Alphabet Inc. Class A (GOOGL)

GOOGL · Communication Services · United States United States

Alphabet Inc. Class A (GOOGL) is a company in the Communication Services sector, based in United States. The stock is held in 23 ETFs we track – with its largest weight of 18.82 % in WTEL (msci-world-communication). Anyone holding one of these ETFs also owns a small indirect stake in Alphabet.

Very high ETF coverage: 23 of the 95 ETFs we cover hold Alphabet, spread across 12 indices. That puts the stock in more ETFs than 90.2 % of the 4,334 stocks we cover.

Held in23 ETFs
Highest weight18.82 %
Indices12
SectorCommunication Services
CountryUnited States
ISINUS02079K3059
WKNA14Y6F

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About Alphabet

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.

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Price chart

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Performance

Performance
Year to date+9.5 %1 year+36.5 %
1 month-0.3 %3 months-5.8 %
Calendar year 2025+65.3 %
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Measured in euros, Alphabet returned +11.6 % year to date and +39.7 % over one year. The gap to the dollar figures above comes from the exchange rate alone: each daily price is converted at the ECB euro reference rate for the same day.

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Risk metrics

Max drawdown-29.9 %
Volatility p.a.31.5 %

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Below peak-14.8 %
Beta to S&P 5001.35
Correlation to S&P 5000.55

The close on Sep 16, 2026 was 14.8 % below the highest close since Jul 11, 2024, reached on May 13, 2026. Over the last 252 trading days, on days when the S&P 500 rose or fell 1 %, Alphabet moved on average 1.35 % in the same direction. The correlation of 0.55 shows how reliable that average is: the broad market explained part of the daily moves, but far from all.

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Correlated with

The strongest co-movers on top, the most inverse below. Low or negative values improve portfolio diversification.

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Key financials

Latest reported fiscal year (FY2025, period end 2025-12-31) as filed with the SEC.

Revenue402.8 bn $
Net income132.2 bn $
Diluted EPS10.81 $
Net margin32.8 %
Return on equity31.8 %
Equity ratio69.8 %
Revenue growth+15.1 %
Revenue and profit by fiscal year
Fiscal yearRevenueNet incomeMargin
FY2023307.473.824.0 %
FY2024350.0100.128.6 %
FY2025402.8132.232.8 %

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Held in these ETFs

Held in these ETFs
ETFIndexWeightper €1,000 in the ETF
WTELmsci-world-communication18.82 %€188.20
XUCMmsci-usa-communication17.38 %€173.80
XWTSmsci-world-communication17.37 %€173.70
CINDdow-jones3.94 %€39.40
EXXTnasdaq-1003.24 %€32.40
XNASnasdaq-1003.24 %€32.40
SPYL / SPY5sp5003.09 %€30.90
SXR8sp5003.09 %€30.90
XD9U / XD9Dmsci-usa3.08 %€30.80
XDEMmsci-world-momentum2.78 %€27.80
SWWDmsci-world2.24 %€22.40
SPPWmsci-world2.24 %€22.40
EUNLmsci-world2.23 %€22.30
XDWD / XDWLmsci-world2.23 %€22.30
WIMImsci-world-imi2.00 %€20.00
SPYYmsci-acwi1.98 %€19.80
IUSQmsci-acwi1.96 %€19.60
SPYI / SPSAmsci-acwi-imi1.75 %€17.50
XDEQmsci-world-quality1.66 %€16.60

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The last column turns the weight into euros: this much of €1,000 invested in one of these funds is allocated to Alphabet as of the fund's latest holdings list.

Weight in EUNL since 2019

Sep 30, 2019Sep 16, 2026

In EUNL, a fund tracking the MSCI World, Alphabet had a weight of 0.88 % on Sep 30, 2019 and 2.23 % on Sep 16, 2026. Its share peaked at 2.33 % on Jun 30, 2026. The weight rises and falls with the stock's price relative to the other index members, and it also shifts when the index provider changes the composition.

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How much Alphabet Inc. Class A overlaps with other holdings in a portfolio is shown by the Portfolio X-Ray and the ETF overlap check.

Stocks with similar ETF exposure

Names that reach a portfolio through largely the same funds as Alphabet — the figure counts the ETFs holding both.

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Key figures side by side

Key figures compared with stocks of similar ETF exposure
Stock1 yearVolatility p.a.Net marginRevenue growth
Alphabet+36.5 %31.5 %32.8 %+15.1 %
Alphabet+35.0 %31.1 %
Meta Platforms Inc-13.6 %37.7 %30.1 %+22.2 %
AppLovin-45.9 %82.9 %60.8 %+70.0 %
Netflix-36.4 %33.9 %24.3 %+15.9 %
Take-Two Interactive Software-14.5 %31.3 %-4.5 %+18.2 %
Warner Bros. Discovery+53.8 %49.6 %1.9 %-5.1 %
T-Mobile US-25.8 %28.3 %12.4 %+8.5 %
Comcast Corporation-26.5 %29.8 %16.2 %-0.0 %

Return and volatility from our daily closing prices in US dollars; margin and growth from the latest SEC annual filing. Fiscal years do not all end on the same date.

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