Revenues up 93% year over year. Cash from operations was $516 million in the quarter. Crashing on the final, no really, final edit of the manuscript. So here is the story from Reuters.
UPDATE: Safa has raised his price target to $275 on the earnings results.
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GOOGLE ANNOUNCES RECORD REVENUES FOR THE FIRST QUARTER OF FISCAL 2005
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. – April 21, 2005 – Google Inc. (Nasdaq: GOOG)
today announced financial results for the quarter ended March 31, 2005.
“This was a very strong quarter for Google. We continue to execute
well and we have been able to take full advantage of the growth in
online advertising” said Eric Schmidt, Google chief executive
officer. “In addition, we performed well across our operations with
our engineering and product teams delivering dozens of new products and
features for Google users around the world.”
· Google reported record revenues of $1.256 billion for the quarter
ended March 31, 2005, up 93% year over year. Google reports its
revenues, consistent with GAAP, on a gross basis without deducting
traffic acquisition costs or TAC, the portion of revenues shared with
partners.
· Income from operations, on a GAAP basis, was $443 million, or 35.2%
of revenues for the quarter ended March 31, 2005 compared to $155
million or 23.8% of revenues for the first quarter of 2004.
· Income from operations includes a $49 million non-cash, stock-based
compensation charge compared to a $76 million non-cash, stock-based
compensation charge in the prior year’s first quarter.
· Net income on a GAAP basis for the quarter ended March 31, 2005 was
computed based on the following income statement or condensed income
statement line items. Revenues of $1.256 billion less TAC of $462
million, less both other costs and expenses before stock-based
compensation of $303 million and stock-based compensation of $49
million, increased by other income of $14 million and then reduced by a
provision for income taxes of $87 million.
· Net income on a GAAP basis in the first quarter of 2005 was $369
million or $1.29 per share on a basis of a diluted 286.6 million
weighted average shares outstanding. This compared to net income for
the first quarter of 2004 of $64 million or $0.24 per share on a basis
of a diluted 264.2 million weighted average shares outstanding.
· Some Wall Street analysts use non-GAAP measures to analyze our
operating results. For instance, they may subtract TAC of $462 million
from revenues of $1.256 billion to arrive at a net revenues amount.
Also, certain analysts may arrive at net income before stock-based
compensation by subtracting traffic acquisition costs of $462 million,
other costs and expenses before stock-based compensation of $303
million, adding back other income of $14 million and subtracting our
provision for income taxes of $87 million from revenues of $1.256
billion.
· Net cash provided by operating activities for the three months
ended March 31, 2005 totaled $530 million as compared to $208 million
for the first quarter of 2004, an increase of 155%.
· Adjusted EBITDA, which is an alternative measure of liquidity to
GAAP net cash provided by operating activities (and is defined as
income before interest, taxes, depreciation, amortization, the non-cash
stock-based compensation charge and in-process R&D), increased by $293
million or 115% to $ 548 million (or 44% of revenues) in the first
quarter of 2005 from $255 million in the first quarter of 2004 (or 39%
of revenues).
Financial Highlights
Revenues – Revenues in the quarter totaled a record $1.256 billion,
representing a 22% increase over the fourth quarter of 2004 and a 93%
year-over-year increase. This revenue increase reflects strong traffic
and monetization growth in the quarter as well as advertisers’
growing recognition of the Internet as an effective advertising medium.
Google-Sites Revenues – Google-owned sites generated $657 million or
52% of total revenues. This represents an increase of 116% over the
first quarter of 2004.
The Google Network – Revenues generated on Google’s partner sites,
through AdSense programs, contributed $584 million, or 47% of total
revenues, a 75% increase over the Network revenues generated in the
same quarter last year.
TAC – Traffic Acquisition Costs, the portion of revenues shared with
Google’s partners, increased to $462 million. This compares to total
payments to partners of $271 million in the first quarter of 2004.
Income from Operations – Income from operations in the first quarter,
on a GAAP basis, was $443 million or 35.2% of revenues, and included a
non-cash charge of $49 million for stock-based compensation. This
compares to income from operations of $155 million or 23.8% of revenues
in the first quarter of 2004, when the stock-based compensation charge
was $76 million. This improvement in operating margins was primarily
due to decreases in both stock-based compensation expense and TAC as a
percentage of revenues.
Income Taxes – Google recorded a provision for income taxes of $87
million in the first quarter of 2005, an effective tax rate of 19% as
compared to a $92 million provision for income taxes and a 59%
effective tax rate in the first quarter of 2004. The provision for
income taxes in this year’s first quarter was reduced by $49 million
related to ISO disqualifying dispositions. The effective tax rate for
the remainder of 2005 is expected to be less than 30%. However if
future revenues recognized by Google’s Irish subsidiary are not as
proportionately great as expected, Google’s effective tax rate will
be higher than expected.
Net Income – Net income on a GAAP basis increased to $369 million or
29.4% of revenues in the first quarter of 2005 as compared to $64
million or 9.8% of revenues in the first quarter of 2004. Earnings on
a diluted per share basis were $1.29 in the first quarter of 2005 as
compared to $0.24 in the first quarter of 2004.
Cash Flow – Net cash provided by operating activities increased 155%
to $530 million for the three months ended March 31, 2005 from $208
million in the three months ended March 31, 2004. Free cash flow is an
alternative non-GAAP measure of liquidity to GAAP net cash provided by
operating activities and is calculated as operating cash flows less
capital expenditures. Capital expenditures were $142 million in the
three months ended March 31, 2005 as compared to $86 million in the
three months ended March 31, 2004. Free cash flow for the three
months ended March 31, 2005 totaled approximately $387 million as
compared to $122 million for the same period in 2004, an increase of
217%.
Adjusted EBITDA – Adjusted EBITDA is defined as income before
interest, taxes, depreciation, amortization, the non-cash stock-based
compensation charge and in-process R&D. It is another alternative
measure of liquidity to GAAP net cash provided by operating activities.
Adjusted EBITDA increased to approximately $548 million in Q1 2005 (or
44% of revenues) from $255 million (or 39% of revenues) in Q1 2004.
The reconciliations of free cash flow and adjusted EBITDA to net cash
provided by operating activities, the GAAP measure of liquidity, is set
forth at the back of this release.
Cash – As of March 31, 2005, Google had a cash, cash equivalents and
marketable securities balance of $2.507 billion.
On a worldwide basis, Google employed 3,482 full time employees as of
March 31, 2005, up from 3,021 as of December 31, 2004.
Webcast and conference call information
A live audio webcast of Google’s first-quarter earnings release call
will be available at http://investor.google.com/news.html. The call
begins today at 1:30 p.m. (PDT)/ 4:30 (EDT). This press release, the
financial tables as well as other supplemental information including
the reconciliations of certain non-GAAP measures to their nearest
comparable GAAP measures, are also available at that site. A replay
of the call will be available beginning at 7:30 PM EDT through midnight
Monday, May 2, by calling (888) 203-1112 in the United States or (719)
457-0820 for calls from outside the United States. The required
confirmation code for the replay is 1993546.