How to Buy Alphabet Inc Class A Stock (GOOGL)

Q3 2023 financials<\/a>. The company posted diluted earnings of $1.55 per share on revenues of $76.7 billion, beating the $1.44 per share on $75.9 billion in revenue analysts expected, according to <a href=https://www.finder.com/"https:////finance.yahoo.com//quote//GOOGL//analysis?p=GOOGL\%22>Yahoo Finance<\/a>.","imageUrl":null},{"date":"2023-10-26","text":"Alphabet has had its worse single day on the stock market since the March 2020 drop due to the coronavirus pandemic. Even though it beat revenue and earnings estimates, Google Cloud underperformed compared to Microsoft which saw its cloud business grow. ","imageUrl":null},{"date":"2023-12-13","text":"Alphabet lost a recent antitrust court case decision in a lawsuit from Epic Games (creator of Fortnite), which argued that Google's App Store was preventing fair competition. It's unclear yet what the outcome will lead to for Alphabet and Google Play.","imageUrl":null},{"date":"2023-12-21","text":"After Alphabet was slapped with a $700 million settlement, the stock is up a few percentage points after an announcement to reorganize its digital ad business.","imageUrl":null},{"date":"2024-01-30","text":"Alphabet is set to report its latest quarterly earnings today, and Wall Street has high expectations, with plenty of focus on cloud and artificial intelligence (AI). ","imageUrl":null},{"date":"2024-01-31","text":"Alphabet's stock price dipped by just over 1% even though it beat expectations for revenue ($86.31 billion) and earnings per share ($1.64). The reason for the negativity is because ad revenue missed expectations.","imageUrl":null},{"date":"2024-02-08","text":"Justin Post from Bank of America recently rated Alphabet a Buy, with a target share price of $173.","imageUrl":null},{"date":"2024-07-09","text":"Alphabet's stock price has hit a 52-week high, continuing a year of strong tech sector performance.","imageUrl":null},{"date":"2024-07-16","text":"Reports suggest that Alphabet is in talks to buy cybersecurity firm Wiz, in a deal worth $23 billion.","imageUrl":null},{"date":"2024-07-24","text":"Alphabet released a positive earnings report, beating estimate for revenue and earnings per share (EPS). Its cloud business is performing positively, but its spending a lot of money trying to improve its AI capabilities. ","imageUrl":null},{"date":"2024-07-24","text":"Israeli cybersecurity firm Wiz has rejected Alphabet's $23 billion takeover bid, with the company wanting to hit $1 billion in revenue before selling shares publicly. ","imageUrl":null},{"date":"2024-08-06","text":"A US judge has ruled that Google's online search engine has been acting as an illegal monopoly, due to controlling over 90% of the market.","imageUrl":null},{"date":"2024-09-09","text":"Alphabet shares have slid by over 7% in the past week, and trouble is piling up as a trial begins between the US government and Alphabet over the accusation that the search engine operates as a monopoly \u2014 making more than $200 billion (about \u00a3152 billion) from ad sales. ","imageUrl":null},{"date":"2024-09-11","text":"Europe's top EU court has ruled that Google must pay a \u20ac2.4 billion (about \u00a32 billion) fine for abusing its market dominance of its shopping comparison feature. The charge was initially levied in 2017 and first brought by a British firm called Foundem in 2009.","imageUrl":null},{"date":"2024-10-30","text":"Alphabet shares lifted by close to 2% following an earnings beat driven partly by cloud revenue, which was up almost 35% compared to last year. Total revenue reached $88.27 billion, and earnings per share (EPS) hit $2.12.","imageUrl":null},{"date":"2024-11-21","text":"The US Department of Justice (DoJ) has ordered Alphabet to sell its Chrome browser to break up its search monopoly, but Google-owner Alphabet is likely to appeal. ","imageUrl":null},{"date":"2024-11-26","text":"After coming under fire about Chrome, Google has proposed making changes to its search engine in Europe.","imageUrl":null},{"date":"2025-01-16","text":"Trouble keeps stacking up for Alphabet as its search engine Google now faces an investigation in the UK from the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) over its search dominance. ","imageUrl":null},{"date":"2025-01-27","text":"Google stocks <a href=https://www.finder.com/"https:////finance.yahoo.com//news//alphabet-inc-goog-feeling-heat-030810244.html/">fell 4%<\/a> as US tech giants' stock prices abruptly came under scrutiny due to a bootstrapped-by-comparison Chinese AI disruptor, DeepSeek, which has enjoyed a surge in popularity in the US. While 4% might not sound devastating, that's a $90B loss in value ofr Google.","imageUrl":null},{"date":"2025-02-04","text":"China's anti-monopoly regulator the State Administration for Market Regulation has announced it has launched an investigation into Google. While Google does provide services in China (often through third parties), its core search product has been outlawed there since 2010.","imageUrl":null},{"date":"2025-02-05","text":"Some investors are a bit spooked by Alphabet's latest earnings report, with revenue of $96.47 billion slightly missing expectations and earnings per share (EPS) of $2.15 slightly beating expectations. Cloud revenue was a drag and the firm also announced a huge $75 billion investment into new AI tech. ","imageUrl":null},{"date":"2025-04-08","text":"Amazon's self-driving vehicle arm, Zoox, has announced it's expanding its testing into a sixth US city \u2013 Los Angeles. The company <a href=https://www.finder.com/"https:////www.aol.com//zoox-bringing-driverless-test-fleet-153000267.html/">hopes to launch<\/a> a driverless ride-hailing service in Las Vegas and Los Angeles this summer. Zoox will be competing with Alphabet equivalent, Waymo, which already operates in Los Angeles and San Francisco (amongst other cities).","imageUrl":null},{"date":"2025-05-06","text":"The US DoJ has put forward a proposal that Alphabet breaks up its Google advertising business to end Google's monopolies and restore competition.","imageUrl":null},{"date":"2025-05-07","text":"While testifying in the DoJ case against Alphabet, Apple services chief Eddy Cue <a href=https://www.finder.com/"https:////www.cnbc.com//2025//05//07//alphabet-shares-sink-on-report-apple-may-add-ai-search-to-its-browser.html/">said that Apple will be shifting towards AI services<\/a> from the likes of OpenAI and Perplexity for searches in the Safari browser. (Eddy) Cue a 7%+ downturn in Alphabet's stock price. But Apple also saw a decline in Safari searches in April \u2013 the first time that's happened. And given the simbiotic relationship (Google pays Apple billions annually to be the default search engin on iPhones), Apple's stock inevitably declined too, albeit by a less seismic 2%.","imageUrl":null},{"date":"2025-05-12","text":"Magnificent 7 stocks all responded positively to news of a <a href=https://www.finder.com/"https:////www.reuters.com//world//us-china-tariff-live-updates-bessent-greer-announce-details-constructive-geneva-2025-05-12///">90-day lowering of import tariffs on goods from China<\/a> (from a prohibitive 145%, in some cases, to a far more bearable 30%).","imageUrl":null},{"date":"2025-06-02","text":"A Barclays analyst, Ross Sandler, <a href=https://www.finder.com/"https:////finance.yahoo.com//news//alphabet-stock-could-fall-as-much-as-25-in-black-swan-event-if-judge-orders-google-chrome-divestiture-174438942.html/">warned that the possibility of Google being forced to sell off one or more of its subsidiaries<\/a> (potentially Chrome), \"while low, has increased in our view\". In a note to investors, Sandler said that such a \"black swan\" event could knock Google's share price by 15-25%, while \"well funded AI companies like OpenAI, Anthropic or perhaps Perplexity\" could stand to benefit from the chance to swoop on the popular browser.","imageUrl":null},{"date":"2025-09-03","text":"A US judge has ruled that Google won't have to sell off Chrome, its web browser. What's more, while it won't be able to keep paying phone-makers like Apple billions for exclusivity as the search engine on their browsers, it will be allowed to keep paying them billions to be pre-installed and the default option. The clemency extended almost across the board, but Google was told it must share some search data with competitors.","imageUrl":null},{"date":"2025-09-16","text":"Ahead of US president Donald Trump's visit to the UK, the two countries have agreed the \"<a href=https://www.finder.com/"https:////www.gov.uk//government//news//us-uk-pact-will-boost-advances-in-drug-discovery-create-tens-of-thousands-of-jobs-and-transform-lives/">Tech Prosperity Deal<\/a>\", which will see American tech firms including Microsoft, Nvidia, Google, OpenAI and CoreWeave <a href=https://www.finder.com/"https:////www.cnbc.com//2025//09//16//tech-giants-to-pour-billions-into-uk-ai-heres-what-we-know-so-far.html/">invest more than \u00a331b into AI infrastructure and operations in the UK<\/a> between 2025 and 2028. Amongst the plans: Nvidia is set to roll out 120,000 GPUs across the UK (its biggest roll-out in Europe so far); Google is opening a data centre in Waltham Cross; and Microsoft will build the UK's largest supercomputer, in Loughton.","imageUrl":null},{"date":"2025-09-17","text":"<a href=https://www.finder.com/"https:////waymo.com//blog//2025//09//waymo-is-coming-to-nashville-in-partnership-with-lyft/">Lyft is to partner with Google's Waymo<\/a> to provide driverless ride-hailing services in Nashville, in a blow to Uber and Amazon's Zoox robotaxi service.","imageUrl":null},{"date":"2025-11-19","text":"Nvidia dished up Wall-St-expectation-beating numbers on Wednesday, <a href=https://www.finder.com/"https:////edition.cnn.com//2025//11//19//tech//nvidia-earnings-ai-bubble-fears/">quelling fears of an AI bubble on the verge of bursting<\/a>. Sales were up a whopping <a href=https://www.finder.com/"https:////investor.nvidia.com//events-and-presentations//events-and-presentations//event-details//2025//NVIDIA-3rd-Quarter-FY26-Financial-Results//default.aspx/">62% YoY to $57b<\/a>, against earlier hopes of $55b. Shares in tech stocks including Amazon, Meta, Microsoft and Google were bolstered by the news.","imageUrl":null}]}" data-annotation-periods="" data-cta-disabled="" data-cta-text="" data-cta-target="" data-country="us" data-custom-time-periods="" data-selected-custom-time-period="" data-template="default" data-use-live-price="1" data-display-header="" data-display-title="" data-display-price="">