Alphabet

GOOGL

Internet Content & Information · Communication Services

Also trades as: GOOG.NE · ABEA.F · GOOGL.SW

Price

$354.30

-3.45 (-0.96%)

Market Cap

$4.29T

Exchange

NASDAQ

Winston Score

Winston is curious

A decent business — some strong pillars, some weaker.

Data as of Aug 9, 2026 · filings through Jun 30, 2026

Share count falling — buybacks

−9.8% over 4y

The company has reduced its share count over this period, returning value to shareholders through buybacks.

Diluted shares outstanding: 13.55B (2021) → 12.23B (2025)

Alphabet is the parent company of Google, the world's most widely used search engine. It also owns YouTube, the largest online video platform, and provides cloud computing services through Google Cloud. Its products serve billions of everyday users, businesses, and advertisers across nearly every country on Earth.

Alphabet makes most of its money by selling digital advertising — when businesses pay to show ads in Google Search results or on YouTube. Google Cloud adds a growing stream of revenue by charging companies to store data and run software on Google's servers. Alphabet operates globally and its dominance in search gives it a powerful competitive moat, since advertisers follow the users and users rarely switch away from Google. The key growth driver is Google Cloud competing against Amazon and Microsoft for enterprise cloud spending, while the main risk is increasing regulatory pressure from governments worldwide that could force changes to how Google runs its advertising and search businesses.

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Growth Profile

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Revenue Growth

+24.2% YoY

YoY Growth Rate

Steady revenue growth

EPS Growth

+296.1% YoY

YoY Growth Rate

EPS growth accelerating

R&D Spend

$61.1B/ year

↑ Rising (+24% vs prior year)

15.2% of revenue

In line with sector average (12%)

Investing heavily in future products and technology

Insider Activity

9.7%ownership

↓ Declining

Insider ownership declining — could be dilution or selling

Cash Runway

5+ years

Quarterly Free Cash Flow

↓ Burn rate worsening

$373.9B cash & investments at current burn rate

Heavy R&D investment

Alphabet is putting 15% of revenue into R&D and that number is rising. With 10+ years of cash runway, they have time to let it pay off.

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Quality

Gross Margin

61.6%

Premium pricing power — 61.6% gross margin

Operating Margin

34.0%

Excellent — 34.0% operating margin

ROCE

5.5%

Weak — 5.5% return on capital

ROIC between 5% and 15%. They earn 5 to 15 cents back per year on every dollar invested.

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Growth

Sales YoY

+20.1%

Fast-growing sales (+20.1% YoY)

EPS YoY

+112.4%

Earnings growing fast (+112.4% YoY)

Earnings growing 25%+ a year. The compounder zone.

EPS Consistency

8/8 quarters

Every recent quarter grew earnings vs last year

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Cash Flow

Cash Conversion

76%

Modest — 76% of profit becomes cash

FCF Margin

11.9%

Modest free cash flow (11.9%)

FCF margin between 10% and 20%. Every $100 in sales becomes $10 to $20 in real cash.

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Stability

Debt / Equity

0.15

Conservative — low debt load (0.15)

Interest Cover

295.98x

Comfortably covers interest (296.0x)

Interest coverage above 8. Profits cover interest many times over.

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Valuation

P/E Ratio (TTM)

17.6x

Fair value — P/E 17.6

P/E in the normal range. Price is roughly $15 for every $1 of yearly profit.

P/E vs Forward

-1.4

SLOWING

Earnings expected to fall — forward P/E higher than today

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Dividends

Dividend Yield

0.25%

Small dividend — 0.25% yield

Modest yield. The bulk of any return needs to come from price appreciation.

Dividend Growth

+4.9%

Dividend growing modestly (4.9% YoY)

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