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Alphabet Inc.
GOOG NASDAQAlphabet Inc. is an American multinational technology holding company that oversees a broad portfolio of digital businesses and platforms. Today it primarily operates through the Google Services, Google Cloud, and Other Bets segments, serving consumers, enterprises, developers, and public-sector organizations worldwide. Google Services encompasses core internet products such as search, advertising platforms, Android, Chrome, YouTube, Gmail, Google Maps, Google Play, and a range of devices and smart home hardware, making Alphabet a central player in online information access and digital advertising. Google Cloud provides cloud infrastructure, data analytics, artificial intelligence tools, and productivity solutions like Google Workspace, targeting business and institutional clients. The Other Bets segment contains emerging technology ventures in areas such as autonomous driving (Waymo), health sciences (Verily), and connectivity. Headquartered in Mountain View, California and founded as Alphabet in 2015, the company plays a pivotal role in global internet services, cloud computing, and AI-driven digital ecosystems.
Price Overview
Price History (1 Year)
Revenue & Net Income Trend
| Period | Revenue | Net Income | Net Margin | YoY/QoQ |
|---|
Key Metrics
EPS (Diluted): 10.81
Total Equity: $415.27B
Shares: 12,230,000,000
Total Debt: $59.29B
Cash: $30.71B
EBITDA: $150.18B
Total Debt: $59.29B
Cash: $30.71B
Revenue: $402.84B
Revenue: $402.84B
Revenue: $402.84B
Total Equity: $415.27B
Tax Rate: 16.8%
Equity: $415.27B
Total Debt: $59.29B
Cash: $30.71B
Current Liabilities: $102.75B
Long-Term Debt: $59.29B
Total Debt: $59.29B
Total Equity: $415.27B
Shares: 12,230,000,000
Shares: 12,230,000,000
CapEx: -$91.45B
Shares: 12,230,000,000
Stock Price: $332.72
Net Income: $132.17B
Industry Benchmarks
Income Statement (Annual)
Last updated: Jul 28, 2026 6:44pm (71d ago)| Metric | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | $257.6B | — | $307.4B | $350.0B | $402.8B |
| Cost of Revenue | $110.9B | $126.2B | $133.3B | $146.3B | $162.5B |
| Gross Profit | $146.7B | — | $174.1B | $203.7B | $240.3B |
| Operating Expenses | $68.0B | $81.8B | $89.8B | $91.3B | $111.3B |
| Operating Income | $78.7B | $74.8B | $84.3B | $112.4B | $129.0B |
| Net Income | $76.0B | $60.0B | $73.8B | $100.1B | $132.2B |
| EBITDA | $89.0B | $88.3B | $96.2B | $127.7B | $150.2B |
| EPS | $113.88 | $4.59 | $5.84 | $8.13 | $10.91 |
| EPS (Diluted) | $112.20 | $4.56 | $5.80 | $8.04 | $10.81 |
Balance Sheet (Annual)
Last updated: Jul 23, 2026 6:14pm (76d ago)| Metric | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cash & Equivalents | $20.9B | $21.9B | $24.0B | $23.5B | $30.7B |
| Total Current Assets | $188.1B | $164.8B | $171.5B | $163.7B | $206.0B |
| Total Assets | $359.3B | $365.3B | $402.4B | $450.3B | $595.3B |
| Current Liabilities | $64.3B | $69.3B | $81.8B | $89.1B | $102.7B |
| Long-Term Debt | $26.2B | $27.2B | $25.7B | $22.6B | $59.3B |
| Total Liabilities | $107.6B | $109.1B | $119.0B | $125.2B | $180.0B |
| Total Equity | $251.6B | $256.1B | $283.4B | $325.1B | $415.3B |
| Retained Earnings | $191.5B | $195.6B | $211.2B | $245.1B | $324.1B |
Cash Flow (Annual)
Last updated: Jul 28, 2026 6:44pm (71d ago)| Metric | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Operating Cash Flow | $91.7B | $91.5B | $101.7B | $125.3B | $164.7B |
| Capital Expenditure | -$24.6B | -$31.5B | -$32.3B | -$52.5B | -$91.4B |
| Free Cash Flow | $67.0B | $60.0B | $69.5B | $72.8B | $73.3B |
| Acquisitions (net) | — | — | — | — | — |
| Net Debt Issued / (Repaid) | — | — | — | — | — |
| Dividends Paid | — | $0 | $0 | -$7.4B | -$10.0B |
| Stock Buybacks | -$50.3B | -$59.3B | -$61.5B | -$62.2B | -$45.7B |
| Net Change in Cash | -$5.5B | $934.0M | $2.2B | -$582.0M | $7.2B |
Growth Trends (YoY %)
Last updated: Jul 28, 2026 6:44pm (71d ago)| Metric | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue Growth | — | — | +13.9% | +15.1% |
| Gross Profit Growth | — | — | +17.0% | +18.0% |
| Operating Income Growth | -4.9% | +12.6% | +33.3% | +14.8% |
| Net Income Growth | -21.1% | +23.0% | +35.7% | +32.0% |
| EBITDA Growth | -0.8% | +9.0% | +32.7% | +17.6% |
Dividend History (Last 20)
Last updated: Jul 23, 2026 6:14pm (76d ago)| Date | Dividend | Declaration | Record | Payment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-06-08 | $0.22 | — | — | — |
| 2026-03-09 | $0.21 | — | — | — |
| 2025-12-08 | $0.21 | — | — | — |
| 2025-09-08 | $0.21 | — | — | — |
| 2025-06-09 | $0.21 | — | — | — |
| 2025-03-10 | $0.20 | — | — | — |
| 2024-12-09 | $0.20 | — | — | — |
| 2024-09-09 | $0.20 | — | — | — |
| 2024-06-10 | $0.20 | — | — | — |
Deep Analysis
Risk : Reward — upside vs downside from this company's own quarters
Computed 2026-07-29 00:16Narrative Economics
market-narrative step).
Claude Reading
The raw numbers first: Alphabet is compounding revenue at ~15% YoY at a $440B run-rate, which is genuinely remarkable for a company this size — that's ~$60B of incremental annual revenue, more than the total revenue of most S&P 500 names. Operating margin of 32% on $403B produced $129B of operating income in 2025, and TTM net income is now tracking well above $240B if the recent quarters are real. But that's exactly where I stop and squint: the 2026-06-30 quarter showing $119.8B revenue with $112.2B net income (93.7% margin) and 2026-03-31 at 56.9% net margin are not operating results — those are almost certainly contaminated by mark-to-market gains on the equity investment portfolio (recall the multi-billion-dollar swings from stakes like the one in a certain AI lab). Treating those as run-rate earnings would be malpractice. Strip them out and net margin normalizes back to the ~29-33% band we saw through 2024-2025.
On the balance sheet, the $30.7B cash figure is misleadingly low — Alphabet historically carries $95-110B in cash + marketable securities; the "cash + equivalents" line here is only the narrowest bucket. Debt of $59B against $415B equity is trivial (D/E 0.14). The real story on capital is capex: $91.5B in 2025 versus $164.7B operating cash flow, leaving FCF of just $73.3B — down materially and the reason FCF CAGR is a pitiful 2.7% against earnings CAGR of 33.8%. That gap is the entire investment debate. At $4.07T market cap, the stock trades at ~55x trailing FCF and ~31x reported earnings. If capex normalizes and AI infrastructure spend has a real return, FCF snaps back toward $130-150B and the multiple looks reasonable. If capex is a permanent new baseline with AWS-like returns still 4+ years out, you're paying a growth multiple for a capital-intensive utility.
Where I diverge from the prior models: the synthesis calls this "High Conviction Required" and the pre-flight flags the market implying 60% FCF growth — I think that framing overstates the bear case. The market is not demanding 60% FCF growth; it's pricing normalization of capex intensity plus continued 15% top-line growth, which is a much more defensible bet given Search resilience through 2025 (ad revenue clearly did not collapse from ChatGPT — the YoY numbers prove it). The narrative layer correctly identifies this as anchored, not unanchored, and I agree — at 10x sales and 31x earnings for a business with 24% ROIC and structural growth, this is not a bubble multiple. The contrarian argument is not "AI kills search" (that thesis has been wrong for three years running); the real contrarian argument is that hyperscaler capex is entering a mutually-assured-destruction phase where Google, Microsoft, Meta, and Amazon collectively spend $400B+/year and none earn adequate returns because they're forced to match each other. That's the risk the market is under-pricing. The insider data (ten identical 23,417-share transactions on the same date, mix of J-Other and S-Sale) looks like a scheduled 10b5-1 grant vesting event, not a signal — the models correctly flagged neutral.
My verdict: I dissent modestly from "High Conviction Required" — the fundamentals are strong enough and the multiple sober enough that this is a reasonable hold, not a puzzle requiring exceptional conviction. At $332, you're paying ~$4.07T for a business earning a normalized $115-125B and growing 12-15% with a fortress balance sheet, plus real (if uncertain) optionality on Cloud reaching AWS-like scale (Cloud is likely running ~$55B ARR now at improving margins). Fair value on normalized FCF of $110B (assuming capex settles at $75B by 2027) at a 3.5% FCF yield is roughly $3.1T, or ~$255/share — meaning the stock is ~25-30% above conservative intrinsic value but not egregiously so given the growth. The bull case at $400+ requires Cloud margins to inflect and capex to plateau; both are plausible but not proven. I'd trim above $360, accumulate below $280, and hold in between. The data I most want: the actual 2026 capex guide and Cloud segment margin — everything else is noise.
GPT Reading
What jumps out to me is not the reported earnings surge but the widening disconnect between accounting profit and owner cash generation. Alphabet’s annual revenue went from $307.4B in 2023 to $350.0B in 2024 to $402.8B in 2025, so this is still a very large business compounding in the mid-teens. Operating income expanded even faster, from $84.3B to $112.4B to $129.0B, which says the core franchise is not deteriorating. But free cash flow tells a much less flattering story: just $73.3B in 2025 against $164.7B of operating cash flow because capex hit $91.5B. For a $4.07T company, that is the datum I care about most. A 10.1x sales multiple and 30.8x earnings multiple can be defended for a dominant platform with 32.0% operating margin and 24.2% ROIC; a roughly 55x trailing FCF multiple is much harder to wave away when capex may be structurally higher, not merely cyclical.
The quarterly data also screams “do not annualize reported EPS.” The June 2026 quarter shows $119.8B of revenue and $112.2B of net income, a 93.7% margin; March 2026 shows 56.9%. Those are obviously not economic margins for an ad-and-cloud operating business. If I ignore those two outliers and look at the cleaner run from 2024-09 through 2025-12, quarterly net margins sit in a far more believable 29% to 38% band on revenue climbing from $88.3B to $113.8B. So my base case is that Alphabet remains a superb business operationally, but the market is being asked to capitalize a normalization story twice over: first, normalize away unusually high non-operating gains in earnings; second, normalize down unusually high capex in cash flow. That combination makes the stock less straightforward than a simple “mature earner” label suggests.
I agree with Opus on the biggest accounting point: the 2026 net income figures are contaminated and should not be treated as run-rate economics. I also agree with Opus that the insider tape is non-informative; three S-sales and multiple identical J-Other entries of 23,417 shares on one day looks mechanical, not directional. I further agree with the Delvantic AI Findings that the prior model’s “60% implied FCF growth” framing is probably too dramatic. But I disagree with Opus’s comfort level around valuation. Opus argues this is “a reasonable hold, not a puzzle requiring exceptional conviction” and that the multiple is “sober enough.” I don’t buy that. A company with 2025 FCF of $73.3B and a $4.07T market cap is not being valued soberly on present cash economics; it is being valued on faith that capex falls from $91.5B to something like $75B while revenue keeps growing ~12-15% and margins hold. That is exactly a high-conviction underwriting exercise.
I also disagree with Opus’s specific normalization setup. They underwrite fair value partly on “normalized FCF of $110B” and capex settling at $75B by 2027. That may happen, but the raw data provided gives no evidence of capex relief yet; the evidence we do have is the opposite — Alphabet spent an enormous $91.5B in 2025, and FCF growth over time has badly lagged both revenue and earnings growth. When Opus says the market is not pricing a best-of-both-worlds outcome, I think that understates it. At 31x earnings and 10x revenue, investors are already assuming Search stays resilient, Cloud scales, AI spend earns returns, and regulation does not seriously impair the moat. That bundle is not absurd, but it is rich. Where I do align with Opus is on the stock not being a bubble: with debt just $59.3B against $415.3B equity, current ratio 2.0, and enormous operating cash generation, there is no balance-sheet fragility here. My issue is price, not business quality.
A careful skeptic of both my view and Opus’s would say we are both still too anchored to one year of depressed FCF and may be underestimating just how quickly Alphabet can monetize AI across Search, YouTube, and Cloud. If 2025 capex is the investment trough before a step-function in cash earnings, then even $332 could look reasonable in hindsight. The skeptic would also point out that a business producing $129.0B of operating income on $402.8B of revenue, while growing this fast at this scale, has historically deserved a premium multiple even when near-term cash flow looked messy. That is fair. But with the data in hand, I would rather demand a lower entry price than pay up for a capex normalization thesis that is still unproven.
Grok Reading
grok-critique step) alongside the other Big-3 seats, when a
report is run on this ticker.
Advanced Analysis Forensic deep-dive · separate lenses
The business is firing on all cylinders. Revenue grew from $257.6B (2021) to $402.8B (2025), a ~12% CAGR, and growth actually accelerated in the most recent year (+15% from $350.0B to $402.8B). Operating margin expanded from 27.4% in 2023 to 32.1% in 2024 and held at 32.0% in 2025, while gross margin climbed to 59.7%. Net income jumped from $73.8B to $132.2B in two years - a 79% cumulative increase - demonstrating powerful operating leverage on top of a huge base. Free cash flow of $73.3B is real and consistent with the earnings quality checks (OCF/NI 1.32x, accruals -6.2%, Beneish -2.68, Altman Z 15.93).
Verify before trusting this (5)
- Segment-level margin trajectory - is Search still the profit engine, and is Cloud finally contributing meaningful operating income?
- Capex intensity - AI infrastructure spending has surged industry-wide; verify FCF trajectory net of the capex ramp shown in the 10-K
- Any traffic acquisition cost (TAC) trend changes and Search query volume disclosures indicating AI cannibalization
- Status and remedies from the DOJ antitrust cases (Search and Ad Tech) - potential structural risk to the moat
- Whether the 2022 revenue field showing $0 is a data artifact or a real reporting gap
At $332.60 and a $4.07T cap, Alphabet trades at what looks like a full but not heroic multiple on a business that is genuinely reaccelerating: revenue growing off a $400B base, operating margins expanding, and net income compounding ~34% annually the last two years. The e2e synthesis flags 'High Conviction Required,' which I read as the market having largely priced in the platform-monopoly bull case - Gemini traction, Cloud scaling, buybacks shrinking the share count. Earnings quality is high, so no haircut is warranted; if anything the deserved multiple sits at the higher end of mega-cap peers. The gap I can defend is small. To call this cheap I need to underwrite Cloud margin expansion toward AWS-like levels AND search holding up against generative-AI substitution AND capex ROIs landing - that is three heroic assumptions stacked. To call it expensive I have to ignore the fact that earnings are actually accelerating into the multiple. The honest read is fair: you are paying a reasonable price for a fortress, not getting a discount. Deep-value hunters should wait for a regulatory or AI-disruption scare to reset the multiple; quality compounders can justify holding here but should not add aggressively.
Verify before trusting this (5)
- Cloud segment operating margin trajectory next 2-3 quarters - is it converging on AWS-like levels?
- Search revenue growth rate vs prior quarter - any signs of AI substitution biting?
- Capex guidance and management commentary on AI ROI timeline
- Any DOJ remedy specifics or appellate calendar that would crystallize breakup risk
- SBC net of buybacks - is share count actually shrinking on a fully diluted basis?
The tape just turned. VIX at 18.2 with the S&P off its highs is not extreme, but the news flow is unambiguous: Kimi K3 has reignited the DeepSeek-style AI-cost panic, Cramer is invoking dot-com-bust echoes, and money is visibly rotating into Costco/Verizon/Kroger-type safety. With a 1.25 beta and a business identity now welded to AI capex, GOOG sits squarely in the crosshairs of that rotation regardless of how strong the underlying franchise is. The narrative around Google itself is moderate intensity, moderate durability, low cult, which is a mixed blessing here. There is no euphoric story to defend the multiple, but there is also no fanatical holder base. The active bear beats, AI disruption of Search, capex burn with uncertain ROI, regulatory tail, all get amplified by a tape that is punishing exactly those anxieties. The Alphabet-specific news item flags the $69B shelf and the cash/capex tension, which feeds the same bear script the market is trading right now. Net: this is a moderate headwind, not a rout. The name is a quality mega-cap that will be bought on any risk-on flip, but until the AI-cost narrative burns off, sentiment leans against it.
Verify before trusting this (5)
- Whether the Kimi K3 / AI-cost narrative persists past a week or fades like DeepSeek did in early 2025
- Analyst target revisions post the Q2 2026 print and $69B shelf filing
- Any DOJ/regulatory headline that could reactivate the breakup tail risk
- VIX print and defensive-vs-mega-cap-tech relative performance over the next 3-5 sessions
- Cloud growth commentary at next update to defend the platform-monopoly bull frame
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When we made this prediction on Jul 29, 2026, GOOG was $332.60. We expect it to be $348.00 by Jan 2027, and we consider it great value under $275.00. This is an early model (v0.6.0) — the direction is more reliable than the exact price. Made Jul 29, 2026.
Blue is our prediction, starting the day we made it. Grey is a slower route to the same place — the same destination, taking longer. Black is the actual price, so you can see how we are doing.
Post-Report Due Diligence NOTES
Evidence for a closer look, not a verdict — no score or designation on this page has been changed by it. Items marked material are ones where a conclusion above moves to the other side of the price.
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