Alphabet (GOOGL) Stock Concentration Calculator

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Quantify Alphabet concentration risk. Drawdown impact at 30 / 50 / 70%, with the tax-aware trade-off between selling down and hedging.

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Position & portfolio

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35%
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20%
10%

Tax

67%
Highly concentratedLong-term
If 30% drop
$150,000
If 50% drop
$250,000
If 70% drop
$350,000

Most fee-only advisors target ≤10% in any single name. You're at 67%.

Estimates only. Not financial advice.

Most sensitive to: Expected market return (±10% on this input swings best-plan wealth by ±$190,508).

Cost of fully de-concentrating

All three plans sell to 0% (no hedge).

Tax
Wealth (3y)$956,485
+$33,417 vs.

Tax
Wealth (3y)$994,174
+$71,106 vs.

Tax
Wealth (3y)$1.04M
+$112,490 vs.

Sensitivity. If your expected position return drops below 19.6%/yr, lump-sum (sell everything today) beats every spread plan above.

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Sell over 1 yearSell over 2 yearsSell over 3 yearsCustom
$712,500$815,995$919,489$1,022,984$1,126,478Yr 0Yr 1Yr 2Yr 3
Year 1
Year 2
Year 3
Tax$200,753
Hedge cost$37,676
Wealth at Y3$1,046,371
Vs. best fixed plan+$10,813

Tech / Software single names hit a 50%+ peak-to-trough drawdown in roughly 1 of every 5 rolling 3-year windows over 2014–2024. Even mega-caps aren’t exempt.

Tax brackets: 2026 · Estimates only — not financial advice.

Estate note. Heirs receive a stepped-up basis at death (§1014), eliminating built-in gain on inherited shares. Older holders who plan to bequeath rather than sell may rationally never de-concentrate.

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About Alphabet

Alphabet (GOOGL) is a public Cloud/SaaS company, incorporated in Delaware and headquartered in Mountain View, CA. IPO'd Aug 19, 2004.

Last close: $373.25 per share (as of 2026-06-17).

Equity grants at Alphabet typically include restricted stock units (RSUs).

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.

Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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.

Sources: en.wikipedia.org · abc.xyz

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.

OptionsAhoy is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Alphabet.

If a meaningful share of your net worth sits in GOOGL, concentration risk is the question. This calculator quantifies drawdown impact at 30 / 50 / 70%, and the trade-off between selling down (tax cost now) versus hedging (option premium drag), auto-filled with GOOGL's option-implied volatility.

Example: 5,000 GOOGL shares at $373.25 is a $1,866,250 position. A 30% drawdown costs $559,875; a 50% drawdown costs $933,125; a 70% drawdown costs $1,306,375. The calculator quantifies the trade-off between selling down (immediate capital-gains tax) and hedging (option premium drag) using GOOGL's option-implied volatility and your cost basis.

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Alphabet equity questions

How much GOOGL stock is too much?
There is no single threshold, but the larger the share of your net worth in one stock, the more a single bad year can set back your plans. The calculator above quantifies the drawdown impact at 30, 50, and 70 percent for your GOOGL position and weighs selling down (which triggers capital-gains tax now) against hedging (which costs option premium).
Does Alphabet grant ISOs, NSOs, or RSUs?
Equity compensation at Alphabet typically takes the form of restricted stock units (RSUs). Restricted stock units are taxed as ordinary income when they vest.
Do Alphabet RSUs use double-trigger vesting?
No. Alphabet restricted stock units (RSUs) use single-trigger vesting: each tranche becomes yours as it vests on schedule, taxed as ordinary income at that point, with no liquidity event required.
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