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Speaker 1: Bloomberg Audio Studios, podcasts, radio news.

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Speaker 2: Chairs of Alphabet just soaring in the after hours right now,

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Speaker 2: Carol Hire after the company reported earnings up as we speak,

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Speaker 2: another thirteen point six percent in the after hours right now.

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Speaker 2: This after declaring a dividend, boosting a buyback, authorizing repurchase

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Speaker 2: of up to an additional seventy billion dollars and shares.

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Speaker 2: First quarter ad revenue coming out above expectations first quarter,

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Speaker 2: also declared it cash dividend of twenty cents per share.

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Speaker 3: All right, so let's get to it. James chalk Mak

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Speaker 3: so much to talk about. He's partnering technology analyst at

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Speaker 3: Clockwise Capital. He joins us from Miami. First of all,

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Speaker 3: Alphabet feels like I can't find anything wrong here. Walk

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Speaker 3: us through. Is this just kind of firing and all

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Speaker 3: a dividend and then throwing on an additional buyback.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, First, thanks for having me. You know, for Alphabet,

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Speaker 1: this was a tough one. You know, we had the

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Speaker 1: obviously Alphabet via Google had, you know, uncertainties around their

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Speaker 1: translate over? So you know, we were kind of debating

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Speaker 1: our Alphabet position. But thankfully that worked out. But I

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Speaker 1: tried to see you for Google. Yah, well yeah they're

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Speaker 3: So why did you do it? What was it that

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Speaker 3: you saw, James in the in the Alphabet story that

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Speaker 1: Well, the main thing was the relative valuations. I mean,

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Speaker 1: the expectations for Microsoft were exceedingly hot and the expectations

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Speaker 1: But the fact that Microsoft was able to exceed those

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Speaker 2: The good and the bad well. And the reason I'm

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Speaker 2: asking is because shares are up, wow, surging as we

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Speaker 3: They are down thirty here today they are.

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Speaker 2: That's important context, Chris. The company is seeing second quarter

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Speaker 3: So let's go to Microsoft, because it's also the other

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Speaker 3: We're talking with James chockmock partner and tech analyst ever

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Speaker 1: I think the biggest takeaway is that the sellers of

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Speaker 1: And right now we're in this world where some days

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Speaker 1: the end of the day.

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Speaker 2: Hey, James, last question thirty seconds. Here, I'm looking at

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Speaker 3: All Right, we're going to leave it on that note. Hey, James,

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Speaker 3: thank you so much. James. Chuck Mack, partner and tech

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Speaker 3: analyst at Clockwise Capital joining us on Zoom from Miami.

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Speaker 3: A lot of names move in here in the aftermarket,