GOOG's recent selloff, driven by the bursting AI bubble and regulatory concerns, presents a rare buying opportunity with high double digits upside potential. If anything, its robust top/ bottom-line growth, diversified AI-powered offerings, and promising long-term growth drivers support a Strong Buy rating. This is especially since the expensive WIZ acquisition is likely to trigger renewed growth opportunities through enhanced cybersecurity offerings during the multi-year AI boom.
Alphabet's new Gemini 2.5 Pro model has surpassed rival AI systems, earning top scores on major benchmarks and excelling in coding and reasoning tasks. Its advantage comes from a trifecta of strengths: top AI talent at Google DeepMind, custom Tensor Processing Units (TPUs), and a vast product/data ecosystem. Alphabet's huge R&D spending and global infrastructure let it train and deploy massive models quickly, while also leveraging Google Cloud to scale AI services.
The month of March hasn't been kind to the Mag 7 group, but Alphabet (GOOGL) has shown relative strength compared to the rest of its big-tech peers. Tom White looks at a cash secured put options trade as a way to navigate a neutral to bullish strategy in GOOGL.
Google stock has seen a sharp a sharp correction of close to 20% since early February when the stock was at over $200. The company has recently announced Gemini 2.5 AI reasoning model, which is beating other competitors in key tests. Google has also announced the launch of Waymo in Washington, D.C., which shows that the company is confident of launching services beyond the Sun Belt and close to federal policy.
It's amazing what a couple of grad students can cook up in their garage. I've been a fan (and heavy user) of Google since the search engine hit the internet in 1997 and a happy shareholder since 2007.
It's becoming clear that artificial intelligence (AI) isn't going away. In fact, it looks like this revolutionary technology is only going to become an ever more important part of our daily lives.
Google reportedly reached a preliminary settlement in a 14-year-old class action lawsuit brought by advertisers by agreeing to pay $100 million.
Google has agreed to pay $100 million in cash to settle a long-running lawsuit claiming it overcharged advertisers by failing to provide promised discounts and charged for clicks on ads outside the geographic areas the advertisers targeted.
The "Magnificent Seven" stocks have been some of the best performers in the market over the past five years and represent a significant portion of the large-cap tech stocks. While some may think these stocks are expensive, one doesn't fit that narrative: Alphabet (GOOG -1.80%) (GOOGL -1.69%).
Investors typically don't think of internet stocks as dividend payers. That is typically reserved for slower-growth industries such as consumer staples or utilities.
In the closing of the recent trading day, Alphabet Inc. (GOOG) stood at $164.04, denoting a -1.85% change from the preceding trading day.
In the closing of the recent trading day, Alphabet (GOOGL) stood at $162.18, denoting a -1.74% change from the preceding trading day.