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Alphabet's $112bn Q2 profit: $99bn of it is a mark-up on shares it holds
Q2 10-Q: operating income came from the business itself; the rest is a fair-value gain. Buybacks went to zero, June brought $49.6bn from common and convertible preferred stock, and first-half capex doubled
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Alphabet Form 10-Q for Q2 2026 (filed 2026-07-31): consolidated statement of income and cash flows, Financial Instruments note (equity securities, SpaceX sale restrictions), Stockholders' Equity note (issuance, preferred, repurchases), MD&A 'Executive Overview' and 'Liquidity'
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Alphabet (GOOGL) reported net income of $112,193m for the second quarter of 2026, four times the $28,196m of a year earlier. The statement of income in the 10-Q filed July 31 shows operating income of $40,770m and an 'Other income (expense), net' line of $97,983m. What that other income is — and why the company issued new shares in the same quarter — is in the MD&A and the notes.
In plain terms
A large part of the profit Google reported this quarter did not come from search or advertising. It is an amount recorded because companies it invested in became more valuable. Nothing was sold, so no money arrived.
What happened
Alphabet (GOOGL) runs Google Search, YouTube and Google Cloud and is among the U.S. stocks most widely held by Korean retail investors.
Its 10-Q for the second quarter of 2026 was filed on July 31. Revenue was $119,800m, up 24% from a year earlier, and operating income $40,770m, up 30%. The business did well.
Net income, however, was $112,193m — four times the $28,196m of a year earlier and 2.8 times operating income. The line that made the difference is 'Other income (expense), net': $97,983m, against $2,662m in the same quarter of 2025. The MD&A explains: Q2 other income of $98.0bn "included net gains on equity securities of $99.0 billion, primarily related to unrealized gains in our equity securities portfolio from SpaceX and a private company."
In the same quarter the company also moved in the opposite direction. Having authorized a $70.0bn buyback in April 2025, it repurchased no shares in the first half of 2026 (against $28,306m a year earlier), and in June it issued Class A and Class C common stock and mandatory convertible preferred stock for $49.6bn net. First-half net debt issuance was a further $56,226m.
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The MD&A 'Executive Overview' states that Q2 other income of $98.0bn 'included net gains on equity securities of $99.0 billion, primarily related to unrealized gains in our equity securities portfolio from SpaceX and a private company.' The cash flow reconciling item 'loss (gain) on debt and equity securities' is $135.8bn for the first half.
Is the gain cash?
No. No shares were sold, and $94.1bn of SpaceX shares carried sale restrictions at June 30. The company notes that these marks can move earnings substantially from quarter to quarter.
Why issue new shares?
The 10-Q says the June issuance of common stock and mandatory convertible preferred raised $49.6bn 'for general corporate purposes, including capital expenditures to scale AI infrastructure and global compute.' How the gain, the buyback pause and the issuance read together is covered in the subscriber section.
Where can I verify these numbers?
On SEC EDGAR: Alphabet's Q2 2026 Form 10-Q (accession 0001652044-26-000071), statement of income and cash flows, the equity securities table and footnotes in the financial instruments note, the stockholders' equity note and the MD&A.
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Alphabet Form 10-Q for Q2 2026 (filed 2026-07-31): consolidated statement of income and cash flows, Financial Instruments note (equity securities, SpaceX sale restrictions), Stockholders' Equity note (issuance, preferred, repurchases), MD&A 'Executive Overview' and 'Liquidity' · SEC EDGAR · This article is not investment advice. Disclaimer
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48 Amazon: 8 Meta AI: 6 ChatGPT: 3 Claude: 3 Perplexity: 3 Google · Gemini: 0 Others: 13
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Amazon8
Meta AI6
ChatGPT3
Claude3
Perplexity3
Google · Gemini0
Others13
Counted by the name each crawler gives. Google · Gemini includes Googlebot, whose index Google also uses for its AI features; other search engines and bots are in Others.
