Alphabet Inc. Class C (GOOG)
GOOG · Communication Services · 
United States
Alphabet Inc. Class C (GOOG) is a US company in the Communication Services sector. This page covers Alphabet's Class C shares (GOOG), which carry no voting rights. The Class A shares (GOOGL) carry one vote each, and the unlisted Class B shares held mainly by the founders carry ten. Economically all three classes own the same company. Its main source of revenue is advertising in Google Search and on YouTube, followed by Google Cloud, subscriptions, Android, Pixel devices and smaller ventures such as Waymo. Alphabet is based in Mountain View, California.
The stock has its largest weight in WTEL (MSCI World Communication Services), at 13.86%. Anyone who holds an ETF containing Alphabet also has an indirect stake in the company.
Data and Charts: Alphabet
Key Data for Alphabet
Alphabet Stock Price Chart
The Alphabet chart shows daily closing prices and is set to the current year by default. The stock is down 11.3% year to date and down 1.3% over twelve months. The last recorded close on October 30, 2026, was $278.22, at 4% of the 52-week range.
Price series from our database since Jul 11, 2024, 580 daily values.
Alphabet Stock Performance
| Year to date | -11.3% | 1 year | -1.3% |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 month | -18.3% | 3 months | -22.0% |
| Calendar year 2025 | +64.8% |
Measured in euros, Alphabet is down 6.8% year to date and up 2.0% 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.
Alysly Data Analysis: Alphabet
Alphabet Connections
The map shows how Alphabet connects to ETFs, indices and other names. Each link is based on measured data and is not a recommendation.
- MSCI USA Index · contains
- MSCI USA Communication Services Index · contains
- MSCI World Index · contains
- MSCI World Communication Services Index · contains
- MSCI World Momentum Index · contains
- S&P 500 Index · contains
- SWWD ETF · holds
- SPYL ETF · holds
- EUNL ETF · holds
- SXR8 ETF · holds
- SPY5 ETF · holds
- SPPW ETF · holds
- XDWD ETF · holds
- XD9U ETF · holds
- XD9D ETF · holds
- XDWL ETF · holds
- XDEM ETF · holds
- XWTS ETF · holds
- XUCM ETF · holds
- WTEL ETF · holds
- Alphabet Stock · similar ETF exposure
What ETF Is Alphabet In?
Alphabet has very high ETF coverage and is held by 25 of the 104 ETFs we track, which together follow 13 indices. That puts the stock in more ETFs than 92.5% of the 4,341 stocks we track.
| ETF | Index | Weight | per €1,000 in the ETF |
|---|---|---|---|
| WTEL | MSCI World Communication Services | 13.86% | €138.55 |
| XWTS | MSCI World Communication Services | 13.42% | €134.18 |
| XUCM | MSCI USA Communication Services | 13.26% | €132.56 |
| EXXT | Nasdaq 100 | 2.45% | €24.50 |
| XNAS / XNA1 | Nasdaq 100 | 2.45% | €24.49 |
| SXR8 | S&P 500 | 2.02% | €20.20 |
| SPYL / SPY5 | S&P 500 | 2.02% | €20.18 |
| XD9U / XD9D | MSCI USA | 1.98% | €19.79 |
| XDEM | MSCI World Momentum | 1.86% | €18.64 |
| XDWD / XDWL | MSCI World | 1.45% | €14.47 |
| SWWD | MSCI World | 1.45% | €14.47 |
| SPPW | MSCI World | 1.45% | €14.47 |
| EUNL | MSCI World | 1.44% | €14.40 |
| WIMI | MSCI World IMI | 1.29% | €12.90 |
| SPYY | MSCI ACWI | 1.28% | €12.81 |
| IUSQ | MSCI ACWI | 1.28% | €12.80 |
| SPYI / SPSA | MSCI ACWI IMI | 1.15% | €11.49 |
| XDEQ | MSCI World Quality | 1.12% | €11.18 |
| XDEB | MSCI World Minimum Volatility | 0.25% | €2.55 |
| XDEW | S&P 500 Equal Weight | 0.08% | €0.75 |
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 4.53%, ONEQ 3.96%, QQQ 3.02%, QQQM 2.92%, IVV 2.59%, SPY 2.59%, VOO 2.59%, VTI 2.28%. 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 0.92% on Sep 30, 2019 and 1.44% on Oct 29, 2026. The fund tracks the MSCI World. Its share peaked at 1.84% on Dec 31, 2025. 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.
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, 3 of the tracked managers bought Alphabet shares worth 8.4bn US dollars. That puts Alphabet at rank 2 of the 6 names they bought.
| Investor | Shares | Value | Quarter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berkshire Hathaway | 27,188,433 | $9.6B | increased by 23,603,218 |
| Appaloosa | 1,850,000 | $654M | increased by 117,300 |
| Baupost Group | 1,371,931 | $485M | increased by 190,800 |
| Bridgewater Associates | 74,207 | $26M | reduced by 312,795 |
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.
Stocks With ETF Exposure Similar to Alphabet
| Stock | Shared ETFs | r | 1 year | Annualized volatility | Net margin | Revenue growth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alphabet | – | – | -1.3% | 31.8% | – | – |
 AppLovin | 24 | – | -63.2% | 81.6% | 60.8% | +70.0% |
 Netflix | 24 | – | -43.0% | 33.9% | 24.3% | +15.9% |
| Alphabet | 24 | +1.00 | -0.6% | 32.2% | 32.8% | +15.1% |
 T-Mobile US | 23 | – | -25.7% | 30.4% | 12.4% | +8.5% |
 Meta Platforms Inc | 23 | – | -7.7% | 38.6% | 30.1% | +22.2% |
 Take-Two Interactive Software | 22 | – | -24.8% | 31.1% | -4.5% | +18.2% |
 EchoStar Corporation | 19 | – | – | – | -96.6% | -5.2% |
 Live Nation Entertainment | 19 | – | +20.2% | 29.3% | 2.0% | +8.8% |
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.
Fundamental Analysis: Alphabet
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.
| Granted | Patent | Title | Filed | Technology field |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US 12777590 B2 | Thin-film components integrated onto flex circuit boards | H05K Printed circuits and casings of electric equipment | ||
| US 12777311 B2 | Configuring resources for multicast and/or broadcast services in a distributed base station architecture | H04W Wireless communication networks | ||
| US 12777298 B2 | Systems and methods for mitigating the effect of water retained in a microphone port | H04R Loudspeakers, microphones and hearing aids | ||
| US 12777266 B2 | 3D ToF vision system | H04N Pictorial communication and video | ||
| US 12777226 B2 | Resource-efficient delivery of relevant content | H04N Pictorial communication and video |
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.
Technical Analysis: Alphabet
Alphabet Risk Metrics
The close on Oct 30, 2026, was 30.3% 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 1.36% on average in the same direction (past 252 trading days). The correlation of 0.53 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.
What Alphabet Correlates With
| Instrument | r | −1 … +1 |
|---|---|---|
| Alphabet Inc. Class A | +1.00 | |
| Amazon.com Inc. | +0.66 | |
| Nasdaq Composite | +0.53 | |
| Fortinet Inc. | +0.52 | |
| S&P 500 | +0.48 | |
| ServiceNow Inc. | +0.48 | |
| Textron Inc. | -0.44 | |
| Fortis Inc. | -0.41 | |
| WEC Energy Group Inc | -0.40 |
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.
