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 | 6.42 |
| Price-to-Sales (TTM) | 9.15 |
| EV/Revenue | 8.71 |
| EV/EBITDA | 11.88 |
| Quarterly Earnings Growth (YoY) | 294.00% |
| Quarterly Revenue Growth (YoY) | 24.20% |
| Shares Outstanding | $5.87B |
| Float | $10.93B |
| % Insiders | 1.17% |
| % Institutions | 81.14% |
Volatility is currently expanding
The AI narrative has moved beyond speculative software to capital-intensive physical infrastructure. With the infrastructure race in full swing, hyperscalers are increasingly investing in the buildout of the compute capacity required to train and operate the next generation of AI models.
I keep hitting the buy button on Alphabet (NASDAQ:GOOGL | GOOGL Price Prediction) for one reason: the company is turning its in-house AI silicon into an outside business, with first dollars landing this year.
Waymo is slowly adding freeway routes back to its service area more than two months after the company stopped driving these high-speed roads over how its rovotaxis behaved near construction zones.
Alphabet NASDAQ: GOOGL finds itself in a somewhat unusual and precarious spot. The company just delivered one of the strongest quarters in its history, yet the stock closed Tuesday down just over 18% from its 52-week high and is now up only about 7% for the year.
Christopher Begg, co-founder and CEO of East Coast Asset Management and an adjunct professor of Security Analysis and Value Investing at Columbia Business School, has built his firm around a deceptively simple question: are the clouds hanging over a great business temporary or permanent?
Joe Tigay walks us through his Big 3 picks tied to the AI buildout. He points to Alphabet (GOOGL) as a company monetizing AI in multiple ways, highlights Amazon (AMZN) expanding its robotics capabilities, and calls Vertiv (VRT) a vital AI infrastructure company.
Google is expanding its answer to Apple's age-assurance tools with Wednesday's news that it will bring its Play Signal API to users worldwide by the end of 2026. The technology, already available in Brazil, allows Android developers to identify their apps' younger users in order to provide safer, age-appropriate experiences.
Alphabet (NASDAQ:GOOGL | GOOGL Price Prediction) and Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) both closed Q1 FY2026 with blockbuster AI infrastructure disclosures.
Alphabet is driving long-term upside through aggressive capital spending and cloud backlog conversion, supporting a bullish outlook. GGLL, a 2x leveraged ETF on GOOGL, offers amplified exposure to Alphabet's growth but carries heightened volatility and structural risks. GOOGL's cloud segment posted 82% YoY revenue growth and margin expansion to 35.6% in Q2'26, though near-term margin pressure is expected.
Alphabet Inc. (GOOG/GOOGL) reported strong Q2 revenue growth, but its record $44.9B CapEx on AI triggered a historic stock selloff. GOOG's free cash flow turned negative for the first time since 2004, with CapEx-to-revenue projected to reach 41% by year-end. Management raised full-year CapEx guidance to $195–205B and warned of sustained cash flow pressure from AI infrastructure investments.
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