Stock · GOOGL · Communication Services
United States · Large Cap · listed since 2004 · Revenue 12 mo. $445.9B
Price as of 11/06/2026
Summary
50.9 of 100
Mean of the six area values. Each area value is the mean of the stock's ranks among the companies in its sector. 50 is the middle of the sector, not a share of companies beaten.
Analysis
What the price requires
If free cash flow stays at €65.7B (2025), it supports €730.5B. The remaining €2.4T of the market value assume it grows 20.4% a year for 10 years and not at all afterwards.
Required FCF growth per year
20.4%
no growth afterwards
Price to operating cash flow 18.9×, within its usual range.
Middle half of 20 quarters: 15.2× to 20.2×, median 18.2×.
Measures only against its own past, not against what the company is worth. Price as of 11/06/2026.
with respect to the priced-in expectation
with respect to the priced-in expectation
AI summary of the 2025 annual report
A language model selected and condensed statements from the report. Each statement carries a verbatim quote. The selection is not complete and shows the state of the report. It gives no rating and does not feed into the score.
Form 10-K, fiscal year ended 12/31/2025, filed 02/05/2026. Open the report at the SEC
Google Services mainly earns money by showing performance and brand advertising on Google Search, YouTube and partner websites.
Google Services generates revenues primarily by delivering both performance and brand advertising that appears on Google Search & other properties, YouTube, and Google Network partners' propertiesGoogle Cloud mainly earns money from usage-based fees and subscriptions for cloud infrastructure, platforms, applications and other cloud services.
Through our Google Cloud Platform and Google Workspace offerings, Google Cloud generates revenues primarily from consumption-based fees and subscriptions for infrastructure, platform, applications, and other cloud services.Platforms mainly earn money from sales of apps and in-app purchases through Google Play.
platforms, which primarily include revenues from Google Play sales of apps and in-app purchasesThe devices category mainly consists of sales of the Pixel family of devices.
devices, which primarily include sales of the Pixel family of devices.The advertising solutions help millions of companies grow their businesses.
Our advertising solutions help millions of companies grow their businesses through our wide range of products across devices and formatsMany advertisers, distributors, digital publishers and content providers can end their contracts with the company at any time.
Many of our advertisers, companies that distribute our products and services, digital publishers, and content providers can terminate their contracts with us at any time.Some competitors have longer operating histories and established relationships in various sectors.
Some competitors have longer operating histories and well-established relationships in various sectors.Competing successfully depends heavily on the company's ability to keep developing and distributing new products and technologies across its businesses.
Competing successfully depends heavily on our ability to continually develop and distribute innovative products and technologies to the marketplace across our businesses.Competitors may also be able to offer products and services faster or more cost-effectively than the company can.
Our competitors may also be able to innovate and provide products and services faster or more cost effectively than we canMore than 70% of total revenues in 2025 came from online advertising.
We generated more than 70% of total revenues from online advertising in 2025.The company's ability to expand its technical infrastructure is increasingly limited by the availability of power, water and land.
Our ability to scale our technical infrastructure is increasingly constrained by the availability of power, water, and land.Making servers and network equipment for the technical infrastructure, especially specialized AI chips, is limited to a small number of qualified suppliers.
manufacturing and supply of servers and network equipment for our technical infrastructure, particularly for specialized AI chips, is limited to a small number of qualified suppliers.Device margins have had, and could continue to have, a negative effect on overall margins because of price pressure and higher costs of sales.
margins on our devices have had, and may continue to have, an adverse effect on our consolidated margins due to pricing pressures and higher cost of sales.Since the last quarter
Q1 → Q2 2026
4 more unchanged: Gross margin, EBIT margin, Net debt, Shares outstanding
Derivation
Each area value is the average of its metrics' ranks within the sector (0 to 100, 50 is the middle). For metrics where lower is better, the rank is mirrored. The overall value is the average of the area values.
Price as of 11/06/2026.
| Metric | Stock | Sector median | Position in sector |
|---|---|---|---|
| Return on equity | 31.83% | 11.44% | Rank 92 |
| Return on capital (Greenblatt) | 35.34% | 22.01% | Rank 73 |
| EBIT margin | 32.03% | 17.12% | Rank 90 |
| FCF margin | 18.19% | 15.81% | Rank 65 |
| Gross margin | 59.65% | 44.45% | Rank 73 |
| Metric | Stock | Sector median | Position in sector |
|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue growth, 1 year | 15.09% | 4.46% | Rank 80 |
| Earnings growth, 3 years per year | 33.35% | 5.70% | Rank 85 |
| Earnings growth, 5 years per year | 29.82% | 6.76% | Rank 90 |
| Sustainable growth (ROE × retained earnings) | 22.70% | 9.07% | Rank 93 |
| Metric | Stock | Sector median | Position in sector |
|---|---|---|---|
| Earnings yield | 3.79% | 3.92% | Rank 44 |
| FCF yield | 2.09% | 6.59% | Rank 16 |
| EV/saleslower is better | 8.55 | 2.84 | Rank 4 |
| EV/EBITlower is better | 26.69 | 16.58 | Rank 18 |
| Metric | Stock | Sector median | Position in sector |
|---|---|---|---|
| Share price, 1 year | −9.60% | −11.03% | Rank 52 |
| Share price, 6 months | −28.46% | −0.69% | Rank 3 |
| Share price, 3 months | −14.49% | 4.43% | Rank 5 |
| Distance from 52-week high | −29.27% | −16.85% | Rank 22 |
| Metric | Stock | Sector median | Position in sector |
|---|---|---|---|
| Accruals (Sloan)lower is better | 16.79% | −0.38% | Rank 5 |
| Change in share countlower is better | −1.74% | −0.06% | Rank 77 |
| Dividend streak in years | 1 | 5 | Rank 30 |
| Price reaction to results, market-adjusted | −12.59% | 0.56% | Rank 3 |
| Metric | Stock | Sector median | Position in sector |
|---|---|---|---|
| Equity ratio | 69.76% | 37.05% | Rank 84 |
| Net debt/EBITDAlower is better | −0.37 | 1.47 | Rank 76 |
| Debt to equitylower is better | 0.14 | 0.75 | Rank 76 |
| Volatility, 1 yearlower is better | 33.70% | 31.95% | Rank 43 |
Ten years in figures
| Year | Revenue, $B | EBIT margin | FCF, $B | Shares | Net debt |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 90.3 | 26.3% | 25.8 | 14.0B | −$9.0B |
| 2017 | 110.9 | 23.6% | 23.9 | 14.1B | −$6.7B |
| 2018 | 136.8 | 20.1% | 22.8 | 14.1B | −$12.7B |
| 2019 | 161.9 | 21.2% | 31.0 | 14.0B | −$2.5B |
| 2020 | 182.5 | 22.6% | 42.8 | 13.7B | $307.0M |
| 2021 | 257.6 | 30.6% | 67.0 | 13.6B | $7.6B |
| 2022 | 282.8 | 26.5% | 60.0 | 13.2B | $7.8B |
| 2023 | 307.4 | 27.4% | 69.5 | 12.7B | $3.1B |
| 2024 | 350.0 | 32.1% | 72.8 | 12.4B | $2.0B |
| 2025 | 402.8 | 32.1% | 73.3 | 12.2B | $28.6B |
5 of 7 StockScorer Score rules met · How the score is built
Alphabet Inc Class A mainly meets criteria in the Profitability category. Result from 18 strategies checked.
Alphabet Inc Class A is rated here with the StockScorer Score strategy, the flagship rule set. It compares return and cash-flow metrics with the median of the company's own sector and checks growth and price trend.
5 of 7 rules met
8 of 11 points
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Selected fundamental metrics for Alphabet Inc Class A.
| Metric | Stock | Sector |
|---|---|---|
| P/E ratio | 26.4 | 21.7 |
| P/B ratio | 8.4 | 2.5 |
| Return on equity (ROE) | 31.8% | 11.4% |
| Equity ratio | 69.8% | 37.1% |
| Debt-to-equity (D/E) | 0.14 | 0.75 |
| Dividend yield | 0.3% | 2.8% |
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| Symbol | Company | Rating |
|---|---|---|
| GOOGL | Alphabet Inc Class Athis page | |
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