Alphabet Inc GOOG 0.8% GOOGL 0.61% shares traded lower by more than 2.5 percent on Tuesday morning after the company’s second-quarter earnings report fell short of the market’s lofty expectations. However, Google bulls have plenty to like about the company’s impressive cloud services growth.
Google reported second quarter revenue growth of 43 percent in its “other” category, which includes cloud revenue. Global Equities Research analyst Trip Chowdhry estimates that Google’s cloud-specific revenue was up 85 percent in Q2.
In a research note earlier this month, Chowdhry discussed Google’s positioning in the three-way battle for cloud supremacy with Amazon.com Inc. AMZN 2.48% and Microsoft Corporation MSFT 0.16%.
“There are only going to be two SuperClouds — AMZN-AWS and MSFT-Azure,” Chowdhrywrote. “Google Cloud is differentiating itself on Price and Machine Learning [and] we will need to continue to monitor Google Cloud.”
While all three companies are investing heavily in data centers, Chowdhry said Google is ahead of its peers when it comes to data residency requirements.
According to Google CEO Sundar Pichai the company tripled its large cloud deals in the second quarter.
“Google Cloud Platform, GCP, continues to experience impressive growth across products, sectors and geographies,” Pichai said on Alphabet’s earnings call.
“In Q2, the number of big deals we closed worth more than half a million dollars is three times what it was last year.”
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