Alphabet Inc. Class A (GOOGL)

GOOGL · Communication Services · United States

Alphabet Inc. Class A (GOOGL) is a US company in the Communication Services sector. Alphabet is the holding company of Google. Most of its revenue comes from advertising in Google Search, on YouTube and on partner websites; further businesses are Google Cloud, subscriptions, the Android platform and devices such as Pixel phones. Smaller ventures, including the self-driving car company Waymo, are reported as Other Bets. This page covers the Class A shares (GOOGL) with one vote per share. The Class C shares (GOOG) carry no vote, and the Class B shares with ten votes are not listed. Alphabet is based in Mountain View, California.

The stock has its largest weight in WTEL (MSCI World Communication Services), at 17.49%. Anyone who holds an ETF containing Alphabet also has an indirect stake in the company.

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Data and Charts: Alphabet

Key Data for Alphabet

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Alphabet Stock Price Chart

The Alphabet chart shows daily closing prices and is set to the current year by default. The stock is down 10.6% year to date and down 0.6% over twelve months. The last recorded close on October 30, 2026, was $279.84, at 5% of the 52-week range.

Price series from our database since Jul 11, 2024, 580 daily values.

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Alphabet Stock Performance

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Measured in euros, Alphabet is down 6.0% year to date and up 2.8% over twelve months. The difference from the dollar figures above comes from the exchange rate alone. Each daily price is converted at the ECB euro reference rate for that day.

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Alysly Data Analysis: Alphabet

What ETF Is Alphabet In?

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The last column shows how much of €1,000 in one of these funds goes to Alphabet, based on each fund's latest holdings list.

US-listed ETFs holding Alphabet (weight per latest SEC filing): VUG 5.76%, ONEQ 4.28%, QQQ 3.27%, IVV 3.25%, SPY 3.25%, VOO 3.25%, QQQM 3.15%, VTI 2.90%. These funds are registered in the US; retail investors in the EU usually cannot buy them.

Alphabet Weight in iShares Core MSCI World (EUNL) Since 2019

In iShares Core MSCI World (EUNL), Alphabet had a weight of 0.88% on Sep 30, 2019 and 1.82% on Oct 29, 2026. The fund tracks the MSCI World. Its share peaked at 2.33% on Jun 30, 2026. The weight rises and falls with the stock's price performance relative to the other index members. It can also change when the index provider adjusts the index composition.

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What's Inside Your ETF Portfolio and the ETF overlap check show how much Alphabet overlaps with the rest of a portfolio.

Which Tracked Investors Hold Alphabet?

In the quarter ending Jun 30, 2026, 5 of the tracked managers bought Alphabet shares worth 9.2bn US dollars. That puts Alphabet at rank 1 of the 6 names they bought. At the same time, 3 managers cut holdings worth 2.7bn US dollars.

As of Jun 30, 2026. Based on quarterly filings with the US securities regulator, submitted up to 45 days after the reference date. The change counts shares, not price gains.

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What Alphabet Executives and Directors Traded Recently

The table shows open-market purchases and sales reported over the past 90 days. Directors, officers and shareholders owning more than ten percent must report such transactions within two trading days. Awards and option exercises are excluded.

“Plan” means the transaction follows a schedule set up in advance under Rule 10b5-1. Sales consistently outnumber purchases in these filings because a large part of executive pay is granted in shares. For comparison: over the period covered, executives and directors reported sales at 271 of 350 tracked companies and purchases at 32.

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Stocks With ETF Exposure Similar to Alphabet

Stocks with ETF exposure similar to Alphabet

Stock	Shared ETFs	r	1 year	Annualized volatility	Net margin	Revenue growth
Alphabet	–	–	-0.6%	32.2%	32.8%	+15.1%
Alphabet	24	+1.00	-1.3%	31.8%	–	–
Meta Platforms Inc	23	–	-7.7%	38.6%	30.1%	+22.2%
AppLovin	23	–	-63.2%	81.6%	60.8%	+70.0%
Netflix	23	–	-43.0%	33.9%	24.3%	+15.9%
Take-Two Interactive Software	22	–	-24.8%	31.1%	-4.5%	+18.2%
T-Mobile US	22	–	-25.7%	30.4%	12.4%	+8.5%
Walt Disney Company	20	–	-0.8%	27.4%	13.1%	+3.4%
EchoStar Corporation	19	–	–	–	-96.6%	-5.2%

These stocks reach a portfolio through largely the same funds as Alphabet. “Shared ETFs” counts the funds that hold both.

Return and volatility are calculated from our daily closing prices in US dollars. Margin and growth come from each company's latest SEC annual filing. Because fiscal years do not end on the same date for every company, the underlying periods are not fully identical.

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Fundamental Analysis: Alphabet

Alphabet Key Financials

Figures come from the SEC annual filing for the latest reported fiscal year (period end Dec 31, 2025).

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Latest Patents Granted to Alphabet

In the 52 weekly issues of the US patent office from Nov 4, 2025 to Oct 27, 2026, Alphabet received 1,910 utility patents and 206 design patents. That is 0.60% of all utility patents the US patent office granted in those weeks. The median time from filing to grant was 2.7 years.

These are grants, not applications. The office usually publishes an application 18 months after the priority date; the grant tends to come much later. Owners counted: Google LLC; Waymo LLC; Wing Aviation LLC; X Development LLC and Intrinsic Innovation LLC. Titles as published by the office; median time based on 1,001 patents with a known filing date.

The patent screener lists more grants, filterable by company, type and technology field. The M&A and patents page compares companies. The figures for all seven companies sit side by side on the Magnificent 7 page.

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Technical Analysis: Alphabet

Alphabet Risk Metrics

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The close on Oct 30, 2026, was 30.5% below the highest close since Jul 11, 2024. That high was reached on May 13, 2026. When the S&P 500 rose or fell 1%, Alphabet moved 1.38% on average in the same direction (past 252 trading days). The correlation of 0.52 shows a clear but not close link to the broad market. Accordingly, moves in the S&P 500 explain part of the daily price moves of Alphabet, but far from all.

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What Alphabet Correlates With

The strongest co-movers are listed at the top, the strongest inverse movers at the bottom. Low or negative correlations can help spread risk more broadly across a portfolio.

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