0.329−12.762
Borrowings · interest-bearing debt14.182———14.18214.38614.3860.204—
Cash and cash equivalents23.46624.49327.22519.95923.46623.26423.264−0.202−1.229
Total liabilities · accounting liabilities125.172114.506114.017116.147125.172130.107130.1074.93515.601

CY denotes the calendar quarter with the greatest overlap with the fiscal period. If the first period has no start date, 89 days before its end is used only for calendar mapping. Financial values are not recalculated into calendar quarters. Incomplete years show totals of included quarters; cash, liabilities, borrowings and net cash use the last period-end balance. QoQ and YoY show absolute changes; margin changes are percentage points. Dashes indicate missing evidence or incomparable periods or definitions. Total liabilities never substitute for borrowings.

Definitions and evidence coverage

A dash means unavailable or undisclosed, not zero. Company-defined FCF may differ from total operating cash flow less common-basis CapEx. Total liabilities are accounting liabilities, not interest-bearing debt.

Management commentary paraphrases the earnings release. A full earnings-call and Q&A review has not been completed.

Financial tables use existing InveDeck normalized data and may reflect subsequent comparative filings. Segment tables and outlook use the original release basis.

Official source documents

  1. Original company earnings release filed with the SEC ↗
  2. SEC filing supporting canonical financial series ↗
  3. Financial filing · 2024-03-31 ↗
  4. Financial filing · 2024-03-31 ↗
  5. Financial filing · 2024-06-30 ↗
  6. Financial filing · 2024-06-30 ↗
  7. Financial filing · 2024-09-30 ↗
  8. Financial filing · 2024-09-30 ↗
  9. Financial filing · 2024-12-31 ↗
  10. Balance sheet · 2024-12-31 ↗