
Between historical momentum trends, shifting Federal Reserve rate expectations, and earnings beats from market leaders, the current market backdrop suggests a higher market.
Alphabet Inc. is an American multinational conglomerate headquartered in Mountain View, California. It was created through a restructuring of Google on October 2, 2015, and became the parent company of Google and several former Google subsidiaries. The two co-founders of Google remained as controlling shareholders, board members, and employees at Alphabet. Alphabet is the world's fourth-largest technology company by revenue and one of the world's most valuable companies.
| Revenue (TTM) | $445.87B |
| Gross Profit (TTM) | $271.52B |
| EBITDA | $173.16B |
| Operating Margin | 34.00% |
| Return on Equity | 48.70% |
| Return on Assets | 13.00% |
| Revenue/Share (TTM) | $36.84 |
| Book Value | $50.90 |
| Price-to-Book | 6.94 |
| Price-to-Sales (TTM) | 9.70 |
| EV/Revenue | 9.46 |
| EV/EBITDA | 12.90 |
| Quarterly Earnings Growth (YoY) | 294.00% |
| Quarterly Revenue Growth (YoY) | 24.20% |
| Shares Outstanding | $5.53B |
| Float | $10.92B |
| % Insiders | 6.60% |
| % Institutions | 60.65% |
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Between historical momentum trends, shifting Federal Reserve rate expectations, and earnings beats from market leaders, the current market backdrop suggests a higher market.

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