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In December 2024, in the thread "Re: BRK: Why Not XOM?", BreckHutHigh asked the members: "What about the long road trips with kids?" This week it is put to everyone again. The button below opens the small thread re-asking it - read what others have said so far, then give your own answer as an ordinary reply.
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Author: Lear   😊 😞
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Subject: Re: Goog vs Msft
Date: 08/05/25 4:58 PM
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If alphabet grow their earnings at 12% over the next 3 years ($13.19) and have a 30 x multiple, that's $395 per share. Interesting.

12% would be pretty tame relative to recent EPS growth:

	        EPS	EPS YOY	REV 	REV YOY
Dec 31, 2012 $0.80 $46
Dec 31, 2013 $0.94 17.50% $56 20.59%
Dec 31, 2014 $1.03 9.57% $66 18.88%
Dec 31, 2015 $1.14 10.78% $75 13.62%
Dec 31, 2016 $1.39 21.95% $90 20.38%
Dec 31, 2017 $0.90 -35.47% $111 22.80%
Dec 31, 2018 $2.19 143.32% $137 23.42%
Dec 31, 2019 $2.46 12.49% $162 18.30%
Dec 31, 2020 $2.93 19.22% $183 12.77%
Dec 31, 2021 $5.61 91.49% $258 41.15%
Dec 31, 2022 $4.56 -18.74% $283 9.78%
Dec 31, 2023 $5.80 27.19% $307 8.68%
Dec 31, 2024 $8.04 38.62% $350 13.87%
2025 (est.) $9.93 23.51% $394 12.57%

The above is EPS and Revenue for Alphabet going back a bit, with analyst estimates for 2025 (half year of results are in). EPS CAGR has been over 20% for a healthy stretch now, sales growth has been more modest outside of the exploding Cloud business (a decent graphic: reddit.com - As of q2 alphabets google cloud is a 50b). 2017 was a one off due to an impairment related to the Tax Act.

I don't know what a fair multiple should be, but Mr. Market is shaving off over several hundreds of billions of market cap (relative to GOOG's average or median P/E) on the expectation that this won't be close to a continuing story. There are risks (regulatory, pricing depreciation from the massive capex, the changing world of search), but I think there's a decent margin of safety here.
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