Google’s Profit Growth Declines to Meager 17%
Thursday, January 31st, 2008;
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After managing a 46% profit increase in Q3, Google could only manage a meager 17% growth in Q4 2007 (compared to Q4 2006). Wall Street rewarded Google with a 7% after-close stock plunge.
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Google earned $1.21 billion, or $3.79 per share, during the final three months of 2007. That’s up 17 percent from net income of $1.03 billion, or $3.29 per share, in the same period a year earlier.
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