Last Friday, Google's share price rose by 16,8%, adding nearly 68 billion to the company's market value.
The increase in the share price, which sent the Nasdaq composite index to an intraday record, came a day after Google's announcement that was much better than expected for the first time in six quarters.
The earnings from the company's share price increase were greater than the total capitalization of Caterpillar Inc.
Google's shares reached the record price of 703 dollars, valuing the company at 471,50 billions of dollars and confirming its position as the second most valuable company in the world after Apple Inc.
At the highest target price, Google will have to be valued at 545 billions of dollars, while Apple at 740 is worth billions of dollars.
But why such a big increase in the share price? Google said Thursday that clicks on YouTube grew by 60% in the second quarter of 2015 and that the service video had the most 18-to-49 mobile viewers of any US cable internet provider.
Naturally, the fact that clicks are increased means money itself (see ads), something that has not gone unnoticed by the stakeholders.
So Google goes far beyond that Facebook and leaves no doubt to investors where to throw their funds.