Image copyright Getty The most expensive company in the world has become a holding company Alphabet, which includes Google. He pressed from the first position of the company Apple.
According to the published report, Alphabet profit in the fourth quarter 2015 amounted to 4.9 billion dollars. A year earlier the rate was 4.7 billion dollars.
On the background of the news after the official close of the market value of the shares Alphabet increased by 9%.
As a result, the market capitalization of the holding has reached around 568 billion dollars, while Apple’s market capitalization now stands at 535 billion dollars.
For the first time Alphabet revealed in a report divided the financial results of the business Google, which includes a search engine on the Internet and Youtube, the rest of the experimental projects, including the development of self-car systems, drones of delivery and access to the Internet using balloons.
Google’s operating profit in 2015 amounted to 23.4 billion dollars, while the other companies within the Holding Alphabet, brought a cumulative loss of $ 3.6 billion.
As the BBC commentator BBC on new technologies, Dave Lee, despite the fact that the Alphabet continues to spend large sums of money to their non-income futuristic projects its shares are still attractive for investors.
At the same time, observers say investors often require the holding of greater transparency, because they want to know exactly what amount Alphabet spent, for example, to develop glasses Google Glass, the production of which was stopped at the beginning of last year.
The last time Google is worth in the market more than Apple in February 2010 before the launch of the first tablet iPad. Then, the market capitalization of both companies did not exceed $ 200 billion.
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