Three letters — TAC— could drive Wall Street crazy when Alphabet reports after the bell
https://www.cnbc.com/2017/10/26/alphabet-googl-q3-2017-earnings-preview.html
Wall Street is expecting Alphabet — Google's parent company — to extend its sales growth for yet another quarter as it continues to dominate the search advertising market.
But rising costs could squeeze profits as the company transitions from its "bread and butter" search business toward artificial intelligence and other ventures, analysts predict.