GOOGL
Alphabet Inc.Evidence as of 2026-08-27The desk's Snapshot
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Overview · Alphabet Inc.
Alphabet Inc. offers various products and platforms in the United States, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, the Asia-Pacific, Canada, and Latin America. It operates through Google Services, Google Cloud, and Other Bets segments. The Google Services segment provides products and services, including ads, Android, Chrome, hardware, Gmail, Google Drive, Google Maps, Google Photos, Google Play, Search, and YouTube. It is a…
Management team
- Ms. Amie Thuener O'Toole · Corporate Controller, Chief Accounting Officer & VPFind on LinkedIn
- Ms. Anat Ashkenazi · Senior VP & CFOFind on LinkedIn
- Mr. Philipp Schindler · Senior Vice President & Chief Business Officer of GoogleFind on LinkedIn
- Dr. Prabhakar Raghavan · Senior Vice President of Knowledge and Information - GoogleFind on LinkedIn
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Moneyta sentiment
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−0.5 on a −2 to +2 scale.
What builds the score
Solid bars are analyst rubric scores; faded bars are computed directly from data. Claims dropped in debate count for nothing; weakened claims count at half weight.
Editor's note
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Alphabet reported revenues of $119,796,000,000 for fiscal Q2 2026 (fiscal quarter ended 2026-06-30), up from $109,896,000,000 in fiscal Q1 2026 (fiscal quarter ended 2026-03-31), a sequential increase of $9,900,000,000. Cost of revenue was $45,943,000,000 in fiscal Q2 2026, implying gross profit of about $73,853,000,000 and a gross margin near 61.6%, versus roughly 59.5% in fiscal Q2 2025 (fiscal quarter ended 2025-06-30), so the surviving claims show year‑over‑year margin expansion.
Diluted EPS rose from $5.11 in fiscal Q1 2026 to $9.11 in fiscal Q2 2026, while repurchases pulled back (repurchases of $0 in fiscal Q1 2026 versus $15,068,000,000 in fiscal Q1 2025). Long‑term noncurrent debt increased to $98,165,000,000 as of 2026-06-30, even as the balance sheet shows cash and equivalents of $55,911,000,000 and trailing twelve‑month operating cash flow of $134,297,000,000 and operating income of $142,965,000,000; the trailing twelve‑month P/E is 17.63.
How this note was made
every stage ran before the note was writtenAnalyst desk
Mercer, Oakes, Nash, Ellis, Yates, Talbot and Archer. The desk: named AI agents, not people. Each reads one slice of the evidence and nothing else — no outside knowledge, no browsing — so every finding traces to a source you can open.
Reads the XBRL figures companies file with the SEC — revenue, margins, income, debt and share count, quarter by quarter — and reports which way the trend is running.
Alphabet reported revenues of $119,796,000,000 for fiscal Q2 2026 (2026-04-01 to 2026-06-30, 3mo).
XBRL companyfacts · 0001652044-26-000071Revenue increased from $109,896,000,000 in fiscal Q1 2026 (2026-01-01 to 2026-03-31, 3mo) to $119,796,000,000 in fiscal Q2 2026 (2026-04-01 to 2026-06-30, 3mo), showing sequential revenue growth of $9,900,000,000.
XBRL companyfacts · 0001652044-26-000048Reads the filings themselves, above all the year-over-year diff of Item 1A risk factors: which risks a company added, dropped or quietly reworded since its last annual report.
Which filings the desk reads
The desk reads the annual 10-K in full — its risk factors, and how they changed since last year. Quarterly 10-Qs and event filings (8-Ks, insider Form 4s) are listed for context but not read line by line: the 10-K is where the material risk disclosures live. A brand-new company, or one we have only just begun tracking, may have no annual report on file yet — its risk analysis fills in once that lands.
In the Form 10-K filed 5 February 2026, the company added a risk statement that 'We believe AI is quickly reshaping the advertising industry, including how ads are delivered online, and we and our competitors are constantly adjusting to meet this shift and provide new and evolving advertising formats. There is no assurance that we will adapt effectively and competitively to meet this shift, and that such advertising formats, strategies, and offerings will be successful.'
Item 1A risk-factor diff · 0001652044-26-000018 vs 0001652044-25-000014The 2026 Form 10-K (filed 5 February 2026) added multiple risks highlighting increased investment and operational strain from AI and cloud compute needs, including language about building AI-optimized infrastructure and custom TPUs, significant leasing arrangements to meet AI compute demand, and the potential for increased costs and long-duration commercial agreements that could leave the company with excess capacity or additional liabilities.
Item 1A risk-factor diff · 0001652044-26-000018 vs 0001652044-25-000014Reads the signal panel above — momentum, volatility, drawdown, relative strength and beta — and ranks each against the whole research universe rather than judging it in isolation.
Momentum measured as 'momentum_12_1' is +73.1%, which ranks in the 91th percentile of the 547-stock research universe as of 2026-08-26.
Moneyta signal set · 2026-08-26weakened in debateRelative strength versus SPY over 12 months is +44.2% (rel_strength_12m = +44.2%), indicating notable outperformance on that horizon in the dataset dated 2026-08-26.
Moneyta signal set · 2026-08-26Reads which funds hold the name and at what weight, plus insider Form 4 filings, to show the exposure you may already carry through index funds.
As of the 13F reporting period ended 2026-03-31, institutional holders reported total GOOGL exposure of $1293.43B and 5,575 holders; top reported holders included BlackRock, Inc. ($128.53B), VANGUARD CAPITAL MANAGEMENT LLC ($108.77B), FMR LLC ($68.02B), STATE STREET CORP ($65.06B), and GEODE CAPITAL MANAGEMENT, LLC ($43.55B).
13F holdings · 5575 filers · as of 2026-03-31The 13F data for the period ended 2026-03-31 shows a reported quarter-over-quarter aggregate value change of -10.0%, with 334 exited positions and a holder count delta of -109 versus the prior reported quarter; note that 13F filings carry a 45-day reporting lag.
13F holdings · 5575 filers · as of 2026-03-31Reads recent headlines that are genuinely about this company, ignoring rating chatter and market-wide stories. Findings argue in the debate but never move the sentiment score.
The gurufocus.com headline published 27 August 2026 reports a 1.4% single-day decline for Alphabet and shows a GF Value of $253.64 against a price of $342.00.
News · gurufocus.com · 2026-08-27The coverage in that headline is company-specific, focusing on Alphabet's quoted price relative to a GF Value metric rather than a broader market theme.
News · gurufocus.com · 2026-08-27Reads parsed Forms 3/4/5 — who bought or sold, at what size, and whether a 10b5-1 plan was involved. Flags clustered open-market officer buying; treats plan sales as routine and never counts a fund or 10%-holder as an officer.
Across the parsed filings in the 180-day window, insiders reported aggregate sales of "$24.8M" and aggregate purchases of "$0", with net shares of "-81275".
Form 4 · Ashkenazi Anat (SVP, Chief Financial Officer) · $0 code C · 2026-07-25There are no reported open-market officer purchases (distinct_buyers: 0) in the provided evidence.
Form 4 · Ashkenazi Anat (SVP, Chief Financial Officer) · $0 code C · 2026-07-25Reads the implied-expectations math built from the company's own filings (the growth rate today's price would justify, and the multiples beside it) and argues whether the market's bar looks high or low for this business. Never turns the math into a target.
The trailing twelve-month price-to-earnings ratio is 17.63.
Valuation inputs · SEC XBRL + stored EOD closeNet cash and equivalents on the balance (cash) is $55,911,000,000 as of 2026-06-30 while long-term debt is $49,085,000,000 as of 2025-12-31.
Valuation inputs · SEC XBRL + stored EOD closeDebate and risk review
A bull and a bear contest the claims and the chair rules on each; the risk review stress-tests what survived.
A bull and a bear argue the analysts' claims across two rounds, then a chair rules on each one. Only what survives feeds the score — the argument is shown, not hidden, so you can judge the reasoning yourself.
Several high-quality filings and trailing-twelve-month metrics show a robust operating profile: sequential revenue growth to $119.8B (fundamentals-0, fundamentals-1), year-over-year gross margin expansion to ~61.6% (fundamentals-2, fundamentals-3), a large increase in diluted EPS in the quarter (fundamentals-4), and very strong TTM operating income and operating cash flow ($142.97B and $134.30B, valuation-3 and valuation-2). These signals (SEC-sourced revenue, margin, and EPS items: evidence strength = strong) jointly support a favorable operational read despite headline risk language in the 10-K about AI-related costs (filings-0, filings-1, filings-3), which are forward-looking risk disclosures rather than contemporaneous reversals of profitability (evidence strength = strong for disclosure, medium for near-term impact). Market-position evidence — momentum in the 91st percentile, 12-month relative strength +44.2%, and a golden-cross technical signal (market-0, market-1, market-7) — adds a supportive market-momentum context (evidence strength = medium). The bear points about higher reported long-term debt (fundamentals-6) and repurchase pullback (fundamentals-5) are tempered by the company's large cash balance and very strong operating cash flow (valuation-1, valuation-2; evidence strength = strong), and some negative signals (insider sales, 13F outflows, elevated volatility) are either reporting-lagged or limited in sourcing breadth (insider sales: evidence strength = medium; 13F outflow: evidence strength = weak-to-medium).
Chair's verdict, claim by claim
Fragility · computed, not argued
balanced0.37
39 surviving claims rest on 16 distinct sources; the heaviest analyst carries 23% of them, and 95% of what the desk raised survived the debate.
The evidence set is moderately large and internally consistent: many claims survive debate which gives this read coherence, but a sizable share of claims trace to a limited set of sources and a single analyst contributes nearly a quarter of surviving points. In fragility terms this means the read can inform an educational view but is sensitive to errors or omissions in those dominant sources or that analyst's interpretations; primary filings or a new material filing would materially change the weight you should place on these claims.
Peer context · computed, not argued
12-1 momentum ranks 1st of 4 in Internet Content & Information (as of 2026-08-26).
6-month relative strength ranks 1st of 4 in Internet Content & Information (as of 2026-08-26).
90-day volatility ranks 3rd of 4 in Internet Content & Information (as of 2026-08-26).
dividend yield ranks 3rd of 4 in Internet Content & Information (as of 2026-08-26).
Disconfirming evidence · base rates · falsifiers
Context
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15 filings· 3 cited
SEC XBRL filings
Quarterly figures as filed with the SEC, read straight from EDGAR's structured data — not retyped or estimated.
Read by Mercer+0.4 to the score
13 documents· 2 cited
SEC filing documents
The filings themselves, including the year-over-year comparison of Item 1A risk factors.
Read by Oakes−0.8 to the score
1 signal set
Moneyta signal set
Computed from our own end-of-day price history and ranked against the whole research universe. No AI involved.
Read by Nash−0.1 to the score
3 holdings records· 1 cited
Fund holdings
Which funds hold this name and at what weight, plus insider Form 4 filings.
Read by Ellis+0.0 to the score
1 headline
News coverage
Recent headlines about this company, rating chatter excluded and nothing published after the report date.
Read by Yatesnothing survived
10 filings· 1 cited
Insider filings
Parsed Forms 3/4/5 from EDGAR: named insiders, share counts, prices, and 10b5-1 plan state — stated and inferred flags kept apart.
Read by Talbot−0.7 to the score
1 computation
Valuation inputs
TTM cash-flow figures from the company's own XBRL filings, priced with the stored closing price. Implied growth and multiples only; no fair-value dollar figure reaches the desk, by design.
Read by Archercontext only
1 record· 0 cited
Company profile
Sector, industry and company details.
1 record· 0 cited
Analyst consensus
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