Alphabet Inc. Class C (GOOG)
GOOG · Communication Services ·
United States
Alphabet Inc. Class C (GOOG) 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 14.84 % 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.
About Alphabet
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.
Price chart
Performance
| Year to date | +8.1 % | 1 year | +35.0 % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 month | -0.6 % | 3 months | -6.3 % |
| Calendar year 2025 | +64.8 % |
Measured in euros, Alphabet returned +10.1 % year to date and +38.1 % 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.
Risk metrics
The close on Sep 16, 2026 was 15.0 % 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 1.33 % 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.
Correlated with
The strongest co-movers on top, the most inverse below. Low or negative values improve portfolio diversification.
| Instrument | r | −1 … +1 |
|---|---|---|
| Alphabet Inc. Class A | +0.99 | |
| Amazon.com Inc. | +0.69 | |
| S&P 500 | +0.47 | |
| MSCI World | +0.42 | |
| Meta Platforms Inc Class A | +0.42 | |
| Euro STOXX 50 | +0.39 | |
| AbbVie Inc. | -0.33 | |
| Heating oil | -0.32 | |
| Brent crude oil | -0.30 |
Held in these ETFs
| ETF | Index | Weight | per €1,000 in the ETF |
|---|---|---|---|
| WTEL | msci-world-communication | 14.84 % | €148.40 |
| XUCM | msci-usa-communication | 13.70 % | €137.00 |
| XWTS | msci-world-communication | 13.69 % | €136.90 |
| XNAS | nasdaq-100 | 3.01 % | €30.10 |
| EXXT | nasdaq-100 | 3.00 % | €30.00 |
| SPYL / SPY5 | sp500 | 2.47 % | €24.70 |
| SXR8 | sp500 | 2.46 % | €24.60 |
| XD9U / XD9D | msci-usa | 2.43 % | €24.30 |
| XDEM | msci-world-momentum | 2.21 % | €22.10 |
| SWWD | msci-world | 1.76 % | €17.60 |
| EUNL | msci-world | 1.76 % | €17.60 |
| SPPW | msci-world | 1.76 % | €17.60 |
| XDWD / XDWL | msci-world | 1.76 % | €17.60 |
| WIMI | msci-world-imi | 1.57 % | €15.70 |
| SPYY | msci-acwi | 1.55 % | €15.50 |
| IUSQ | msci-acwi | 1.55 % | €15.50 |
| SPYI / SPSA | msci-acwi-imi | 1.38 % | €13.80 |
| XDEQ | msci-world-quality | 1.31 % | €13.10 |
| XDEB | msci-world-minimum-volatility | 0.32 % | €3.20 |
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
In EUNL, a fund tracking the MSCI World, Alphabet had a weight of 0.92 % on Sep 30, 2019 and 1.76 % on Sep 16, 2026. Its share peaked at 1.84 % on Dec 31, 2025. 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.
How much Alphabet Inc. Class C 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.
AppLovin Corp. Class AAPP · 22 shared ETFs
Netflix Inc.NFLX · 22 shared ETFs
Alphabet Inc. Class AGOOGL · 22 shared ETFs · r +0.99
T-Mobile US Inc.TMUS · 21 shared ETFs
Meta Platforms Inc Class AMETA · 21 shared ETFs · r +0.42
Take-Two Interactive Software Inc.TTWO · 20 shared ETFs
Warner Bros. Discovery Inc. Series AWBD · 20 shared ETFs
Comcast Corporation Class ACMCSA · 20 shared ETFs
Key figures side by side
| Stock | 1 year | Volatility p.a. | Net margin | Revenue growth |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alphabet | +35.0 % | 31.1 % | – | – |
| AppLovin | -45.9 % | 82.9 % | 60.8 % | +70.0 % |
| Netflix | -36.4 % | 33.9 % | 24.3 % | +15.9 % |
| Alphabet | +36.5 % | 31.5 % | 32.8 % | +15.1 % |
| T-Mobile US | -25.8 % | 28.3 % | 12.4 % | +8.5 % |
| Meta Platforms Inc | -13.6 % | 37.7 % | 30.1 % | +22.2 % |
| Take-Two Interactive Software | -14.5 % | 31.3 % | -4.5 % | +18.2 % |
| Warner Bros. Discovery | +53.8 % | 49.6 % | 1.9 % | -5.1 % |
| 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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