Our target increases to $380 from $330 on higher revenue, adj. EBITDA, EPS and long-term FCF (partially offset by lower near-term FCF due to higher capex). Investment Thesis: GOOGL has given back some gains after the print, understandable considering the post-Search remedies multiple expansion. The higher capex has sunk into near-term FCF estimates and DCFs, but strong Search performance and a game-changing quarter from Cloud give us confidence in long-term AI ROIC.
Datacenters are increasingly co-locating battery storage to improve economics, grid resilience, and speed of deployment. We publish today our view on the energy storage opportunity in datacenters, summarized on a single slide. Please click the link for more details.
Moody's Ratings (Moody's) assigned Aa2 ratings to Alphabet Inc.'s (Alphabet) proposed senior unsecured notes, which will be comprised of various maturities. Alphabet will use the proceeds from the proposed offering for general corporate purposes, which may include the repayment of some outstanding d...
BILL Holdings, Inc. (BILL - $48.94)News Reports Potential Acquisition Talks; Recall Company Targeted by Multiple Activists.According to Bloomberg, private equity firm Hellman & Friedman has been in talks to acquire BILL, a business payments & financial software platform, with the buyout gro
Finally, we'd note we see both Phison and SIMO as significant beneficiaries of such a shift, given the need to manage NAND storage, and China's less competitive positioning in the NAND controller space (and likely some reluctance from Western brands to use Chinese built controllers, even for SKUs a
Figure 1. 4Q25 ResultsSource: Company reports, Wedbush estimates, FactSet consensusAlphabet reported strong 4Q results. Revenue of $113.8B (+18.0% Y/Y) exceeded St. expectations for the quarter by ~2%, led by strong Cloud momentum and advertising trends. Google Cloud revenue delivered Y/Y revenue g
In this first take following tonight’s results, we focus on: 1. The true scope of GOOGL’s ambition begins to be revealed 2. Search growth beats expectations, underlining AI’s potential 3. Capex guidance for 2026 significantly outpaces expectations 4. Cloud revenue growth accelerates significantly, margins also well ahead 5. Companywide margins would have beaten ex-Waymo transaction SBC charge
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