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GOOGL at a Glance

Valuation
Market cap
$3.64T
P/E ratio
15.6
Dividend yield
0.29%
Profitability
Revenue (TTM)
$471.1B
Profit margin
50.0%
EPS (TTM)
$18.96
Price
52-week range
$272 – $408
24/7 target
$465.67
Street target
$400.37
Earnings
Next report
Feb 2, 2027
Q3 2026 EPS
$2.12
vs. $3.00 est.
−29.4%

Headquartered in Mountain View, CA Fiscal year ends December NASDAQ: GOOGL abc.xyz

About Google

Alphabet Inc. is the holding company for Google and a collection of other businesses. It reports three segments: Google Services, Google Cloud and Other Bets.

Google Services covers ads, Android, Chrome, consumer devices, Google Maps, Google Play, Search and YouTube. It earns revenue mainly from advertising (Google Search & other, YouTube ads and Google Network). It also earns from consumer subscriptions such as YouTube TV, YouTube Music and Premium, NFL Sunday Ticket and Google One, from app and in-app purchases, and from consumer devices.

Google Cloud sells infrastructure and platform services, applications and other enterprise products. Its revenue comes from consumption-based fees and subscriptions for Google Cloud Platform and Google Workspace, and increasingly from product sales of its TPU AI accelerator systems. Demand for enterprise AI infrastructure and AI solutions is now its primary growth engine.

Other Bets generates revenue mainly from autonomous transportation services and internet services.

Alphabet also funds shared AI research centrally, including its Gemini family of models and the Gemini app. It is investing heavily in technical infrastructure and funds part of that build-out through debt, at-the-market equity issuance and mandatory convertible preferred stock, while paying quarterly common dividends. Updated

Revenue by Segment · Q3 2026
  1. Google Services75%
  2. Google Cloud24%
  3. Other Bets<1%

Latest Activity

Alphabet pulling an entire country's coordinates shows what Seoul's spatial data export rules can do to Maps, a product that underpins ads, navigation and mapping partnerships worldwide.

JUST IN: Google removes South Korea coordinates from Google Maps and Google Earth
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How Wall Street Is Bracing For the Post-Jensen Huang Nvidia Era

  • Bernstein's Stacy Rasgon downgraded Nvidia on key-man risk plus open government investigations
  • Direct China sales are only about 8% of revenue; smuggling exposure sits in the Taiwan customer bloc
  • Broadcom guides data-center revenue to $115B in 2027 and $230B in 2028; AMD GPU sales nearly tripling toward low $40B
  • Earnings preview: interim CEO Colette Kress faces questions on talent retention and vendor financing

A sell-side analyst who covered this name through the whole run just pulled his buy rating, and his reasoning centers on who signs off on the next architecture bet. He frames Broadcom's data-center ramp and AMD's GPU trajectory as real share, with OpenAI, Meta and Google TPUs already spreading orders around. Next week's earnings report has to be flawless.

Mad Money: Wall Street Jargon, Cyclicals, GARP & Corrections 11/13/26

  • Cramer defines cyclicals as economy-dependent: miners like BHP, autos, homebuilders, commodity chemicals
  • Secular growers are the recession-proof side: Procter & Gamble, General Mills, Pfizer, Merck, Eli Lilly
  • He flags GLP-1 drugs as the one threat to the eat-and-drink-forever staples thesis
  • Caller advice: 70% stocks even for older investors, and ease idle IRA cash in one-twelfth a month

The practical call is positioning: own more cyclicals when business is booming and lean on staples and drugmakers when growth rolls over. Cramer says sector membership now drives well over half of a stock's move thanks to sector ETFs, so being in the wrong camp costs you even when the company executes.

Inside Jensen Huang’s Final Hours as Nvidia CEO

  • Ian King: board had no choice once the affair involved an employee; only one sell rating remains on Nvidia</list-item>
  • Arm CEO Rene Haas floated as a successor; CFO Colette Kress and team holding things together for now
  • Seoul bureau: Samsung and SK Hynix relationships ran through Huang, and they are half the Kospi
  • Joe Wiesenthal on Mega Speed, neocloud GPU access, and the unwritten rules on Chinese firms renting chips abroad

The bull case now rests entirely on Nvidia's engineers rather than its frontman: reporters argue the chips, CUDA and the customer queue outlast Huang, while analysts have yet to downgrade. The open risk is relational, since supplier ties in Korea and Taiwan were personal, and Washington scrutiny of chips reaching Chinese users through offshore neoclouds is only starting.

Can AI Chip Demand Outrun the Power Crunch?

  • Morgan Stanley lifts its US data center power shortfall from 30 gigawatts to the mid-30s through 2028 after Texas and Ohio governor races
  • Stephen Byrd calls it a delay, not a cancellation, with 2029 deployment much larger and grid optimization dismissed as hype
  • Offsets cited: off-grid builds, Louisiana, and Asia, including Google's recent Malaysia deal
  • Joe Moore says 2027 chip supply is tightening, memory is hyperscalers' top bottleneck, and stocks wrongly price a 2028 slowdown

The power bottleneck that spooked AI investors is being reframed as a timing issue: delayed gigawatts push deployment into 2029 and stretch the cycle, while Alphabet's Malaysia deal gets named as exactly the workaround that keeps chip demand intact. Moore's call is that the market has already priced a 2028 rollover that he does not see coming.

Instant Reaction: Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang Ousted by Nvidia Board

  • CFO Colette Kress named interim chief, with Bloomberg Intelligence expecting her to hold the job one to two quarters
  • Mandeep Singh: no successor easily replicates Huang's ecosystem deal-making or TSMC and supply chain ties
  • CUDA creator Ian Buck floated as the leading internal candidate given Nvidia's six-month chip cadence
  • Anurag Rana ranks the AI chip race Nvidia first, then Google, Amazon, Microsoft, with the gap now easier to close

The succession question is no longer hypothetical, and the analyst read is that an interim CFO running the company buys hyperscalers time to push their own silicon. If you own Nvidia for its ecosystem lock-in, a leadership vacuum is now testing that moat. The Tim Cook comparison came up, and nobody on the panel treated it as settled.

With some sectors sitting nearly 20% below their peaks, HSBC is telling clients to buy the damage, and Alphabet and Applied Materials head its list of 11 Buy-rated names.

HSBC: “DON'T WASTE A GOOD SELL-OFF” — 11 STOCKS TO BUY HSBC says the market correction is overdone, with tech and industrial stocks down 8–9% over three months and some sectors nearly 20% below their peaks. HSBC's 11 Buy-rated picks: $GOOGL — Alphabet $AMAT — Applied Materials
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Anthropic Targets $1.4 Trillion Valuation in Blockbuster IPO

  • Anthropic's deal: up to $90.4B raised, $70-$78 range, Nvidia in for a $10B private placement
  • Retail expected to take 15-20% of the deal; Dario Amodei and Jamie Dimon to headline an IPO livestream
  • Deutsche Bank's Matt Luzzetti now sees three more 25bp Fed hikes after hot CPI
  • WEX CEO: fuel prices up 43% year over year, AI-driven fraud attempts up 12x since 2022

Nvidia is writing a $10 billion check into the first frontier AI lab to go public while its own board hires outside counsel for a probe, and JPMorgan is fronting the roadshow stage. Deutsche Bank is now calling for hikes in December, January and March, which is the opposite of what this IPO's pricing assumes.

Freedom vs. Safety: Axon CEO Rick Smith on the Future of Policing

  • Rick Smith retraces Axon's near-bankruptcy, dot-com IPO at a $12M valuation, short attack and SEC probe
  • Pivot from hardware to cloud software after Ferguson; body cams now handle more daily video uploads than YouTube
  • Axon is now Skydio's largest investor with nearly half the company, locking up public-safety drones
  • Taser-equipped drone program defended after ethics board resignations; hard limits on autonomous lethal force

The Skydio stake points to where the next leg of growth comes from: drones and robotics sold into the same police agencies already paying for cloud video. Smith frames regulation as guardrails, which matters for a business whose contracts live or die on public sentiment after the ethics board walkouts.

Two new TPUs aimed at Nvidia accelerators put another hyperscaler on the in-house silicon path, right as Amazon pushes its own chips. Alphabet gets the upside, Nvidia gets a second giant customer designing around it.

JUST IN: Google launches 2 new TPU chips to serve as Nvidia alternatives
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Harvard Cut Nvidia by a Third and Bought AMD

Harvard's endowment rotated inside AI chips just before a brutal selloff hit one of them. Since then, the two stocks have moved very differently, and a closer look at the filing shows…

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