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Alphabet Inc.
NASDAQ· Communication Services· Internet Content & Information· CUSIP 02079K305
$324.22-3.15%Price as of Oct 23, 00:40 UTC · updated once a day, after the close
At a glance
Alphabet Inc. (GOOGL) is listed on NASDAQ and classified in Internet Content & Information, part of the Communication Services sector. It is headquartered in Mountain View, United States and has 198,933 employees. The company is worth $3.97T and trades at 16.3x its earnings of the last twelve months; the median for its sector is 16.1x. Revenue was $402.84B in fiscal 2025, up 15.1% from the year before. Net income was $132.17B. The share price is 20.7% below its 52-week high of $408.61. It pays a dividend yielding 0.27%. 21 of the 38 superinvestors we track held it at the end of Q2 2026. The largest position belongs to Warren Buffett (Berkshire Hathaway), at $28.16B. In that quarter, 12 of them opened or added to the position and 6 reduced it. Over the last 30 days, company insiders sold $28.26K of its stock on the open market and bought none. All of those sales were scheduled in advance under 10b5-1 plans.
Written from the data on this page: SEC filings (13F, Form 4, annual reports) and market prices.
Analysis
Articles on this site that cover Alphabet Inc..
- Li Lu’s Himalaya Capital in Q2 2026: seven stocks, PDD more than doubled, six positions soldPublished Oct 16, 2026
- Berkshire Hathaway’s 13F in Q2 2026: Alphabet nearly doubled, Delta added, Constellation gonePublished Oct 11, 2026
- Chris Hohn’s TCI in Q2 2026: GE Aerospace is a third of $53 billion, two new materials stocks, Microsoft gonePublished Oct 11, 2026
- Bill Ackman’s Pershing Square in Q2 2026: 14 stocks, three new payment and data names, and Alphabet soldPublished Oct 11, 2026
- Alphabet (GOOGL): why a P/E of 17 understates the price, and how Google Cloud became the growth enginePublished Oct 11, 2026
Key metrics
- Market cap
- $3.97T
- P/E
- 16.3x
- Forward P/E
- 21.1x
- P/B
- 6.4x
- Dividend yield
- 0.27%
- Payout
- 4.42%
- EPS
- $19.93
- ROE
- 48.68%
- Profit margin
- 54.77%
- Revenue growth
- +24.20%
- Beta
- 1.21
- 52-week high
- $408.61
- 52-week low
- $251.85
History
Year by year, from the annual reports; dividends from the payments themselves.
Bars are year-end balances; lines are what happened during the year.
Investors holding this
Major managers that reported this stock in their latest 13F.
Warren BuffettAddedBerkshire Hathaway · Q2 2026$28.16B78.79M shares · 9.4% of portfolio- Cliff AsnessAddedAQR Capital Management · Q2 2026$2.11B5.99M shares · 0.7% of portfolio
- Chase ColemanReducedTiger Global Management · Q2 2026$2.07B5.81M shares · 8.7% of portfolio
- Philippe LaffontAddedCoatue Management · Q2 2026$1.74B4.86M shares · 3.6% of portfolio
Ken GriffinAddedCitadel Advisors · Q2 2026$1.07B2.99M shares · 0.6% of portfolio- Baillie GiffordAddedBaillie Gifford & Co · Q2 2026$1B2.81M shares · 0.9% of portfolio
- Li LuHeldHimalaya Capital Management · Q2 2026$908.9M2.54M shares · 24.5% of portfolio
Chris HohnHeldTCI Fund Management · Q2 2026$878.06M2.46M shares · 1.7% of portfolio- Renaissance TechnologiesAddedRenaissance Technologies · Q2 2026$828.17M2.32M shares · 1.1% of portfolio
- Two SigmaReducedTwo Sigma Investments · Q2 2026$802.89M2.25M shares · 0.6% of portfolio
- David AbramsReducedAbrams Capital Management · Q2 2026$489.77M1.37M shares · 8.9% of portfolio
Ray DalioReducedBridgewater Associates · Q2 2026$472.51M1.32M shares · 1.9% of portfolio- Dan LoebAddedThird Point · Q2 2026$366.3M1.03M shares · 7.9% of portfolio
- Daniel SundheimAddedD1 Capital Partners · Q2 2026$263.85M738.3K shares · 0.8% of portfolio
George SorosAddedSoros Fund Management · Q2 2026$213.09M596.29K shares · 3.5% of portfolio- Tom GaynerHeldMarkel Group · Q2 2026$204.42M572K shares · 1.6% of portfolio
- Steve CohenReducedPoint72 Asset Management · Q2 2026$132.04M369.47K shares · 0.2% of portfolio
- Stanley DruckenmillerNew positionDuquesne Family Office · Q2 2026$120.18M336.3K shares · 2.8% of portfolio
- Stephen MandelAddedLone Pine Capital · Q2 2026$77.04M215.57K shares · 0.5% of portfolio
Brad GerstnerNew positionAltimeter Capital · Q2 2026$62.6M175.18K shares · 0.6% of portfolio- Israel EnglanderReducedMillennium Management · Q2 2026$33.69M94.27K shares · 0.0% of portfolio
Price over time
▲ +140.0% over 5Y.
today you would have $2,322.46▲ +132.2%
Dividends reinvested, splits accounted for. Past prices say what happened, not what will.
Indicators, year by year
The last 13 closed years, each at that year’s closing price and reported numbers.
| Indicator | Median | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year-end price | $313.00 | $189.30 | $139.69 | $88.23 | $144.85 | $87.63 | $66.97 | $52.25 | $52.67 | $39.62 | $38.90 | $26.53 | $28.05 | |
| P/E | 26.5x | 29.0x | 23.5x | 24.1x | 19.3x | 25.8x | 29.9x | 27.2x | 23.9x | 58.5x | 28.5x | — | 25.8x | 29.9x |
| P/S | 6.3x | 9.4x | 6.6x | 5.7x | 4.0x | 7.4x | 6.5x | 5.7x | 5.3x | 6.6x | 6.1x | 7.1x | 5.5x | — |
| P/B | 4.7x | 9.1x | 7.1x | 6.1x | 4.4x | 7.6x | 5.3x | 4.6x | 4.1x | 4.8x | 3.9x | 4.4x | 3.5x | — |
| EPS | $10.81 | $8.04 | $5.80 | $4.56 | $5.61 | $2.93 | $2.46 | $2.19 | $0.90 | $1.39 | — | $1.03 | $0.94 | |
| Dividend yield | — | 0.27% | 0.32% | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Payout | — | 7.68% | 7.46% | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Profit margin | 22.06% | 32.81% | 28.60% | 24.01% | 21.20% | 29.51% | 22.06% | 21.22% | 22.46% | 11.42% | 21.58% | 21.80% | 21.42% | 22.93% |
| ROE | 17.30% | 31.83% | 30.80% | 26.04% | 23.41% | 30.22% | 18.09% | 17.05% | 17.30% | 8.30% | 14.01% | 13.59% | 13.61% | 14.64% |
Median of the years shown; P/E years above 200x are left out.
Fair price, seven ways
Seven formulas applied to the reported numbers, each with its assumption next to the result. None of them predicts a price.
Earnings
$151.07
Square root of 22.5 × earnings × book value. Blind to intangibles, so it undervalues software and brands.
Earnings
$503.66
Earnings growing 25.0% a year plus a 0.3% dividend yield. Growth capped at 25%.
Earnings
$320.54
Median P/E of 16.1 among peers in the sector.
Earnings
$528.80
Median P/E of 26.5 across this company’s own years on record.
Cash flow
$205.71
Cash flow growing 15.0% a year for 10 years, discounted at 10%, then 2.5% forever.
Operating
$128.24
Sector median of 10.4x operating profit, less net debt. Banks have no EBITDA.
Dividends
—
This formula has no meaning here — usually a loss, negative cash flow, or a missing input.
How the average is calculated
The average of the method families that answered, not of the seven numbers: four of the seven start from the same earnings per share.
Earnings $376.02 (avg. of 4)+Cash flow $205.71+Operating $128.24÷ 3 =$236.66
$236.66
6 methods answered, across 3 families.
$177.49
Room for errors in the reported numbers.
$324.22
-27.0% from the average.
Models, not forecasts, and not investment advice. How each formula works →
Others in the same sector
Companies of similar size in Communication Services, for comparison. The columns are the same ones above, in the same order.
| Stock | Price | P/E | P/B | Dividend yield | ROE | Market cap |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GOOGAlphabet Inc. | $320.76 | 16.1x | 6.3x | 0.27% | 48.68% | $3.92T |
| METAMeta Platforms, Inc. | $648.85 | 22.1x | 7.6x | 0.32% | 29.85% | $1.65T |
| NFLXNetflix Inc | $67.05 | 18.8x | 9.5x | 0.00% | 53.46% | $279.19B |
| DISWalt Disney Co | $113.13 | 23.3x | 1.8x | 1.33% | 8.01% | $195.34B |
| VZVerizon Communications Inc | $45.20 | 11.8x | 1.8x | 6.26% | 15.84% | $187.8B |
| TMUST-Mobile US, Inc. | $158.79 | 16.1x | 3.0x | 2.95% | 17.99% | $170.33B |
About the company
- 198,933
- Mountain View, United States