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[Ertai]

Para brindar aos bons resultados cai 3%, no after...

Já não era novidade nenhuma que existia boas hipóteses da Google voltar a romper com as estimativas..

As recentes subidas já tinham isso descontado, o bom destes resultados será que provavelmente iremos continuar com a tendência ascendente de curto/médio prazo.

[fernandovet]

Para brindar aos bons resultados cai 3%, no after...

[Ertai]

Mais uma surpresa da Google..

Até eu já esperava que superassem as estimativas

Aqui fica o corpo da noticia:

Google's Fourth-Quarter Profit Doubles; Sales Meet Estimates

By Jonathan Thaw

Jan. 31 (Bloomberg) -- Google Inc., owner of the most-used Internet search engine, said fourth-quarter profit more than doubled as the company expanded its lead over Yahoo! Inc. and sold more advertising outside the U.S.

Net income rose to $1.03 billion, or $3.29 a share, from $372.2 million, or $1.22, a year earlier, Google said today in a statement distributed by Business Wire. Sales excluding revenue passed on to partners rose to $2.23 billion, compared with the $2.2 billion estimated by 29 analysts in a Bloomberg survey.

Google widened its lead in Web queries, winning almost half the market in the U.S. last quarter, according to researcher ComScore Networks Inc. Chief Executive Officer Eric Schmidt turned to international markets such as France and Germany and new products including online video ads to sustain the fast pace of growth investors have come to expect from Google.

``Google has been a share gainer in an attractive space.'' Justin Post, an analyst at Merrill Lynch & Co. in San Francisco, said before the report. He rates the shares ``buy'' and said he doesn't own them.

Profit, excluding stock-based compensation costs, was $3.18 a share. Analysts had estimated profit at $2.91, according to the average in a Bloomberg survey. Before today, Mountain View, California-based Google had beaten analysts' profit estimates in all but one of its nine quarters as a public company.

Google shares, up 16 percent in the past year, rose $7.18 to $501.50 at 4 p.m. in Nasdaq Stock Market trading.

Expansion Plans

Google is looking beyond the small text links that appear next to search results for the next wave of growth. The company bought YouTube Inc. for $1.65 billion in November to tap the video ad market, and has tested ad sales in 50 newspapers and on radio. Products such as online maps and e-mail are pushing users back to Google's search engine.

``People are using more than Google search,'' said Safa Rashtchy, an analyst at Piper Jaffray & Co. in Menlo Park, California. He rates the shares ``outperform'' and doesn't own them. ``It helps them by building more brand loyalty.''
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