Alphabet announces Google's Q3 2015 results - revenue up 13% year-over-year

Alphabet has just posted Google’s financial results for the quarter ending September 30th, 2015. Google saw tremendous overall revenue growth year-over-year, as well as a substantial increase in mobile search revenue.

Google earned a total of $18.7 billion in revenue from the beginning of July to the end of September, which is a substantial 13% year-over-year increase from last year’s $16.5 billion. The company also achieved a total net income of approximately $3.98 billion, which is up from the $2.74 billion Google earned this time last year. Sites owned by Google generated $13 billion, which is a 6% increase quarter-over-quarter and a 16% increase year-over-year. Paid advertisement clicks have seen a 23% year-over-year increase, and paid clicks on Google’s websites saw a 35% year-over-year and 7% quarter-over-quarter increase.

Ruth Porat, CFO of Alphabet and Google, comments:

Our Q3 results show the strength of Google’s business, particularly in mobile search. With six products now having more than 1 billion users globally, we’re excited about the opportunities ahead of Google, and across Alphabet.

“Other revenues”, the portion which includes both Google Play and the Nexus program, generated $1.89 billion in revenue, which is up an impressive 11% both year-over-year and quarter-over-quarter. Google’s operating costs totaled $6.93 billion, up from $6.1 billion this time last year. Google also hired a little over 8,400 new employees since last year, which certainly contributes to the company’s operating costs.

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