Alphabet’s First-Quarter Earnings Top Wall Street Estimates

Revenues rose across the board, from YouTube ads to Google Cloud.

A woman walks by a giant screen with a logo at an event at the Paris Google Lab on the sidelines of the AI Action Summit in Paris, on Feb. 9, 2025. Thibault Camus/AP Photo

Shares of Alphabet, the parent company of Google and YouTube, surged in extended trading after the tech juggernaut beat Wall Street estimates with a big first-quarter earnings report.

In its April 24 quarterly earnings numbers, the company registered revenues of $90.23 billion, up 12 percent from a year ago and higher than the forecast of $89.18 billion.