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Alphabet Cost of Revenues (quarterly)

The chart above displays the quarterly cost of revenues of Alphabet Inc (the parent company of Google) from 2020 to 2023. In the first quarter of 2023, the cost of revenues of Alphabet grew by $1 billion compared to the same quarter of the prior year. Its cost of revenues in the first quarter of 2022 were $29.6 billion and grew to $30.6 billion in the first quarter of 2023.

Alphabet Quarterly Cost of Revenues 2014-2023 

Amounts in millions.

FY 2023Cost of Revenues
Q1$30,612
FY 2022Cost of Revenues (millions)
Q1$29,599
Q2$30,104
Q3$31,158
Q4$35,342
Total$126,203
FY 2021Cost of Revenues ($millions)
Q1$24,103
Q2$26,227
Q3$27,621
Q4$32,988
Total$110,939

Alphabet Inc’s total cost of revenues grew by around 31% in 2021 compared to the last year. Its total cost of revenues grew to $110.9 billion in 2021 compared to $84.7 billion in 2020.

Its cost of revenues remained the highest during the fourth quarter at $33 billion compared to $26.1 billion during the same period in the previosu year.

FY 2020Cost of revenues ($millions)
Q1$18,982
Q2$18,553
Q3$21,117
Q4$26,080
Total$84,732

Accordint to Alphabet Inc’s annual report for 2020, “Cost of revenues increased $12,836 million from 2019 to 2020. The increase was due to increases in other
cost of revenues and TAC of $10,147 million and $2,689 million, respectively. “

Its total cost of revenues for 2020 reached $84,732 million compaerd to $71,896 million in 2019. Cost of revenues remained the highest during the fourth quarter of 2020 when it reached $26.1 billion, compared to $21 billion during the same period in the last year.

2019Costs of Revenues ($mn)
Q1$16,012
Q2$17,296
Q3$17,568
Q4$21,020
Total$71,896

Alphabet Inc’s total costs of revenue for fiscal 2019 were 44.4% of its net revenue for the year compared to 43.5% last year. Net cost of revenues for 2019 was $71.9 billion in 2019 compared to $59.55 billion in 2018.

FY 2018Cost of Revenues (Millions)
Q1$13,467
Q2$13,883
Q3$14,281
Q4$17,918
Total$59,549
FY 2017Cost of Revenues (Millions)
Q1$9,795
Q2$10,373
Q3$11,148
Q4$14,267
FY 2016Cost of Revenues (Millions)
Q17,648
Q28,130
Q38,699
Q410,661
FY 2015Cost of Revenues (millions)
Q1$6,356
Q2$6,583
Q3$7,037
Q4$8,188
FY 2014Cost of revenues (millions)
Q1$5,961
Q2$6,114
Q3$6,695
Q4$6,921

About Alphabet:

Alphabet is the parent company of Google. It has its headquarters located at Mountain View California, United States.

Apart from its google search engine and advertising products, Alphabet offers a vast range of products including Cloud services and other services like Chrome Browser and Google Maps.

The CEO of Alphabet is Sundar Pichai. Alphabet’s main source of revenue if digital advertising followed by cloud services. It also owns YouTube and some other businesses that are collectively called Other Bets