Alphabet (GOOGL) Stock: Price, Trend, Options & Financials
Alphabet's GOOGL price regime, issuer-level options history, curated-manager ownership and filed fundamentals — joined into one dated stock intelligence page.
What the evidence says now
GOOGL closed at $344.82 on Aug 21, 2026. The price is -2.0% from its 50-day average and +3.5% from its 200-day average, which places it in the rules-based “split trend” regime. The relative-strength check: over three months the stock returned -11.1%, trailing SPY by 14.2%. It remains 15.6% below its 52-week high.
Sources, methodology & freshnessLast updated 2026-08-21 · Open ↓Close ↑
The close is -2.0% from its 50-day average and +3.5% from its 200-day average. Over three months, GOOGL returned -11.1% versus +3.1% for SPY.
- vs 50-day
- -2.0%
- vs 200-day
- +3.5%
- From 52W high
- -15.6%
Descriptive, not predictive. “Uptrend” is a rules-based reading of the close and moving averages; it is not a rating, price target or recommendation.
Price & regime
One year of daily price and volume
252 split-adjusted sessions · candles above, share volume below
Unusual options — attention, not intent
GOOGL appeared in a UOA top-30 list on 26 of 62 archived scanner sessions: 20 call-side, 7 put-side and 1 on both lists. The latest session did not place it in either top 30. Its larger composite score was 0.08, below the 1.5 “strong” threshold. That is repeated options attention, not proof of bullish trade initiation. Activity is aggregated across GOOG and GOOGL because both securities resolve to the same SEC issuer.
| Recent flag | Call rank | Put rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-08-12 | #18 | — |
| 2026-08-11 | #7 | — |
| 2026-08-07 | #14 | — |
| 2026-08-06 | #16 · GOOG | — |
| 2026-08-05 | #6 | — |
| 2026-07-31 | — | #15 |
| 2026-07-28 | — | #28 |
| 2026-07-24 | #10 | #7 |
| 2026-07-23 | #5 | — |
| 2026-07-21 | #9 · GOOG | — |
Latest chain snapshot
2026-08-21Strong-signature cutoff: 1.5. Current OTM volume/OI: 0.056 calls, 0.081 puts.
Curated-manager ownership
13 of the 20 managers in the project's curated 13F set reported a long Alphabet position in their latest filing, worth $46.8B in aggregate at each filing's reported value. This is a focused manager panel, not the complete institutional holder list.
| Fund / manager | Position value | Portfolio | Shares | Quarter change | Report date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Himalaya Capital Li Lu · GOOG + GOOGL | $1.8B | 47.94% | 4.99M | 0.0% unchanged | 2026-06-30 |
Berkshire Hathaway Warren Buffett · GOOG + GOOGL | $37.8B | 12.62% | 105.98M | +83.2% increased | 2026-06-30 |
Baupost Group Seth Klarman · GOOG | $485M | 8.95% | 1.37M | +16.1% increased | 2026-06-30 |
Appaloosa Management David Tepper · GOOG | $654M | 8.46% | 1.85M | +6.8% increased | 2026-06-30 |
TCI Fund Management Chris Hohn · GOOG + GOOGL | $4.4B | 8.31% | 12.40M | +9.6% combined classes | 2026-06-30 |
Third Point Daniel Loeb · GOOGL | $366M | 7.83% | 1.02M | +485.7% increased | 2026-06-30 |
Fundsmith Terry Smith · GOOGL | $634M | 4.64% | 1.77M | -40.0% reduced | 2026-06-30 |
Duquesne Family Office Stanley Druckenmiller · GOOGL | $120M | 2.31% | 336,300 | — new | 2026-06-30 |
Pershing Square Capital Bill Ackman · GOOG + GOOGL | $99M | 0.72% | 344,102 | -95.0% reduced | 2026-03-31 |
Altimeter Capital Brad Gerstner · GOOGL | $63M | 0.64% | 175,180 | — new | 2026-06-30 |
Baron Capital Group Ron Baron · GOOG + GOOGL | $387M | 0.58% | 1.09M | +108.5% increased | 2026-06-30 |
Lone Pine Capital Steve Mandel · GOOGL | $77M | 0.47% | 215,574 | +14.9% increased | 2026-06-30 |
Paulson & Co John Paulson · GOOGL | $2M | 0.07% | 5,000 | — new | 2026-06-30 |
Filed fundamentals — latest snapshot
Go deeper into the filings
The dedicated Financials dashboard carries the complete quarterly and annual income statement, balance sheet and cash-flow history, with derived figures flagged and every XBRL concept disclosed.
Open GOOGL Financials →How GOOGL trades — the working manual
Alphabet is anchored by search and YouTube advertising, with cloud, subscriptions and other investments adding different growth and margin profiles. For GOOGL, the recurring questions are whether AI changes search behavior or strengthens distribution, whether cloud gains operating leverage, and whether heavy infrastructure spending produces durable incremental revenue.
What can move the tape
- 01Search and YouTube advertising demand, query growth and monetization across formats.
- 02Google Cloud growth, backlog and operating-margin progression.
- 03AI product distribution, infrastructure capacity and the revenue earned on rising capital spending.
- 04Traffic-acquisition costs, headcount discipline and consolidated operating leverage.
What can fool the read
- 01Changes in search behavior or AI interfaces can alter the economics of the core ad franchise.
- 02Antitrust, privacy and platform remedies can affect distribution, data use or default agreements.
- 03Capital spending can rise faster than visible AI and cloud monetization.
- 04GOOGL and GOOG are separate share classes; this page aggregates issuer-level activity where the source data allows it.
Alphabet triggered 1 issuer-level flag in the committed 2026-04-01–2026-08-21 archive. The latest was GOOG on 2026-06-04: 1.8× its 30-day average volume while the stock moved +3.9% that session.
Not published yet. The local archive has 1 reported GOOGL events—too few for a defensible gap-and-drift study. This missing block is an explicit indexing blocker.
Source map & freshness
| Block | What it uses | Vintage | Raw data |
|---|---|---|---|
| Identity | SEC issuer + primary security mapping | 2026-08-23 | JSON ↓ |
| Price & trend | Split-adjusted daily OHLCV + SPY comparison | 2026-08-21 | CSV ↓ |
| Options | End-of-day chain anomaly ranks | 2026-08-21 | Premium → |
| Ownership | Latest filings from 20 curated 13F managers | 2026-08-21 | Tool → |
| Financials | SEC EDGAR XBRL company facts | 2026-08-15 | JSON ↓ |
| Joined profile | The exact contract rendered by this page | 2026-08-23 | JSON ↓ |
GOOGL stock questions
Is GOOGL stock in an uptrend?+
GOOGL is classified in the “split trend” regime as of 2026-08-21: the close is -2.0% from its 50-day average and +3.5% from its 200-day average. This describes the current tape. It is not a forecast.
What does unusual options activity in GOOGL mean?+
Alphabet's OTM option chain produced an outlier relative to the scanner universe on at least one archived session. Call-side and put-side labels identify which book produced the signature; end-of-day chain data does not identify buyers, sellers, institutions or spread legs.
Are the GOOGL 13F holdings current?+
No. 13F filings are delayed quarter-end snapshots and cover only the curated managers in this project. They are useful for documented ownership changes, not real-time positioning or complete institutional ownership.
Where are GOOGL's income statement and cash flow?+
The dedicated GOOGL Financials page contains the full quarterly and annual income statement, balance sheet and cash-flow history parsed from SEC EDGAR XBRL. This stock page carries only the latest filed snapshot.
Why is there no GOOGL earnings-move base rate yet?+
The committed earnings archive does not yet contain enough reported events for a defensible company-level reaction study. The page leaves that block unpublished instead of presenting a tiny sample as a reliable base rate.