Alphabet is a search, advertising, cloud, YouTube, Android, and AI company. The durable thesis balances a massive search cash machine against AI disruption, Google Cloud growth, regulatory pressure, and heavy infrastructure investment.
Alphabet Inc. (GOOGL) Stock Price & Market Analysis
GOOGL · NASDAQ · Internet Content & Information
Also listed: GOOG (Class C, non-voting)
Market closedLatest regular-session print
$342.75
▼ -$1.17(-0.34%)4:00 PM ET - vs previous closeQuote as of Sep 28, 2026, 4:00 PM EDT
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Yahoo Finance · latest regular-session print · as of Sep 28, 2026, 4:00 PM EDT · delay not stated · current source
Last session79%
$339.56L Sep 28 '26$343.59H Sep 28 '26
52-week62%
$235.84$408.61H May 18 '26
Long-term rangesSince first printHide
Since first print(2004-08-19)84%
$2.38L Aug 19 '04$408.10H May 18 '26
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Session market context
- GOOGLStock · vs previous close
- ↓ -0.34%
- QQQNasdaq-100 ETF
- ↓ -1.07%
GOOGL outperformed the sector by 0.73 percentage points.
Price comparisons describe market context; they do not establish the cause of a move.
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Reported fundamentals
GOOGL research snapshot
Annual revenue
USD 402.84B
Sales reported for this fiscal year.
Revenue change
+15.1%
Compared with the prior fiscal year.
Net profit margin
32.8%
Reported net income divided by revenue.
These reported results describe the business’s recent scale and profitability. Compare cash generation and valuation before forming an investment view; historical growth is not a forecast.
Company · Profile
About Alphabet Inc. (GOOGL)
Sector, leadership, and how Alphabet Inc. earns its revenue.
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Company · Profile
About Alphabet Inc. (GOOGL)
Sector, leadership, and how Alphabet Inc. earns its revenue.
Alphabet Inc.
NASDAQ · GOOGL · US
- Sector
- Communication Services
- Industry
- Internet Content & Information
- Headquarters
- Mountain View, California
- Country
- US
- Founded
- 1998
- Employees
- 198,933
- CEO
- Sundar PichaiCompany leadership source
- Exchange
- NASDAQ
How Alphabet Inc. makes money
Search
The cash machine under AI pressure
Google Search remains Alphabet profit engine, but generative AI changes both user behavior and the cost structure of answering queries.
Cloud
A scale business with backlog leverage
Google Cloud gives Alphabet enterprise AI exposure and a second growth engine beyond ads, with margins improving as scale increases.
YouTube
Video advertising and subscriptions
YouTube combines brand advertising, creator distribution, connected TV, and subscriptions in a way few competitors can replicate.
Regulation
Antitrust is a standing valuation discount
Alphabet has the financial strength to absorb legal pressure, but remedies around search distribution, ad tech, or app stores could alter the moat.
Key takeaways for GOOGL
GOOGL is still anchored by search profits, but AI changes the terms of the debate.
Cloud and YouTube are the most important non-search drivers for re-rating.
The main risk is that regulation and AI cost inflation reduce the quality of the advertising moat.
Business model & operating evidence
AI business exposure
- Revenue exposure
- AI-specific revenue is not separated in the available company statements.
- Capital-spending dependency
- No reviewed quantitative dependency model is available.
- Compute role
- See the sourced business description; AI labels do not establish compute revenue.
- Platform examples
- An exhaustive, consistently defined product inventory is unavailable.
- Ecosystem links
- Supplier and customer links require reviewed disclosures.
Narrative versus numbers
Demand is expanding
Supporting observation: 24.2%
Quarterly revenue growth year over year; company-wide, not exclusively AI. · TECHi unified data · 2026-06-30
Growth produces accounting profit
Supporting observation: 54.8%
Net margin. A positive figure supports profitability, not necessarily cash generation. · SEC Companyfacts · 2026-09-29T03:45:18.668Z
The business generates cash after investment
Contradicting observation: -5.86B
Latest available free cash flow; period-specific, not a forecast. · SEC Companyfacts · 2026-06-30
These are explicit tests of individual claims, not an overall bull/bear rating. Demand growth can coexist with valuation, concentration and financing risk.
Operating measures
- Revenue
- $119.80Bquarter ended Jun 30, 2026
- Operating margin
- 34.0%quarter ended Jun 30, 2026
- EPS
- $9.11quarter ended Jun 30, 2026
- Capital expenditure
- $44.92Bquarter ended Jun 30, 2026
- Free cash flow
- -$5.86Bquarter ended Jun 30, 2026
- Free cash flow margin
- -4.9%quarter ended Jun 30, 2026
- Operating cash / net income
- 0.35×quarter ended Jun 30, 2026
- Revenue growth year over year
- 24.2%quarter ended Jun 30, 2026
Leadership
CEO: Sundar Pichai
Source: TECHi curated profile · Date not supplied
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Governance & sustainability
Dated environmental and governance disclosures are not available in this dataset. TECHi does not infer an ESG rating from profitability, volatility, headcount or executive biographies.
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