Here’s a quick rundown on Google’s Q4 earnings:
- gross revenues of $5.7 billion, up 3% since Q3 and 18% year-over-year
- net revenues of $4.22 billion after traffic acquisition costs
- net income of $382 million, a big drop from Q3’s $1.29 billion
- non-GAAP earnings per share was $5.10 compared to $4.92 in Q3
Other interesting numbers:
- Google-owned sites generated $3.81 billion, 67% of gross revenue
- Adsense generated $1.69 billion, 30% of gross revenue
- $2.86 billion came from outside the United States
- $129 million generated thanks to exchange rates
- paid clicks increased 10% from Q3 and 18% year-over-year which is no big surprise as Google plasters ads on everything now
- Google is offering employees new stock options in exchange for the same number of current options until March 3
- $726 million impairment charge from AOL and a $355 million impairment charge from Clearwire
- $15.85 billion in cash and other short-term securities
- only 99 employees were hired in Q4
The full statement came be found here.
