Alphabet (GOOGL) stock & equity tools

Alphabet Inc. is an American multinational technology conglomerate holding company headquartered in Mountain View, California. It was created through a restructuring of Google on October 2, 2015, and became the parent holding company of Google and several former Google subsidiaries. Alphabet is listed on the large-cap section of the Nasdaq under the ticker symbols GOOGL and GOOG; both classes of stock are components of major stock market indices such as the S&P 500 and Nasdaq-100. Alphabet has been described as a Big Tech company.

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Larry Page and Sergey Brin started Google in 1998 as a Stanford research project, then restructured the company in 2015 under a new holding entity called Alphabet to separate the core ad business from experimental bets. Headquartered in Mountain View, the group runs Search, YouTube, Android, Google Cloud, Gemini, DeepMind, and Waymo, generating roughly $350B in annual revenue. Sundar Pichai has led Alphabet as CEO since December 2019. A DOJ antitrust case now threatens forced divestiture of Chrome and parts of the search distribution business.

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Equity comp at Alphabet

• RSUs use single-trigger vesting: shares become yours as each portion vests on schedule, and the value is taxed as ordinary income at that point. No IPO or acquisition is required.

Researched 2026-05-07.