Alphabet Inc. (GOOGL) Stock

About Alphabet Inc.

Alphabet Inc. provides a diverse range of products and digital platforms to consumers across multiple global regions, including North and South America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and the Asia-Pacific. The company's operations are organized into three primary divisions: Google Services, Google Cloud, and "Other Bets." The Google Services segment delivers core offerings such as its advertising solutions, the Android operating system, the Chrome browser, and various hardware. It also features popular applications like Gmail, Google Drive, Google Maps, Google Photos, Google Play, Search, and YouTube. This division further handles the sale of applications, in-app purchases, and digital content via the Google Play store, alongside marketing devices such as Fitbit wearables, Google Nest smart home products, Pixel smartphones, and other proprietary hardware. It also provides non-advertising services for YouTube. The Google Cloud segment offers a comprehensive suite of infrastructure, platform, and other cloud computing services for businesses. This includes Google Workspace, a collection of cloud-native collaboration tools for enterprises, featuring applications like Gmail, Docs, Drive, Calendar, and Meet, among other specialized services for corporate clients. Lastly, the "Other Bets" segment is engaged in developing and selling health technology and internet services. Established in 1998, Alphabet Inc. maintains its principal executive offices in Mountain View, California.

Alphabet Inc. is led by CEO Sundar Pichai, employs 185,719 people, headquartered in Mountain View, US, publicly traded since 2004.

Alphabet Inc. (GOOGL) stock trades at $354.30 with a market capitalization of $4.29T. The stock is valued at a price-to-earnings (P/E) ratio of 27.68, price-to-book of 9.26, price-to-sales of 10.49. Over the past 52 weeks the stock has ranged between $172.77 and $408.61, and currently trades 13.3% below its 52-week high. It pays a dividend yielding 0.23%.

On profitability, Alphabet Inc. generates a return on equity (ROE) of 38.98% — well above the market average, a sign of a high-quality business, return on capital employed of 23.32%, an operating margin of 32.70%, a net profit margin of 37.91%.

In its most recent fiscal year, Alphabet Inc. reported annual revenue of $403.0B, net profit of $132.2B, revenue has compounded at 17.2% a year over the last five years, profit at 26.8% a year. Profit growing faster than revenue points to expanding margins.

The balance sheet shows a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.19 — a conservative balance sheet with little leverage risk, a current ratio of 1.92, total assets of $595.3B, $30.7B in cash and equivalents.

GOOGL has an average daily trading volume of 32,540,000 shares, a beta of 1.25.

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